www.millikin.edu/mba
RJ Podeschi, Dean, Tabor School of Business (217) 424-6285
Jaclyn Cantwell, MBA Director, Tabor School of Business (217) 424-3503
Becky Nims, Administrative Assistant, Tabor School of Business (217) 424-6285
The Millikin Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a unified curriculum focusing on preparing its graduates for positions of leadership in today’s complex business world. The program starts with understanding the language of business and ends with decision-making. It develops leaders who can analyze a business situation from different perspectives and then exercise the judgment and creativity across disciplines to create a solution.
The program is not about expertise in a narrow field. Instead, it is about finding successful solutions where fields and functions intersect. The MBA program teaches how to see those intersections, how to frame quantitative and qualitative questions, and how to articulate comprehensive answers to complex questions.
The Millikin MBA offers people who want to be leaders and manager’s practical, professional experience and training in areas such as skill building, team building and project management in an environment rich in creativity, collaboration, and values. It is a student-oriented, challenging program with creative partnering among our faculty, alumni, and the business community in an adaptive, entrepreneurial spirit.
Each cohort is deliberately small to be flexible and personal. Students will find a diversity of perspectives in terms of experiences-for profits/not-for-profit, size of company and type, including health care, processing, manufacturing, banking, and family business. Students develop team relationships with faculty, business leaders, alumni and each other and emerge with a solid network within the regional business community. Graduates will leave the program with the skills and connections they need to succeed in leadership positions in an organization or run their own company.
The Millikin MBA Program is an in-person, 40-credit program.
MBA Program Mission:
To transform strong, professional candidates into exemplar leaders who:
- have an expanded and complex understanding of business matters in the global environment;
- embody their role as an ethical leader through sensitivity to people, profit, and planet; and
- distinguish themselves in their careers, business, and communities through greater analytical and application skills advanced with confidence in domestic and international assignments requiring greater responsibility.
MBA Program Goals. The MBA Program:
- Sequences the curriculum in a deliberate manner to ensure mastery of foundational business disciplines while extending the student’s propensity to augment existing professional inquiry and skills.
- Formulates professional communication strategies which focus on values, cultures, and people to assist in planning, prioritizing, and integrating the best practices of central messaging, language application, and delivery in a variety of business situations.
- Extends professional business planning and organizational skills in the principled acquisition of data and professional analyses in a global environment.
- Focuses professional business planning and organizational skills through the extensive use of case studies and Performance Learning to compel the students to strengthen their analytical and reasoning skills in the implementation, performance, and evaluative processes.
- Integrates principles and best practices of ethical leadership and partnerships throughout the curriculum to advance the graduate’s sensitivity to people, profit, and planet.
MBA Program Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- Demonstrate mastery of foundational business disciplines in order to apply sound business theory and concepts to diverse business matters in a global environment.
- Formulate and validate effective professional communication strategies which prioritize and integrate the best practices of central messaging, language application, and delivery in a variety of business situations.
- Validate professional business planning and organizational skills in the principled acquisition of data and professional analyses.
- Validate professional business planning and organizational skills by using integrative and adaptive approaches in the implementation, performance, and evaluative processes.
- Embody the role of an ethical leader who constructs a principled and successful team environment which is conducive of and committed to the foundational interrelationships of people, profit, and planet.
MBA Options:
Millikin’s Tabor School of Business offers one program with two deliveries:
- Evening MBA Program
- Daytime MBA Program
Within each delivery mode are certificates that students can select to tailor their learning dependent on their professional goals:
- Evening MBA:
- an Organizational Leadership (OL) certificate focused on leading groups of individuals toward fulfilling an organization’s mission
- Daytime MBA:
- a Project Management certificate focused on business operations
- a Data Analytics & Business Intelligence certificate focused on processing and interpreting data
All certificates build a solid foundation of business concepts in organizations. Students must pick only one certificate to complete.
Admission requirements for U.S. applicants:
All applicants must submit:
- A completed Application for Admission, found at www.millikin.edu/mba
- Current Resume:
- Include all professional and educational background along with any awards, honors, or distinctions.
- Statement of Purpose:
- Submit a 1-2 page statement describing personal and professional goals.
- This is also used as a writing sample for each applicant.
- References:
- A reference form will be emailed to 3 choice individuals with direct knowledge of applicant’s education, professional background & leadership abilities.
- Evening MBA program applicants should include a direct supervisor.
- Daytime MBA program applicants should include a recent professor.
- Official Transcripts:
- Applicants must request transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate institutions from which they have obtained a degree.
- Applicants with a cumulative GPA between 2.5-3.0 may be admitted provisionally and be expected to complete an Academic Success Plan with the program Director for the first unit of courses before the applicant is admitted to the degree program. If conditions of the provisional admission are not met within this time, it may result in dismissal from the degree program.
- Applicants with a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or under may be admitted at the discretion of the program Director. If admitted, the applicant will be admitted provisionally and be expected to complete an Academic Success Plan with the program Director for the first two units of courses before the applicant is admitted to the degree program. If conditions of the provisional admission are not met within this time, it may result in termination from the degree program.
- Interview with MBA Program administration
Application Deadlines: Application materials must be submitted by the following dates each year:
Data Analytics & Business Intelligence Certificate: June 1
Daytime MBA: April 1
Evening MBA: November 1
Organizational Leadership Certificate: January 1
Project Management Certificate: June 1
Master of Business Administration
Graduate Certificate
