Two-Year MBA
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Grow the Good in Business with a Notre Dame MBA
The Two-Year MBA prepares you for a high-impact career in business, providing the skills and experience you need to make balanced and informed contributions to any industry.
Your journey starts in the heart of the Notre Dame campus, where personalized leadership development and experiential learning are at your fingertips. During your time in the Notre Dame MBA, you can focus your studies in one of nine different concentrations, five of which are STEM-designated.
As you move through the program, you’ll benefit from a campus and alumni network dedicated to your academic, personal and professional advancement.
Start Date:
August 17
Format & Location:
Full-time on the Notre Dame campus
Duration:
2 Years
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Highlights: Two-Year MBA Experience
Mendoza’s traditional Two-Year MBA is a robust, full-time program located on the iconic Notre Dame campus near South Bend, Ind.
The program challenges you to contribute your best, encourages you to cooperate openly and – ultimately – prepares you to compete in today’s business world.
Cultivate Your Potential
Your MBA journey launches with Integral Leadership Development – a four-day intensive workshop designed to uncover your unique leadership style.
Focus Your Path
No matter where you want to go in your career and in business, the Notre Dame MBA can help get you there. You’ll choose from nine concentration tracks, five of which are STEM-designated.
Explore Real-World Challenges
Experiential learning is a vital component of your business education at Mendoza. See the real-world effects of business decisions firsthand through an international immersion, our Business on the Frontlines course, or a stateside Interterm Intensive project.
Move from Concept to Launch
From pitching a venture to innovating tech solutions or securing an internship, you will have access to a variety of groundbreaking resources at Notre Dame's IDEA Center.
Join the ND Family
We are wholeheartedly invested in your personal, academic and professional growth. A tight-knit cohort, supportive faculty and an alumni network 144,000-strong provide a lifetime of mutual support that is unmatched.
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Average Cohort Size
740-590
Median GMAT Score
5.3 Years
Average Work Experience
89%
Students Receiving Fellowships
3.3
Average Undergraduate GPA
3:1
Student-to-Faculty Ratio
Career Development
The Graduate Business Career Services office provides the tools and support you need to reach your professional goals.
With access to dedicated professionals, a robust career-mapping process (involving both formal coursework and tailored 1:1 coaching), and a powerful suite of tools and resources, you’ll emerge ready to take on your best-fit role.
A central component of your career development experience is our Career Leadership Course, which meets twice per week during Module 1 – your first seven weeks on campus. The course provides a strong foundation for your career development, consisting of the following phases:
You will benefit from tailored, individual career coaching that works best for you – you schedule the meetings, drive the agenda and lead the conversations.
Our coaches have industry experience, coaching training and a deep commitment to understanding your personal ambitions.
Our coaches help you align with your intrinsic values, leverage your strengths, and ignite your passion.
Travel with fellow students to the San Francisco Bay Area to talk business with companies like Salesforce, Cisco, Intel or Google; or head to Wall Street in New York City to discuss investment banking or finance with Citi, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and more.
At Mendoza, you’ll have the opportunity to:
Interact with corporate representatives through hundreds of on-campus touchpoints each year.
Plug into Notre Dame’s world-class alumni network.
Engage with the IDEA Center at Innovation Park, where aspiring entrepreneurs, faculty, students and industry experts collaborate.
- Abbott Nutrition
- Amazon
- American Airlines
- AT&T
- Bank of America/Merrill Lynch
- Capital One
- Cisco
- Citi
- Deloitte
- Deutsche Bank
- Discover Financial Services
- Emerson
- ExxonMobil
- EY
- FTI Consulting
- General Electric
- Huron Consulting
- IBM
- Intel
- Johnson & Johnson
- Liberty Mutual
- M&T Bank
- McKinsey & Co.
- Microsoft
- Nationwide
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- PwC
- Procter & Gamble
- SAP
- United Airlines
- Whirlpool
Class of 2020 U.S. Placement By Region
*Percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding
14.3%
WEST
6.5%
SOUTHWEST
46.8%
MIDWEST
7.8%
MID-ATLANTIC
14.3%
NORTHEAST
3.9%
SOUTH
The Economist ranks Notre Dame’s MBA program among the Top 5 for alumni effectiveness and among the Top 10 for networking potential.
Our Community
MBA '20 "Mendoza has been training its good force leaders for decades and I am proud to be one of them."
MBA '20 "If you want that experience of a smaller program, where you get to make more meaningful relations, and you're also looking for a very powerful and involved network, then this is the place for you."
MBA '19 "From the moment I stepped on campus, Mendoza provided opportunities to both practice my values and work on the skills I’d need to be an effective foreign service officer."