Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles

The Doheny Campus

The Master of Business Administration program at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles, is nationally recognized and leads other institutions with its innovative, module-based approach to learning. It is designed to empower ambitious working professionals with the tools they need to lead their organizations and manage the multitude issues confronted by today’s business leaders.

For more than 60 years, Mount Saint Mary’s has been helping to educate leaders and executives with a values-based curriculum.

Modules are designed to help business professionals integrate external business information with the strengths and opportunities of their organizations; and by blending business disciplines that are traditionally kept separate (i.e. marketing, finance, business law), you will develop a more comprehensive view of how disciplines come together in a real business environment.

• Module 1 – Setting the Stage: Understanding the External Global Business Environment
• Module 2 – Designing the Organization’s Future: Internal Strategy
• Module 3 – Implementation of Strategy
• Module 4 – Culminating Consulting Project and Concentration

Once students are in Module 4, they can choose from the following MBA concentrations:

• Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship
• Organizational Leadership
• Project Management

The program culminates in a final project addressing a challenge or opportunity in either your own organization or that of a student colleague. 

Designed with busy professionals in mind, our MBA program offers two formats – a weekend-only and an evening/hybrid format. Class sessions in the weekend-only format meet on alternating weekends, whereas class sessions in the evening/hybrid program meet on evenings and online. Both programs are based at our convenient Doheny campus in Downtown Los Angeles. Both program also affords students the opportunity to do an international field-study that examines global competition.

Total tuition for the entire program is $37,800 (2015-16), and is inclusive of room and board for the international field-study, campus parking, and all student fees.† Our MBA program is one of the most competitively priced, and value-added, business programs in the country for working professionals.

Students who do not have a undergraduate degree in Business, or the necessary prerequisite courses, can take Business Foundations courses at Mount Saint Mary's University as part of the MBA program. Foundation courses extend time-to-degree by an additional 2-3 months, depending when the student enters the program. 

To master in business administration at Mount Saint Mary's University  is to come to understand that today's international, global business environment is dynamic, fluid, and complex; requiring successful business leaders to be able to understand and respond to patterns and market conditions in constant flux. We welcome you to learn more. 

The Chalon Campus

Established in 1925, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles, is nationally recognized for its academic programs and its focus on preparing the next generation of citizen leaders. Starting with the inaugural Class of 1929, the Mount has awarded more than 18,000 degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Instruction at Mount Saint Mary's is rooted in a desire to give students the tools they need to thrive in their chosen professions, while always maintaining a commitment to ethical practice and community involvement. For more than 90 years, Mount Saint Mary’s has been helping to educate leaders and executives with a values-based curriculum.

Students who choose Mount Saint Mary's University for graduate study find an innovative academic environment where they can gain the specialized knowledge they need to achieve their personal and career objectives. With a dedicated and knowledgeable faculty, central location, and small class sizes offered at convenient times, our graduate students can incorporate their educational growth into their personal and professional lives.

The Mount's Chalon Campus is located just above the Getty Center in the hills of Brentwood and is home to the University's traditional undergraduate programs. 

The University's downtown Doheny Campus features the historic Doheny Mansion, part of a century-old estate once owned by Los Angeles oil baron Edward L. Doheny. This campus is home to the Mount's graduate programs.

The Mount's outstanding faculty will prepare you to meet the challenges of today's business environment by offering an innovative, collaborative and globally oriented curriculum. The program is designed with the understanding that managers face global and cross-disciplinary challenges on a daily basis. These global challenges are not merely studied at the theoretical level. Every Mount Saint Mary's MBA student participates in a minimum of one international study trip to gain hand-on experience with international companies outside the U.S. and as part of this requirement, learns to prepare a country and industry analysis.

Students must have completed a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. Students who do not have a 3.0 GPA can petition to have their applications reviewed. Please contact our office for more information. 

Applicants must also have taken the following  prerequisite courses: 1 Semester of Economics; 1 Semester of Accounting; 1 Semester of Finance; 1 Semester of Management/Organizational Behavior; 1 Semester of Marketing. 

Students who do not have a business degree, or have not taken the prerequisites courses, can take our Business Foundation courses as part of their MBA program at Mount Saint Mary's University. This decision will be made and offered to the applicant at the time of admission.   

Applicants must submit the following as part of their application:

1. Online Application

2. Application Essay 

3. Resume

4. Official Transcripts 

5. Two Letters of Recommendation 

The GMAT and GRE exam are not required as part of the admission process. Once an application is complete, an interview will be scheduled with a faculty member. Decisions are rendered 4-6 weeks from the time an application is deemed complete. 

The total cost of the MBA program at Mount Saint Mary's University is $37,800 (2015-2016). This cost includes room and board for international filed-study, student fees, and tuition. The cost does not include tuition cost for Business Foundation courses or books.

Nestled into a private, verdant, park-like setting just south of Downtown Los Angeles, the Doheny Campus is home to the Mount's graduate degree programs. The Doheny Campus opened in 1962 and is comprised of a number of historic mansions and structures centered on Chester Place, one of the most famous West Adams Historic District addresses.

Mount students attending the Doheny campus will find themselves surrounded not only by history, but also by cutting-edge facilities, purposely-built with educational needs in mind. The Doheny Library is a jewel of educational architecture, custom tailored to provide the resources and environment needed to help facilitate studies, collaboration and research.

The campus is centrally located to all that downtown Los Angeles has to offer, including Staples Center, LA Live, the Historic Core, Disney Music Hall, Olvera Street, Union Station (connected by the Expo Line, only a few blocks away), Little Tokyo, Koreatown, and the Theater, Jewelry, Fashion, Flower and Financial Districts.