The Value and Uniqueness of the Cal Poly MBA

The Cal Poly OCOB MBA program is accredited by the AACSB. We offer a 60-64 unit daytime MBA program, consisting of 36-units of required courses with the remaining elective units selected from a focused group of advanced courses. This program is unique for a number of reasons:

• No undergraduate business degree is required. Further, there are no prerequisite course requirements to enter the program.
• An Accelerated Option - making it possible for a full-time student devoting 100% attention to his/her studies, and, who follows a prescribed course of study to complete the program in less than a year (Track One - Accelerated Track). For students not following Track One, it will take four, five or six regular academic quarters to complete the program depending on how a student structures and schedules his/her coursework (Track Two).
• Relevant, current, challenging, and intellectually stimulating courses from top to bottom. These include two short intensive summer sessions¹ to facilitate the completion of the MBA program and/or follow the accelerated option requirements.
• GSB 528 Commercial Development of Innovative Technologies
• GSB 529 Effective Communication Skills for Managers
• GSB 563 - International Business Tour - China. A 2 1/2-week Experiential Study Tour designed to integrate and apply what students studied during the program.²
• The opportunity to work with outstanding faculty in a friendly and professional academic atmosphere.
• The opportunity to live and study on California's Central Coast - one of the most beautiful locales in the world and located midway between the urban areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
• Affordability - our MBA program is extremely affordable, especially compared to programs offered by other schools.

For more detailed information about the program please see/click on the below:

• Track One (Accelerated Track)
• Track Two
• Required & Elective Courses
• Specialization Options
• Demographics
• Course Descriptions

1. Note that the ability of the OCOB to offer these two summer short special session courses is contingent upon sufficient enrollment.

2. To participate in this trip, students must be eligible for and possess a passport and visa allowing them to travel to mainland China.