The LeBow College of Business

LeBow College of Business is among just 25 percent of business schools nationwide accredited by AACSB-- Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business,  This status has been granted in recognition of the College's academic standards and curricular quality, the stature of its faculty and the resources it offers.

Programs

Drexel LeBow offers one MBA degree delivered in different formats – face-to-face or online, part-time or full-time, and at satellite campuses in Malvern, Pa., and Sacramento, Calif. Additionally, the Drexel LeBow MBA offers several fields of concentration within the MBA. Concentrations include finance, marketing, entrepreneurship/innovation, business analytics and healthcare. For up-to-date information about availability of  concentrations go to: http://www.lebow.drexel.edu/Prospects/MBA/index.php

The Drexel LeBow MBA programs are:

Full-Time: One Year MBA and traditional Two Year MBA

Part-time: LEAD (an accelerated MBA), the flexible Professional MBA, and Executive MBA.

Online: MBA Anywhere and MBA in Pharmaceutical Management

Prospective students to the Drexel LeBow MBA programs are not required to have undergraduate degrees in business.

In addition to MBA programs, Drexel LeBow offers a Master of Science in Accounting and a Master of Science in Finance. Prospective students for the MS in Accounting are required to have an undergraduate degree in accounting. This requirement is necessary to ensure the greatest likelihood of qualifying to sit for the revised CPA exam. The MS in Economics only admits students through the PhD in Economics program.

Drexel LeBow doctoral (PhD) programs prepare students to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and practice in business disciplines through excellence in scholarship and research. Areas of specialization in the

  • Accounting
  • Decision Sciences
  • Finance
  • Marketing
  • Organization and Strategy

About Drexel's Graduate Business Programs

Graduate business programs at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business provide a high-quality education that blends theory and practice. Designed to fill the needs of a diverse population, LeBow College’s graduate business programs enable students to round out their educational requirements through programming that is fitted to lifestyle differences.

Blending academic studies with co-curricular activities and experiential learning are a hallmark of the Drexel LeBow graduate business programs. Students received individualized attention to help them achieve short-term and long-term career goals.

The Drexel LeBow MBA enrolls approximately 800 students representing diverse backgrounds, 20 percent of whom are enrolled full-time. Approximately 50 percent of the full-time students are international. Drexel LeBow MBA students have come from more than 40 countries in Asia, the Pacific Rim, Europe, South America and Canada.

The part-time MBA programs account for 60% of the enrolled students with another 20% enrolled in online MBA programs.

Drexel LeBow MBA programs offer students experiential learning in leadership and teambuilding through its cohorted MBA programs. Approximately 40% of the Drexel LeBow MBA students study in cohorted programs.

Following in the mission of the University’s founder, A.J. Drexel, to provide practical applications of learning, the Drexel LeBow faculty have backgrounds in corporate management and scholarly publications. Drexel LeBow faculty combines strengths in teaching and research. They also enjoy strong ties with the corporate community. Corporate and entrepreneurial leaders add to the full-time faculty by coming to campus as guest lecturers or adjunct professors.

This marriage of academic rigor and practical applications can also be seen in the development of the school’s Centers of Excellence. Centers of Excellence are catalysts for research and innovation, think tanks for nationally significant trends and issues, and incubators for opportunities in business and integration among disciplines. LeBow's Centers of Excellence provide students with meaningful experiential learning and impact the performance of business in our region and around the world. As part of the curriculum Drexel LeBow MBA students will take courses which reside in the centers and will see firsthand how practical learning is applied.

The Centers are:

  • Center for Corporate Reputation Management
  • Sovereign Institute for Strategic Leadership
  • Center for Corporate Governance
  • Laurence A. Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Dana and David Dornsife Center for Experiential Learning

Facilities

In Fall 2011 LeBow College of Business will undertake the construction of 12-story, 177,500-square-foot new academic building.  The building’s design will unite the school’s students, staff, and faculty around a five-story-high atrium ringed by classrooms, student lounges, events spaces, and offices. The third floor will house the Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

In addition to the new building LeBow’s Pearlstein Learning Center provides modern learning environments to MBA students with ongoing updates to advanced technologies used in the corporate world.