Welcome to the UMass Amherst Online Part-Time MBA Program

The Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst is honored to be the exclusive provider of MBA education for the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and affiliated associations.

The Online Part-Time MBA Program is a self-paced 37 credit program designed for professionals looking for a quality MBA program that offers balance between demanding work and personal schedules.

The Online Campus
A very unique and flexible option of this program is to complete your MBA degree exclusively online. The entire core curriculum is offered online every Spring, Summer, and Fall semester.
There is no campus residency requirement so you have the flexibility to complete your MBA degree online from anywhere in the world.

Online courses are taught asynchronously - you decide what time is most convenient to complete your coursework. This approach is attracting students from all 50 states and 15 foreign countries.

The Online Part-Time MBA courses are taught by the same Isenberg faculty and share the same core curriculum as our full-time MBA program.

Program Prerequisites

All students entering the program must have a minimum of a 4 year bachelors degree (or its equivalent). For those students who do not have an undergraduate degree in business, or have not taken undergraduate level courses in accounting, finance, economics, and management have several options to satisfy the program prerequisite:

Option 1
Complete the UMass Amherst "Foundations of Business" course, a 70-hour, pass/fail, course covering the areas of accounting, finance, economics and management (at the undergraduate level). The Foundations course is only offered online during the Winter OR Summer semesters.

For more information the Foundations of Business course ...more

Option 2
Complete those undergraduate level courses at an accredited college or university.

Please note: You have one full year from the semester you are accepted into the Online Part-Time MBA Program to complete this prerequisite.

For the third consecutive year, the Isenberg MBA Program is very proud to be ranked #4 Best Professors by The Princeton Review: Best 282 Business School rankings

When Can You Start the Program?

You can start now and take up to 6 credits (typically 2 courses) as a “non-degree” student before formal acceptance into the program.

As a non-degree student (not yet formally accepted in the program), you can take up to 6 credits in the Online Part-Time MBA Program. Core courses are offered during the Fall, Winter, and Spring semester with the largest number of electives offered during the Winter semester. The semesters are as follows:

Fall Semester
September through December

Winter Semester
January (accelerated)

Spring Semester
February through May

Summer Semester
June through July (accelerated)

There are no courses offered in August.

Have Questions?

If you have any questions regarding the Online Part-Time MBA program, please contact:

Amy Bergin
Isenberg School of Management
Graduate Programs Office
Office: 413-545-5608
Fax: 413-577-2234
Email: oaug@som.umass.edu