Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business Kelley Direct Online MBA

Since 1999, Kelley’s online MBA at Indiana University’s School of Business has been centered around customizability and continues to reinvent curriculum and provide a dynamic online student experience designed for working professionals.

“From its inception, Kelley Direct has been groundbreaking, quickly becoming the model for other online programs to follow,” says Kelley School of Business Dean Idalene “Idie” Kesner. “We encourage our students to give us feedback to make the program even better, and we are continuously imagining new experiences to engage students in the classroom and beyond.”

Kelley offers a dual degree option that enables students to earn an MBA and MS in 66 credit hours—degrees that would take 81 credit hours if earned separately. With seven majors, 50% electives, and a business fundamentals core, the Kelley Direct Online MBA curriculum offers students multiple ways to customize their experience and gain the specialization in a focus area.

Students connect with classmates and professors for live classes every week. Each course requires a live weekly session. Live classes last about 75 minutes and take place between 6 and 9 p.m. ET.

The Kelley OMBA core and elective coursework typically takes students around two years to complete, but can be completed in two to four years. The degree is completed online with the exception of two in-person sessions—Kelley On Campus and Kelley On Location—built into the beginning and end of the program.

The OMBA experience is bolstered by two Kelley Connect Weeks, one in the first year and one in the second year. The first is an intensive seven-day, in-person experience where students work in a team to develop a solution to a business challenge facing a…

Since 1999, Kelley’s online MBA at Indiana University’s School of Business has been centered around customizability and continues to reinvent curriculum and provide a dynamic online student experience designed for working professionals.

“From its inception, Kelley Direct has been groundbreaking, quickly becoming the model for other online programs to follow,” says Kelley School of Business Dean Idalene “Idie” Kesner. “We encourage our students to give us feedback to make the program even better, and we are continuously imagining new experiences to engage students in the classroom and beyond.”

Kelley offers a dual degree option that enables students to earn an MBA and MS in 66 credit hours—degrees that would take 81 credit hours if earned separately. With seven majors, 50% electives, and a business fundamentals core, the Kelley Direct Online MBA curriculum offers students multiple ways to customize their experience and gain the specialization in a focus area.

Students connect with classmates and professors for live classes every week. Each course requires a live weekly session. Live classes last about 75 minutes and take place between 6 and 9 p.m. ET.

The Kelley OMBA core and elective coursework typically takes students around two years to complete, but can be completed in two to four years. The degree is completed online with the exception of two in-person sessions—Kelley On Campus and Kelley On Location—built into the beginning and end of the program.

The OMBA experience is bolstered by two Kelley Connect Weeks, one in the first year and one in the second year. The first is an intensive seven-day, in-person experience where students work in a team to develop a solution to a business challenge facing a real company and the second Kelley Connect Week is also a case competition, this time with a global business focus.

Students can choose to participate in a domestic or global immersion course (once it is deemed safe to travel again by authorities) as part of the Global, Experiential, and Professional Course requirement.

Domestic immersion courses focus on specific career paths, such as advertising, business analytics, or consulting, and include online content and residencies. Through the residency-component, (in a typical year) students visit US cities that are aligned with their chosen career path and provide consulting services to a company, presenting their findings and recommendations to management virtually and on-site. Some cities include New York City for advertising and Silicon Valley for STEM-focused entrepreneurship.

The global immersion courses offer students the training to apply consulting frameworks required to solve high-level, multi-faceted business problems. Through global immersions, students present strategic recommendations with actionable steps to improve real businesses. Destinations have included Vietnam, Greece, and South Africa.

Many Kelley Direct students are promoted while in the program or within 6 months of graduation. This year, about 64% of the class was promoted which just goes to show, as students build new skills, doors that were once closed open. Often, it’s their career coach who helps them break through.

Companies like Bain, Amazon, FedEx, Toyota, and American Express are among those key companies hiring Kelley Direct MBAs, and with a network of 120,000 alumni, Kelley OMBAs are part of the Kelley family from start to finish.

In the Kelley Direct Online MBA and MS Programs, we accelerate professional and personal growth in a way that only we can. It’s the reason our online programs are ranked No. 1 by U.S. News and World Report, 2022.

Our online programs are demanding and rigorous, yet flexible enough for you to continue to work and balance your life at home. You can take two to four years to complete your Kelley Online MBA, and 15 months to three years to finish one of our specialized, online master’s degrees.

Whether you seek a respected MBA or MS degree from the Kelley School of Business, you’ll learn from the same world-class faculty that teach Kelley’s in-residence graduate degree programs, gaining the best business skills from some of the world’s best business teachers.
You’ll have every opportunity to zero in on your interests and create a customized career action plan with your dedicated career coach. The result? Lasting momentum for a meaningful career.

In the Kelley Direct Online MBA and MS Programs, we accelerate professional and personal growth in a way that only we can. It’s the reason our online programs are ranked No. 1 by U.S. News and World Report, 2022.

Our online programs are demanding and rigorous, yet flexible enough for you to continue to work and balance your life at home. You can take two to four years to complete your Kelley Online MBA, and 15 months to three years to finish one of our specialized, online master’s degrees.

Whether you seek a respected MBA or MS degree from the Kelley School of Business, you’ll learn from the same world-class faculty that teach Kelley’s in-residence graduate degree programs, gaining the best business skills from some of the world’s best business teachers.
You’ll have every opportunity to zero in on your interests and create a customized career action plan with your dedicated career coach. The result? Lasting momentum for a meaningful career.