University of Denver (Daniels)

“Pioneering business for the public good.”

That’s the vision at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. And it is fundamental to training Daniels MBAs to lead with integrity.

The MBA@Denver, the online MBA program at Daniels, includes core values such as a culture of innovation and engagement, learning through doing, interacting with integrity, highlighting diversity and inclusion as a source of strength, and global action and influence. And each of these values influence an aspect of the education – from the curriculum to the class size.

Hands-On Curriculum, With Flexibility

The MBA@Denver program offers an interactive and engaging curriculum that is truly “go at your own pace.”

The online program consists of 60 credits that can be completed in as few as 21 months. Daniels OMBAs can complement their core curriculum with four fully online concentration options including finance, marketing, executive healthcare administration, and executive leadership.

All courses have a required 90-minute live session each week, where students can interact in a live setting, discuss the asynchronous content, and exchange ideas and perspectives with each other and also with a faculty member. Class sizes are typically around 15 students, with no more than 20 – a critical component to fostering a close-knit learning environment between students and faculty.

“Our mission is to make students indispensable to their organizations—we want students to glean new ideas and perspectives from the live sessions that they can then take back to their organizations and implement right away,” Kenny Metcalfe, Assistant Director of Enrollment Management and Academic Advising, says. “This challenge-driven approach is…

“Pioneering business for the public good.”

That’s the vision at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. And it is fundamental to training Daniels MBAs to lead with integrity.

The MBA@Denver, the online MBA program at Daniels, includes core values such as a culture of innovation and engagement, learning through doing, interacting with integrity, highlighting diversity and inclusion as a source of strength, and global action and influence. And each of these values influence an aspect of the education – from the curriculum to the class size.

Hands-On Curriculum, With Flexibility

The MBA@Denver program offers an interactive and engaging curriculum that is truly “go at your own pace.”

The online program consists of 60 credits that can be completed in as few as 21 months. Daniels OMBAs can complement their core curriculum with four fully online concentration options including finance, marketing, executive healthcare administration, and executive leadership.

All courses have a required 90-minute live session each week, where students can interact in a live setting, discuss the asynchronous content, and exchange ideas and perspectives with each other and also with a faculty member. Class sizes are typically around 15 students, with no more than 20 – a critical component to fostering a close-knit learning environment between students and faculty.

“Our mission is to make students indispensable to their organizations—we want students to glean new ideas and perspectives from the live sessions that they can then take back to their organizations and implement right away,” Kenny Metcalfe, Assistant Director of Enrollment Management and Academic Advising, says. “This challenge-driven approach is an integral part of all of our courses.”

To end the program, MBA@Denver students take a capstone course, where students work in teams to come up with recommended solutions to solve a real-client problem.

“The capstone course allows students to draw from and apply the technical business, management and leadership competencies, skills, and knowledge covered in the program to help a client solve a problem they are currently facing,” Metcalfe says.

Value-Based Leadership  

Daniels’ values are fundamental to the design of the MBA@Denver program. And students have a number of opportunities to dive into business topics through the lens of Daniels values.

This is most apparent in the immersion opportunities, three-day weekend events where students network with one another, along with faculty and staff, and learn about a relevant business topic. MBA@Denver students are required to complete two Immersions prior to graduating.

Immersion topics are developed with a modern global business landscape in mind and students have the option to attend both domestic and international immersions.

In the past, students have traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, where they explored the concepts of emotional, cultural and contextual intelligence and met with some of the country’s premier socially responsible business leaders.

Dan Conrado, who took part in the Cape Town immersion, toured the Villiera Winery – a family-owned business.

“I was struck by just how much of an impact a company can have on the community and environment,” Conrado says in blog post. “It was amazing to see the efforts the family-owned firm was putting forth out of the goodness of their hearts. It astonished me that they were reclaiming old vineyards and mined lands while being forward thinking about the vegetation by planting trees rather than native grasses to offset their carbon footprint.”