Program Description

Full-Time MBA

The William & Mary full-time MBA is a highly personalized, experience-based program that challenges the student on the same fronts as today’s business leaders. The experience will span core courses, electives, Career Acceleration Modules (CAMs) and our The Principled Professional course. There are six specializations available, which include: Business Analytics, Consulting, Finance, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management.

Major General James Wright MBA Program

The Major General James Wright MBA Fellowship is an exclusive partnership between the Raymond A. Mason School of Business and the U.S. Army. Classes are held at William & Mary in Alan B. Miller Hall, and the curriculum is tailored with an intensity meant to match the pedigree of Army leaders. The program includes a focus on the Federal government budgeting process as it applies to national defense, as well as a certification in Six Sigma and specialize in Supply Chain Management.

Academic Calendar

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Fact Sheet

Full-time MBA:

The William & Mary Full-time MBA exposes students to a wide array of complex, real-world business experiences. To be successful you must be able to address the intricacies of the business world where opportunities and challenges impact multiple functional areas in an organization. The structure of our program mirrors the complexities of the business world by combining theory with practice. As an MBA student, you will utilize our ever-expanding network of business resources to achieve your potential.  You will refine your business acumen through core courses, electives, Career Acceleration Modules (CAMs), the Field Consultancy Program, The Principled Professional, and Graduate Career Management courses and workshops.

Length of Program:

Two years (22 months)

Format:

Your first year of studies is divided into four sessions, each composed of core courses, the Global Competitive Strategy course and two market-driven electives. You will also begin your partnership with your Leadership Coach in The Principled Professional course. Following a summer internship, your second year immerses you into the business world. You will take part in one Career Acceleration Module during the first session of the fall semester - session A, followed by a host of elective options in your second through fourth sessions.  You may also elect to take the Corporate Field Consultancy course where you will be immersed in a real-world consulting project. 

Specializations

The Mason MBA is a general management degree. The full-time program offers six (6) market-driven specializations designed to enhance your success in the career of your choice.  These six (6) areas were chosen for specializations based on an assessment of the job market, and more importantly, where positions will be available.  Each specialization includes academic credit from one of Mason’s unique CAMs (Career Acceleration Modules) as well as electives tailored to meet the requirements recruiters in each field tell us they are looking for in MBA candidates. Students have the choice to pursue a specialization in preparation for a specific field or pursue a general management degree without a specialization, which provides the maximum flexibility in your course selection.

Consulting
The Consulting specialization prepares students for successful careers in a variety of high-demand areas such as federal consulting, operations consulting, IT consulting, human capital consulting, and management consulting. Courses in this specialization will equip you with the skills you’ll need to effectively solve strategic business problems and excel in this sought-after field.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Innovation and Entrepreneurship specialization delivers an experiential curriculum that develops student’s understanding of the fundamentals of creating and running a successful enterprise. In addition to the classroom experience, the Mason School’s Alan B. Miller Entrepreneurship Center will guide you through the business start-up process, fostering the entrepreneurial mindset necessary to be successful.

Finance
The Finance specialization will provide you with the analytical tools and conceptual framework needed to evaluate financial firms and transactions. The specialization will position you strongly to become a financial leader in a variety of industries such as capital markets, commercial banking, corporate finance, financial analysis, consulting and wealth management.

Marketing
The Marketing specialization gives you an in-depth understanding of the concepts, tools, and practices of modern marketing. Brand management, B2B marketing, marketing analytics, segmentation, positioning, account management, as well as other marketing topics, will hone your skills to develop and implement successful marketing strategies.

Business Analytics and Supply Chain Specializations:

The Supply Chain/Logistics/Analytics Specialization prepares students for roles as analysts and managers.  This specialization can be an excellent complement to many other areas and demonstrates to potential employers that a student has the command of management and analytic techniques that can be employed in their industry. Indeed, it is difficult to find job candidates with a combination of leadership skills, business acumen and state-of-the-art technical skills, and so those who specialize in supply chain, logistics, and business analytics are in high demand in today’s job market.

Supply Chain/Logistics:

The management of supply chains encompasses the coordination of supply chain activities across multiple organizations or steps from raw materials to disposal to gain competitive advantages.  Logistics management includes the maintenance and process improvement aspects of an organization to improve customer satisfaction. 

Business Analytics:

Business analytics can be broadly described as collecting and analyzing data to make better business decisions. This specialization exposes students to a broad array of analytic techniques that have recently emerged as powerful competitive weapons in the era of big data. These techniques are applicable across industries and across business disciplines. They are being used by leading analytics competitors in health care, financial services and manufacturing to identify ways to simultaneously reduce costs and improve customer service. To accomplish this, they are redefining what it means to be data-driven in operations, finance, marketing and human resource management.

Combined/Dual Degree Programs:

JD/MBA: Combined degree program with the William & Mary School of Law, Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration. (4 years)

MD/MBA: Dual degree program with Eastern Virginia Medical School. (5 years)

MBA/MED: Combined degree program with the William & Mary School of Education. (3 years for Full-time MBA students, 4+ for students in the Flex MBA Program)

MBA/MAcc: Combined degree program within the Master of Business Administration and a Master of Accounting Programs. (2.5 years)

MBA/MSBA: Combined degree program within the Master of Business Administration and a Master of Business Analytics Programs (2.5 years)

EDD/MBA or PhD/MBA: Combined degree program with the William & Mary School of Education. (5+ years, Full-time and Flex MBA program students are eligible to apply to this combined program)

Admissions Requirements:

William & Mary is looking for candidates who intend to do great things and make a difference in the world. Successful applicants come from a variety of academic, professional and cultural backgrounds. We require a submitted online application form and application fee, academic transcripts from any colleges/universities attended, GMAT or GRE, TOEFL, IELTS or PTE, essays, a resume, letters of recommendation, and an interview offered by invitation (on-campus, via Skype or phone).

Application Deadlines:

Admissions deadlines are divided into five rounds:

Website: https://graduate.mason.wm.edu/mba/full-time-mba/admissions/

Sample Class Profile:

Top Recruiters: Companies that consistently recruit at W&M include: Amazon, LifeNet Health, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte Consulting, IBM, Ernst & Young, Reckitt Benckiser, Smithfield Foods, JP Morgan, CBRE, Capital One, Bank of America, NVR, Ford, and Continental.

Tuition

Full-time Graduate Business tuition rates for the 2020-2021 academic year are available on this site.  The Full-time MBA program offers financial assistance through scholarships, graduate assistantships and student loans. All candidates are automatically considered for merit-based scholarships and graduate assistantships at the time of admission. The cost of room, board, a laptop, books and supplies will vary depending on individual needs.

Graduate Assistantships

Graduate assistantships are the primary form of aid to second-year MBA students. The selection for graduate assistantship positions is a competitive process that is based on academic performance and contributions to the program and community during the first year of MBA studies and the match between faculty or administrative needs and student skills and interests.

Raymond A. Mason School of Business graduate assistantship assignments typically include activities such as working in a research capacity with a Mason School of Business faculty member, serving as a tutor or resource for a first-year MBA course(s), and/or working with one of the administrative offices in the School. A modest research stipend accompanies most graduate assistantships. Assistantship assignments are made in most cases based upon a match between project needs and student skills and interests; the availability of positions is dependent upon funding, resource allocation and input from business school faculty and staff and may change from year to year. In all cases, assignments are made at the discretion of the Graduate Assistantship Committee.

Unless specified otherwise in the award notification, graduate assistantship positions are established for consecutive fall and spring semesters. Typically, two types of graduate assistantships are offered:

1. A 5-hour per week assistantship (or the equivalent of 75 hours per semester for each of the fall and spring semesters), which pays an annual stipend of $2,000 ($1,000 per semester.)
2. A 10-hour per week assistantship (or the equivalent of 150 hours per semester for each of the fall and spring semesters), which pays an annual stipend of $4,000 ($2,000 per semester.) Occasionally, a 10-hour assistantship assignment may include working with two faculty members, or in two assistantship roles, for 5 hours per week each. Students paying tuition at the out-of-state level may be permitted to pay tuition at the in-state rate if they earn a $4,000 assistantship stipend at the time of admission.

The assistantship assignment period includes fall, winter, and spring breaks; students may be required to work during breaks and should be prepared to do so if requested by their supervisor(s). Graduate assistants must be registered for 12 or more credit hours of graduate coursework per semester, with a minimum of 9 credit hours of graduate coursework in the Mason School of Business per semester. If a student’s registration falls below the levels described above, s/he does not fulfill their assistantship hours or assignment(s), or s/he resigns his or her assistantship before the end of the term, the student’s assistantship status and payment will be cancelled. Students receiving in-state tuition status as the result of an assistantship must complete the full year assignment in order to be eligible for in-state tuition status. Thus, the student will be required to pay out-of-state tuition charges (including retroactive payments if applicable) if their assistantship is cancelled.

During the course of a graduate assistantship, a student may have access to information that is confidential or protected by privacy laws. Disclosure to unauthorized parties is not permitted. When accessing this information, graduate assistants should only access the information needed to complete a specific, authorized task. By accepting a graduate assistantship position, the student acknowledges receipt of this warning and accepts the associated responsibilities.