La Salle University
Program snapshot
What You’ll Learn
Our MBA programs offer a well‑rounded curriculum built on four key components: foundation courses, core courses, specialization courses, and Executive Perspective courses. Each stage is designed to strengthen analytical, strategic, and leadership capabilities while allowing students to select a specialization and customize their degree. The program includes an integrative capstone, a signature experience that unites all aspects of the curriculum to prepare graduates to excel in next step of their career.
Why Pursue an MBA at La Salle?
We offer multiple formats designed to meet students’ backgrounds, goals, and schedules. Our students come from a wide range of disciplines and is ideal for recent graduates, career changers, and professionals seeking advancement. Whether you prefer a traditional classroom experience, a flexible online format, or the choice to study full time or part time, La Salle’s MBA programs are designed to meet you where you are.
We offer specializations in Accounting, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Business Systems and Analytics, Finance, Health Systems Management, Management, Marketing, Strategic Communication (available in full‑time and part‑time formats only), and a General option that allows you to select courses across multiple areas.
Most recently, La Salle’s School of Business was ranked in the Top 100 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, only 1 of 2 in the Philadelphia area to make the list. In addition, La Salle’s Online MBA was recognized in the 2026 U.S. News Best Online Programs rankings when it climbed 89 spots from the previous year.
At La Salle, you’ll be part of a university growing in stature while getting the hands-on, personalized support you can expect from a university rooted in community.
If you’d like to explore our innovative curriculum in depth, please select your preferred MBA format below.
Highlighted Courses
MBA 693 – Business Analytics for Informed and Effective Decision Making
This course introduces students to the growing field of business analytics. Business analytics is the use of data, information technology, statistical analysis, and quantitative methods and models to support effective organizational problem solving and informed decision making. The course includes methods, tools, and techniques for summarizing and visualizing historical data, which is relevant to descriptive analytics—the use of data to find out what has happened in the past or is currently happening; methods, tools, and techniques for extracting information from existing data in order to determine patterns, which is relevant to predictive analytics—the use of data to find out what will happen in the future; and methods, tools, and techniques for optimization, which is relevant to prescriptive analytics – the use of data to determine the best course of action in the future.
MBA 810 – Developing Your Leadership Skills
This experiential course emphasizes the importance of feedback and self- assessment for leadership development. It includes extensive assessment of each participant’s management style and skills based on self-evaluations (using structured questionnaires, decision making exercises, and role plays) and feedback from coworkers, faculty, and other participants. It includes a full day assessment workshop. Leadership development experiences emphasize time and stress management, individual and group problem-solving, communication, power and influence, motivation, conflict management, empowerment, and team leadership. Each participant identifies skills he or she needs to develop and reports on efforts to develop those skills.
MBA 902 – Competitive Strategy
This integrative capstone course is designed to expose students to strategies that companies use to build and sustain competitive advantage in the global market. The course provides students with industry, competitor, and business level analytic tools that help students to assess factors that influence strategy formulation and strategy implementation in both domestic and global markets.
Meet the Faculty
Madjid Tavana, Ph.D., is the Associate Chair in the Finance and Analytics Department as well as a Professor of Business Systems and Analytics at La Salle University. Dr Tavana is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Kennedy Space Center, the Johnson Space Center, the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. He was recently honored with the prestigious Space Act Award by NASA. Dr. Tavana has published 15 books and over 270 research papers in international scholarly academic journals.
Accreditation
La Salle School of Business is accredited by AACSB International, an honor achieved by only 6% of the 13,000 business schools around the world.
AACSB’s continuous improvement review process is conducted every five years and signals we have continuously improved business practice through a commitment to strategic management, learner success, thought leadership, and societal impact. La Salle has received AACSB accreditation since 1995.
Brenna, ’10, MBA ’11, Dylan, ’17, and Eric Trush, ’20, all got their start at La Salle.
As president of Wawa, Inc., Brian Schaller, ‘97, MBA, is utilizing the education and values he gained at La Salle to see the company reach its greatest potential.
Ranked tied for 100, La Salle is one of just two Philadelphia-area institutions to be listed in the top 100 of the USNWR 2025 Best Business School rankings.