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Georgetown McDonough offers a global learning community for working professionals to lead at a higher level. The Flex MBA is a highly ranked program grounded in values-based business and features a career-focused curriculum that delivers the power skills, ethical leadership training, and AI fluency to solve complex business challenges.
The Flex MBA offers flexibility in duration of degree (24-60 months), and a variety of career-aligned electives and core options focused on fields of the future. This allows students to apply academic knowledge tailored to their career goals. The program balances academic growth with professional responsibilities, designed specifically for working professionals.
New Flex MBA Curriculum
The Flex MBA curriculum is specifically designed for working professionals and is aligned with the future of work. This new curriculum emphasizes early integration of leadership development, ethical, and policy-relevant concepts in business decision-making and data and AI fluency, as well as essential industry skills to support your career aspirations. The curriculum is scheduled to launch in fall 2026.
Please note that the curriculum is subject to change. Current students should refer to MyHoyaMBA for their class’s curriculum maps.
Key Features and Benefits of the Flex MBA
Flex MBA in Washington, D.C
- A Cohort that Fits your Life: Join a close-knit cohort of approximately 55–65 accomplished working professionals and tap into Georgetown’s extensive network of students, faculty, and alumni across industries and regions.
- Designed for Real Life: Curate your MBA timeline to align with your work, life, and school commitments effectively.
- Flexible Learning Options: Balance campus time with select online electives that give you added flexibility while maintaining rigor and connection.
- Future Ready Skills: Build fluency in data, analytics, and AI through integrated core and elective courses designed to prepare you for leadership in a tech-driven business environment.
- Leverage Prior Graduate Coursework: Transfer up to 12 credit hours of prior graduate coursework not applied toward a previous degree to reduce time to completion.
- Career Support That Meets You Where You Are: Whether you are looking to advance in your current field or pivot to a new one, dedicated career coaching and tailored resources help you move forward with confidence.
- Experiential Projects: Participate in a signature global consulting project alongside applied, real-world projects embedded throughout the curriculum.
Flex MBA Online
- Renowned Flex MBA in Online Format: Experience the rigor, reputation, and community of our Flex MBA in an online format, allowing you to choose the learning modality that best fits your professional and personal commitments.
- Cohort Experience and Local and Global Residencies: Flex MBA Online students join a dedicated cohort for two immersive week-long residencies in Washington, D.C. These residencies will combine for-credit coursework with leadership development, community building, and team-based learning. In the third residency, you spend one week abroad as part of the Global Business Experience.
- Flexible High-Quality Course Delivery Flexibility: Balance your studies with your career through weekly virtual, live classes complemented by select short-term, intensive courses.
- Innovative Learning Technology: Complete the Flex MBA Online in 24-60 months through a dynamic mix of synchronous virtual core and elective courses, supported by cutting-edge learning technologies designed for collaboration, interaction, and real-world application.
- Global Immersion: Online students benefit from the same Global Business Experience where they complete a team-based global consulting project as on-campus students. Additionally, you benefit from a short-term study-abroad opportunity curated specifically for online working professionals. This opportunity brings together students from other leading schools, offering networking and cross-institutional collaboration.
- Dedicated Career Coaching: Flex MBA Online students receive personalized career coaching, including career strategy development and job search support — ensuring you graduate prepared to advance or pivot in your career.
STEM-Designated Management Science Major
The Georgetown MBA offers a variety of coursework focused on quantitative analysis and management science, allowing you to complete a STEM-designated management science major. In addition to the STEM-eligible credits you will take as part of the core curriculum above, you must complete a portion of your core and elective credits during the MBA program from a designated list to earn the designation.
Opening Term
Your MBA studies begin with immersive instruction focused on ethical principles, a global mindset, and policy-driven business decision-making, preparing you to lead confidently from day one.
Core Courses
- Structure of Global Industries
- Accounting Fundamentals
- Corporate Financial Reporting
- Financial Analysis for Managers and Investors
- Firm Analysis and Strategy
- Financial Markets and Corporate Decision-Making
- Marketing Analysis and Customer Strategy
- Managerial Statistics
- Analytical Problem Solving
- Leading Teams for Performance and Impact
- Leadership Communications
- Operations
- Business and Public Policy in a Global Economy
- Ethical Leadership
- Global Business Experience
Electives
Although you do not choose an area of concentration, you can customize your academic experience by selecting electives from approximately 70 course offerings. This list is a general guide of evening in-person offerings and is subject to change. Seating availability is not guaranteed.
Accounting
- Law for Managers
- Startup Law
Finance
- Investment Analysis
- Real Estate Private Equity
- Project Finance
- Real Estate Private Debt
- Real Estate Public Equity
- Valuation
- Financial Analysis & Modeling
- Financial Markets
- Sustainable Investing
- Hedge Fund Investing
Marketing
- Strategic Marketing Research
- Applied Product Management
- Consumer Behavior
- How to Build Strong Brands
- Customer Analytics
- AI & Marketing
- Global Marketing
Management
- Critical Conversations
- Understanding Social Innovation
- Managing the Enterprise
- Lean Startup Principles
- Globalization & Wine Industry
- Building Entrepreneurial Ventures
- Growing Entrepreneurial Businesses
- Defending the Bottom Line
- Understanding Entrepreneurship
- Consulting Methods & Methods
- Consulting Strategic Analysis
- Advanced Oral Presentations
- Media & Entertainment
- Negotiations
Operations and Analytics
- Decision Support Systems
- Environmentally Sustainable Operations & Business Models
- Data Science for Business Decisions
- Analytics Advantage
- Database Development & Management
- Global Supply Chain Management
- Business of Sustainable Energy & Tech
Strategy, Economics, Ethics & Public Policy
- Washington, Business, and the World
- The Miracle of Markets?
- Strategies Beyond the Market
- Economics of Strategic Behavior
- Organizational Design Strategy
- China: Economy, Politics, & Business
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Game Theory
- Technology Strategy
- Antitrust & Business Strategy
- Global Strategy
- The Business of Healthcare
Intensive Learning Experiences
Intensive Learning Experiences (ILEs) are elective courses offered in short time periods (one or two weeks) and provide 1.5 or 3 academic credit hours. These courses use innovative pedagogies, such as experiential learning, client-centered work, and off-site visits that take advantage of the concentrated time format. This list is a general guide of in-person offerings and is subject to change. Seat availability is not guaranteed.
- Mutual Funds
- The Life of Work
- Mobile and AI Product Development
- Core Principles of Data Visualization
- Developing New Business Models
- Women and Leadership
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Coaching High-Performance Teams
- Real Estate Development
- The Business of Defense
- Commercial Approaches to the Public Sector
- Healthcare Data & Analytics
- Design Your Life & the Science of Positivity
- Mental Health in the Workplace
- Entrepreneurship Via Acquisition
- Economics & Psychology of Consumer Finance
Transfer Credit Policy
Georgetown McDonough MBA students may petition for the transfer of a maximum of 12 credits for specific courses taken at an accredited institution prior to their admission to McDonough. Only courses that satisfy the following requirements will be considered for transfer credit:
- Courses must be graduate-level, relevant to the MBA, taken for credit at degree-granting institutions, and meet McDonough academic standards as determined by the associate dean of MBA programs in consultation with appropriate faculty.
- Only courses completed in the last seven years (from the time of request) for which you earned a ‘B’ or better (or the equivalent) will be considered.
- Courses applied toward a previous degree cannot be approved for transfer. If the course to be transferred is on a transcript for a previous degree, it must be clearly noted that it was not used to satisfy any degree requirements.
- Transfer credit requests for core courses will only be approved if you also pass a waiver exam proving mastery of core concepts. If the waiver exam is not passed, then no transfer credits will be granted.
You must complete a minimum of 75% of the credits required for the MBA at Georgetown McDonough. Therefore, transferring credits may limit opportunities for registration in Consortium of Universities in D.C. courses, cross-registration at Georgetown University, and study abroad.
Requests for transfer credit will be reviewed for Flex MBA students after admission to McDonough is granted; full-time students’ requests will be reviewed after being admitted and submitting a deposit.
Registration Outside the MBA Program
As an additional way to customize your MBA, we offer you the opportunity to request to take up to 13.5 elective credits outside of the McDonough School of Business. You can pursue courses through the Consortium of Universities in D.C., such as: American University, George Mason University, Howard University, The George Washington University, and the University of Maryland at College Park. Relevant graduate-level classes also may be taken elsewhere within Georgetown University through cross-registration.
Certificates and Experiential Learning
Through certificate programs, academic tutorials, in-class client work, and experiences like the Real Estate Clinic, we bring the real world to the classroom for our students.
Please note that at this time, Flex MBA Online students are not eligible to complete certificates because the program modality and required sequence of courses are not compatible.
