Online MBA in Strategic Management & Leadership

After completing your strategic management MBA with us, you can:

• Pursue advanced leadership roles in a wide range of local, national, and multi-national businesses
• Prepare to establish a new enterprise
• Improve your performance in facilities, operations, or human resources management

Our MBA in leadership is rigorous but offers a flexible, online format to help you balance career and your degree. In the program, you’ll join GMercyU’s close-knit community of learners, where the professors and peers you encounter will challenge you to become the adaptive, versatile, and self-reflective leader the 21st century business world needs.

The MBA in Strategic Management and Leadership is a two-year advanced degree program. You will take 10 courses: seven foundation courses (a total of 21 credits) and three courses in your concentration (nine additional credits). Courses run one at a time, in seven-week sessions, with one-week breaks between courses.

Course Requirements

To review course descriptions, please refer to the graduate catalog.

The MBA in Strategic Management and Leadership prepares you for executive-track career opportunities by extending the skills and knowledge you have learned through professional experience and previous training. You will emerge from this program with enhanced capabilities in writing, presenting, research, and leadership, as well as technical knowledge in finance, business technology, and more.

As a GMercyU MBA in leadership graduate, you will be able to:

• Perform research and write about ideas and arguments associated with business issues to a high standard using APA format
• Effectively communicate ideas and arguments associated with business issues through clear and persuasive speech
• Apply knowledge and skills to make appropriate business decisions
• Apply critical thinking to real-life work problems through the application of theoretical and experiential knowledge
• Identify issues and strategies related to corporate social responsibility and its implications for business

Our MBA degree program features a cohort model with small classes so you can establish close professional and personal relationships with classmates and professors. Learning experiences emphasize collaboration, just like real-world working environments. We also challenge you to explore how you can be a force for positive social change through your profession.

At GMercyU, our professors bring advanced academic achievement and significant industry experience to your classroom. Their insights and mentorship can help inspire and encourage you to take your place as part of a new generation of business leaders.

Nancy T. Grzesik, MEd, CPA, CGMA
Position: Adjunct Professor, Business Administration
Did You Know? Professor Grzesik has worked in a variety of fields, from education to transportation and zoological societies.
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Pamela L. Woodland, EdD
Position: Adjunct Professor, Business Administration
Did You Know? Dr. Woodland has served as a Business Director for real estate residential and commercial property management.
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Take the next step towards your professional goals: Earn your MBA in Strategic Management and Leadership with us. 

Contact Wivina Chmura, Associate Director of Admissions, at 215-641-5541 or gradadmissions@gmercyu.edu today! You can also learn more about our application requirements or request more information here.