Mount Mercy University Graduate Programs (0:31)
Programs designed for working individuals and tailored for your personal success.
Adult Accelerated Programs (0:30)
Mount Mercy's adult accelerated programs are designed to fit your busy life.
MSL - Being a Leader (0:43)
Mark Latta talks about how to be a leader not just a boss.
Work-Life-School Balance (0:52)
Quenna Keating '19, '21 MSL shares how the program and supportive faculty allow her to maintain her work-life balance.
MBA Value (0:44)
Mark Latta '07, '09 MBA, '19 MSL talks about the value of the MBA.
Learn on your schedule
Our Business & Leadership programs are offered in multiple formats with 9 start dates and 5- and 10-week evening courses
5- & 10-week classes
On-campus & online
(Live & on-demand)
9 start dates
What can I do with a degree from the Business & Leadership programs?
Develop the skills you need to advance your career and expand your influence.
From relevant and applicable coursework to internships and partnerships with regional employers, our approach helps you find your niche and build your dream career. Employers are taking notice: our Business & Leadership graduates are in demand among regional employers.
The entire staff at MMU worked to ensure I could pursue both my career and education goals without missing a beat. The flexibility of the program even allowed me to continue coaching my son’s traveling baseball team.
Designed for today’s dynamic business environment
Collaboration & Leadership
Learn how collaborative leadership leads to agile, innovative, and high-functioning teams that make a lasting impact.
Health Care Administration
This certificate provides the most current health care expertise in vital areas such as regulatory standards, population health measures, and health insurance applications.
Human Resources
Whether you practice in the profession or lead a team of people, recognizing how human resources is structured will maximize performance.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Engage your natural curiosity and learn how to effectively question processes in order to drive results. Discover new ways of thinking, problem-solving, and bringing ideas to life. Drive change in an organization through the ability to think outside the box—and beyond.
Leadership Consulting
This unique skill set will enable you to enter the role of executive coach. You'll become fluent in communicating strategies, leading in a virtual environment, managing conflict, and serving as a change agent.
Leadership & Navigation
Our certificate will train you in the value of serving as a business partner, coach, and motivator by learning how to influence, motivate, and empower others to achieve organizational success.
Leading People & Organizations
This certificate will provide you with the capacity to align people and organizations to thrive in this ever-changing global environment.
People Management
Gain the skills you need to boost employee performance, foster collaboration, and add value to your organization in a dynamic business environment.
Quality Management
Gain the necessary skills to fulfill the increasing demands of today’s clients in a competitive environment.
Remote & Virtual Workforce
If you work on a remote team—or lead one—this certificate will empower you to consider motivation and collaboration within virtual teams, structure successful employee engagement, and prepare and support leaders for success.
Supply Chain Management
This certificate emphasizes leveraging the effects of operations within the supply chain to achieve business performance and objectives.
Accounting
Our accounting program serves as the foundation for success in high-demand careers with formats designed for traditional students and working professionals.
Applied Management
Designed to expedite your academic career, our applied management major welcomes students transferring from a two-year institution with a background in technical specialty, as well as working professionals with previous technical training or work experience.
Business
Learn every aspect of organizing, leading, and succeeding in business through Mount Mercy’s business core. You will connect your real life experience with deeper understanding of the functions of business principles and theories.
Finance
Bridging current practices, investment theory, and ethical and professional standards, we provide finance students a well-rounded business education plan and a foundation for success in high-demand careers.
Human Resource Management
Personnel are the backbone of any business. As a human resource management student you will learn the skills to effectively manage their success to support business strategies.
Management
The management major prepares students to lead in a competitive and dynamic business environment, developing the skills necessary for effective and efficient leadership in profit and nonprofit organizations.
Management Information Systems
The MIS program, unlike traditional computer science, focuses on the behavioral motivations of customers and end users. We develop interpersonal and business acumen alongside the traditional hard technology skills like coding and project management.
Marketing
Marketing is where sales, strategy, and communication all converge. You'll hone your skills in communication, leadership, problem solving, relationship building, and critical thinking through experience and build your confidence at the same time.
Accounting
Our accounting program serves as the foundation for success in high-demand careers with formats designed for traditional students and working professionals.
Actuarial Science
Use mathematical and statistical methods to assess and price risk in areas like insurance and investments, gaining skills needed to pass the Actuarial Science Probability and Actuarial Science Financial Mathematics exams.
Applied Management
Designed to expedite your academic career, our applied management major welcomes students transferring from a two-year institution with a background in technical specialty, as well as working professionals with previous technical training or work experience.
Business
Learn every aspect of organizing, leading, and succeeding in business through Mount Mercy’s business core. You will connect your real life experience with deeper understanding of the functions of business principles and theories.
Data Science
In our data science program, you'll develop the mathematical foundations needed to understand algorithms and techniques in the field, the computing skills to use them in meaningful ways, and the communication skills needed to share your insights with stakeholders.
Finance
Bridging current practices, investment theory, and ethical and professional standards, we provide finance students a well-rounded business education plan and a foundation for success in high-demand careers.
Human Resource Management
Personnel are the backbone of any business. As a human resource management student you will learn the skills to effectively manage their success to support business strategies.
Management
The management major prepares students to lead in a competitive and dynamic business environment, developing the skills necessary for effective and efficient leadership in profit and nonprofit organizations.
Management Information Systems
The MIS program, unlike traditional computer science, focuses on the behavioral motivations of customers and end users. We develop interpersonal and business acumen alongside the traditional hard technology skills like coding and project management.
Marketing
Marketing is where sales, strategy, and communication all converge. You'll hone your skills in communication, leadership, problem solving, relationship building, and critical thinking through experience and build your confidence at the same time.
Public Relations
Develop competence through understanding key concepts and strategic planning in public relations, mastering skills used in traditional public relations tactics, and learning the principles and guidelines of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
Science Marketing
Our hybrid science marketing program blends science skills with marketing prowess, helping you analyze new findings, put words to fresh ideas, and refine your abilities to share science's evolving narrative with the world.
Sports Management
Our sports management track goes beyond basic classroom learning—it unites real-world experience with a strong curriculum. Designed for people with a passion for athletics, this track will prepare you to manage, market, finance, and plan for local, regional, and national teams or sports organizations.
See how you can afford your business degree
- Receive a 10% tuition discount if you work at one of our corporate educational partners
- Ask your employer about tuition reimbursement
- Study now, pay later. We can delay payment up to 45 days after your course ends so you can submit your invoice, receive tuition reimbursement, and avoid fronting the bill
- Get a $600 referral scholarship
- Explore other options through our Financial Aid Office
More development opportunities
Management for New Managers
Our faculty come to you to lead trainings designed for new managers.
Brown Bag Talks
Bring our expert Business & Leadership faculty to your workplace for seminars and workshops.
Corporate Educational Partnerships
Partner employees receive a 10% tuition discount for their education.