The Bellarmine MBA

Business leaders need expert managers with vision, leadership and a strong sense of ethics. The Bellarmine MBA provides students foundational business principles to advance careers now and provide security for the future. Customize your MBA experience with our flexible programming and choose from concentrations in Analytics, Finance, Marketing or Innovation.

• Real-world experienc e: The students in our program are your cohort and peers. They are some of the most well connected, aspiring business people in the region and the future leaders of Louisville's business community.
• Engaged faculty : Our faculty comprises the best of both worlds: accredited academic pros with decades of experience teaching best business practices, as well as business owners and corporate executives: men and women who understand both the classroom and the boardroom.
• Networking : Bellarmine faculty and students are Louisville business masters through and through. As an MBA student at Bellarmine you will know somebody who knows somebody from day one.
• Advancement and Security : You're an intelligent, self-motivated person who understands business principles. Double down on your self-investment with a Bellarmine MBA for immediate payoff and long-term security.

• 100% of Rubel School of Business graduates are working or continuing their education
  • Our graduates are working and studying in 30 U.S. States + 3 international destinations

Class of 2018 outcomes, six months after commencement. Data collection and analysis provided by the Career Development Center.

Mission

The mission of the W. Fielding Rubel School of Business is to provide student-centered quality education in the Catholic liberal arts tradition enriched by diverse intellectual perspectives to serve society with purpose, insight, and compassion consistent with the mission of Bellarmine University.

School Highlights

“One of nation’s best business schools" — The Princeton Review

Bellarmine offers our business students a unique educational experience: a broad-based liberal arts education supplemented by top-notch business preparation. This difference is viewed quite favorably by employers, who say they like our graduates because of their writing and critical thinking skills.

The School of Business also is noted for rapidly incorporating innovations and business trends into the curriculum. For example, many employers today are encouraging their workers to earn MBA degrees; therefore, Bellarmine has introduced several programs that take entering freshmen to their MBA degrees in just five (or five and a half) years.

Another important aspect to a business education at Bellarmine is the requirement of an internship and/or an international experience. We require students to have/acquire business experience—this can be accomplished via applied course projects, internships and/or course requirements as well as potential volunteer business projects too. This guarantees that you will gain practical experience while still a student, which makes you much more "marketable" upon your graduation.

The W. Fielding Rubel School of Business at Bellarmine University is accredited by the AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), which places it among the elite business schools in the nation. Not only is Bellarmine the first and only private university in Kentucky to achieve AACSB accreditation, but fewer than 5 percent of business schools worldwide have achieved this distinction.

Additional Accolades

• Master of Finance Degrees ranked the Rubel School of Business #9 in the nation for accounting and finance on its Best Small Colleges list.

• One of the Best and Most Beautiful B-School Campuses by MBAPrograms.org

• Recognized as a CFA Institute Affiliated University