CAREER ADVANCE PATHWAY
Designed with the working professional in mind, our part-time Professional Pathway gives you the freedom to learn from anywhere at your own pace. Our curriculum embraces your existing expertise and uses a balance of theory, analysis, and day-to-day practice to prepare you to respond strategically to complex management issues and devise innovative, relevant, and real-world solutions to your organization’s challenges.
CAREER ADVANCE PATHWAY
Designed with the working professional in mind, our part-time Professional Pathway gives you the freedom to learn from anywhere at your own pace. Our curriculum embraces your existing expertise and uses a balance of theory, analysis, and day-to-day practice to prepare you to respond strategically to complex management issues and devise innovative, relevant, and real-world solutions to your organization’s challenges.
Enhance your Professional Network:
An MBA goes far beyond the three letters.
At Dalhousie you will be learning alongside a cohort of over 300 professionals with diverse academic and industry backgrounds.
- 23% Financial Services & Insurance
- 15% Sales & Services
- 15% Education Administration
- 12% Energy and Industrial
- 6% Government
- 5% Commerce & IT
- 24% Other
Average age: 38 years old
(range between 26-59 years old)
3.06 Average Incoming GPA
16 Years average professional experience
Pathway Learning Model:
Dalhousie’s edge is offering a blended online learning model. Take your classes in an online flexible format and develop rich personal connections with your classmates through face-to-face intensives at the end of each semester.
Core Courses:
- 12 weeks online through synchronous /asynchronous learning + 3.5 day face-to-face intensive offers in several locations across Canada.
Elective Courses:
- 6 weeks online synchronous/asynchronous
Potential intensive locations:
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Toronto, Ontario
- Calgary, Alberta
- Vancouver, British Columbia
YOUR PATHWAY JOURNEY
Everyone’s educational journey is unique – customize your learning to fit your personal and professional goals. Each semester choose from a suite of core and elective course offerings, completing your MBA degree in as little as two or as many as seven years.
Core Courses (27 credit hrs, online blended learning model)
- Microeconomics (1.5 credit hrs) | Quantitative Decision Making (1.5 credit hrs)
- Accounting for Managers
- Operations Management
- Management Skill Development
- Financial Management
- Marketing Management
- Management Information Systems
- Strategic Management
- International Business
Electives (9 credit hours | online asynchronous/synchronous learning)
Elective courses are offered in the following subject areas:
- Finance
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Enterprise Analytics
- Strategy
Certificates
Take your learning to the next level by focusing your elective choices and earning specialized certificates in:
- Leadership
- Finance
CERTIFICATES
The Leadership Certificate provides the opportunity for students to develop their personal and professional competencies through the examination and application of contemporary leadership management theories in a variety of challenging contexts.
The Finance Certificate allows students to focus on critical analysis and decision-making skills that are fundamental to management and client service roles in a financial services workplace.
“As a student in the Career Advance Pathway, intensives were always my favourite. During this time, the course material came together so perfectly, and I had the opportunity to work with the best bunch of people in the program. For those who I did not work with, I am sure you would challenge me on this, because you would say the same about your groups. That is just the nature of the program. You are bound to be inspired by such amazing peers, staff, and faculty.”
Denise Hinds (MBA, 2020) Research and Teaching Assistant - Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University President - Board of Directors, Working Skills Centre