A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.
Program
- Award
- Masters
- Credential class
- ceterms:MasterDegree
- Catalog edition
- Rensselaer Catalog 2026-2027
- Checklist type
- degree-program
- Description
- is a partnership between the Lally School of Management and RPI at Work. The PMBA is for working professionals aspiring to management and leadership positions in today’s most dynamic organizations and industries. The PMBA fully embodies the technical and STEM excellence of RPI to prepare tomorrow’s technical and business leaders. The Program is: Built around the theme of Leaders making decisions in a complex world and then planning and executing those decisions to achieve organizational goals and objectives. A central theme of “data analytics as a decision augmentation framework” is embedded in every course to assist in decision making. Optimized for the career development of working professional engineers, scientists, or business specialists, and their employers, who aspire to take on management and leadership roles at the top of their organization. Delivered fully digitally using RPI’s digital classroom, allowing for engaging participation, collaboration and interaction from anywhere - anytime - without disrupting other life/professional commitments. Scholar practitioner Faculty Mentors who individually support students through courses and over the program, offering individual insight and feedback to help students achieve mastery through application. The PMBA is designed specifically for working professionals who have professional experience to serve as the context for their project work. Accordingly, the program requires a minimum of 3 years of professional experience as documented on the student’s professional resume. Other requirements include official transcripts documenting the completion of an undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited institution with a minimum 3.0 GPA; letters of reference; and additional information as described on the program admissions page - rpiatwork.rpi.edu. The PMBA admissions process looks at the whole person in terms of experience, aspiration, professional growth, academic achievement, and focus. Applicants considering the PMBA should be assured that all factors will be reviewed fully and individually. Designed around real-world doing-focused projects that experientially develop leadership decision-making and problem-solving capacities - engaging projects in which you learn and then demonstrate that learning in real ways. Scaffolded real-world projects incorporate state-of-the-practice analytics, evaluation, and methodology to the decision-making, planning and execution of strategy. Projects are often in the context of your real-world employer - students completing the program have a far deeper understanding of their organization and markets. Program Outcomes The successful student in the MBA for Professionals program will master: Leadership: influence and lead individuals and teams to achieve organizational objectives. Ethical Decision-making: evaluate ethical perspectives and utilize an ethical and legal framework for decision-making in multiple contexts and domains. The Rensselaer Analytic Framework of Decision-making: use data to evaluate and respond, in context, to a problem, decision, or research question. Change Management and Innovation: diagnose, prescribe, plan and execute change (product and process) to ensure the organization achieves its objectives. Strategic Perspective: design a strategic planning process, formulate a strategy, and implement a strategy to achieve sustainable competitive advantage for a firm. Communicating Effectively: communicate with purpose and clarity to present ideas in written and oral formats. Talent Management: ensure achievement of organizational goals with strategic policies and initiatives. Technology Infrastructure: develop technical infrastructure to ensure work is efficiently facilitated, that operations are optimized, and that customer needs are fully met. Global Environment: make and execute strategic decisions in a continuously evolving global framework. Organizational Performance: analyze and use accounting, financial, and operational information to measure and influence organizational performance. Operational Effectiveness and Efficiency: deploy continuous improvement and quality management on an organization’s production and distribution systems and/or processes. Markets: identify and evaluate markets for the organization’s goods and services, develop strategies for achieving organizational growth rates, and implement successful campaigns to specific markets. Economic Analysis: evaluate evolving markets and anticipate how changes may impact the organization’s goals.
Identifiers
- IPEDS UNITID
- 194824
- CourseShelf checklist
- CK_194824_afeba2f7
- CollegeTransfer.Net
- Institution Transfer Profile
- Source
- CourseShelf publish 61
Requirements to complete
Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.
Graduation Requirements
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Rensselaer Leadership Experience
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Coursework
7 items
- BUSN 6320Leaders Leading PeopleNot resolved to a course6
- BUSN 6325Leaders Charting the CourseNot resolved to a course6
- BUSN 6300Leaders and StrategyNot resolved to a course6
- BUSN 6305Leaders in Dynamic MarketsNot resolved to a course6
- BUSN 6310Leaders Making Financial DecisionsNot resolved to a course6
- BUSN 6315Leaders Planning and ExecutingNot resolved to a course6
- * Note: the Rensselaer Leadership Experience (RLE) is a required two-day in-person required experience, taken as part of BUSN 6320 . See description below for more details.Not resolved to a course
Admissions Requirements
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Adding a Graduate Certificate
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Culminating Experience
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Transfer Credit Considerations
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Source. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, catalog Rensselaer Catalog 2026-2027 — https://catalog.rpi.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=34&poid=10223&returnto=938. Captured page pages/0222.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.