FULL-TIME MBA AT FISHER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

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Begin your business leadership journey with the Fisher MBA.

Personalized
The Fisher MBA program tailors individualized experiences
that maximize growth while addressing professional needs.
Customization
Your MBA is highly customizable and, utilizing all that
Fisher and The Ohio State University have to offer, is tailored
to your individual career goals. Wide-ranging electives
develop the specific foundational skills employers want.
Coaching and assessment
As an MBA student, you’ll have a dedicated support team
consisting of an academic advisor, a career consultant, a
professional development coach and a mentor who provide
continuous assessment, feedback and guidance.
Integrated
Beyond the strong functional expertise emphasized in the
MBA program, our graduates also possess the ability to solve
problems spanning multiple functions in organizations.
Cross-functional
Your core curriculum is integrated through weekly sessions
co-taught by faculty across multiple disciplines who provide
valuable opportunities to connect the dots between
functional topics.
Interconnected
Project-based components of the curriculum offer insight
into real-world, boundary-spanning problems and require
you to develop real solutions that meet the needs of
stakeholders across an organization.

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Close skills gaps through assessments
Develop leadership and communications
Prepare for internships and careers
The Fisher culture of collaboration aided
Reflect on experiential opportunities
students in establishing organic and
Link accountability to personal development
lasting relationships with each other.”
Sandy Lopez-Zeledon, MBA ‘21
Microsoft | Seattle, WA

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Experiential
Immersive
The two-year program offers you opportunities to apply insights learned in the
classroom to on-site, hands-on projects with top organizations located in
Columbus, the nation’s 14th-largest city, and with our partners around the world.

Impactful
You’ll shape business at the global level and maximize social impact through
programs such as Fisher’s Global Applied Projects, Business Lab Challenge, Core
Capstone Experience and Social Impact Challenge. Your experience leads to
genuine positive change here and beyond.

Capstone Case Competition Business Lab

Finish your first year thinking
cross-functionally alongside your core
team in a case competition. Feedback
from your presentation provides a gauge
for your progress as an MBA student.
Apply the expertise you’ve developed in
the core curriculum to a business project
with a local firm. Gain confidence and
hands-on experience as a team solving a
challenge facing an area business.

Social Impact Challenge Global Applied Projects (GAP)

Gain new perspectives and learn how
managers interact with nonprofit
organizations as you tackle unique
challenges through a social impact
project in Columbus.
Immerse yourself in Fisher’s
signature global consulting project,
which includes a week abroad
working alongside representatives of
partnering GAP companies.

“ Learning by doing is a cornerstone of Fisher’s

action-based Full-Time MBA curriculum.”
Roger Bailey
Clinical Assistant Professor, Director, Full-Time MBA program

Build skills employers want

Infused in the Fisher MBA are career competencies highly sought after by
employers looking for versatile leaders in a competitive global landscape:

Problem definition & Leadership & interpersonal Accountability &

problem solving communication Purpose
Critical thinking Persuasion and influence Personal responsibility
Managing ambiguity Emotional intelligence Team accountability
Analytical skills Cultural competence Ethics and social Impact

RECENT FULL-TIME MBA PROFILE Undergraduate diversity GMAT/GRE averages

4.6 3.38 32 % 12
41% Business 673 GMAT score
23% Arts & Sciences 322 GRE composite
average years of average undergrad GPA female students states in the U.S. and 20% Social Sciences
GMAT 80% Range: 622 - 718
work experience (80% range: 2.9 to 3.9) 13 countries represented 16% Engineering GRE 80% Range: 306 - 337

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 FULL-TIME MBA 25.5 7.5 ‡ 27 60
Curriculum credit hours
of integrated
core coursework
+ credit hours
of experiential
coursework
+ credit hours
of elective
coursework
= total credit
hours required
(minimum)
go.osu.edu/integrated go.osu.edu/experiential go.osu.edu/personalized total

‡ Business Lab also counts as core

coursework. The GAP elective
adds 3 experiential credit hours.
Autumn Semester Spring Semester
Pre-Term Autumn Block A Autumn Block B Autumn Block C Spring Term 1 Spring Term 2
Fisher
Launch 4.5 weeks 4.5 weeks 4.5 weeks 7 weeks 7 weeks
2 weeks
Economics (3) Business Lab (3)*
Orientation *required core course
Assessment

Capstone Case Competition

& Feedback
Accounting (3) Strategy (3)
Pre-Term Case Challenge

Development
Plans

Summer Internship
Year One

Business Finance (3) Data Analysis (3)

Communication

Career
Conference
Operations (3) Global Business (1.5)
Leadership Elective
Workshop
Skill Development
Team (1.5 to 4.5 credit hours, 7.5 max)
Building Marketing Marketing (3)
Diversity &
Inclusion
Organizational
Workshop Leadership (1.5)
Behavior (1.5)
Case Analysis
Workshop
Core Integration Sessions
Ethics
Workshop Assessments & Personalized Coaching

Career Development Workshops

Autumn Semester Spring Semester

Autumn Term 1 Autumn Term 2 Spring Term 1 Spring Term 2

7 weeks 7 weeks 7 weeks 7 weeks

Global Applied Projects - GAP (3)*

Summer Internship Reflection

Social Impact Challenge (3)* go.osu.edu/gap

*required *optional
Year Two

Max Problem Solving (1.5)*

*required

Elective Elective
Skill Development Skill Development
(9 to 12 credit hours, 15 max) (11.5 to 13.5 credit hours, 16.5 max)

Assessments & Personalized Coaching

Career Development Workshops

Career-focused personalization
About half of the MBA curriculum is dedicated to electives to develop
STEM MBA
skills targeted at your unique career goals. With guidance from an As a Full-Time MBA student, you can pursue Fisher’s
academic advisor and career coach, you’ll design a curriculum plan STEM MBA specialization, which provides career
opportunities and technical skill development. This also
that develops the skills and knowledge necessary to achieve your goals.
allows international students to remain in the U.S. for an
Sample skill development areas additional two years of Optional Practical Training (OPT).
go.osu.edu/STEMMBA
Asset Management Entrepreneurship Risk Management
Brand Management Leadership Social Impact 30 of 60 credit hours must be STEM
Business Analytics Marketing Strategy and Consulting 18 credits are already in the required core classes
Coaching Operations Supply Chain/Logistics You choose 12 credit hours from select electives
Corporate Finance Real Estate Substainability

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