Second Year University Pathway:
Fast track to an MBA

Canisius

A comprehensive Bachelor/MBA Program

Proceed to Second Year entry to Canisius College, with the opportunity of gaining both a Bachelor’s degree and an MBA in just five years, including your Second Year University Pathway Year at Kings Boston.

If you are approved by Canisius College, you may earn sufficient credit for
sophomore standing.

  • Complete a Bachelors’s degree in 3 years and stay an extra year to complete an MBA
  • You do not have to be a business major to participate
  • You can take MBA classes in your senior year with free electives

Accredited by AACSB international

Accredited by AACSB international: an elite distinction earned by fewer than 2% of the world’s business schools.

Program of Study

  • If approved, students may earn up to an equivalent of one year of credit through the university pathways program and secure sophomore standing
  • Sophomore and Junior year students will complete undergraduate requirements
  • Senior year students will continue to complete undergraduate requirements and start taking MBA classes
  • MBA year student will complete all requirements for the Canisius MBA 

 The Canisius MBA Advantage

  • Small class sizes with personal attention
  • Experienced faculty with PhD‘s and business connections
  • Approach that is ethical and multidisciplinary
  • Globally conscientious

Program Requirements

  • Once at Canisius, interested candidates should apply in their junior year of their undergraduate studies
  • Student must have a undergraduate cumulative grade point average of 3.0
  • Students must receive a satisfactory sore on the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)

 MBA Program

 Foundation                                               21.0 credit hours

   * students with two undergraduate courses in similar content at the undergraduate level within the last five years may be waived out of a foundation course

Management Information Systems              3.0 credit hours
Organizational Behavior                               3.0 credit hours
Statistics                                                       3.0 credit hours
Economics                                                    3.0 credit hours
Financial Accounting                                     3.0 credit hours
Marketing                                                      3.0 credit hours
Operations                                                     3.0 credit hours
Corporate Finance                                         3.0 credit hours

Ethics                                                            3.0 credit hours

Legal Environment and Ethics or Managerial Environment and Ethics

Core Area                                                      9.0 credit hours

(Complete 3.0 credit hours from three of the five areas)

Accounting
Finance
Marketing
Management
Technology 

Concentration/Electives                                       9.0 credit hours          

Capstone                                                                9.0 credit hours

Strategy Management and Leadership                   3.0 credit hours

Total                                                                       48.0 credit hours