Professional Accelerated MBA
Advance your career with Adelphi University’s Professional Accelerated MBA, a cohort-based program designed for experienced professionals. Complete your degree through a flexible hybrid or fully online format while building leadership, strategic decision-making and management skills alongside a network of accomplished peers.
Starting in Fall 2026, this program will be offered at our new Manhattan Center.
What Is a Professional Accelerated MBA?
A Professional Accelerated MBA is designed for experienced working professionals with at least two years of managerial experience who want to earn a career-boosting degree without having to put their career on hold. Adelphi’s cohort-based program combines leadership development, strategic business knowledge and valuable peer networking in an accelerated format that can be completed in as little as one year. Available in hybrid and fully online formats, the program allows professionals to balance work, personal commitments and graduate study while progressing through a structured curriculum with a group of accomplished peers.
Why Earn Your Professional Accelerated MBA at Adelphi?
The Professional Accelerated MBA program at Adelphi University is great for working professionals. It provides:
- A cohort model that allows students to learn alongside a group of peers who progress through the program together
- Flexible format with options for a hybrid model that combines online and on-campus-based classes or a fully online schedule
- Opportunities to network with guest speakers and industry professionals
- Requires a minimum of two years of managerial or professional experience, such as people management or project management, and a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year institution
How Long Does It Take to Earn a Professional Accelerated MBA?
It may take as little as one year, longer for students who choose to study part time. Our Professional Accelerated MBA program is for students with managerial work experience, and is offered both on-campus in Garden City and online. You decide, based on your own work schedule and family life commitments.
Program Info
Application Requirements
All applicants to the MBA program should submit the following materials:
- Graduate application and $60 fee
- A minimum of two years of managerial experience.
- Official transcripts from all prior institutions and proof of bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year institution
- Personal essay
- A letter of recommendation (optional)
- Résumé
- Course-by-course evaluation: All graduate applicants with undergraduate-level work completed outside of the United States will be required to send a course-by-course evaluation of their academic work prepared by a NACES member organization. Adelphi recommends you use The Evaluation Company (TEC) or IEE (discount provided for Adelphi applicants), ECE or WES, but any NACES member evaluation would be acceptable.
Additional Requirements
Graduate students officially registered in other divisions of the University may register for coursework within the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business with written permission from the appropriate dean, adviser or chair. Permission must be presented at registration and must indicate that the coursework taken within the School of Business will count toward degree requirements in the corresponding program. Students registering on a continuing basis under this classification will be considered visiting students.
Graduate students officially registered in a business degree program at another accredited university may register for coursework within the Willumstad School of Business if written permission from their appropriate dean, chair or program director is presented at registration.
Exceptional Hands-On Learning
At Adelphi, we believe strongly in the power of hands-on learning and the value it plays in advancing the future careers of our students. Students in programs at the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business gain valuable firsthand experience directly applying their classroom knowledge to various internship opportunities.
Students can gain additional experience by participating in Adelphi’s Business Plan Competition, where they can present innovative ideas for new business ventures and be eligible for a number of cash prizes.
A very good thing about Adelphi is the small student-professor ratio. Professors really make an effort to get to know you. I interned with Mount Sinai Health in Manhattan, and if I hadn’t been close to the city, I wouldn’t have been able to accept that internship opportunity.
Anmol Kumar, MBA ’19
Understanding Costs and Savings
Learn about the costs you can expect, and discover how scholarships, grants and financial aid packages can put an Adelphi education within reach.
30% Tuition Discount
Thanks to Adelphi’s partnership with HIA-LI, members of the association are eligible to receive a 30-percent tuition discount off the published tuition rate for the 33-credit Professional Accelerated MBA program offered at our Hauppauge Center—or, at Adelphi’s option, at the University’s Garden City campus. There must be a minimum of 12 students registered for classes to be held at the Hauppauge location.
In addition, HIA-LI members are eligible for a 15-percent discount off the published tuition rate for all other graduate programs and certificates offered by the Adelphi University Robert B. Willumstad School of Business.About HIA-LI
FAQs: Professional Accelerated MBA
The Professional Accelerated MBA is a 33-credit program for candidates with at least two years of managerial experience. The program offers a structured, cohort-based format designed for faster completion. It does not include specializations and follows a set curriculum. It also allows students to choose a hybrid or fully online class schedule. The Flex MBA is a 36-credit program that allows students to choose a specialization.
Yes. The Professional Accelerated MBA is designed specifically with working professionals in mind. Courses are typically offered in the evenings and in accelerated formats to allow students to balance their academic, professional and personal commitments.
Yes. Applicants applying to the Professional Accelerated MBA program must have a minimum of two years of managerial experience and a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year institution.
The Professional Accelerated MBA offers a flexible format with options for a low-residency model that combines online and campus-based instruction or a fully online schedule. However, some courses include in-person components depending on the cohort and location.
A Professional Accelerated MBA helps working professionals develop the leadership, strategic and business skills needed to advance their careers. The program also provides valuable networking opportunities and practical knowledge that can be applied immediately in the workplace.
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