The Fisher MBA Difference
As a Full-Time MBA candidate, you receive a highly experiential, personalized, and integrated graduate business education designed to equip you with deep technical knowledge, a strong business acumen, and a robust professional network in order to launch your career and realize lifelong success as a business leader.
Learning by doing is a cornerstone of Fisher’s immersive, action-based MBA experience. Your education extends far beyond the classroom thanks to academic, corporate, and non-profit partnerships locally and globally.
- 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: Shape business at the local and global level while also maximizing social impact through both required and elective project-based courses. Courses include, but are not limited to, Business Lab Challenge, Global Applied Projects (GAP), Global Impact and Purpose-Driven Leadership, Global Business Expeditions (GBE), and Max Problem Solving.
At Fisher, a dedicated support team comprised of academic, career, and professional development coaches are accessible throughout your two-year MBA journey, meeting you where you are at and providing you with tailored services to help you maximize your potential.
- Evidence-Based Assessments: Administered at the start of the program, assessments help identify individual behavioral and communication styles, highlighting areas of strength and opportunity for growth and development.
- Career Coaching: You will meet regularly with a dedicated career coach who will help you craft a compelling personal pitch, navigate networking with recruiters, refine your resume, and prepare for interviews throughout your internship and career searches.
- Individual Leadership Development Plan: Goal setting and committing to cultivating networks and soft skills is critical to success as a business leader. MBA candidates create individual leadership development plans and are supported throughout their two-year journey as they define and refine their personal brand, develop new skills, and build their board of advisors.
- Professional Development: Through a combination of dedicated core courses and co-curricular workshops, MBA candidates are supported as they cultivate and hone critical communications skills – from active listening and exceling in written communications to mastering the art of the pitch and presentations.
MBA graduates need to be functional experts, but also possess the ability to solve problems that span organizations.
- Interconnected: Project-based components of the curriculum offer insight into real-world, boundary-spanning problems and require you to develop solutions that meet the needs of stakeholders across an organization.
Employers spoke. We listened.
Infused in the Fisher MBA are career competencies highly sought after by employers looking for versatile leaders in a competitive global landscape:
Problem Definition & Problem Solving
- Analytical Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Managing Ambiguity
Interpersonal Communication & Leadership
- Cultural Competence
- Emotional Intelligence
- Persuasion & Influence
Accountability & Purpose
- Ethics
- Personal & Team Accountability
- Social Impact