Professional MBA
Academic Program
In the Professional MBA program (PMBA), you can design your own course schedule to meet your professional and personal needs. The GW PMBA consists of two levels of courses. The first level includes twenty one required core courses of 1.5 credit hours each (total 31.5 credit hours) and two mandatory “selectives”, one in Information Systems (1.5) and one in Business Sustainability/Responsibility (1.5) for a total of 3 credit hours. The second level includes twelve, 1.5 credit hour elective courses or any combination of 1.5 and 3.0 credit elective courses (total 18 credit hours). Electives should be taken after the majority of core course requirements have been fulfilled. A listing of electives can be found under Knowledge Domains
Elective Courses
(18 credit hours of coursework)
Choose from any 200-level elective course offered by a School of Business department: Accountancy, Decision Sciences, Finance, Information Systems and Technology Management, International Business, Management, Marketing, Strategic Management and Public Policy, and Tourism and Hospitality Management. You may complete up to six credit hours outside the School of Business.
Program Format
Under the Flex Option, you take one, two, or three courses per semester at times convenient for you. Most classes are offered weeknights between 4:30 and 10:00 p.m. and on Saturdays between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
FLEX M.B.A. PROGRAM SAMPLE CURRICULUM
3 Year Program Schedule (for a Student Starting in the Fall Semester). A student has up to five years to complete the flex program. This is only a sample. The student and program coordinator will outline an individualized study plan.
| Course | Credits | Course | Credits |
| Year 1 | |||
| Fall Module I | Fall Module II | ||
| Organization and Leadership | 1.5 | Managing Human Capital | 1.5 |
| Financial Accounting I | 1.5 | Financial Accounting II | 1.5 |
| Business Ethics | 1.5 | Judgment, Uncertainty & Decisions |
1.5 |
| Spring Module I | Spring Module II | ||
| Micro for the Global Economy | 1.5 | Macro for the Global Economy1.5 | 1.5 |
| Data analysis and Decision | 1.5 | The Nature of Markets | 1.5 |
| Managerial Accounting | 1.5 | Business & Public Policy | 1.5 |
| Summer Module | |||
| Marketing Decisions | 1.5 | ||
| Financial Markets | 1.5 | ||
| Global Perspectives | 1.5 | ||
| Year 2 | |||
| Fall Module I | Fall Module II | ||
| International Management | 1.5 | Entrepreneurship | 1.5 |
| Financial Management | 1.5 | Business Strategy | 1.5 |
| ISTM Selective | 1.5 | Operations Strategy | 1.5 |
| Spring Module I | Spring Module II | ||
| Business Law & Communications | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Business Sustainability & Responsibility Selective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Elective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Summer Module | |||
| Elective | 1.5 | ||
| Elective | 1.5 | ||
| Elective | 1.5 | ||
| Year 3 | |||
| Fall Module I | Fall Module II | ||
| Elective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Elective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Elective | 1.5 | ||
ACCELERATED M.B.A. PROGRAM SAMPLE CURRICULUM
The first year is a cohort format with a set schedule. Students participate in an online-preparatory course and weekend-long orientation residency prior to the start of the AMBA Program. The second year provides you with the flexibility to choose from a wide array of elective offerings.
| Course | Credits | Course | Credits |
| Year 1 | |||
| Fall Module I | Fall Module II | ||
| Global Perspectives | 1.5 | Financial Accounting I | 1.5 |
| Leadership & Organizations | 1.5 | Managing Human Capital | 1.5 |
| Business Ethics | 1.5 | Judgment, Uncertainity & Decisions |
1.5 |
| Spring Module I | Spring Module II | ||
| Financial Accounting II | 1.5 | The Nature of Markets | 1.5 |
| Data Analysis & Decisions | 1.5 | Managerial Accounting | 1.5 |
| Micro for the Global Economy | 1.5 | Macro for the Global Economy | 1.5 |
| Summer Module I | Summer Module II | ||
| Marketing Decisions | 1.5 | Business & Public Policy | 1.5 |
| Financial Management | 1.5 | Financial Markets | 1.5 |
| International Management | 1.5 | Operations Strategy | 1.5 |
| Year 2 | |||
| Fall Module I | Fall Module II | ||
| Bus. Law & Communications | 1.5 | Business Strategy | 1.5 |
| Entrepreneurship | 1.5 | Business Sustainability/Responsibility |
1.5 |
| ISTM Selective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Spring Module I | Spring Module II | ||
| Elective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Elective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Elective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Summer Module I | Summer Module II | ||
| Elective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Elective | 1.5 | Elective | 1.5 |
| Elective | 1.5 | ||
Knowledge Domains
- Accountancy
- Decisions Sciences and Operations Management
- Environmental Management and Policy
- Finance and Investments
- Health Services Administration
- Human Resources Management
- Information Systems Management
- International Business
- Management of Science, Technology and Innovation
- Marketing
- Organizational Behavior and Development
- Real Estate and Urban Development
- Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- Sport Management
- Strategic Management and Public Policy
- Tourism, Hospitality, Event and Sport Management
Download detailed list of all the knowledge domains in PDF format
Joint Degrees
Through special credit-hour transfer arrangements, students may earn joint degrees from GW: a joint MBA/JD degree with the Law School or a joint MBA/MA degree with the Elliott School of International Affairs, and a joint MBA/MSF degree within the School of business.