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Overview

Our DMD/MBA Dual Degree program allows UK Dentistry Doctoral candidates to earn their MBA degree in parallel with while earning their PharmD degree in four years, at a significant tuition discount.

Benefits

The benefits of pursuing our Dual Degree DMD/MBA includes but are not limited to:

  • Expanded career options, providing the business knowledge and credentials for corporate related roles as well as to manage your own dental office.
  • Improved effectiveness in terms of the ability to work effectively with others, manage and lead others, and understand business operations.
  • Expanded personal and professional network.

Program Schedule

Our Dual DMD MBA degree consists of 36 total credit hours, or 12 courses. Of the 36 total credit hours, 30 are completed in our MBA program and 6 credit hours from the DMD program apply towards our MBA degree (considered shared credit hours within the Dual Degree).

The following schedule is the typical cadence of courses for our DMD MBA dual degree candidates. The courses listed during the summer are offered during weekday, the courses listed during the Fall and Spring semesters are offered weekday evenings from 6-8:30 p.m. The year corresponds with our MBA program, accepted DMD candidates start our MBA program the summer after year 2 of their DMD program.

YearYear 1Year 2
SemesterSummerFallSpringFallSpring
Course 
ECO 610: Managerial EconomicsX    
MGT 697 Leadership, Communications and EthicsX    
MGT 699: Business Policy StrategyX    
ACC 628: Managerial & Financial Accounting X   
CPH 600: Health Services & Systems Organization X   
DIS 651: Quantitative Analysis in Business Decision Making  X  
MKT 600: Marketing Management   X 
MGT 611: Managing Effective Organizations    X
FIN 600: Corporate Financial Policy    X
MBA Elective (1 Required)*XXXXX

DMD courses that count towards our MBA degree include:

  • CDE 844: Dental Practice Management II
  • CDE 841: Dental Practice Field Experience

Application and Tuition Guidance

Candidates interested in applying for our Dual Degree DMD/MBA first need to be approved through the College of Dentistry during their second year of Dental School and then follow our standard application process which can be found here.

Tuition for MBA courses for our Dual Degree graduate students is at a reduced amount of $257.55 per credit hour.

Jacob Westover

Gatton College of Business and Economics Director of MBA Admissions and Recruitment

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