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Overview

Our Dual Engineering MBA program beckons adventurous minds like yours to embark on an extraordinary academic journey. This program is a unique opportunity for UK College of Engineering students to earn their MBA degree in one-year, post-graduation and gain international experience. Through generous donations from successful alumni, up to fifteen candidates are selected yearly and receive a $25,000 scholarship towards their MBA tuition along with approximately $5,000 towards our study abroad experience.

Benefits

The Dual Engineering MBA program helps our candidates differentiate themselves to stand out in the workplace through:

  • Improved business acumen
  • Strengthened strategic and creative problem-solving skills
  • Strengthened communication skills
  • Strengthened teaming, management, and leadership skills
  • International exposure and experience

Typically, our Dual Engineering MBA candidates will use the MBA degree in one of two ways:

  1. To accelerate their career in engineering, helping them be more effective in the workplace and move into management or project management faster.
  2. Explore new career options, such as analytics, consulting, finance, or supply chain.

Structure

Our Dual Engineering MBA candidates accepted will be members of our Full Time One-Year MBA program. Please find more details on our program structure and curriculum here.

Our Dual Degree engineering students will also participate in a study abroad experience after graduating from our MBA program, typically within the week after graduating. The study abroad experience includes visiting two different countries and is intended to provide business, engineering, and cultural exposure within those countries. The study abroad experience is approximately 12 days in duration.

Application and Tuition Guidance

Candidates interested in applying for our Dual Degree Engineering MBA follow our standard application process which can be found here.

This is a competitive program, as noted, we have room for up to fifteen candidates per year.

Jacob Westover

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

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Email
jacob.westover@uky.edu
Phone
(859) 257-9127

Michael T. Johnson, Ph.D.

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Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Success; Professor, Department Chair

Email
mike.johnson@uky.edu
Phone
(859) 257-0717