Carly Rippeon
Assistant Director of Enrollment, Graduate & Professional Studies
Advance your career goals with 91制片厂's graduate program in business and leadership.
We are committed to guiding you through the admissions process every step of the way.
91制片厂 offers a Master of Arts in Strategic Leadership, Healthcare Leadership and Training and Development and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with concentrations in artificial intelligence, business analytics, dietetics, digital marketing, healthcare management, management and strategic leadership. 91制片厂 also offers graduate certificates and courses for non-degree seeking students.
91制片厂 is currently offering a 20% tuition discount for ALL Business and Leadership students that will continue through the 2026-27 academic year. The tuition rate with the discounts for 2025-26 is $640 per credit hour (compared to the original $800 per credit hour). This equals a total cost of $23,040 for the MBA degree; and $5,760 for graduate certificate programs. The tuition rate with the discounts for 2026-27 is $656 per credit hour (compared to the original $820 per credit hour). This equals a total cost of $23,616 for the MBA degree; and $5,904 for graduate certificate programs.
Before completing an application for any of 91制片厂’s graduate and certificate programs, please read our admissions requirements to ensure that you are eligible for enrollment and to receive a helpful checklist of the supporting documentation that you will need to provide to complete your application.
There are prerequisite requirements for the MBA program. There are no prerequisites for any of the other degrees or certificates in Business and Leadership.
MBA program: requires prerequisite courses in accounting, finance, microeconomics and statistics. Applicants with any degree can be granted admission and begin MBA coursework, but if an applicant does not hold a bachelor’s degree in business, they must take the prerequisite courses prior to taking ACCT 501*, BUSA 505* or MRKT 550*.
91制片厂 contracts with Peregrine Academic Services to provide non-credit bearing online courses to meet these prerequisites. Each of the following courses, including books and materials, are competitively priced at $49.
- Foundations of Accounting
- Foundations of Business Finance
- Foundations of Microeconomics
- Foundations of Quantitative Research Techniques and Statistics
Admissions requirements for all business and leadership degrees and certificates:
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Official transcript(s) indicating completion (or anticipated completion) of a bachelor's or master's degree. To be considered "official", transcript(s) must be requested and sent directly from institution(s) attended to gradprograms@messiah.edu.
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Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher; cumulative GPAs < 3.0 will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis
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Statement of Purpose: a 300-500 word statement describing how you have prepared for graduate work, reasons for applying for this graduate program at 91制片厂 and how this program will help meet your professional and educational goals
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Resume or CV (curriculum vitae)
The degrees and certificates in the graduate program in Business and Leadership are completely online. Because of this, the U.S. government does not allow 91制片厂 to offer an F-1 student visa for entry to the United States in order to study in this program.
However, international students may complete these degrees remotely from outside of the United States. If you are applying as a remote student, in addition to the admissions requirements above, international students interested in graduate programs in business and leadership must submit:
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a course-by-course evaluation of all international transcripts
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English proficiency exam: only TOEFL, IELTS, or Duolingo are accepted
Further information about these requirements is available on the graduate international student page.