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Full-Time MBA (FTMBA)

Full-Time MBA

  • Transformative Leadership + Human Skills

    Become a Global Business Leader

    A full-time two-year MBA program for early career professionals to sharpen business fundamentals, learn to leverage technology for business and social impact, and empower leadership of diverse global teams. Opportunities for networking and specialization enable students to use the MBA to transform their career.

  • #24

    Full-Time MBA Program

    2025 US News & World Report 
  • #18

    Full-Time MBA

  • #21

    Full-Time MBA

FTMBA AT A GLANCE

  • On Campus Program

  • 2 Year Program

  • STEM Designated

  • Elite Faculty

    Elite Faculty

    Marshall faculty are encouraged to engage in collaborative teaching, often partnering with each other to use common case studies to explore a common business problem from a variety of academic perspectives.

  • PRIME Program

    PRIME Program

    PRIME will have you work with multi-national companies, domestic enterprises, and governmental institutions to develop recommendations and solutions for pressing economic and societal issues. 

  • Mentor Program

    Mentor Program

    Brings MBA students and alumni together in a relationship designed to assist students in making informed career decisions. Our mentors are seasoned professionals from a variety of functions and industries and are typically USC alumni.

PROGRAM BENEFITS

  • STEM Certified

    Marshall is one of a small number of business schools with a STEM MBA Program which is designed to combine data-driven decision-making and analytics with the overall MBA program learning objectives of developing a global and entrepreneurial mindset, building a deep understanding of business fundamentals, and leading high-performing teams.


  • Elective Offerings

    The program offers 100 different electives and opportunities to take courses from other graduate schools at USC like the School of Cinematic Arts or Viterbi School of Engineering.

Opportunities For Involvement

  • Student Organizations

    Student Organizations

    USC Marshall has a wide range of graduate student organizations, ranging from community outreach, affinity groups, career clubs, and social and athletic organizations.

    ALL STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

  • Case Competitions

    Case Competitions

    Each year Marshall is invited to compete in case competitions hosted by MBA programs around the country and world.

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  • Leadership Fellows Program (MLFP)

    Leadership Fellows Program (MLFP)

    MLFP is a one-year leadership development program for Full-Time MBA students provides coaching and professional development. 

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MBA Career Launchpad

  • Why Marshall

    The launchpad is a unique, week-long intensive experience at the start of the program where students interact directly with Marshall faculty and industry partners, and accomplished Alumni. Students will learn how to pitch themselves and communicate their value to employers.

    • Develop personalized career plans
    • Build essential networking skills
    • Gain a competitive advantage in the job market

Career Focused Approach

  • Holistic MBA Program

    Marshall employs a holistic academic-career program model. Marshall has tightly integrated and aligned the academic, programmatic and career development of the MBA Program. Academic courses at the start of the MBA Core such as Communication for Management, Foundations for Your Professional Value and Structured Analysis for Unstructured Problems that explore self-awareness, leadership, communication and value-creation help students identify their personal interests and value in the marketplace.

  • Career Preparation

    Engaging with Graduate Career Services ensures that you’re among the best-prepared candidates in the marketplace. You’ll partner with a career strategist on your career journey as you make connections to the organizations and industries that hire Marshall talent. Through one-on-one career coaching, self-reflection, involvement with career clubs, case competitions, career workshops, and recruiting events, you’ll come to a clear understanding of what you want, your differentiating skills and what’s important to you in your future career.

FACULTY

  • Scott Abrams

    Scott Abrams
    • Academic Director for the Full-Time MBA Program
    • Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics

    Scott Abrams is a Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics at the USC Marshall School of Business. He specializes in corporate finance, financial analysis and valuation, and portfolio management. Professor Abrams teaches these subjects in the MBA, MS Finance, and Undergraduate Programs. He is a two-time winner of the Golden Apple Teaching Award for the Full-Time MBA Core Program (2016 and 2021), a winner of the Golden Apple Teaching Award for Undergraduate Electives (2023), and winner of the Golden Apple Teaching Award for Graduate Electives (2024). He has been recognized with other awards including the Evan C. Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award (2024). In addition, he serves as the Academic Director for the Full-Time MBA Program.

  • Xinyue Bai

    Xinyue Bai
    • FTMBA Student Ambassador

    Previous Industry & Function: Consulting (TMT and consumer)
    Intended Industry & Function: Corporate Finance
    Hometown: Beijing, China

  • Claudia Barrán Gervaz

    Claudia Barrán Gervaz
    • FTMBA Student Ambassador

    Previous Industry & Function: Entertainment / Production & Operations
    Intended Industry & Function: Entertainment / Content & Business Development
    Hometown: Montevideo, Uruguay

  • EJ Barrios

    EJ Barrios
    • FTMBA Student Ambassador

    Previous Industry & Function: Corporate Finance (FP&A)
    Intended Industry & Function: Consulting
    Hometown: Oxnard, CA
    Previous Location: Camarillo, CA

  • Rehan Bholat

    Rehan Bholat
    • FTMBA Student Ambassador

    Previous Industry & Function: Education - High School Social Science Teacher
    Intended Industry & Function: Strategy Consulting
    Hometown: Torrance, California
    Previous Location: Los Angeles, California

  • Anthony Borquez

    Anthony Borquez
    • Adjunct Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship

    Dr. Anthony Borquez is an expert at building and scaling creative tech businesses. He is the founder of Grab, a leader in augmented and virtual reality. He also founded Blue Label Games, an early leader in mobile game development, later acquired by Konami.

  • Caroline Brown

    Caroline Brown
    • FTMBA Student Ambassador

    Previous Industry & Function: Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) / Sales
    Intended Industry & Function: Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) /Brand Management
    Hometown: Granite Bay, CA

  • Jena Brown

    Jena Brown
    • FTMBA Student Ambassador

    Previous Industry & Function: U.S. Army Intelligence Officer
    Intended Industry & Function: Consulting, Program Management
    Hometown: Houston, TX

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