Customized Accelerated MBA Program

Today’s technology produces huge volumes of data. Businesses everywhere are focusing on how to properly organize, evaluate, and use data to solve problems and identify opportunities that give their organization a competitive advantage.

Financial skills are in demand in all industries. Acquire knowledge about how firms make financial decisions and how these decisions affect individual organizations and society as a whole.

This concentration addresses evolving issues in the health system by examining the structure of the U.S. healthcare system, including health care professionals, the delivery and financing of healthcare, and related health care products. The Barney School offers one course per term (Fall, Spring and Summer) to complete this concentration.

In today’s fast-paced environment, it is common to find working professionals traveling abroad representing their institutions in global affairs. This concentration allows for those who want to broaden their horizon to delve deeper in functional areas, visit foreign countries, or create a unique experience by mastering an international topic as an independent study. The Barney School offers one course per term (Fall, Spring and Summer) to complete this concentration.

This is an ideal concentration for anyone with a desire to manage people and processes. It provides flexibility in selecting courses that emphasize general skills for enhancing the performance of people and organizations.

Use the knowledge and skills gained from an MBA concentration in marketing to help firms create value for customers. Both national and international aspects of developing, distributing, pricing, and promoting brands, products, and services are covered.

With the increasing demand to combine different strategies and tools for implementing projects, there is a great need for skilled project managers to improve the performance of their business or organization. A Project Management concentration is a viable and sought-after program for both business and engineering graduate students.

The Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Project Management provides students with the requisite skills, knowledge, and insights to manage projects in a variety of business applications and industries. Content includes the technical, behavioral, and strategic awareness competencies of project management to provide a holistic approach to project management.

Content is aligned with the knowledge areas of the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide and Agile Practice Guide. Content and case studies focus on: the alignment of projects to the innovation goals and business strategy of the organization, applying appropriate project management tools based on the situational context, especially in agile, iterative, adaptive and hybrid project environments, and managing domestic and global stakeholders and teams. Students are provided with skills and content to advance in the project management profession in a variety of industries.

Students with this MBA concentration are also prepared for and encouraged to obtain the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). This will also provide students with a pathway to achieving the highly valued Project Management Professional (PMP) certification offered by PMI.
 
The Barney School offers one course per term (Fall, Spring and Summer) to complete this concentration.

Supply Chain Management has become an essential skill set for managing global enterprises involving the strategic flow of goods and services for meeting customers’ needs. Robust supply chains allow businesses to deliver the most cost competitive and timely solutions to their customers by leveraging the capabilities of the multi-dimensional linkages in their supply chain. The Barney School offers one course per term (Fall, Spring and Summer) to complete this concentration.

1. Letter of Intent: Write a one-page statement about why you want to attend this program and why you would be the best candidate.
2. Resume: Submit an updated resume with your application.
3. Recommendation Letter: Ask your current or past Cigna Manager to write a letter of recommendation on your behalf.
4. Concentration: In the application, you will identify a preferred strategic concentration.
5. Choice: Online or Live-Virtual
6. GMAT/GRE is waived for all Cigna MBA applicants.

Apply online at https://hartford.edu/cigna-app.

• Complete the Cigna-specific application online
• Upload required documents (Letter of Intent, Resume)
• Official transcripts –Contact all of your past colleges to send official transcripts (unofficial transcripts not accepted). Applications are not complete without all transcripts.
• The school may send via direct mail to Graduate Admission CC 231 at University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue West Hartford, CT 06117
• Or the school may send electronically to gradstudy@hartford.edu 
• If you completed your degree internationally, at a non-English speaking institution or one that did not use the American evaluation system, you must have your transcripts evaluated on a course-by-course basis and submitted by WES (World Evaluation Service).
• International candidates –English language proficiency will be required for non-English degrees. If offered admission, we will arrange a Duolingo exam.

Admission decisions will be sent to your work email address.

Admission decision emails will be sent on Monday, July 22nd by the end of the day. If you are offered admission into the Cohort, you will have until the end of the day on Monday, July 29th to accept the offer by clicking the link in your Decision letter or going to your application portal.

If we do not hear from you by the end of day on Monday, July 29th regarding our offer of admission, we will offer the seat to the next person on the list and change your status to ‘Waitlisted’. We will then send you a revised Admission decision letter to reflect your Waitlisted status. You may then defer your application to the next Cigna intake.

The orientation for accepted students will be held online on Monday, August 19th.

Classes start Monday, August 26th.