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U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times, 2010

Distance Learning MBA Program

Experience a world–class business school education from the convenience of any location with Thunderbird’s Global MBA Distance Learning program.

Access your coursework at anytime via a rich Web–based, distance learning environment that includes interactive chats, bulletin board postings and collaboration with global professors and classmates. Blended with four on–site regional business environment seminars in locations around the globe, this curriculum provides a real–world and real–life lesson in global business.

Distance Learning MBA Programs Highlights and Benefits

  • 75% of the coursework is delivered online.
  • Online coursework is complemented by four one–week, on–site seminars in the United States and various locations abroad.
  • Primary program format is 19 months with accelerate and extended tracts available.
  • Courses delivered in lock–step sequence.
  • Start dates in either August or January.
  • All classes taught through a global lens, by Ph.D.s from around the globe.

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Why Thunderbird School of Global Management?

For more than 60 years, we have educated global leaders who are also global citizens – because we live by the credo that borders frequented by trade seldom need soldiers, and we’re committed to helping develop a stable world economy where that philosophy becomes reality.

Our uniquely flexible programs combine an unmatched global business education with international and cross–cultural studies to ensure you’re fluent in the language of international business, wherever you choose to go in the world.

Home of the #1 ranked full–time MBA in international business (U.S. News & World Report 2011, Financial Times 2009). World–renowned faculty known for their innovative teaching methods and real–world global experience Diverse student body, with more than 60 countries represented in virtually every cohort.

Business School/MBA Rankings
#1 "International" Full–time MBAU.S. News & World Report 2011 (15th consecutive #1 ranking)
#1 "Best in International Business" Full–time MBAFinancial Times 2010
#3 "Best Executive MBA Program"The Wall Street Journal 2008
Among the top 5 Distance Learning MBA Programs in the WorldThe Economist 2010
#10 "Top 10 for Corporate Social Responsibility"Financial Times 2010

Thunderbird Alumn
Rich Schoener ’07

United States, Director of Market Research at Hilti, North America

Rich Schoener’s childhood passion for discovering knowledge is, ironically, exactly what he’s professionally responsible for today as the director of market research for Hilti North America.

Born in Nebraska to an American chief master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force and to a German mother, Schoener grew up in Germany from the ages of 3 to 14. This upbringing, he feels, helped shape his curiosity about other cultures and his desire to absorb information from his surroundings. Read Full Story »