New products, new markets, off-shore resourcing, mergers, new technologies – they all create uncertainty and opportunity in today’s dynamic business environment. A graduate degree from the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware can make the difference between merely reacting to these rapid-fire changes and being able to anticipate and seize the opportunities they present. The Lerner College offers a complete array of MBA and Master’s programs to help you reach your personal and professional goals.
An Ideal Location
What better place to study business than the country’s Corporate Capital? The State of Delaware is the legal home of more than 800,000 businesses including more than 50% of all U.S. publicly traded companies and 60% of the Fortune 500. The business centers of New York and Washington, DC are within a 2 hour drive of campus.
Distinguished Faculty & Alumni
Distinguished faculty at UD include internationally known authors, scientists and artists, among them Nobel laureates, Guggenheim and Fulbright fellows, and members of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2010, Richard Heck, the Willis F. Harrington Professor Emeritus in UD’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Notable UD alumni include United States Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Wang Xing, founder of the Chinese social network Ren Ren. Prominent alumni of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics include Lawrence Probst III, chairman of Electronic Arts and chair of the National Olympic Committee; Michael Geltzeiler, chief financial officer of NYSE Euronext; and Kenneth Whitney, senior managing director of Blackstone Group.




Lerner College part-time MBA program jumps 17 spots in BusinessWeek ranking. The part-time MBA program now ranks fifth in the Mid Atlantic region and 21st nationally, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s 2011 rankings.