How to Apply

Applying is easy. You may apply online, which is free.

How do you know you can apply?

For consideration in this program, applicants must hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and have three or more years of relevant work/professional experience. Relevant business experience includes increasing levels of responsibility; line, staff or project responsibility; managerial experience; interaction with management, departments/functions or external audiences outside own area of responsibility.

Application Requirements

Application
Three recommendations
Official transcripts showing a baccalaureate or advanced degree
Portfolio (requirements listed below)
Current resume

PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS:

Alverno does not require the GMAT. Instead, the personal portfolio will be used to help determine your potential for success and ability to benefit from our graduate program. You should therefore commit significant time and give serious thought to the preparation of your portfolio.

The portfolio consists of:

Goal Statement

Identify your goals for graduate study and describe how the Alverno MBA will help you achieve greater influence and impact on personal, professional, community and organizational levels. Suggested length is one - two pages, double-spaced.

Performance Narrative

Three performance narratives: In each narrative, identify a specific work/professional experience that describes the responsibilities, accomplishments and relationships you identified in the employment history/professional experience section of your application. These experiences should provide evidence that you meet the relevant work experience requirement for admission to the MBA program and have the requisite business knowledge to be successful.

Relevant business experience includes:

Three or more years of work/professional experience
Increasing levels of responsibility
Line, staff or project responsibility
Business/managerial experience (such as planning, organizing, leading, controlling, evaluating functions)
Interaction with management, departments/functions or external audiences outside own area of responsibility.

For each experience be sure to identify: the situation (what happened? what led up to it?); who was involved (the relationships); what you did; what you were thinking at the time and the outcome (what you accomplished). Your narratives should be descriptive, evaluative and reflective about the experiences you have chosen. One narrative should specifically address your use of business knowledge and application of quantitative skills.

Suggested length is two - three double-spaced pages per narrative.

View a sample performance narrative here: Sample MBA Annotated Performance Narrative

MSN/MBA candidates must meet requirements for both programs. Refer to the application and portfolio requirements for MBA and MSN, or contact Christy Stone at 414-382-6108, 800-933-3401 or e-mail Christy.