Accelerated Daytime MBA at Duke University

Programme overview

The Accelerated Daytime MBA is a cohort-based 10-month programme in Durham, NC, for applicants who already hold a master's degree in management, so they skip business fundamentals. It is STEM-designated.

What you will study

Students complete orientation, a four-week summer term and four 6-week terms of required and elective courses, choosing from 100+ electives, 15 concentrations and two certificates.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Prior master's degree in management; some business professional experience required with no minimum duration. GMAT, GRE or Executive Assessment accepted (valid 5 years, no minimum score). Application: transcripts, employment history, resume, activities, essays including a short post-MBA career goals answer, interview by invitation, USD 225 application fee. Only Rounds 1-3 are open to accelerated applicants (Round 2 deadline Jan 5 2027).

USD 107,900 for the whole programme (2026-27). Tuition for the one-year Accelerated Daytime MBA (Class of 2027, entering August 2026). Excludes insurance and fees. Source

Graduate School master's programmes list application deadlines for fall 2027 entry; Fuqua online MSQM programmes start September 2026, the MQM and MMS Foundations of Business start July 2026, the Daytime MBA starts August 2026 and the Weekend Executive MBA starts May 2027.

The Occupational Therapy Doctorate starts in August for applicants admitted in both the fall and spring rounds.

Fall 2027 Graduate School master's deadlines: Analytical Political Economy 01/28/2027; Applied Ethics & Policy 03/18/2027; Biomedical Engineering 02/01/2027; Civil and Environmental Engineering 01/10/2027; Computer Science 02/01/2027; Critical Asian and Middle Eastern Humanities 02/17/2027; Dance (MFA) 12/17/2026; Digital Art History/Computational Media 01/28/2027; East Asian Studies 01/31/2027; Economics 01/14/2027; Economics and Computation 02/01/2027; Electrical and Computer Engineering 01/16/2027; Experimental and Documentary Arts 01/28/2027; Global Health 02/26/2027; Graduate Liberal Studies 06/01/2027; Humanities 03/15/2027; Interdisciplinary Data Science 01/28/2027; Master of Arts in Teaching 01/29/2027; Materials Science and Engineering 03/15/2027; Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 01/19/2027; Medical Physics 01/08/2027; Political Science 02/16/2027; Population Health Sciences 01/15/2027; Religious Studies 02/01/2027; Slavic and Eurasian Studies 02/01/2027; Statistical Science 01/05/2027. History and Quantitative Financial Economics are not accepting applications for 2027 enrollment.

Occupational Therapy Doctorate 2026-27 application deadlines: Fall round Thursday, October 8, 2026; Spring round Tuesday, January 12, 2027 (applications through OTCAS). Fall applicants are notified the first week of December 2026 and spring applicants the first week of March 2027.

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