Overview
Degree Description
In order to be prepared for engaging the unprecedented complexities emerging in the world today, the profession of business requires new vision and new perspectives that change the way we see the world to bring about a flourishing future. To follow this call to Creative Enterprise requires the development of our individual and collective complexity capabilities, for example the capabilities of self-awareness, collaboration, dialogue, negotiation, and co-creation. These capabilities are critical for the success of entrepreneurs, organizational leaders, and managers in this age of technical, social, and dynamic complexity. In realizing ourselves as a whole person, we can begin to see a world comprised of whole systems. Your inner call to have a generative impact on the world as an entrepreneur, manager, and executive can be enabled by the capabilities you will develop through the MBA in Creative Enterprise.Meridian's MBA in Creative Enterprise offers an innovative approach to the field of business, integrating whole person with whole system competencies to prepare its graduates to develop sustainable, generative practices that ensure the success of the individual, while also serving the greater whole. Part of a third-wave of business education, the program integrates social, technological, and cultural innovation, and develops business leaders who are oriented to the emerging experience-driven transformation economy.Discover in this master's program what impact you can have on core business functions, such as management, marketing, finance, operations, and strategy. Explore the profound impact creativity and innovation can have when following ethical principles and wise perspectives. The profession of business can serve to make a critical contribution to transforming culture, society, and global commerce.There are five dimensions integrated throughout the MBA curriculum. Creative Enterprise occurs at the intersection of these dimensions and offers a more holistic perspective of each dimension in relationship to the others.The Five Meridian MBA Dimensions
- Transforming business innovation to integrate and engage social, cultural, and technological challenges.
- Building purpose and development-driven organization.
- Engendering Business as a means of regenerating the commons.
- Empowering companies and non-profits through the theory and practice of living systems.
- Actualizing entrepreneurship that is locally and globally generative.
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Program Goals
Educational Objectives
- Cultivating Leadership Capacities: To cultivate the leadership capacities that further transformative and ethical engagement within business and cultural contexts.
- Practicing Creative Action Inquiry: To develop creative inquiry skills that enable collaboration responsive to high complexity and ambiguity.
- Core Business Functions: To identify and implement business methods and practices of human resources, operations, economics, finance, accounting, marketing, management, and strategy, towards building and sustaining a creative enterprise.
- Generative Entrepreneurship and Transformative Innovation: To develop the practices and perspectives that link entrepreneurial competencies with impacting the commons in ways that are generative and emancipatory, and to ignite individual and collective creativity to generate emancipatory, disruptive, and transformative innovations.
- Transforming Business as a Profession and Regenerating the Commons: To develop competencies required to conceive, build, and lead creative and emancipatory enterprises; to apply the competencies associated with generative entrepreneurship to producing generative globalization in service of thriving local communities, restoration of the earth's resources, and regenerating the commons.
At A Glance
- Location
- Online or Hybrid in Los Angeles
- Duration
- 18-24 Months
- Start Dates
- March, June, September, December
- Credits
- 64
- Cost Per Credit
- $676
- Accreditation
- WASC
Requirements
Graduation Requirements
- Students are expected to complete 64 credits (640 hours).
- Students are expected to complete a Creative Action Project (capstone).
- Students have a maximum of five (5) years from their initial date of enrollment to complete this degree.
Admissions
Admission Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree is required for admission to Meridian's graduate degree programs.
- Students submit an online application form along with documents such as official transcripts, a personal statement, and letters of recommendation. The Admissions Committee reviews all applications and invites select applicants to proceed to an interview. More information is available on the Application Process page.
- All students are expected to be proficient in the English language as all instruction at Meridian is offered in English.
Career Paths
Professional Outcomes
The Meridian MBA curriculum is designed to prepare graduates for a professional future in the contexts noted below, with which the MBA concentrations are specifically aligned.- Social Entrepreneurship
- Project and Process Management
- Operations Management
- Human Resources Management
- Management Consulting
- Executive, Developmental, and Performance Coaching
- Strategic Leadership
- Organizational Development
Curriculum
Academic Structure
Meridian's academic structure gives students the flexibility to navigate the University's curricular architecture in ways that match their passions, professional goals, and other life commitments.
The structure is designed to serve a diverse student body, who live around the globe, have varied cultural and clinical visions for their careers, and are at different stages in their professional journey.
Students enroll in a degree program, can elect a concentration, and register for one or multiple courses each quarter. In addition to core courses for the specific degree program and anchor courses that represent the Transformative Learning intent of Meridian's curriculum, students select elective courses that align with their Meridian concentration, background, and career path.
Flexible Delivery
Learning Formats
Meridian University offers two learning formats: Online and Hybrid.
- The Online format is ideal for students completing their degrees remotely, combining synchronous and asynchronous learning.
- The Hybrid format is tailored for those seeking a blend of online learning and in-person classes at Meridian's Los Angeles Campus.
In-Person and Hybrid Learning in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Campus is the primary location for in-person and hybrid courses at Meridian University. Students have the opportunity to engage face-to-face with faculty and peers while also benefiting from the flexibility of online coursework.
Accreditation and Financial Aid
Meridian University is a degree-granting higher education institution accredited by WASC Senior College & University Commission (WSCUC). As an institutional accreditor, WSCUC is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. WSCUC is also the institutional accreditor of the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford University.
Meridian is approved by the U.S. Department of Education for participation in the Federal Student Aid programs, and by the California State Approving Agency for Veterans Education (CSAAVE) for the training of veterans and other eligible persons. Veterans education benefits are administered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The University is approved by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide form I-20 to eligible international students, enabling travel to and stay in the United States.
Meridian offers institutional financial aid to qualified international students.
Concentrations
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