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The Online Management B.S. at MSU Denver helps you understand how businesses work and what it takes to manage people, projects, systems, and decisions well. You build a broad business foundation while studying the parts of an organization that managers need to understand, from finance and marketing to operations, human resources, business law, entrepreneurship, and international business.
This program gives you room to shape your degree around your goals. You can choose a management path in areas such as entrepreneurship, human resource management, legal environment of business, or operations and supply chain management.
If you want a flexible online path to a respected business degree without narrowing your options too early, management can give you that range. You can prepare to manage teams, improve systems, support organizational change, start a business, or move toward a leadership role in the field where you already work.
Management classes at MSU Denver are taught by faculty who bring professional practice, field knowledge, and community connections into the classroom. You can learn from instructors with backgrounds in entrepreneurship, small business development, business law, consulting, operations, human resources, international business, and organizational leadership.
Those perspectives help you study management as work that happens across an organization. Managers set priorities, coordinate people, understand budgets, solve problems, and help teams adapt when conditions change. In class, you can see how decisions about people, systems, risk, customers, and resources connect.
Adam Melnick, J.D. (pictured above), is one example. He teaches management and entrepreneurship while directing MSU Denver’s Center for Entrepreneurship. His work focuses on small business, social impact business, sustainable business, and access to funding. Across the department, faculty help students connect course concepts to the kinds of decisions managers make at work.
In the Online Management B.S., you study business from the manager’s view: how people, budgets, systems, customers, laws, and strategy come together inside an organization. You will build a foundation in core business subjects, then move into management coursework that helps you understand how decisions get made, how teams function, and how organizations respond when conditions change.
Learn how accounting, finance, marketing, business analytics, and global corporate responsibility shape everyday management decisions. You will build the business fluency to understand reports, ask better questions, and see how choices in one area affect the rest of the organization.
Study how people work together in organizations, including organizational behavior, human resource management, leadership, communication, motivation, team dynamics, and change. You will learn how managers support people while keeping teams focused on shared goals.
Explore how organizations manage processes, resources, supply chains, quality, and day-to-day work. You will study how managers improve systems, solve problems, and make decisions when priorities compete.
Learn how business law, risk, entrepreneurship, international business, and strategic management shape the decisions managers make. You will study how organizations respond to challenges, evaluate opportunities, and make plans that account for people, resources, markets, and responsibility.
You can keep your coursework broad through the general management path, or focus part of your degree in entrepreneurship, human resource management, legal environment of business, or operations and supply chain management.
A management degree can prepare you for roles in many kinds of organizations, including corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, health care organizations, logistics companies, and professional services firms.
Because management work happens across industries, your path can depend on the experience you bring, the concentration you choose, and the field where you want to work. Some students use the degree to move up where they are now. Others use it to build a broader business foundation for a new role, a small business, or graduate study later.
Median annual salaries for related business and management occupations.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024.
General and Operations Managers |
Project Management Specialists |
Management Analysts |
Human Resources Specialists
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Request InformationLow in-state tuition, reduced tuition for many western states, a scholarship built only for online majors, and the freedom to take as many or as few classes as you want. MSU Denver is built to be the affordable online choice, whatever your pace.
With the Colorado Opportunity Fund (COF) applied
$326.25 / credit
2026–27 rate, COF applied
What a term costs, tuition & fees included
COF reduces per-credit cost for eligible Colorado residents. Most Colorado students qualify.
Reduced nonresident tuition for eligible western states
$663.40 / credit
2026–27 WUE/RIT rate
What a term costs, tuition & fees included
Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) and Roadrunner Interstate Tuition (RIT) lower nonresident cost for students in participating states.
Planning the whole degree? Most online bachelor’s programs are 120 credits. Transfer credits count toward that, so you may have less to pay for than you think.
Scholarship for fully online majors. Declare a fully online major and you may qualify for up to $1,000 each fall and spring. No separate application required.
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Veterans & military: MSU Denver is approved for VA education benefits. Veteran & military student services.
For exact, current figures, see the Undergraduate Tuition & Fees schedule.
Figures shown are 2026–27 rates and are for planning only. All rates are subject to change.
Most applicants are admitted, and you will usually receive your admission decision within a few days.
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You are typically eligible for admission if you have a 2.0 or higher unweighted high school GPA, are 20 or older with a high school diploma or GED, or have 24 or more transferable college credits.
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Yes, you can earn your Bachelor of Science in Management completely online from anywhere. The program is AACSB‑accredited, placing it among the top business schools worldwide for academic quality. And when you declare the major fully online, you may automatically qualify for up to $1,000 per semester in dedicated online‑student scholarships.
Your timeline really depends on how many classes you take each semester and how many past credits you bring into the program. A full‑time student starting from scratch usually finishes in about four years, while part‑time working adults can stretch things out at a pace that fits their lives. And from day one, your dedicated online success coach will help you map out a clear, realistic semester plan that moves at the speed that works best for you.
We’re exceptionally transfer‑friendly and want to make sure the business or general education courses you’ve already completed truly count toward your goals. We can see exactly how your previous credits map to MSU Denver’s requirements. From there, our transfer advisors will work with you one‑on‑one to maximize your hours so you can dive straight into your core leadership and strategy classes.
Because every industry depends on strong, organized leadership, a management degree makes you competitive for a huge range of careers. Graduates step into high‑demand, well‑paid roles like project manager, human resources generalist, operations director, or management analyst. It also gives you a practical, real‑world toolkit if you want to launch your own business or grow an existing one as an entrepreneur.
This program gives you a well‑rounded business education that blends corporate strategy with strong interpersonal and leadership skills. You’ll study key areas like accounting, finance, and business analytics alongside specialized management courses in human resources, operations, logistics, and business law. By graduation, you’ll know how to manage risk, build inclusive teams, and confidently navigate complex corporate decisions.
