Jump-Start Your Career with a Fast-Track MBA
The UCF Full-Time Professional MBA is designed to prepare professionals for the challenges they will face as they advance in their careers. The Full-Time PMBA teaches business skills across all functional areas of business with an emphasis on practical application. Students leave the program ready to lead a business, start a business or turn a business around.
Named a 2024 Best On-Campus MBA Program
by The Princeton Review
Program Overview
The Full-Time PMBA is an immersive, 12-month program tailored for individuals aiming to fast-track their career growth. The program offers a comprehensive curriculum that covers key business disciplines, proving student with the skills needed to thrive in today’s competitive business environment. Offered at UCF Downtown, the Full-Time PMBA emphasizes experiential learning, combining case studies, simulations and real-world projects that enable students to apply classroom knowledge directly to workplace challenges.
Features
- AACSB accredited
- Face-to-face, full-time program
- Located at UCF Downtown
- Bloomberg Financial Markets Lab
- Mentoring Program
Bloomberg Markets Lab
Gain hands-on experience with one of the finance industry’s most widely used tools, the Bloomberg Terminal. Our exclusive in-house Bloomberg Financial Markets lab provides students with an immersive learning opportunity. Students use the Bloomberg Terminal to access real-time financial markets data, news and analytics for course work and projects. While enrolled in the PMBA, capitalize on the use of the Bloomberg Professional service by completing the self-paced and self-administered Bloomberg Market Concepts certification.
- Complimentary access to BMC course
- Eight (8) self-paced, sections
- Interactive introduction to financial markets
- Receive BMC Certification upon completion
Cohort Experience
The PMBA’s cohort structure promotes strong connections as students advance through the program together. With diverse professional backgrounds, PMBA students bring valuable real-world experience into classroom discussions, enriching the learning experience by applying theory to practical situations. This collaborative environment encourages teamwork, idea-sharing, and mutual support, allowing students to benefit from varied perspectives. These interactions deepen understanding and introduce innovative business strategies and approaches.
“I selected the Full-Time PMBA program because it gives me the opportunity to learn from excellent faculty and expand my business skills and knowledge while surrounded by other talented people.”
Ruth Abreu Acevedo ’25
Who Should Apply
Designed for early-career professionals, the Full-Time PMBA is an ideal choice for those who want to elevate their expertise, accelerate their leadership potential, and expand their professional networks in a dynamic and supportive environment. The program is also for candidates who are currently enrolled in a graduate degree or have an earned graduate degree and wish to add advanced business skills to their experience.
Meet the Full-Time PMBA Class of 2025
- Cohort Size: 36 with 49% female
- Average Age: 24
- Average GPA: 3.5
- Average work experience: 2 years
- Top Undergraduate majors: Business, Sciences, Social Sciences, Engineering
Explore Our Program
Program Details
PROGRAM LENGTH & CURRICULUM
12 months
13 courses/39 credit hours
PROGRAM FORMAT
Cohort
Face-to-face instruction
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Fall & Spring
Monday – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Summer
Monday – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday – 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
PROGRAM LOCATION
College of Business at UCF Downtown
528 W. Livingston St.
Orlando, FL 32801