The iMBA Experience
The Online Classroom
How it looks, feels, and works
Courses are interactive. Professors engage with you personally. And working with classmates is routine. The iMBA includes both an online global classroom and a series of team projects.
Live lectures with top faculty
iMBA courses include live lectures, offered at a variety of times each week, to give you flexibility in when to attend. Regardless where you are in the world, you have a front row seat in class.
Engagement with fellow classmates
Growing a global network
iMBA Philosophy and Purpose
Innovative. Accessible. Global.
A Vision for the Planet: The access point for diverse range of remarkable talent, creating rich engagement and brilliant futures.
Broadening access to top-level education–including the quality of research, teaching, and the value of the alumni network. An MBA that’s democratizing top-quality education that brings the world into the MBA classroom continuously. We changed the very definition of who an MBA student is, bringing all types of talent to fulfill their potential.
Former Coursera CEO, Rick Levin, talks about the initial launch of the iMBA program at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign in 2015.
Joining the Global University of Illinois Community
As an iMBA student, you not only get a full MBA degree from the University of Illinois, you are a full member of our global network of alumni, students, faculty, and staff. iMBA students attend special meet-ups around the world, join alumni events in their area, and are always welcome for campus visits.
Professor Aric Reindfleisch meets in Sao Paolo, Brazil with students in his “Marketing in a Digital World” class.
iMBA students at a University of Illinois alumni event in Chicago met each other, networked with alumni, and talked with the dean of Gies Business and other senior staff and faculty.
