Career Support
Build momentum without stepping away. With the Vanderbilt Evening MBA, your career doesn’t stop while you earn your degree. Our program is designed for working professionals who want to expand their capabilities and create new possibilities for their careers.
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Top 10%
Vanderbilt Business is among the top business schools around the world
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1:1
How we approach career support and leadership development
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7:1
The ratio of students to faculty at the Owen Graduate School of Management
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500+
The number of companies our Career Management Center has recruiting relationships with
Impact That Starts Immediately
You’ve already gained valuable professional experience. The Evening MBA helps you build on it.
Benefits for You
- Learn it tonight, use it tomorrow: Apply what you learn directly in the workplace, often the very next day.
- Leadership-ready: Part-time MBA alumni scored their preparation for leadership roles at 4.21 out of 5.
- More promotions: Two-thirds of part-time MBA graduates said they've received more promotions than peers without the degree.
- A real network: 87% of cohort-based part-time MBA alumni said the program developed their professional network.
- Keep your paycheck: Evening classes mean no career break and no lost income while you earn the degree.
- Worth the investment: 81% of part-time MBA alumni rated the value of their education as excellent or outstanding.
Benefits for Your Organization
- Better retention: Part-time MBA students are more likely to stay and more likely to be promoted, building a leadership pipeline.
- Trusted skills: In a recent survey, 99% of employers said business school prepares graduates to succeed, with problem-solving and strategic thinking topping the list.
- No lost productivity: Evening classes mean employees stay in their roles full time while earning the degree.
- Immediate impact: Students apply what they learn in class to their work the very next day.
- Tax advantage: Companies can provide up to $5,250 per employee per year tax-free.
Career Services
Career services for Vanderbilt Evening MBA students are provided by the dedicated Career Management Team at Owen Graduate School of Management.
What you can expect:
- 1:1 Career Coaching: Personalized guidance that considers your individual interests, strengths, and experiences to develop a career strategy aligned with your goals
- Professional Development and Networking Events: Virtual and in-person opportunities develop new career skills and interact with peers and alumni.
- Career Transition Program: Students interested in exploring a career transition who are within 12 months of graduation can opt in to our Career Transition Program. This program provides comprehensive preparation and guidance to help you navigate a new industry or role, develop relevant positioning, and prepare you for recruiting activities for full-time positions. Upon completion of the program, you will have access to full-time job postings from our partner employers and be eligible to participate in recruiting activities coordinated through the Owen Career Management Center.
- Alumni Network Access: Evening MBA alumni benefit from access to the Owen alumni community, connecting you with a global network of professionals for ongoing career development and professional opportunities throughout your career.
An MBA That Builds on the Career You Already Have
Rather than stepping away from the workforce to pursue your degree, you’ll continue accumulating experience while adding new business knowledge, leadership capabilities, and a Vanderbilt MBA to your professional toolkit. That combination can help you prepare for the opportunities ahead, whether you want to take on greater responsibility, move into management, explore a different function, position yourself for advancement, or simply become better at what you do today. Keep working. Keep learning. Keep moving forward.
Put Your MBA to Work Right Away
One of the advantages of earning your MBA while remaining employed is that the classroom and workplace continually reinforce one another. A concept discussed in class can become a new way to approach a challenge at work. A problem you encounter on the job can give new relevance to a classroom discussion. Over time, you begin connecting the dots across functions and seeing your organization—and your own role within it—from a broader business perspective.
You don't have to wait until graduation to put your MBA to work.
- Expand your business perspective. Build fluency across core business disciplines so you can understand not only your own role, but how finance, marketing, operations, strategy, leadership, and other functions work together.
- Strengthen your decision-making. Develop frameworks for analyzing complex problems, evaluating tradeoffs, and making more informed business decisions.
- Grow as a leader. Build the self-awareness and leadership capabilities to work effectively with others, influence across an organization, and prepare for increasing responsibility.
- Apply what you learn. Bring new ideas and approaches back to your organization throughout the program, creating opportunities to demonstrate your growing capabilities in real time.