Professional MBA

Breakthroughs Happen Here

Personalized, rigorous, connected: The two-year, part-time Professional MBA at SMU Cox is your route to new career avenues or accelerating the path you’re on. The Cox PMBA program for working professionals lets you focus your curriculum and schedule your classes with a flexibility that few PMBA programs offer. You’re in charge, while we provide the support you need to explore and excel. At Cox, you'll find small classes led by inspiring professors with open doors, powerful leadership training, and career management services that alumni call life-changing. Tack on the connections you'll build to Dallas business leaders and the value of our tight-knit global alumni network, and the Cox PMBA will propel you long after your graduate.

A Perfect Fit for Real Life


You’re juggling a lot. We work with you and your schedule to advance your career while you stay in the workforce. At SMU Cox you get a full-time experience in a two-year part-time program.

  • 2 flexible start terms, offered each Fall and Spring. 
  • 11 areas of specialization.
  • 170 electives.

Create your career trajectory on your terms.


Going into the SMU Cox Professional MBA program gave me exposure to people of different experience levels and different industries that really helped me see a greater picture of business and how an organization works.

Mai Bui

PMBA 2021

Next Steps

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