MBA/DVM
MBA/DVM
Accelerated MBA Pathway for Practicing Veterinarians and DVM Candidates
The ability to leverage business knowledge is becoming increasingly important for leadership roles and early career talent as the veterinary profession and industry continues to evolve.
An MBA paired with a DVM can prepare you to be a responsible leader with the skillset necessary to make smart, strategic, operational, and financial decisions in:
• Managing, growing, or launching one’s own veterinary practice
• Management roles within an existing practice
• Consulting or serving in the animal health industry
• Working on critical initiatives in public health, public policy or regulatory medicine
Benefits of the Accelerated Pathway
Practicing veterinarians and DVM students may be able to to transfer in 9 graduate credits from said DVM degree into the MBA program as electives, reducing the overall graduate-level credit requirements for the MBA program from 36 to 27 credits. Courses eligible for transfer credit from DVM programs into the MBA must have been completed with a minimum grade of B and earned from a school accredited by the AVMA Council on Education (COE). For practicing Veterinarians, waivers can be granted on the requirement for DVM courses needing to have been completed within five years of enrollment.
Current and prospective DVM students can pursue MBA courses at a pace and timing that works best for their academic pathway and career goals. DVM students can start the MBA prior to DVM studies, can pursue the MBA concurrently with their DVM studies, or start the MBA at the point they are completing their DVM studies. All DVM students will be encouraged to coordinate directly with the Rowan MBA Program Team, as well as your DVM Program Director, to help you map out the best plan of study for you.
For Rowan DVM* students, we offer streamlined application benefits: waivers for letters of recommendation, transcripts, and application fees, and guaranteed admission to the MBA provided you are performing well and in good standing in the Rowan DVM program.
Rowan MBA Pathway for Practicing Veterinarians and DVM Candidates (36 credits)
Required Core Courses (18 credits)
- Managerial Accounting
- Financial Decision Making
- Operations Analytics
- Employee Engagement and Performance
- Responsible Leadership: Aligning the Interests of Stakeholders, Profit, & Planet
- Information Systems for Managers
- Marketing Management Fundamentals
- Managing Organizational Strategy
Concentration & Elective Options and Topics (9 credits)
DVM Transfer Credits (9 credits)
Practicing veterinarians and DVM students may be able to transfer in 9 graduate credits from said DVM degree into the MBA program as electives, reducing the overall graduate-level credit requirements for the MBA program from 36 to 27 credits. Courses eligible for transfer credit from DVM programs into the MBA must have been completed with a minimum grade of B and earned from a school accredited by the AVMA Council on Education (COE). For practicing Veterinarians, waivers can be granted on the requirement for DVM courses needing to have been completed within five years of enrollment.
MBA Foundation Requirements
Foundational Business Knowledge:
In order to ensure all students are equipped with key baseline and foundational business knowledge (typically undergraduate level work) for graduate-level coursework in business, Rowan requires all students to satisfy a set of Foundation requirements in the following content areas:
- Calculus
- Statistics
- Accounting (Financial and Cost)
- Economics (Micro & Macro)
- Marketing
- Finance
- Operations Management
Typically, students with an undergraduate degree in business will have satisfied many of these course requirements. Students can begin in the MBA program prior to satisfying all Foundation requirements. However, these requirements must be satisfied early in the program to maintain forward momentum towards degree completion.
There are many ways that students can satisfy Foundation requirements: affordable self-paced online modules, non-credit tests, equivalent courses from their undergraduate studies, online or face to face courses at your local community college or 4-year institution, and of course online or face to face at Rowan University. See the Foundation Fact Sheet for details on requirements plus options to consider so that your pursuit matches your learning style, timeline, and budget.
Beginning in Fall 2025, Rowan University will be offering a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine* (DVM). Upon DVM launch we will offer an accelerated pathway for the DVM and Master of Business Administration (MBA) that will include not only shared coursework, but additional benefits such as streamlined application benefits: waivers for letters of recommendation, transcripts, and application fees, and guaranteed admission to the MBA provided you are performing well and in good standing in the Rowan DVM program. The DVM/MBA Accelerated Pathway is a collaboration between Rowan University’s Shreiber School of Veterinary Medicine and Rohrer College of Business.
* Pending accreditation approval by the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education
Rowan to open N.J.'s first veterinary school
Officials announced that the Shreiber School of Veterinary Medicine will open in fall 2025 on the West Campus in Glassboro, with an inaugural class of 60 students. The school will offer undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees in addition to internship and residency programs. Officials said Rowan will become one of two universities in the nation to offer doctorate degrees in medicine, as well as veterinary and osteopathic medicine. Read more about the school and more details below!
Interested in learning more about the DVM/MBA Accelerated Pathway? Please send us an email at GraduateBusinessStudies@rowan.edu with any questions you may have.
We look forward to welcoming and nurturing future leaders in veterinary sciences and business.
