An MBA with no BS
Traditional MBA programs give you lectures. Elton gives you a dedicated team, real skills, and a network that opens doors.
Work 1-on-1 with business coaches, executive coaches, career coaches, professors, and advisors. Incubate your startup, grow your family business, or grow your career to the next level.
Master cutting-edge hard skills in finance, marketing, AI, and strategy. Build a powerful professional network in your industry. And earn a graduate certificate in business administration in the process or complete a full Master's degree — at a price competitive with the best online programs. Business is a core set of knowledge and hard skills, but everyone learns business in a different way. Some people want to change careers or earn a promotion. Other people want to run an existing business better or start a new one. At Elton, we help you achieve your goals in business, whatever they are.
Your Team. Your Skills. Your Network. Your Career. Your Business.
- No GMAT Required
- Your Own Team of Coaches
- Incubate Your Startup or Business
- 100% Remote & Flexible
- Start Immediately
- Risk-Free First Month
Elton offers the only 100% personalized business program in the world. In traditional schools, you have to follow the curriculum laid out for you and meet with the same professors no matter who you are and what your goals are. Elton is different; it's more like a hospital. An expert meets with you and sees what you need, then wraps a specialized care team around you who works with you 1-on-1. You don't go to a class of sick people all with different diseases, and all receive the same treatment. That would be crazy. Well, traditional MBAs are that crazy. Elton is different. Elton personalizes your curriculum and instruction to precisely your goals, interests, and background.
"Here's what most traditional business programs won't tell you: the degree alone won't change your career."
The people you learn from, the skills you build, and the network you develop will.
At Elton, every student gets a personal team of coaches, professors, and advisors working with them 1-on-1. You master cutting-edge hard skills — financial modeling, AI strategy, digital marketing, data analytics — and apply them to real challenges in your industry. And you build a powerful professional network through your team's deep industry connections and a community of ambitious peers.
If you've ever priced professional business or executive coaching, you know it runs $400-$1,200+ per hour. At Elton, that coaching relationship — plus expert instruction and an advisor network — is built into your degree. You get a valuable credential and the transformation, at a price competitive with the best online MBAs.
No GMAT required. Start immediately. Full refund within your first 30 days.
Talk to an Admissions OfficerFind the MBA That Fits Your Goal
Every Elton MBA is personalized, so you can build it around the outcome you want. Here are some of the paths our students take.
Startup MBA
Earn your MBA while you incubate or accelerate your startup. Your coaches and professors work on your real company with you, from validating the idea to raising money and scaling, and every milestone counts toward your degree.
SME MBA
Learn to manage and grow a small or medium-sized business, whether that is a family company, a franchise, an agency or a doctor's office. Build the finance, operations, hiring and marketing skills that keep an established business growing.
Chief of Staff MBA
Become a chief of staff, one of the fastest-growing new roles in business. Learn to run the operating cadence of a company, drive cross-functional projects and be the right hand of a CEO or founder.
AI Product Manager MBA
Become a product manager for the AI era. Today's PMs are expected to prototype and "vibecode" with AI, ship AI-powered features and deploy AI tools across their teams, and you will practice all of it on real products.
Promotion MBA
Set your MBA goal to earning a promotion. Your team helps you pick the high-leverage projects, build the skills and visibility your next role requires, and turn the work you are already doing into credit.
Transition MBA
Use your MBA to move from the job or industry you are in to the one you want. Your coaches map the gap, help you build the skills and story to close it, and connect you with people in your target field.
Impact MBA
Build a career around making a big impact. Learn to lead mission-driven organizations, nonprofits and B Corps that measure success by the good they do as well as the revenue they earn.
Climate MBA
Make a difference for the climate. Learn the business of clean energy, sustainability and climate tech, and apply it to building or leading the companies and programs working on the climate crisis.
Design Your Own
If none of these fit, design your own. Work with your advisor to build an MBA around exactly where you want to go, in any industry and toward any goal.
Cutting-Edge Hard Skills, Applied to Real Work
Your dedicated team of coaches, professors, and advisors teaches you the six domains every modern business leader needs: Business Systems, Business Strategy, Technology & AI, Marketing & Growth, Team Dynamics, and Personal Mastery.
But knowing the domains isn't enough. Your team applies every skill directly to real challenges in your industry — financial modeling to your actual business, AI tools to your actual workflow, marketing strategy to your actual customers. You don't study business. You do business, and earn your degree in the process.
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Study Business without the BS
Traditional MBAs charge $80,000–$200,000 for lectures, case studies, and theory that rarely survives contact with the real world. At Elton, every skill you learn gets applied immediately to real work — in your company, your startup, or your career pivot.
Your coaches, professors, and advisors have built companies, led organizations, and navigated the exact challenges you're facing. They don't teach from textbooks. They teach from experience — and they hold you accountable for results, not just assignments.
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Build the Network That Builds Your Career
Your coaches, professors, and advisors are active industry practitioners — not academics who left the real world a decade ago. They make introductions, connect you to Elton's growing community of Industry Contacts (ICONs), and coach you on how to build and maintain a powerful professional network in your field.
Beyond your personal team, you join a community of ambitious peers — founders, executives, operators, and career changers — who become collaborators, partners, and allies long after graduation. At Elton, building your network is a core part of the curriculum, not an afterthought.
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Meet Some Elton Graduates
Gary Bradley Burns
Gary Burns pursued his MBA at Elton while serving on the founding team of a company he helped build at the intersection of learning and business. His path reflects Elton's belief: real venture building and rigorous study reinforce each other. Gary applies each week's coursework directly to product decisions, team strategy, and growth challenges, turning classroom insight into immediate business results.
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Alois Barreras
Alois Barreras studied engineering management at Elton, building the skills to lead technical teams and the projects they deliver. He learned 1-on-1 with expert professors and applied each lesson to real-world projects, so his coursework turned directly into practice. His path reflects Elton's belief that leaders grow fastest when they learn by doing the work that matters to them.
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Megan Milstead
Megan Milstead pursues her MBA at Elton with a focus on B-corp management and entrepreneurship. A Miami University graduate based in Cincinnati, Megan built her career as a nonprofit storyteller and fundraiser, work that sharpened her instinct for mission-driven growth. She now channels that instinct into building companies that measure success by impact and profit together.
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Our faculty have helped students succeed in getting placements at the following companies:
A Professional Curriculum, Personalized to You
How You and Your Advisor Work Together
Your advisor sits down with you in your first week and asks the questions a great coach always asks: Where are you now? Where do you want to be? What's in your way?
From there, your full team — coaches, professors, and advisors — designs a learning pathway built around your answers. The core MBA topics are consistent — marketing, finance, accounting, strategy, operations, organizational behavior, analytics, technology, entrepreneurship, HR, ethics, and law — but the sequence, emphasis, and application are entirely yours.
Every session is 1-on-1 or in groups of no more than three students. Your professors teach you cutting-edge skills drawn from peer-reviewed research and real industry practice. Your coaches apply every lesson to your actual situation and hold you accountable. Your advisors connect you to the people and opportunities that accelerate your path. You earn credit not for seat time, but for demonstrated competence — work you actually do, applied to real-world challenges.
Enroll Today Risk FreeAreas of Concentration
Everyone in this program is working towards a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration with the option to continue and complete a full Master's but students can declare a specific concentration—Executive Leadership and Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Social Impact & Sustainability, Global Supply Chain Management, Chief of Staff, Product Management, AI Prompt & Solutions Engineer, and AI & Digital Transformation.
Executive Leadership and Intrapreneurship
Cultivates strategic acumen and corporate, entrepreneurial skill. It hones decision-making, innovation fostering, and team leadership abilities in a global context. Through real-world projects or your current work, students develop adaptive leadership in evolving business scenarios with an emphasis on ethics and sustainability.
Entrepreneurship
Ignites your spirit of innovation and leverages the demands of life as a startup founder or owner. If you're an Early Stage or VC-Backed Founder, learn from global best-practice and gain credit for your unique learnings. If you're an Aspiring Founder, get support to get your first business off the ground. Gain the skills to create, launch, and manage startups as they scale to Series A and beyond.
SMB Leadership
Serves the intricate needs of Small and Medium-Sized Business leadership. Whether you're a New Owner keen on operational efficiency, a Searcher working to take over a promising venture, or an Established Owner plotting the next growth milestone, this concentration is for you.
Social Impact & Sustainability
Instills a commitment to responsible business practices and equips students with the tools to address global challenges through sustainable strategies, from ethical business and social entrepreneurship to environmental stewardship. Emphasizes the triple bottom line—people, planet, and profit.
Product Management
Molds strategic leaders in creating and launching successful products. Students learn to blend market research, innovation, and business strategy to drive product lifecycles, with an emphasis on customer-centricity, agile methodologies, and cross-functional teamwork.
AI Prompt & Solutions Engineer
Prepares business leaders to put AI to work across the organization. You'll learn to identify high-value AI use cases, design prompts and AI-powered workflows, evaluate tools and vendors, measure ROI, and lead the change management that makes adoption stick. No computer science degree required, just a drive to make AI deliver real results for your team or company.
Design Your Own
Know exactly where you're headed but don't see your field above? Work with your coaches, professors, and advisors to design a custom concentration around your industry and goals. Past students have built concentrations in the business of film production, healthcare, media, fintech, law, real estate, and more.
Elton Featured Faculty and Instructors
Owen Raisch
AI native tech founder in B2B SAAS focusing on training and operations in SMBs
Jody Jacobson, PhD
Thomas Cox
25+ Years Executive & Governance Advisor
Colin Lumsden, PhD, MSc
Higher education and education technology executive with nearly 30 years of experience in business.
Kai Adams, MBA
Drew Fitzsimmons, MBA
Myrtil Mitanga, MBA
Andrew Utter, MBA
Ready to Meet Your Team?
Elton accepts students year-round. We look for people with exceptional curiosity and the drive to do real work in the real world. If you're the kind of person who wants more than a credential — you want real skills, real relationships, and real transformation — you belong here.
No GMAT required. No Bachelor's degree required with some college + business experience.
Your coaches, professors, and advisors are ready. Are you?
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Learning in the Real World
Your coaching team anchors every concept to real work — your work. Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, your team structures the program around the track that fits your life right now.
Build a Venture
You're founding, building, or scaling a business. Your coaching team becomes your inner circle: stress-testing your model, sharpening your pitch, building your financial fluency, and developing the leadership skills to take you from founder to CEO. Your company is your classroom, and every milestone counts toward your degree.
Accelerate Your Career
You're climbing inside an organization and ready to move from manager to director, director to VP, or VP to the C-suite. Your coaching team helps you identify the high-leverage moves — the right projects, the right visibility, the right executive presence — and turns the work you're already doing into MBA credit. This is exactly what a great executive coach does. Here, it comes with a credential.
Transform Your Career
You're ready to make a major change: a new industry, a new function, a new version of yourself professionally. Your coaching team maps the gap between where you are and where you want to be, builds the skills and the story you need to get there, and helps you land. Whether you're pivoting from finance to product, from corporate to consulting, or from employee to entrepreneur — your team has done it and can guide you through it.
Eligibility
To enroll in a master's program or graduate certificate, you need one of the following:
- A bachelor's degree, or
- Some college plus 3 years of relevant work experience, or
- Proof of your ability to engage in master's-level study.
No standardized tests are required: no GRE, no GMAT.
Tuition & Scholarships
The national average for an MBA in the USA is $55,000. Hiring a top business coach runs $500–$1,000/month.
At Elton, your entire team is included in your tuition, at prices competitive with the best online business programs. Most of our students also receive financial aid. Complete our 30 min, free, no-commitment application to see what financial aid level you qualify for.
- No GMAT Required - Traditional MBAs require you to take the GMAT ($270). We do not require GMAT for our application.
- Start Immediately - Traditional MBAs require you wait until September or January to start. With Elton you can start immediately.
- No Risk First Month - If during the first month you or Elton decide that you are not a fit for the college, you will receive a full refund.
- Stacking Credentials - Continue studying after your certificate to complete your full Master's degree.
Program Tuition: $22,000
Enjoy a 10% discount if tuition is paid in full upon enrollment.
Spare Time
18 months
10 Hours/Week
- Access to Elton Community
- 1x Professional Coach
- 1x Professor
- Full-Time employment allowed if it dovetails with your studies
Part Time
12 months
15 Hours/Week
- Access to Elton Community
- 1x Professional Coach
- 2x Professors
- Full-Time employment allowed if aligned with curriculum
- Part-Time employment allowed
Accelerated
10 months
25 Hours/Week
- Access to Elton Community
- 1x Professional Coach
- 3x Professors
- Full-Time employment allowed if aligned with curriculum
Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
Prefer a shorter commitment? Earn the graduate certificate on its own, with the same 1-on-1 professors and coaching as the master's.
- 12 credits, one third of the master's (about 300 hours of engagement)
- Typically about 2.5–6 months, depending on your pace
- Credits stack: continue any time to finish the full master's degree
Full Refund During a 30 Day Trial Period
