Program Overview

Whether you’re an aspiring business leader or an experienced professional ready to advance to the next level, you’ll thrive in our supportive learning environment that emphasizes real-world experience, professional research and an international approach—in state-of-the-art facilities, including the high-tech, eco-friendly College of Business building at University Campus.

Saint Leo's ACBSP-accredited Donald R. Tapia College of Business is the largest Catholic business college in the U.S., with students and alumni in more than 50 countries.

Saint Leo MBA students come from a range of backgrounds—and contribute great insights in the classroom, drawing from diverse work experiences. Studying key issues facing business managers, you’ll learn how to use marketing, finance, management strategies, ethics, law and human resources to your advantage in any size organization—large or small, public or private, profit or nonprofit.

The Social Media Marketing MBA specialization offers marketing students an opportunity to improve their knowledge in a rapidly emerging field where marketing managers utilize traditional marketing research as well as cutting-edge web analytics techniques to understand their markets and to design marketing strategies. It focuses on how to apply analytical techniques correctly, how to assess the effectiveness of social media and multichannel campaigns, how to optimize success by leveraging experimentation, and how to employ the proper tools and tactics for listening to your customers.

Expected Program Outcomes

As a result of successfully completing the Specialization, the graduate will be expected to:

• Critique a company's social media and online marketing strategies.
• Design online marketing strategies, including gamification, social media, and web design decision.
• Select the appropriate web analytics metrics to measure variables critical to a brand's success.
• Identify the appropriate web analytics tools and methods to capture online the appropriate metrics for assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of marketing activities.
• Apply the appropriate traditional marketing research methods to measure variables critical to a brand's success.