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How to apply: Design Leadership MA/MBA

Application requirements for Carey Business School's Design Leadership MA/MBA program

The Summer 2025 application is now open.

We can’t wait for you to join our vibrant learning community and to build for what’s next together.

Please review the instructions below to prepare your application.

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Your application checklist

Begin and manage your application by creating your username and password on the Johns Hopkins University-wide platform.

Choose “Carey Business School” as your school of choice.
You are able to begin your application, save it, and return to finish it at a later time by logging in at your convenience.
Your application will not be evaluated until you submit it and all supporting materials are received.
Use Google Chrome for the best user experience while completing your application.

All official documents for the Design Leadership MA/MBA that need to be mailed (transcripts, credential evaluations, and official test scores) should be sent to:

Office of Admissions
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
100 International Drive
Baltimore, MD 21202

We understand the challenges some applicants are facing in completing their applications. As such, we will work with you individually to ensure your application is complete. Please reach out to an admissions officer for assistance.

Summer 2025 Application Deadlines

Deadlines	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
Candidate deadline	February 5, 2025	March 5, 2025	April 9, 2025
Decision release	March 19, 2025	April 16, 2025	May 21, 2025
Deposit deadline	April 23, 2025	May 21, 2025	June 25, 2025

The Design Leadership MA/MBA requires applicants to upload two unique essays through the Carey Business School online application:

A. Why are you a strong candidate for the Design Leadership MBA/MA degree program? What makes this degree a good fit for you? How will you make a unique contribution to the Carey Business School and MICA communities? (500 words)
Please answer either essay question B1 or B2. (500 words)
- B1. Describe your most significant success or failure. Please include the situation, attributions related to it and what you learned from it.
- B2. Describe a time your ethics were challenged. How did you address the situation and what did you learn?

Be sure your statements capture who you are, what you believe, and what you aspire to do. In addition:

Use a 12-point font and double space your document
Indicate which question you are answering at the beginning of each essay
Do not mail paper copies of your essay to Admissions
Upload all required essays
Essays should be 300-500 words

You will also have the optional opportunity to provide any additional clarifying information that you wish to share with the Admissions committee regarding your academic record, personal history, or professional attributes.

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: Official transcripts from all U.S. schools must be sent electronically. All U.S. transcripts must be from an accredited institution recognized by the Department of Education. Please visit your school’s website to request an official transcript be sent electronically to carey.admissions.transcripts@jhu.edu.
We require transcripts from all institutions where you have attempted more than 15 credits. Final transcripts must show the degrees you have earned. Your admission decision may be delayed if you do not send transcripts from all colleges/universities attended.
If your school does not participate in an electronic transcript submission system, send official sealed transcripts to the address below:
Office of Admissions
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
100 International Drive
Baltimore, MD 21202

: We require a resume or a CV. Please be sure to have your resume or CV fully updated, and include both the months and years of your various work experiences as strong career experience is preferred.

Who should write your letter of recommendation? We suggest someone who knows you personally and who can speak directly about your strengths and experience. Do not focus on the person in your company at the highest level.

Be sure that you have been in their class, have reported to them directly, and/or you have shared your interest in graduate school with them.

Please use your recommender’s work email address rather than a personal account like Gmail, which will be more closely monitored in our credential verification process.
Recommendations from relatives and friends are strongly discouraged.
One recommendation is required. We will read up to two.

Applicants to the Design Leadership MA/MBA program are not required to take the GMAT or the GRE. However, if you would like to submit a GMAT or GRE test score to enrich your application, you are welcome to do so within the application. We accept scores from both the GMAT and the GRE that are up to five years old and do not have a preference for either test. Be sure to do your research on which exam is best for you. Have your scores sent directly to Carey Business School.

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Codes:
- GMAT - KGB-B0-98
- GRE – 0834

For more information, use the links below.

: A $100 nonrefundable application fee is due when you submit your online application.

: Please review the application requirements for international applicants here:

https://carey.jhu.edu/admissions/international-applicants

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Admissions policies

Work experience is not required in order to be accepted into the program. However, work experience may be required to be eligible for a GRE or GMAT exam waiver.

You can only apply to one specialty master’s program at a time.

Candidates cannot apply for more than one program in a single round. If offered admission, you must accept or decline by the deadline for that round. You cannot wait to make a decision on a first offer while applying for another program in the next round.

Applicants to the full-time MS in Finance and MS in Marketing programs have the option to select Baltimore or Washington, DC as their preferred Carey location. We try our best to admit candidates to their preferred location, but do not guarantee it. Space in Washington, DC is limited and often fills following round two.

Admission to other schools in the University

Each school at Johns Hopkins University has an independent Office of Admissions and its own application process. You must apply separately to programs housed within separate schools, although some established dual degree programs only require a single application. If you are interested in a dual degree program, please visit our dual degree page for special instructions on how to apply.

Current Carey Business School students who wish to enter a degree program at one of the other schools in the university must submit an admission application to that school. Admission to the Carey Business School establishes no claim or priority for admission to any other school in the university.

Questions?

Contact the Admissions team if you have additional questions or need more information to complete your Carey Business School application.

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The Office of Experiential Learning creates innovative, immersive projects to provide Carey students with real-world business skills.

Health Care Strategy Consulting Practicum

Signature experiential course for health care management (part-time)

Challenge your understanding of complex health care issues, then put your knowledge into practice in the real-world.

The Health Care Strategy Consulting Practicum is a 16-week course where students utilize classroom knowledge to create lasting solutions for real-world challenges and identify opportunities to make a valuable impact in the health care space. Students enhance their business education through collaborative consulting engagements with businesses and nonprofit organizations to address existing and emerging challenges. This course is open to part-time Master of Science in Health Care Management students and MBA students pursuing a pathway in health care. These diverse backgrounds bring valuable perspectives to the team.

Partner with real businesses on cutting-edge challenges.

With close ties to Johns Hopkins Hospital system as well as external partners spanning the health care industry, project challenges take many shapes and forms. All challenges strive to provide a space for students to work closely with a client partner and develop lasting solutions. Examples of previous challenges include working with various internal and external stakeholders to create a strategy to advance geriatric care, developing a strategic plan for health education for women in the city of Baltimore, and creating a market strategy for an innovative triage headset that relays real-time vitals to medical professionals off-site.

Students apply marketing, operations, organizational management, feasibility, and competitor analysis skills to address the client’s challenges in the health care industry.

“This program helped us dig into specific business scenarios that our team did not have the time or capacity to invest in. This resulted in us receiving relevant business insight beyond our own planned capacity."

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“We had the pleasure of working with two teams from the Health Care Strategy course. The teams identified ways to support the long-term sustainability of our school-based health care program and potential new streams of funding that we hadn’t considered before. The students’ experience and expertise in a broad range of health and health care fields made this a great opportunity for us.”

Sara Johnson, Director, Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education

Learn from an experienced industry faculty member: Dr. Bonnie Robeson.

Dr. Bonnie Robeson developed the signature experiential learning course for the part-time health care management program in 2019, which is offered to students every fall and spring semester. Drawing from a variety of work experience across the health care industry and years of directing experiential learning projects in the United States and India, Dr. Robeson guides students through this two-part course to prepare them for consulting in health care.

“The Health Care Strategy Consulting Practicum course is an opportunity for students to learn the process of implementing a strategic approach to an organization’s issue. This course has multiple levels of learning which includes the team collaborative process, formulating recommendations in an unfamiliar area often with ambiguity, applying business tools to the client’s challenges, and developing and practicing the skill of probing the client effectively to obtain the necessary understanding for providing realistic and achievable recommendations. Content and skills learned in this course are applicable to anyone interested in the health care industry. The projects, all relating to a health care area, have included feasibility and competitive analysis, growth strategies, management organizational recommendations, pricing models, and identifying marketing channels and strategies. Students complete the two-part course with a sense of accomplishment and increased confidence in their abilities to apply the knowledge gained throughout their programs in a work environment.”

Bonnie Robeson, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Session 1

Your first eight weeks are a deep dive into health care consulting work to prepare you for your challenge.

Session 2

During the second eight weeks, apply classroom theories to a real-world challenge. Our intentional teaming process will group you with three to five students to then be paired with a challenge sourced by our Office of Experiential Learning and course faculty.

You’ll leave this course with consulting knowledge and experience of consulting in the health care industry

Analyze data to form creative and manageable solutions to complex, unstructured situations
Link theory to practice by applying “tools” to problem solving situations
Apply leadership skills to teamwork (know when to lead vs. follow)
Learn about and synthesize strategic concepts
Deliver recommendations to project sponsor
Gain exposure to real-world challenges and health care organizations

“This class was one of my favorites at Carey because it allowed me to use everything I’ve learned in the program to make a difference for a client and their patients. From business communications and statistics and leadership, to strategy, financial analysis, and marketing, this class was the perfect culminating experience in the MBA program."

Christopher Wells, MBA '22

“This course provided me with the necessary insight and experience to further my career capabilities and allowed me to recognize my worth and value as a new budding consultant. I look forward to using this new knowledge to help evolve my career down a path that I honestly would not have known to be available to me.”

Joseph Wilson, MS in Health Care Management, '22

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Student employment resources

Employee self service

Using ESS, you will be able to:

Tax Forms

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After Graduation

How to apply: Design Leadership MA/MBA

Admissions

Application requirements for Carey Business School's Design Leadership MA/MBA program

The Summer 2025 application is now open.

Your application checklist

Create an account

Confirm your deadline

Write your essays

Submit your transcript(s)

Update your resume

Choose your recommender

Submit your GMAT/GRE test scores (optional)

Pay your application fee

International applicants: confirm application requirements

Admissions policies

Admission to other schools in the University

Questions?

Tinglong Dai, PhD

Health Care Strategy Consulting Practicum

Student Experience

Signature experiential course for health care management (part-time)

Challenge your understanding of complex health care issues, then put your knowledge into practice in the real-world.

Partner with real businesses on cutting-edge challenges.

Some of our past partners include:

Learn from an experienced industry faculty member: Dr. Bonnie Robeson.

Program timeline

Session 1

Session 2

Learning outcomes

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