Thunderbird isn't just exceptional business training. It's your gateway to a world of opportunity. Discover what thousands of global Thunderbird alumni have known all along: being a T-bird positions you for success in any market around the world.

Why Thunderbird

Global Mindset

Thunderbird students are adventurous and adaptable. Entrepreneurial. Able to operate in unstructured environments. They are leaders who function equally well in Des Moines or Dubai. That is why employers recruit Thunderbirds to work around the world across a variety of functions and industries.

Global Citizenship

Each year around 50 professionals from across industries and the globe are accepted into Thunderbird's Executive MBA program, joining the nearly 1,400 students enrolled in Thunderbird's many academic programs. Exposure to such diverse business and life experience enriches and complements the global focus of your studies. Trained to operate locally with a global perspective and globally with a local perspective, you become an asset to future employers in an increasingly global economy.

Global Training

As a Thunderbird, you attend the only graduate management school focused purely on global business. You learn from the leading authority to succeed and prosper in international trade. Thunderbird's unique curriculum is based on the concept that to do business effectively on a global scale, you must understand the languages and customs of other countries. This thinking has produced leaders in global business for the past 60 years

Global Opportunities

Around 600 companies post jobs for Thunderbird students annually. As a Thunderbird Executive MBA, you have the same access to these job postings as full-time students, in addition to positions posted exclusively for Thunderbird alumni, upon completion of the online career management seminar.