{"id":204645,"date":"2026-03-24T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204645\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:31:08","slug":"uf-board-of-trustees-vote-to-move-weekend-part-time-mba-program-to-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204645\/","title":{"rendered":"UF Board of Trustees vote to move weekend part-time MBA program to Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Florida Board of Trustees\u00a0unanimously\u00a0voted to move the Warrington\u00a0College of Business\u00a0Master of Business\u00a0weekend part-time Master of Business\u00a0Administration (MBA)\u00a0one-year and two-year program formats from Gainesville to the\u00a0new\u00a0UF graduate campus in Jacksonville<\/a>\u00a0at a virtual meeting\u00a0on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Local and state leaders, along with university donors,\u00a0provided UF with\u00a0over $300 million to\u00a0fund\u00a0the\u00a0development\u00a0of a campus in\u00a0Jacksonville, according to the board\u2019s Feb. 23 meeting agenda.\u00a0The city of Jacksonville also\u00a0donated\u00a0nearly\u00a025\u00a0acres\u00a0of\u00a0real property in the LaVilla\u00a0area\u00a0downtown\u00a0to UF for the campus, the agenda said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A\u00a0June 2025\u00a0UF\u00a0release<\/a>\u00a0said the Jacksonville campus\u00a0would \u201coffer graduate-level academic programs aligned with the city\u2019s [Jacksonville] workforce needs in fields\u00a0such as business, health science, engineering,\u00a0law and architecture.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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According to the UF Jacksonville website, the first set of programs are expected to be launched in existing facilities this fall,\u00a0with new construction beginning by late 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0the agenda for\u00a0Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0meeting, the\u00a0Warrington College of Business\u00a0weekend part-time MBA\u00a0one-year and two-year program formats \u201chave historically been delivered in Gainesville under a market-rate model approved in March 2011.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Board Chair\u00a0Mori Hosseini\u00a0approved of\u00a0the relocation at the meeting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJacksonville is a huge market for\u00a0these types of students,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, moving it to Jacksonville, where businesses are, I think it\u2019s a great move.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The board also unanimously\u00a0approved\u00a0a suggestion by\u00a0UF\u00a0administration to adjust the\u00a0market\u00a0rate\u00a0tuition\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0weekend\u00a0part-time MBA\u00a0programs\u00a0offered in Jacksonville and the South Florida MBA program offered in Miami.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UF interim Provost Joe Glover\u00a0said at\u00a0Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0meeting that the programs\u00a0haven\u2019t\u00a0had any tuition modifications since 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Based on the suggested rates\u00a0from administration, tuition for the\u00a0one-year\u00a0weekend part-time MBA\u00a0program would\u00a0go from $49,205 to $59,204, while\u00a0the\u00a0two-year\u00a0weekend\u00a0part-time MBA\u00a0would\u00a0jump from $59,808 to $71,807.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the South Florida MBA program, the market\u00a0rate\u00a0tuition would\u00a0increase\u00a0from $66,807 to $79,807.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tuition rates for all three of the MBA programs are the same for\u00a0in-state\u00a0and out-of-state students, according to backup documents provided in\u00a0the agenda for\u00a0Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Glover noted that\u00a0the market rate adjustments for\u00a0the three\u00a0MBA programs\u00a0\u201crepresent about\u00a0a 20% increase in tuition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That increase,\u00a0he\u00a0said, is \u201cwell below the rate of inflation,\u201d which he noted\u00a0has amounted to\u00a0roughly 35%\u00a0over the past 10 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Glover also\u00a0explained that the\u00a0approved rates\u00a0will still\u00a0leave the tuition for UF\u2019s MBA programs \u201csubstantially below\u201d those of its peers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

While\u00a0the board approved the\u00a0weekend\u00a0part-time MBA program relocation, as well as\u00a0adjustments to\u00a0the market\u00a0tuition rates for all three\u00a0MBA\u00a0programs, they still need approval by the Florida Board of Governors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Board of Governors is scheduled to\u00a0convene\u00a0for\u00a0a\u00a0full meeting between 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nick\u00a0Anschultz\u00a0is a Report for America corps member and writes about education for Mainstreet Daily News. This position is supported by local donations through the\u00a0Community Catalyst for Local Journalism Fund at the Community Foundation of North Central Florida<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Florida Board of Trustees\u00a0unanimously\u00a0voted to move the Warrington\u00a0College of Business\u00a0Master of Business\u00a0weekend part-time Master of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-204645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}