Five-plus years of real leadership. A classroom, a platoon, a public office.
You don't need to be convinced of the value of hard work. You need a pathway that values what you already bring.
A new industry, an accredited MBA, a paid apprenticeship that becomes your job, and no debt.
Twenty months. Twenty seats. First cohort begins January 2027.
Join an info sessionHow you get from one lane to the other
You pay while you learn. Your employer partner pays you while you work. You graduate owing nothing.
Learn
Months 1–17Fourteen 8-week courses, fully remote, with the same cohort of twenty in every class. Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Saturday mornings. About ten hours in class plus homework and projects outside it, so you keep your job. Sit for the PMP certification in term one. Four courses include real projects with employer partners.
Launch
Months 17–20Two-to-four month, full-time, paid apprenticeship with an employer partner in your new industry.
Graduate
An accredited MBA, a new career, and a two-year commitment to the employer who invested in you.
Four things most MBA programs don't give you
all included in the degreePMP certification exam included
Project Management (BUS 555) prepares you to sit for the PMI Project Management Professional exam in your first term. The exam fee is covered by the degree. No extra cost.
Real projects for real employers
Four courses include work-based projects with employer partners in healthcare. Real deliverables for real organizations, on your résumé before you graduate.
A paid, full-time apprenticeship
Two-four months with an employer partner, applying everything you learned. Your tuition is paid back to you during it. This is the bridge into your new career.
One cohort. Every class.
The same twenty people in every course for twenty months. Not mixed in with 2,000 students. You leave with a professional network, not just a transcript.
More than a pipeline. A way of thinking.
A polymath is a problem solver with wide-ranging knowledge. The Pivot MBA gets you into a new industry and prepares you to lead once you're there. Polymath Institute develops modern polymaths: leaders with breadth, depth, and the ability to integrate across disciplines. Four pillars run through the whole curriculum. They aren't electives. They are the core.
Curiosity
Ask better questions than the ones you were handed.
Leadership Through InquiryCreativity
Design solutions around the people who use them.
Human-Centered Design · Artificial IntelligenceCritical thinking
See the whole system, not just your corner.
Systems ThinkingCommunity
One cohort of twenty, and faculty who coach you individually.
Every courseJoin a live info session
Forty-five minutes with Polymath's founder. How the debt-free model works, what the apprenticeship looks like, whether this is right for you.
Can't make any of these? Register anyway and we'll send the recording.