The two-year Full-Time MBA program spans four semesters and requires the completion of 61 credit hours. The curriculum is structured to include knowledge core courses, a data literacy course sequence, two intensive immersion courses, an impact capstone course, and elective courses.
The knowledge core courses, conducted over the first two semesters in six-week sessions, lay a foundational understanding of all functional business disciplines. This program offers a comprehensive view of the interrelationships across various business disciplines and their integration in managing successful organizations.
The data literacy course sequence enhances students’ ability to interpret and apply insights from big data, recognize data limitations, and gather small, targeted data sets to rapidly and precisely address critical questions. This sequence includes courses in statistics and analytics, an advanced data interpretation course, and two area-specific data core courses in finance and strategy.
The intensive immersion courses, comprising a global immersion course and an experiential leadership course, occur just before the spring semester of the first year and at the beginning of the fall semester of the second year, respectively. During the impact capstone, a semester-long course in the fall of the second year, students work in teams to tackle real strategic business problems for corporate clients. This course leverages students' problem-solving skills across various business disciplines, allowing students to apply these skills to real-world business issues.
In their second year, students complete elective courses, through which they can earn concentrations or specializations in business analytics, finance, strategy & marketing, and/or energy & sustainability.
• Accounting and Taxation (ACCN, TAXN)
• Business and Law (LGST, MCOM)
• Energy (ENRG)
• Finance and Economics (FINE, ECON)
• Management (MGMT)
• Management Science (MGSC)
• Marketing (MKTG)
In addition, two required career development courses help students identify appropriate career goals, conduct an effective job search and enhance their careers after graduation. A grade of pass in both non-credit career development courses is a requirement for graduation.
Curriculum
An outline of the Freeman School's full-time MBA program, completed in two years over four semesters, follows:
The Freeman School offers a variety of concentrations and specializations for full-time MBA students. While no concentration or specialization is required, this option allows students to create a program of study that meets more specific academic and career goals. Students may declare up to two concentrations and/or specializations while earning their MBA.
Students must complete 12 credit hours to earn a concentration in a particular area and 9 credit hours to earn a specialization. Where applicable, it is possible for one course to count toward two concentrations and/or specializations.
