Management (MSM)
What You’ll Learn
The MSM is a rigorous, full-time, 10-month program on Notre Dame’s iconic campus. You’ll join a collaborative cohort of recent graduates and early career professionals while building advanced business knowledge that prepares you to make an immediate impact across industries.
Build a Strong Business Foundation
Every MSM student begins with a shared business core that develops the essential knowledge and leadership skills needed in today's organizations. Through courses in finance, accounting, business analytics, strategic communication, marketing, leadership, managerial economics, strategic decision-making, and business problem solving, you'll strengthen your ability to analyze complex challenges, communicate effectively, and lead with confidence.
Learn Through Real-World Applications
Business is learned by doing. Throughout the program, you'll apply classroom concepts through consulting-style projects, collaborative case work, and experiential learning opportunities. Grow Irish Week will connect you with organizations and business leaders, giving you firsthand experience solving real challenges while expanding your professional network.
Develop a Specialized Expertise
While building a strong business foundation, you'll tailor your degree by choosing one of three career-focused concentrations. Whether you're interested in technology, strategic leadership, or nonprofit management, you'll gain specialized knowledge that aligns with your career goals and prepares you to lead in an evolving global marketplace.
Focus Your Studies with an MSM Concentration
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- The Technology and Management concentration helps you explore how emerging technologies, data, and innovation are transforming business while developing your skills to lead organizations through digital change.
- The Strategic and Financial Leadership concentration helps you strengthen your strategic, financial, and leadership capabilities to make informed decisions, drive organizational growth, and create long-term value.
- The Nonprofit Management and Leadership concentration combines business expertise with mission-driven leadership to prepare you for careers that create meaningful, lasting change through purpose-driven organizations.
Hear From Our Students
Learn more about the student experience from current MSM candidates:
Faculty Spotlights
Academic Director of the Master of Science in Management (MSM) Program Courses Include: Business Problem Solving
Associate Dean for the Undergraduate and Specialized Master’s Programs, Teaching Professor Courses Include: Managerial Economics
Assistant Professor of Administrative Leadership Courses Include: Principles of Management
Academic Director of the Master of Science in Finance-Residential Program; Associate Professor Courses Include: Capital Allocation, Finance Principles
Associate Teaching Professor; Academic Director of Leadership Development Courses Include: Foundations of Ethical Business Conduct
Career Development
The Notre Dame M.S. in Management delivers the 10th-best post-graduation salary among global programs and connects you to a top-ranked network to shape your future. Our Career Development team is dedicated to helping you launch your career. Taking into account your unique background, they’ll help you hone in on your strengths and weaknesses to better prepare you to tackle real-world problems.
The Bridge to Success course helps you identify how you can leverage your undergraduate experience toward a business career. Through guided exercises, interactions with ND alumni, and one-on-one meetings with your career coach, you will develop your individualized brand and form a strategy to kick-start your career.
Work one-on-one with a career coach to develop a strategy for achieving your career goals. You will also learn effective methods for job search, interview skills, and resume writing. You will bring it all together to define your individualized brand.
Notre Dame has one of the largest and most loyal alumni networks in the world — with more than 140,000 active alumni engaged in 220 domestic and 50 international Notre Dame clubs. But the real value of becoming a “Domer” is the quality of those alumni connections.
MSM Class of 2025 graduates have offers from companies such as:
- Amazon
- Clearsulting
- Ford Motor Company
- Keuring Dr. Pepper
- LA Clippers
- McKesson
- Miebach Consulting
- NY Fashion Week
- Stryker
87% of MSM Class of 2025 graduates accepted full-time offers within six months of graduation
$72,989 average base salary
MSM Career Paths
| Political Science at Notre Dame | ⇨ | Advisory Consultant at Deloitte |
| History at Marquette University | ⇨ | Associate, Institutional Investments at William Blair |
| Neuroscience at King's College | ⇨ | Management Development Program at E. & J. Gallo |
| English at Wake Forest University | ⇨ | Commercial Real Estate Analyst at JPMorgan Chase |
| Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College | ⇨ | Global Quantitative Management Analyst at Bank of America |
| Electrical Engineering at Notre Dame | ⇨ | Consulting Analyst at Accenture |
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MSM Community
Students in the MSM program come from a wide range of academic backgrounds, bringing different perspectives and experiences to the classroom. Through shared classes, projects, and time spent together outside of class, these differences create a close-knit cohort where lasting friendships and professional relationships take shape.
MSM Voices
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