One-Year MBA Curriculum
One year. 46 credit hours. You can do it.
After an intense 10-week summer session, you’ll join the second year of our Two-Year Program. Your Fall and Spring semesters each consist of two seven-week modules, which provide you with the flexibility to add electives and experiential learning opportunities to your major courses.
Orientation
Summer Intensive
Core Curriculum
Join Two-Year Cohort
Mod 1
Core Curriculum/Electives
Interterm
Interterm Intensive
Mod 2
Mod Away or Mod Abroad (Silicon Valley or Chile)
Mod 3
Electives
Interterm
Interterm Intensive
Mod 4
Electives
Commencement
Core Curriculum
- Career Leadership
- Foundations of Ethical Business Conduct
- Leading People and Teams
- Strategic Decision Making
- Intro to Business Analytics
- Marketing Management
- Financial Accounting
- Finance
- Managerial Economics
- Process Analytics
Through a variety of formats, you will apply what you have learned in direct and practical ways outside of the traditional classroom. Recommend a market strategy for a Fortune 100 company. Consult with and have an impact on a nonprofit or small enterprise. Immerse in the business of venture capital. Strengthen your business toolkit by learning from industry experts. No matter which one-credit opportunity you choose, you will move beyond expectations of yourself and your abilities and develop a stronger foundation as a business leader.
Electives Curriculum
Choose 2
- Frontlines in America
- Frontline Engagements
- Ways of Rebuilding Community (WORC) – South Bend
- Business on the Frontlines – Signature Experience
- Judgment
- Innovation & Design Thinking
Choose 3
- Strategic Foresight
- Entrepreneurship
- Business Model Innovation
- Negotiation
- Corporate Governance
- Data Storytelling
Choose 1
- Corporate Financial Reporting
- Strategic Cost Management
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Financial Policy
- Managing in a Digital World
- Competitive Growth Strategy
- Customer Valuation & Management
Part of: Consulting Pathway
Required
- Capital Allocation
- Financial Policy
- Investments
Choose 3
- Corporate Financial Reporting
- Strategic Cost Management
- Economics of Financial Crisis
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mergers & Acquisitions Practicum
- Financing the Corporation
- Bond Issue Process
- Working Capital Management
- Strategic Finance & Valuation
- Multinational Financial Management
- Equity Valuation
- Options & Futures
- Applied Investment Management (AIM) – Signature Experience
- Fixed Income Securities I
- Behavioral Finance
- Seed Investor Practicum
- Time Series Forecasting
- Retail Analytics and Pricing
- Trading and Markets
- Ethics in Finance
- Intro Machine Learning
- Adv. Machine Learning
- International Finance
- Latin American Economics
- Corporate Governance
Part of: Finance Pathway
Choose 4
- Marketing Research
- Marketing Analytics
- Marketing Decision Models
- Customer Valuation & Management
- Digital Marketing
- Applied Digital Marketing – Signature Experience
- Social Media
- Retail Analytics and Pricing
Choose 2
from list above or Marketing Major list
Part of: Marketing Pathway
Choose 4
- Consumer Behavior
- Marketing Research
- Competitive Growth Strategy
- Business-to-Business Marketing
- Brand Strategy
- New Products Development
- Advertising Management
- International Marketing
Choose 2
from list above or Digital Marketing and Marketing Analytics List
Part of: Marketing Pathway
Required
- Predictive Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Data Management
- Architectures of Analytics
Choose 1
- Applied Regression Modeling
- Time Series Forecasting
- Supply Chain Analytics
- Data & Digital Innovation
Choose 1
- Ethics of Data Analytics
- Managing in a Digital World
- Marketing Analytics
- Marketing Decision Models
Part of: Technology Pathway
Second-Year and One-Year MBA students will have the opportunity to spend seven weeks of the fall semester (Mod Two) in the San Francisco Bay Area. While based in Silicon Valley, students will take classes such as Data and Digital Innovation and Digital Product Management and have the opportunity to gain professional experience and network with tech professionals.
MBA students have the unique opportunity to have a fully immersive study abroad opportunity in Santiago, Chile. During Mod 2, Second-Year and One-Year students take a full schedule of MBA courses with experienced practitioners from Chile in partnership with Universidad Catholica. In addition to business courses in English, students will have the opportunity to learn or improve their Spanish language skills. Class schedules allow for many travel opportunities for students to explore the Andes region. Popular trips from Santiago include Chile’s Atacama Desert, Machu Picchu in Peru, and multi-day trekking in Patagonia.
*Course outline is an example and subject to change.