Mendoza School of Business

MBA Curriculum

Four semesters, 64 credits, and everything you’ve ever wanted to know about business.

Each of your four semesters consists of two seven-week modules, which provide you with the flexibility to add electives and experiential learning opportunities to your major courses.

Orientation

Experiential Learning
Grow Irish Week

Mod 1
Electives

Experiential Learning
Grow Irish Week

Mod 2
Electives or Mods Away (Silicon Valley or Chile)

Mod 3
Electives

Experiential Learning
Grow Irish Week

Mod 4
Electives

Core Curriculum

  • Career Leadership
  • Foundations of Ethical Business Conduct
  • Leading People and Teams
  • Problem Solving
  • Strategic Decision Making
  • Intro to Business Analytics
  • Marketing Management
  • Financial Accounting I
  • Financial Accounting II
  • Finance
  • Managerial Economics
  • Process Analytics

Grow Irish Week

Elevate your Mendoza student experience to new heights during Grow Irish Week. These weeklong, intensive course experiences challenge you to apply what you’ve learned in the classroom, demonstrate what you’re capable of, and create a vision for your future. During MBA Grow Irish Week you will fast-track your business acumen through deep dive skill-building courses and address real-world business challenges through consulting projects at domestic and international locations.

Grow Irish Week

Elective Curriculum

Choose 2

  • Frontlines in America
  • Frontline Engagements
  • Ways of Rebuilding Community (WORC) – South Bend
  • Business on the FrontlinesSignature 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

  • Data Management
  •  Predictive Analytics

Choose 4

  • Intro to Business Analytics
  • Ethics of Data Analytics
  • Advanced Regression Modeling
  • Data Visualization
  • Sports Analytics
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Architectures of Analytics
  • Data Acquisition
  • Networks and Information Management in Organizations
  • Digital Transformation
  • People Analytics
  • Humanitarian Operations & Analytics
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Marketing Models
  • Retail Analytics and Pricing

Part of: Technology Pathway

Mods Away

Silicon Valley

Entering its third year, Mendoza’s Silicon Valley Mod Away program offers MBA students a career-accelerating opportunity focused on Digital Innovation—the issues related to designing and commercializing new digital products and services—and engaging with local alumni and leaders in technology and entrepreneurship.

Santiago, Chile

Mendoza’s Mod Away in Chile program catalyzes MBA students to develop a first-hand, high-level understanding of the economic, political, and cultural landscape of one of Latin America’s fastest growing economies. Through a unique set of course offerings and immersive events, the Chile Mod Away program exposes students to diverse perspectives about the role both Latin America and the United States play in the global economy.


*Course outline is an example and subject to change. 

Mendoza School of Business
Mendoza School of Business