Learning Environment
Curriculum Career SpecializationsGlobal OpportunitiesFacilities
Our MBA program is designed around career specializations— as opposed to more general academic majors—because it gives our graduates greater expertise and more value to the firms that ultimately employ them.
- Applied Security Analysis
- Arts Administration
- Brand and Product Management
- Corporate Finance and Investment Banking
- Entrepreneurship Certificate (formerly Entrepreneurship Specialization)
- Innovation Certificate (formerly Strategic Management in Life & Engineering Sciences)
- Marketing Research
- Operations and Technology Management
- Real Estate
- Risk Management and Insurance
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Supply Chain Management
Centers of Expertise
All of our career specializations share many of the features that distinguish our Centers of Expertise. By the time you begin our program, more specializations may have become endowed Centers of Expertise.
- Bolz Center for Arts Administration
- Center for Brand and Product Management
- Center for Real Estate
- Erdman Center for Operations
and Technology Management - Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management
- Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis
- Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking
- A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research
- Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship - Certificate Program
More about the centers
The pinnacles of the career specialization model are our Centers of Expertise. While each center is tailored to the particular needs of its students, they share many critical characteristics that drive success, including:
- An endowment to cover operating costs, including student support
- A faculty director with expertise and a desire to lead an applied academic program
- Dedicated support staff with expertise in the area
- Applied curriculum
- A community of students who seek a career in the field
- An executive advisory board
- Dedicated space to meet and work
Center Directors, like Verda Blythe of the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management, are a key component of the Wisconsin MBA.
“I visited Wisconsin when I was considering different MBA programs, and was just overwhelmed by the welcome I got from my center’s director and its students. They took me around for a whole day. When I toured other MBA programs, I felt like a welcome visitor. Here I felt almost like a family member.”
Jake Dean, MBA 2009