MBA Career Specializations
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
- Entrepreneurial Management
- Information Systems
- Marketing Research
- Operations and Technology Management
- Real Estate
- Risk Management and Insurance
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Strategic Management in the Life
& Engineering Sciences - 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 Applied Corporate Finance
- A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research
- Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship
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