Career Specializations

The new MBA program has been designed around 14 career specializations.

Accounting
The MBA program in accounting is designed to provide the skills and knowledge required for advanced positions in financial management and corporate controllership.

Applied Corporate Finance
Applied Corporate Finance offers a unique opportunity for practical experience in corporate and business finance.

Applied Security Analysis
The Applied Security Analysis Program, begun in 1970, is a leader among academic investment programs where students manage money.

Arts Administration
This program prepares business leaders for the unique challenges of managing arts and culture organizations, particularly nonprofits.

Entrepreneurial Management
Students in Entrepreneurial Management develop a broad range of skills for tackling the field of entrepreneurship.

Information Systems
The Information Systems program is built on a solid foundation of business and information technology curriculum.

Marketing Research
The marketing research program offers rigorous training in marketing research methods coupled with an in-depth understanding of key business and marketing frameworks.

Operations and Technology Management
This program is concerned with development, implementation and improvement of processes, technologies and management systems to design, make and deliver goods and services in an efficient and effective manner.

Product Management
The nation's first university-based center to focus exclusively on training MBAs in product management provides students with training to be successful in top product management companies worldwide.

Real Estate and Urban Economics
The Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, widely regarded as one of the best real estate programs in the world, provides students with a broad background in all aspects of real estate.

Risk Management and Insurance
This program integrates material from finance, quantitative analysis and management to examine the legal, social and institutional environment in which loss of assets may occur.

Strategic Human Resource Management
This program prepares students for careers in human resources in the private and public sector and in consulting.

Strategic Management in the Life and Engineering Sciences
This new program aims to help fulfill the global need for leaders in dynamic life sciences and engineering organizations.

Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management integrates various business functions concerned with the movement of goods, services and information along the value chain.

More in-depth information about these career specializations and an online application form can be found at www.bus.wisc.edu/graduateprograms/specializations.