First-Year Curriculum
As an Eller MBA, you will experience an MBA curriculum that operates at the intersection of intellectual rigor and market relevance. In addition to a thorough and comprehensive first year core experience — aimed at strengthening your analytical skills and preparing you for your internship search — you will have ample opportunity to take your skills to the market as part of your educational experience. You will substantively engage with public or private enterprises as an analyst or consultant and you will analyze a publicly traded entity and present the findings to faculty and businesspeople acting as Wall Street analysts all during your first year of study.
Overview
Set in a two-year format with intensive 8-week and 15-week courses during the first year, the Eller MBA curriculum includes a portfolio of interesting and market-centered learning modules, highly tailored elective courses, international and project-based experiences with leadership development activities embedded throughout the curriculum.
Core Courses
During your first year, you will be immersed in a core set of rigorous and analytically-oriented business topics including finance, accounting, marketing, economics, operations, management, leadership, and business communications. You will master these fundamentals for success in both individual and team-based settings.
These core courses, augmented by experiential learning, managerial and business communications capabilities and professional development activities, are designed to ensure a comprehensive foundation that will prepare you to take full advantage of the academic and professional opportunities and choices you’ll face during the second year of the program. A sample schedule for Fall 2009 is also available.
Between your first and second years at Eller, we place significant stress on the concept of you obtaining an internship related to your chosen field of study at Eller. We believe this experience to be an integral part of your education.
Fall Semester
MGMT 556: Leadership and Teams (2 units)
Conceptual understanding of advanced, applied, inferential statistics with emphasis on their use as a managerial decision-making tool.
Conceptual understanding of advanced, applied, inferential statistics with emphasis on their use as a managerial decision-making tool.
This course will provide students will communication strategies and skills to manage and lead in the complex and rapidly changing global business environment. Initial introduction to functional and industry opportunities; mentoring and networking; consideration of experiential learning opportunities. This course also provides additional opportunities to strengthen and measure core professional communication competencies.
Examination of industrial structure theory of prices under varying market conditions with application to business problems with emphasis on building and sustaining competitive advantage.
Integration of basic principles and underlying theory of finance, with emphasis on the analytical financial management of firms.
Principles and procedures underlying the financial accounting process and their application in the preparation and analysis of financial statements.
Exploration of the environment, scope and nature of marketing management with focus on market analysis for product, price, promotion, distribution and service.
This course is concerned with the long-term strategy of a business organization, identifying and analyzing past and current strategies and discusses formulating and implementing new ones.
Winter Break
Spring Semester
This course presents an overview of managerial accounting concepts, focusing on providing and evaluating accounting information for decision making, planning and control of operations and organizations, and strategic management.
This course takes a process-oriented approach, covering four segments: operations strategy, management of process flows, variability, and operations improvement.
Continuation of the integration of basic principles and underlying theory of finance, with emphasis on the analytical financial management of firms.
Small teams of students work in consultation with a faculty member to finalize scope, plan, and execute a project for an organization to deliver value to them.
The objective of this course is to define how a business manager can work with an IS professional to articulate the value of an IT solution (project).
The above listing represents the required courses for an Eller MBA student. Electives are also part of the degree and are often taken in groups in the form of a concentration or focus area. It is not necessary, however, to declare a concentration or focus area; one may take electives according to his/her interests.
Please note that the current concentrations and offerings are changed from time to time to be relevant to industry demand and changing conditions.
For additional information, please contact us.
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