STEM MBACurriculum

In Weatherhead School of Management's full-time STEM MBA program, our curriculum is designed to prepare skilled data leaders for the challenges of today and tomorrow’s constantly evolving business world. Our program offers smaller class sizes that encourage one-on-one interaction with our faculty—academic pioneers and industry leaders who excel in teaching as well as research.

As a student in this four-semester, 60-credit-hour, full-time STEM MBA program, you’ll create a personalized learning plan with distinctive concentrations—choosing electives that comprise half of the program of study to complement our core MBA curriculum. Your learning experience will be rooted in the foundational management principles necessary to lead with confidence, paired with a four-course concentration in your area of interest. We offer four concentrations:

• Finance
• FinTech (New for the fall 2023 semester)
• Operations
• Business Analytics

Combined, our curriculum provides you with the skills you need to establish you as a distinctive, confident candidate ready to succeed on the job upon graduation.

Sample Curriculum

Year One

Fall Semester (15.5 credit hours)

• MBAC 502 - Financial Accountancy (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 504 - Corporate Finance I (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 506 - Marketing and Supply Chain Management (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 511 - Statistics & Decision Modeling (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 515 - Leading People and Organizations (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 501-B - Career & Professional Development (.5 credit hours)

Spring Semester (15 credit hours)

• MBAC 505 - Corporate Finance II (1.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 507 - Operations and Supply Chain Management (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 503 - Managerial Accounting (1.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 512 - Economics (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 518 - Business Analytics (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 508 - Strategic Issues & its Applications (3 credit hours)

Year Two

Fall Semester (14 credit hours)

• MBAC 501-A - Design Thinking in Management (1 credit hour)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• Open Elective (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 501-C - Business as an Agent for World Benefit (1 credit hour)

Spring Semester (15.5 credit hours)

• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 501-D - Career & Professional Development (.5 credit hours) 

Total program hours: 60