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 three concentrations:

• Finance
• 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 (17 credit hours)

• MBAC 499 - Intro to Learning Skills (0 credit hours)
• MBAC 500 - STEM Core 1 - Probability, Statistics, and Quantitative Methods (1.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 501B - Career & Professional Development (.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 502 - Financial Accountancy (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 504 - Corporate Finance I (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 506 - Marketing Management (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 508A - Strategic Issues & Applications (1.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 511 - STEM Core 2 - Statistics & Decision Modeling (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 515A - Leading People and Organizations (LEAD) (1.5 credit hours)

Spring Semester (15 credit hours)

• MBAC 503 - Managerial Accounting (1.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 505 - Corporate Finance II (1.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 507 - Operations and Supply Chain Management (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 508B - Strategic Issues & Applications (1.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 512 - Economics (3 credit hours)
• MBAC 515B - Leading People and Organizations (LEAD) (1.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 518 - STEM Core 3 - Business Analytics & AI  (3 credit hours)

Year Two

Fall Semester (13.5 credit hours)

• MBAC 501D - Career & Professional Development II (.5 credit hours)
• MBAC 501C - Sustainable Value Innovation I (1 credit hour)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)

Spring Semester (14.5 credit hours)

• MBAC 501C - Sustainable Value Innovation II (1 credit hour)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (3 credit hours)
• STEM-Approved Elective (1.5 credit hours)
• Non-STEM Elective (3 credit hours)

Total program hours: 60