Full-time Core
Each full-time MBA class is comprised of approximately 100 exceptional individuals. Because we expect students to learn as much from one another as from the faculty, we carefully select women and men who represent a disparate range of backgrounds and accomplishments. While each class is diverse, our students are united through their desire for accelerated learning, personal growth, and professional advancement.
Students are assigned to cohorts of 50 classmates, with whom they take the modules and courses in the required curriculum. Experiential learning projects are required in both the first and second years. Within our renowned Consulting Project (year one) and Business Plan Project (year two), faculty and staff compose four or five-member teams to achieve a complementary mix of experience and capabilities.
First Year
Management Practice I & II
Professional Perspectives & Leading and Acting in Organizations
From their first day, students are immersed in the Carroll School’s unique learning culture. A sense of community emerges through a series of personal introductions, information sessions, and workshops, followed by exhilarating team-building exercises. Students soon acquire a common business vocabulary and internalize concepts that will inform their learning throughout the year.
Courses begin with an examination of the ethical and legal responsibilities of leadership and an introduction to the ways effective managers add value in their organizations. In the ensuing weeks and months, students build a broad foundation of business knowledge and capabilities. Modules and courses focus on underlying economic theories and frameworks, key internal roles and functions, the elements of competitive strategy, challenges presented by the human side of enterprise, and the critical components of financial analysis and decision making.
As the focus moves to external considerations, the second semester includes an examination of the complex demands of managing in a changing global environment. To complete their first-year course work, students choose four specialization electives to add depth to their understanding of their chosen discipline as well as participating in the Consulting Project.
Second Year
Management Practice III & IV
Business Plan Project & Managing in a Changing World
Students strengthen their foundation of essential skills in these modules, while furthering their understanding of strategy, the critical role of information systems, and the challenges of managing in a global economy. In addition, they continue to choose three additional specialization elective courses from among a broad range of offerings to pursue individual interests and add depth to an area of knowledge or expertise. Students also participate in the Business Plan Project during the second year.
Students attend Management Practice module sessions once a week. Elective courses are taught in the late afternoon and evening, and full-time students take their electives with Evening Program students whose participation adds a wider range of knowledge and experience to class discussions and projects. Additional electives are taught on Saturdays
