Curriculum

MBA Experience
Year One
Investment Trip
Year Two
The seven-day Wisconsin MBA Experience can’t be missed (and we mean that literally). As an entering student, you will find the Wisconsin MBA Experience provides an opportunity to get acclimated to the program through a series of interactive sessions.
You take core courses as a cohort, developing camaraderie and working on cross-functional team projects. This first year also includes at least three courses in your career specialization.

One of the most effective ways our students learn about the differing cultures and investment processes used in the industry is by visiting firms and talking to their analysts and/or portfolio managers each winter break. Learn more >>  

Preceding Year Two, students have the opportunity to complete a Summer Internship. Students who are placed in summer internships at various companies across the country have the chance to apply what they've learned in the first year at Wisconsin and grow on the job.

Your classmates will be a wonderful part of yor two years at UW-Madison. Important professional networks will form during these two years, as will many strong and life-long friendships. Launch Video

Fall Semester

Your first semester focuses on the functional areas of accounting, finance, marketing and data analysis and decision making.

  • Financial Accounting (3)
  • Intro to Financial Management (3)
  • Marketing Management (3)
  • Data Analysis & Decision Making (3)
  • Economics for Managers (3)
  • Intro to Applied Security Analysis (2)
Overview

In the first semester of your first year in the program, our general business core delivers a coordinated, integrated perspective on key functional areas of business.

Your second semester addresses fundamental management principles, stressing application of these principles to functional areas.

Spring Semester

Your second semester includes critical managerial tools: economics, operations, and ethics and leadership.

  • Operations Management (3)
  • Ethics & Social Responsibility (1)
  • Security Analysis (3)
  • Investment Theory and Applications (3)
  • Fixed Income (3)
  • Intro to Applied Portfolio Management (2)
  • Elective (3)
  • Elective (3)
  • Bank Management (3)
  • Multinational Business Finance (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
  • Financial Reporting I (3)
  • Financial Reporting II (3)
  • Advanced Financial Reporting (3)
  • Managerial Accounting (3)
  • Financial Statement Analysis (3)
  • Analysis of Financial Reports (3)
  • Acct Intern and Practice Research (3)
  • Advanced Mgmt Control and Cost Accounting (3)
  • Audit and Assurance Services (3)
  • Audit and Control Computer Info Systems (3)
  • Auditing (3)
  • Fundamentals of Taxation (3)
  • Income Tax Accounting I (3)
  • Prof Practice Issues in Acct Auditing (3)
  • Info Tech Risk and Assurance Services (3)
  • Partnership Tax Issues (3)
  • Taxation of Pass-Through Entities (3)
  • Contemporary Topics-Accounting (3)
  • Seminar in Strategic Cost Mgmt Perf Measurement (3)
  • Reading and Research-Accounting (3)
  • Seminar in Accounting Research (3)

Business is not transacted in a vacuum and the need for developing a global perspective is becoming increasingly valuable. The Wisconsin MBA is committed to helping you prepare to work in a global economy.

Fall Semester

Your third semester is focused on your career specialization, and most of your course work and applied projects will be done with others who have chosen your field of study.

  • Business Strategy (3)
  • Applied Security Analysis and Portfolio Management I (5)
  • Elective (3)
  • Bank Management (3)
  • Multinational Business Finance (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
  • Financial Reporting I (3)
  • Financial Reporting II (3)
  • Advanced Financial Reporting (3)
  • Managerial Accounting (3)
  • Financial Statement Analysis (3)
  • Analysis of Financial Reports (3)
  • Acct Intern and Practice Research (3)
  • Advanced Mgmt Control and Cost Accounting (3)
  • Audit and Assurance Services (3)
  • Audit and Control Computer Info Systems (3)
  • Auditing (3)
  • Fundamentals of Taxation (3)
  • Income Tax Accounting I (3)
  • Prof Practice Issues in Acct Auditing (3)
  • Info Tech Risk and Assurance Services (3)
  • Partnership Tax Issues (3)
  • Taxation of Pass-Through Entities (3)
  • Contemporary Topics-Accounting (3)
  • Seminar in Strategic Cost Mgmt Perf Measurement (3)
  • Reading and Research-Accounting (3)
  • Seminar in Accounting Research (3)
Spring Semester

In your fourth semester you will take up to five classes which include significant participation in applied projects with others of your chosen specialization, designed to enhance real-world learning opportunities.

  • Security Analysis and Inv Mgmt II (4)
  • Elective (3)
  • Bank Management (3)
  • Multinational Business Finance (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
  • Financial Reporting I (3)
  • Financial Reporting II (3)
  • Advanced Financial Reporting (3)
  • Managerial Accounting (3)
  • Financial Statement Analysis (3)
  • Analysis of Financial Reports (3)
  • Acct Intern and Practice Research (3)
  • Advanced Mgmt Control and Cost Accounting (3)
  • Audit and Assurance Services (3)
  • Audit and Control Computer Info Systems (3)
  • Auditing (3)
  • Fundamentals of Taxation (3)
  • Income Tax Accounting I (3)
  • Prof Practice Issues in Acct Auditing (3)
  • Info Tech Risk and Assurance Services (3)
  • Partnership Tax Issues (3)
  • Taxation of Pass-Through Entities (3)
  • Contemporary Topics-Accounting (3)
  • Seminar in Strategic Cost Mgmt Perf Measurement (3)
  • Reading and Research-Accounting (3)
  • Seminar in Accounting Research (3)

ASAP Career Specialization courses must be completed in the semester listed on the course grid. Any FIN (233) course at 600 or higher level; or FIN 410, 445 or 457; or any ACCT (232) course at the 600 level or higher can be used to satisfy these required electives. Other courses must be approved by the ASAP academic director.