Curriculum

MBA Experience
Year One
International 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.

Students have the opportunity to obtain international business experience during student-planned and led study tours. These tours include meetings with senior business executives, government leaders, and educators in key business locations around the world.

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)
  • Current Topics: Corporate Finance (1)
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Spring Semester

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

  • Ethics & Social Responsibility (1)
  • Operations Management (3)
  • Valuation and Corporate Investment (3)
  • Corporate Financing Decisions (3)
  • Current Topics: Corporate Finance (1)
  • Elective (3)
  • Advanced Financial Reporting (3)
  • Advanced Derivative Securities (3)
  • Bargaining, Negotiating, and Dispute Settlement for Managers (3)
  • Brand Strategy (3)
  • Consumer Behavior (3)
  • Fixed Income (3)
  • Fixed Income and Derivative Securities (3)
  • Financial Statement Analysis (3)
  • Financial Reporting I (3)
  • Financial Reporting II (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Management (3)
  • Developing New Products (3)
  • Global Marketing Strategy (3)
  • Logistics Management (3)
  • Marketing Channels (3)
  • Marketing Research (3)
  • Multinational Business Finance (3)
  • International Operations (Problems & Administration) (3)
  • Strategic Global Sourcing (3)
  • Security Analysis (3)
  • Risk Management (3)
  • Real Estate Finance (3)
  • Venture Creation Business Plan Development (3)
  • Quality and Productivity Improvement (3)
  • Managerial Consulting (3)
  • Managing Technological and Organizational Change (3)
  • Managing the Legal Environment (3)
  • Liability Risk Management (3)
  • Environmental Strategy and Sustainability (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Growth Strategies (3)
  • E-Business: Technologies, Strategies and Applications (3)
  • Commercial Real Estate Finance (3)
  • Investment Theory and Practice (sub for FIN 721) (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
  • Seminar in Supply Chain Management (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)
  • Market for Corporate Control (3)
  • Applied Corporate Finance I (4)
  • Elective (3)
  • Advanced Financial Reporting (3)
  • Advanced Derivative Securities (3)
  • Bargaining, Negotiating, and Dispute Settlement for Managers (3)
  • Brand Strategy (3)
  • Consumer Behavior (3)
  • Fixed Income (3)
  • Fixed Income and Derivative Securities (3)
  • Financial Statement Analysis (3)
  • Financial Reporting I (3)
  • Financial Reporting II (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Management (3)
  • Developing New Products (3)
  • Global Marketing Strategy (3)
  • Logistics Management (3)
  • Marketing Channels (3)
  • Marketing Research (3)
  • Multinational Business Finance (3)
  • International Operations (Problems & Administration) (3)
  • Strategic Global Sourcing (3)
  • Security Analysis (3)
  • Risk Management (3)
  • Real Estate Finance (3)
  • Venture Creation Business Plan Development (3)
  • Quality and Productivity Improvement (3)
  • Managerial Consulting (3)
  • Managing Technological and Organizational Change (3)
  • Managing the Legal Environment (3)
  • Liability Risk Management (3)
  • Environmental Strategy and Sustainability (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Growth Strategies (3)
  • E-Business: Technologies, Strategies and Applications (3)
  • Commercial Real Estate Finance (3)
  • Investment Theory and Practice (sub for FIN 721) (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
  • Seminar in Supply Chain Management (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.

  • Applied Corporate Finance II (5)
  • Financial Policy (3)
  • Elective (3)
  • Advanced Financial Reporting (3)
  • Advanced Derivative Securities (3)
  • Bargaining, Negotiating, and Dispute Settlement for Managers (3)
  • Brand Strategy (3)
  • Consumer Behavior (3)
  • Fixed Income (3)
  • Fixed Income and Derivative Securities (3)
  • Financial Statement Analysis (3)
  • Financial Reporting I (3)
  • Financial Reporting II (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Management (3)
  • Developing New Products (3)
  • Global Marketing Strategy (3)
  • Logistics Management (3)
  • Marketing Channels (3)
  • Marketing Research (3)
  • Multinational Business Finance (3)
  • International Operations (Problems & Administration) (3)
  • Strategic Global Sourcing (3)
  • Security Analysis (3)
  • Risk Management (3)
  • Real Estate Finance (3)
  • Venture Creation Business Plan Development (3)
  • Quality and Productivity Improvement (3)
  • Managerial Consulting (3)
  • Managing Technological and Organizational Change (3)
  • Managing the Legal Environment (3)
  • Liability Risk Management (3)
  • Environmental Strategy and Sustainability (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Growth Strategies (3)
  • E-Business: Technologies, Strategies and Applications (3)
  • Commercial Real Estate Finance (3)