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)
  • Managerial Accounting (3)
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.

  • Ethics & Social Responsibility (1)
  • Operations Management (3)
  • Economics for Managers (3)
  • Operations Research II (3)
  • Elective (3)
  • Production Planning and Control (3)
  • Healthcare Operations Management (3)
  • Introduction to Quality and Productivity (4)
  • Planning for New Services and Products (3)
  • Strategic Breakthrough Management and Quality Planning (3)
  • Seminar in OTM (Lean and Cell-Based Work Organizations) (3)
  • Analysis and Design of Computer-Based Systems (3)
  • ERP: Advanced Configuration and Process Integration (3)
  • Valuation and Corporate Investment Decisions (3)
  • Marketing Research (3)
  • Strategic Global Sourcing (3)
  • Marketing Channels (3)
  • Seminar in Supply Chain Management (3)
  • Enterprise Systems and Supply Chain Management (3)
  • New Product Development (3)
  • Sustainability, Environment, and Social Risk Management (3)
  • Systems Thinking and Sustainable Business (3)
  • Strategic Management of Innovation (3)
  • Technology Entrepreneurship (3)
  • Patient Safety and Error Reduction in Health Care (3)
  • Health Information Systems (3)
  • Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems (3)
  • E-Business Transformation: Design, Analysis, and Justification (3)
  • RFID, Bar Code, and Other Data Capture Technologies (3)
  • Technology Implementation Strategies (3)
  • Assessment of Medical Technologies (3)
  • Financial Statement Analysis (Requires Instructor Permission) (3)
  • Strategic Cost Management (3)
  • Global Marketing Strategy (3)
  • Investment Theory and Practice (sub for FIN 721) (3)
  • Corporation Finance Theory and Practice (3)
  • Corporate Finance Decisions (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
  • Multinational Business Finance (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Management (3)
  • Bargaining, Negotiating, and Dispute Settlement for Managers (3)
  • Venture Creation (3)
  • Healthcare Economics (3)
  • Health Systems, Management and Policies (3)
  • Consumer Issues in Healthcare (3)
  • Economics of Healthcare (3)
  • Health Systems Engineering (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)
  • Managing Technological and Organizational Change (3)
  • Elective (3)
  • Operations Research I (3)
  • Service Operations Management (3)
  • Database Management and Applications (3)
  • Quality and Productivity Improvement (3)
  • Computer-Based Data Management (3)
  • Information Security Management (3)
  • ERP: Business Intelligence (3)
  • ERP: Business Process Configuration (3)
  • Marketing Research (3)
  • Logistics Management (3)
  • Emerging Issues in New Product Development (3)
  • Engineering Management of Continuous Process Improvement (3)
  • E-Business: Technologies, Strategies and Applications (3)
  • Sustainability, Environment, and Social Risk Management (3)
  • Environmental Strategy and Sustainability (3)
  • Financial Statement Analysis (Requires Instructor Permission) (3)
  • Strategic Cost Management and Performance Measurement (3)
  • Global Marketing Strategy (3)
  • Investment Theory and Practice (sub for FIN 721) (3)
  • Corporation Finance Theory and Practice (3)
  • Corporate Finance Decisions (3)
  • Multinational Business Finance (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Management (3)
  • Bargaining, Negotiating, and Dispute Settlement for Managers (3)
  • Venture Creation (3)
  • Healthcare Economics (3)
  • Health Systems, Management and Policies (3)
  • Consumer Issues in Healthcare (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.

  • Choose 9 Credits from Electives (9)
  • Elective (3)
  • Production Planning and Control (3)
  • Healthcare Operations Management (3)
  • Introduction to Quality and Productivity (4)
  • Planning for New Services and Products (3)
  • Strategic Breakthrough Management and Quality Planning (3)
  • Seminar in OTM (Lean and Cell-Based Work Organizations) (3)
  • Analysis and Design of Computer-Based Systems (3)
  • ERP: Advanced Configuration and Process Integration (3)
  • Valuation and Corporate Investment Decisions (3)
  • Marketing Research (3)
  • Strategic Global Sourcing (3)
  • Marketing Channels (3)
  • Seminar in Supply Chain Management (3)
  • Enterprise Systems and Supply Chain Management (3)
  • New Product Development (3)
  • Sustainability, Environment, and Social Risk Management (3)
  • Systems Thinking and Sustainable Business (3)
  • Strategic Management of Innovation (3)
  • Technology Entrepreneurship (3)
  • Patient Safety and Error Reduction in Health Care (3)
  • Health Information Systems (3)
  • Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems (3)
  • E-Business Transformation: Design, Analysis, and Justification (3)
  • RFID, Bar Code, and Other Data Capture Technologies (3)
  • Assessment of Medical Technologies (3)
  • Financial Statement Analysis (Requires Instructor Permission) (3)
  • Strategic Cost Management (3)
  • Global Marketing Strategy (3)
  • Investment Theory and Practice (sub for FIN 721) (3)
  • Corporation Finance Theory and Practice (3)
  • Corporate Finance Decisions (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
  • Multinational Business Finance (3)
  • Entrepreneurial Management (3)
  • Bargaining, Negotiating, and Dispute Settlement for Managers (3)
  • Venture Creation (3)
  • Healthcare Economics (3)
  • Health Systems, Management and Policies (3)
  • Consumer Issues in Healthcare (3)
  • Health Systems Engineering (3)
  • Technology Implementation Strategies (3)

OTM Electives: Students must choose three to five electives from the lists provided, of which at least one must be an OTM or OTM cross-listed course. The four OTM electives can be taken during any of the last three semesters.