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Curriculum

MBA Experience
Year One
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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.
“We totally reengineered our MBA to allow us to recruit the best students, deliver a superior experience, and provide the best career opportunities possible. The results have exceeded our expectations.” Mike Knetter, Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business 2002-2010
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 your 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.

Spring Semester

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

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.

  • Elective (3)
Global Business Trips are an important component of the Wisconsin MBA, providing students the chance to experience different cultures and meet with business executives, strategists and government leaders around the world. Learn More.
Global Business Trips are an important component of the Wisconsin MBA, providing students the chance to experience different cultures and meet with business executives, strategists and government leaders around the world. Learn More.
Global Business Trips are an important component of the Wisconsin MBA, providing students the chance to experience different cultures and meet with business executives, strategists and government leaders around the world. Learn More.
Global Business Trips are an important component of the Wisconsin MBA, providing students the chance to experience different cultures and meet with business executives, strategists and government leaders around the world. Learn More.
Global Business Trips are an important component of the Wisconsin MBA, providing students the chance to experience different cultures and meet with business executives, strategists and government leaders around the world. Learn More.
Global Business Trips are an important component of the Wisconsin MBA, providing students the chance to experience different cultures and meet with business executives, strategists and government leaders around the world. Learn More.
Global Business Trips are an important component of the Wisconsin MBA, providing students the chance to experience different cultures and meet with business executives, strategists and government leaders around the world. Learn More.
Global Business Trips are an important component of the Wisconsin MBA, providing students the chance to experience different cultures and meet with business executives, strategists and government leaders around the world. Learn More.
Global Business Trips are an important component of the Wisconsin MBA, providing students the chance to experience different cultures and meet with business executives, strategists and government leaders around the world. Learn more.
During winter break, first-year students have the opportunity to travel to several firms in New York and Boston to talk with analysts and portfolio managers. Learn more.
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.

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.

Students are also eligible to obtain the following certificates:
Certificate in Business, Environment and Social Responsibility
Certificate in Entrepreneurship | Certificate in Strategic Innovation

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