Forge Your Own Path
Swing for the fences—we’ve got your back. We offer more than 100 elective MBA classes that are designed to spark your curiosity, inspire you to think big, and prepare you to lead.
Forge Your Own Path
MBA Curriculum
Analytical. Data-driven. Rooted in business fundamentals.
Markets change. The fundamentals of business do not.
That’s why we believe in a multidisciplinary approach to an MBA education. Our empowering curriculum is also rooted in the fundamentals of business: accounting, economics, psychology, sociology, and statistics. We've designed it for leaders in any career, in every industry, anywhere in the world.
By gaining a firm grounding in these disciplinary areas, you’ll graduate with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to lead when facing ambiguity, solve any business problem you face, and bring your boldest ideas to life.
The Executive MBA Curriculum
All of our MBA programs offer the same transformative education. Executive MBA students go through the program together in a logical progression that prepares them to generate new business insights and create game-changing action in the workplace.
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Flexible Curriculum.
The World’s Best Faculty.
A Winning Combination.
The Booth MBA gives you the freedom to tailor your Full-Time MBA or Evening MBA and Weekend MBA courses to fit your experience, interests, and career goals. With the world’s best faculty, whichever direction you take, you’ll emerge transformed.
Expand Your Options
As a Full-Time MBA, Evening MBA, or Weekend MBA student, you can choose to take courses across Booth programs, and in other areas across the University of Chicago.
Expand Your Options
Learn from—and with—the Best
Our faculty have the freedom to develop new, innovative courses and to teach their classes in the style they want. No matter which MBA program you choose, you’ll learn from the same world-class faculty alongside classmates who will challenge you to excel.
Learn from—and with—the Best
Engage in Lifelong Learning
You may also take up to 300 units of credit for free after graduation. As you are promoted or change careers, these courses allow you to brush up on a topic that interests you.
Engage in Lifelong Learning
“At Chicago Booth, we teach students how to think. How to deal with ambiguity. How to reason. How to make decisions and implement them. How to bring others along, and guide organizations to better outcomes. In short, we teach them how to become leaders.”
—Madhav Rajan, Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Accounting
We Are the Destination for Leadership Development
Leadership development is woven throughout your Booth experience. Our flexible curriculum empowers you to make your own choices and navigate your own path, while courses and experiences build your problem-solving and leadership skills. It’s an approach that prepares you to make bold decisions and lead with confidence.
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As leadership education has transformed, Booth has been at the forefront, driving new ways of thinking about and teaching tomorrow’s leaders.
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Learn to Lead
Prepare to guide people and organizations to better outcomes. Your growth as a leader is central to your Chicago Booth MBA experience.
Learn to LeadOur MBA Curriculum
Here’s how the curriculum comes together for Full-Time MBA, Evening MBA, and Weekend MBA students. The Executive MBA Program follows the same curriculum but in a slightly different format.
LEAD
Begin your MBA journey with LEAD, a hands-on, experiential program designed to build your skills in negotiation, team building, interpersonal communication, and other key management areas. LEAD is the only required component in our curriculum.
Qualified Work Experience
To complement your MBA journey, Full-Time MBA students participate in a hands-on, professional internship experience designed to put your skills into action in a work setting.
Foundations: Three Foundation Areas
Choose one course from each category, selecting the options that best complement your previous education and professional experience.
Basic Courses
Financial Accounting
Advanced Alternatives
Accounting & Financial Analysis
Accounting, Economic, and Regulatory Issues in Complex Deals
Deal Structuring and Financial Reporting Implications
Financial Statement Analysis
Advanced Financial Analysis and Valuation for Global Firms
Basic Courses
Microeconomics
Accelerated Microeconomics
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis
Advanced Alternatives
Price Theory I
Price Theory II
Basic Courses
Business Statistics
Applied Regression Analysis
Advanced Alternatives
Big Data
Financial Econometrics
Decoding FinTech
Statistical Insight into Marketing, Consulting & Entrepreneurship
Machine Learning
Any PhD-level course
Functions, Leadership & Management, and the Business Environment: Seven Courses
A great deal of flexibility exists under this grouping of courses. Here, you’ll choose from among basic and advanced courses, building your MBA tool kit with courses in business functions, management, and the business environment in which firms operate. Choose one course from seven of the following eight categories:
Functions
Basic Courses
Investments
Introductory Finance
Corporation Finance
Approved Substitutes
Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
Asset Pricing I
Asset Pricing II
Corporate Finance I
Corporate Finance II
Financial Instruments
Portfolio Management
Fixed Income Asset Pricing
Advanced Investments
Cases in Financial Management
International Corporate Finance
Debt, Distress, and Restructuring
Basic Courses
Marketing Strategy or
Marketing Strategy (with Sustainability Simulation)
Approved Substitutes
Consumer Behavior
Data-Driven Marketing
Data Science for Marketing Decision Making
Experimental Marketing
New Products and Services
Lab in Developing New Products and Services
Pricing Strategies
Brand Management in a Digital Age
Digital Marketing
Digital Marketing Lab
Basic Courses
Operations Management
Approved Substitutes
Supply Chain Strategy and Practice
Revenue Management
Managing Service Operations
Basic Courses
Strategy and Structure: Markets and Organizations
Competitive Strategy
Approved Substitutes
Technology Strategy
Game Theory
Platform Competition
Industry Analysis
Strategy Simulation: Creating Value in Complex and Ambiguous Settings
Leadership & Management
Basic Courses
Cost Analysis and Internal Controls
Managerial Decision Modeling
Managerial Decision Making
Approved Substitutes
Advanced Decision Models with Python
Basic Courses
Managing the Workplace
Managing in Organizations
Power and Influence
Approved Substitutes
Leadership Studio
Diversity in Organizations
Business Environment
Basic Courses
Macroeconomics and the Business Environment
Business in Historical Perspective
Approved Substitutes
Money and Banking
International Commercial Policy
International Financial Policy
Managing the Firm in the Global Economy
The Wealth of Nations
Basic Courses
The Firm and the Non-Market Environment
Business, Politics, and Ethics
Designing a Good Life
Approved Substitutes
Perspectives on Capitalism
Impact Investing
Social Enterprise and Innovation
The Ethics of Business
The Legal Infrastructure of Business
Electives: 10 Courses
Electives give you the chance to delve further into specific areas of interest. You’ll have maximum flexibility in choosing your 10 electives: focus them in specific disciplines and work toward concentrations in those areas, or choose broadly across the Booth curriculum and even the university, including the University of Chicago Law School and Harris School of Public Policy. You can take up to six courses outside Booth.
Algorithmic Marketing Lab
Application Development
Art + Business Lab
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Social Impact Practicum
Digital Marketing Lab
Entrepreneurial Discovery
Hacking for Defense
Healthcare Analytics Lab
Interpersonal Dynamics
Lab in Developing New Products and Services
Lab to Launch
Leadership Effectiveness and Development (LEAD) Lab
Leadership Lab
Leadership Practicum
Leadership Studio
New Social Ventures
Private Equity/Venture Capital Lab
Real Estate Lab: Real Estate Challenge
Reputation, Regulation and Communications – How Media Influences Business - Lab
Social Impact Lab
Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Developing a New Venture (New Venture Challenge)
Strategy Simulation: Creating Value in Complex and Ambiguous Settings
Accounting and Financial Analysis
Accounting for Entrepreneurship: From Start-Up through IPO
Accounting, Economic, and Regulatory Issues in Complex Deals
Advanced Decision Models with Python
Advanced Financial Analysis and Valuation for Global Firms
Advanced Investments
Advanced Models of Option Pricing and Credit Risk
Advanced Negotiations
Application Development II
Artificial Intelligence
Arts Leadership: Exemplary is Not Enough
Behavioral and Institutional Finance
Behavioral Finance
Big Data
Big Problems
Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Web3
Brand Management in a Digital Age
Building the New Venture
Business in Historical Perspective
Cases in Financial Risk Management
Chinese Economy and Financial Markets
Commercializing Innovation: Tools to Research and Analyze Private Enterprises
Consumer Behavior
Consumer Finance
Corporate Governance
Crony Capitalism
Culture (and Why it Matters)
Data Analysis with Python and SQL
Data Analysis with R and Python
Data Science for Marketing Decision Making
Data-Driven Marketing
Deal Structuring and Financial Reporting Implications
Debt, Distress, and Restructuring
Decoding FinTech
Designing a Good Life
Digital and Algorithmic Marketing
Digital Marketing
Diversity in Organizations
Effective Management of Groups and Teams
Emerging Markets Finance and Entrepreneurship
Employment Law for Entrepreneurs and Managers
Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
Entrepreneurial Selling
Entrepreneurship in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Entrepreneurship through Acquisition
Ethics of Business
Experimental Marketing
Financial Econometrics
Financial Instruments
Financial Markets and Institutions
Financial Statement Analysis
The FinTech Revolution
Fixed Income Asset Pricing
Futures, Forwards, Options & Swaps: Theory and Practice
Game Theory
Global Health and Social Policy
Health Economics
Healthcare Business Analytics
Impact Investing
Industry Analysis
Innovation Leadership
Institutional Private Capital Investing
International Commercial Policy
International Corporate Finance
International Financial Policy
Leadership Capital
Leadership in the Emerging Ecosystem Economy
Leading and Managing Teams
The Legal Infrastructure of Business
Life Sciences: Innovation and Finance
Machine Learning
Management, Unions and Collective Bargaining
Managing Service Operations
Managing the Firm in the Global Economy
Marketing Strategy (with Sustainability Simulation)
Merger & Acquisition Strategy
Money and Banking
Navigating the ESG Landscape: Information, Sustainability Reporting, and Analysis
New Products and Services
New Venture Strategy
New Venture Tech
Outperform & Outlast: Operating and Investing in Closely Held Businesses
Perspectives on Capitalism
Persuasion II: Influence Through Narrative
Persuasion: Effective Business Communication
Pivot for Success – Hone the Vision, Shift the Strategy, Make the Right Moves in Today’s Marketplace
Platform Competition
The Political Economy of Climate Change
Portfolio Management
Pricing Strategies
Private Equity Transactions
Project Management
Quantitative Portfolio Management
Real Estate and Equity: Leveling the Playing Field
Real Estate Investments I
Real Estate Investments II
Reputation, Regulation and Communications – How Media Influences Business
Revenue Management
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Social Sector Strategy and Structure
Statistical Insight into Marketing, Consulting, and Entrepreneurship
Storytelling and Narratives in Business
Strategies and Processes of Negotiation
The Study of Behavioral Economics
Supply Chain Strategy and Practice
Taxes and Business Strategy
Technology Strategy
The Wealth of Nations
Winning Writing
Women as Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, Private Equity Executives, Investors and Board Members
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MBA Career Paths
A Booth MBA gives you the flexibility to tailor your studies to meet your specific career goals.
MBA Career Paths
Customize Your MBA
Choose from 14 concentrations and develop a deeper knowledge in the areas of business that most interest you. Some of our concentrations are STEM eligible.
Customize Your MBA
Explore the Classroom Experience
At Booth, you’ll engage in spirited debate and take an active role in the classroom. Learn more about our immersive classroom experience.
Explore the Classroom ExperienceSTEM Eligibility
The Chicago Booth MBA degree is designated STEM-eligible for Optional Practical Training (OPT) purposes. International graduates on F-1 student visas who earn a Chicago Booth MBA may be eligible to apply for an additional 24 months of training through work experience.
Explore Our MBA Programs
Full-Time MBA Program
The Full-Time MBA Program provides you with freedom: academic freedom, freedom to take risks, and freedom to define your impact in the world.
Full-Time MBA Program
Part-Time MBA Programs
Our top-ranked Evening MBA and Weekend MBA Programs accommodate the schedules and lifestyles of working, goal-oriented professionals.
Part-Time MBA Programs
Executive MBA Program
To gain a global perspective, you need an MBA from a global school. Earn an MBA from Booth in Chicago, London, or Hong Kong without interrupting your career.
Executive MBA Program
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