Flex MBA Curriculum Overview

The core curriculum builds essential business knowledge across key functional areas, including strategy, finance, marketing, analytics, operations, and leadership. These courses focus on how organizations make decisions, compete in dynamic markets, and lead people effectively.

Core courses are designed to be immediately applicable to your work, emphasizing real-world problem solving, collaboration, and modern business practices.

Electives give you the flexibility to personalize your MBA around your interests and professional objectives. You can use electives to deepen expertise in a specific area, broaden your skill set across disciplines, or explore emerging topics shaping today’s business environment.

Elective courses are offered in a mix of online and on-campus formats, allowing you to choose options that fit your schedule and learning preferences.

Build the skills to develop, position, and grow products and brands in competitive markets. This specialization emphasizes customer insight, innovation, and strategic decision-making across the product lifecycle.

Course examples may include: Marketing Strategy, Digital Marketing, Creating & Managing Innovative New Products, Consumer Behavior.

Develop advanced financial expertise to support strategic investment and growth decisions. This specialization prepares you to evaluate value, manage risk, and guide financial strategy in complex organizations.

Course examples may include: Advanced Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, and Behavioral Finance.

Learn how to use data to drive better business decisions. This specialization focuses on translating analytics into insights that inform strategy, operations, and organizational performance.

Course examples may include: Database Design & SQL, Data Visualization for Business Insights, Machine Learning Tools for Prediction, Prescriptive Analytics.

Explore how technology is reshaping financial services and corporate finance. This specialization focuses on digital innovation, data-driven finance, and emerging technologies transforming the financial landscape.

Course examples may include: Financial Technology in the Digital World, AI-Driven Finance, Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies, and Data Analysis for Investments.

Strengthen your ability to lead teams, influence stakeholders, and navigate organizational dynamics. This specialization emphasizes self-awareness, ethical decision-making, and leading change.

Course examples may include: Power & Politics in Organizations, Negotiation, Leading Change, and Leadership Competence.

Develop the analytical skills needed to measure, optimize, and improve marketing performance. This specialization focuses on using data to understand customers, evaluate campaigns, and inform marketing strategy.

Course examples may include: Customer Analytics, Marketing Metrics, Analytics-Driven Brand Management, A/B Testing in Business.

Build the skills to analyze industries, assess competitive dynamics, and guide organizational direction. This specialization prepares you to think critically about strategy at the business and enterprise level.

Course examples may include: Corporate Strategy, Consulting Business Models & Value Capture, Competitive Industry Analysis, Business, Government & Society.

Students who choose the in-person format attend live classes on campus twice each week, meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:15–9:15 p.m. Core courses meet weekly on alternating evenings, creating a consistent, face-to-face classroom experience with minimal asynchronous coursework.

Students in the hybrid or online formats complete most coursework asynchronously and participate in eight scheduled live class sessions during the term. These live sessions take place on Tuesdays from 6:00–9:15 p.m. and are designed to support discussion, collaboration, and applied learning — either online or on campus, depending on the format.