Integrated Master’s Degree Program
The Tepper School of Business offers an integrated Master of Business Administration (MBA) to CMU undergraduate students completing either a Business Administration major or an additional major in Business Administration.
This program represents a considerable savings in cost and time. Students attain further breadth and/or depth of knowledge in their area of study, broadening their post-graduation career opportunities.
Graduate Curriculum Map for 3-1-1 BSBA/MBA
Mini 1
- 45-740 Managing People & Teams
- 45-790 Management Presentations
- 70-447 Client Consulting Project: Strategic Management of the Enterprise
Undergraduate Business course
Mini 2
- 45-770 Corporate Strategy
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 70-447 Client Consulting Project: Strategic Management of the Enterprise
Undergraduate Business course
Mini 3
- 45-701 Financial and Managerial Accounting II
- 45-752 Statistical Decision Making
- Undergraduate Business course
- Undergraduate Business course
Mini 4
- 45-741 Managing Networks and Organizations
- 45-711 Global Economics
- Undergraduate Business course
- Undergraduate Business course
Mini 1
- 45-745 Ethics and Leadership
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
Mini 2
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
Mini 3
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- MBA Capstone
Mini 4
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- 45-XXX MBA Elective
- MBA Capstone
Program Requirements & Application Process
If you are interested in the 3-1-1 program, we recommend that you complete the following steps:
- You must have applicable work or internship experience
- Earn a "B" or higher in the following courses:
- 70-257: Optimization for Business; or 21-257: Models & Methods for Optimization; or 21-292: Operations Research I
- 73-102: Principles of Microeconomics
- 70-122: Introduction to Accounting
- 70-371: Operations Management
- 70-381: Marketing I
- 70-391: Finance
- Apply and be admitted to the Tepper MBA program during your junior year.
- It is preferred that 3-1-1 candidates apply in Round 2. However, we will also accept applications in Rounds 3 and 4.
- Test Scores Waiver will be granted on a case-by-case basis and are evaluated on the basis of academic readiness for the Tepper MBA.
Our dual and joint MBA degree options allow for in-depth study with other world-renowned Carnegie Mellon colleges and cross-campus collaboration with other graduate students and faculty.
This program is designed for students with undergraduate degrees in engineering and offers the opportunity to develop technical and managerial skills in managing and leading civil and environmental engineering organizations, projects and systems, as well as business management. This program is offered by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE) of the College of Engineering and the Tepper School.
Program Structure
The MBA/MSCEE is a 2.5-year (five semester) program beginning in August. Students must take a minimum of 162 units of MBA courses (90 units of required courses and 78 units of electives) and 84 units in Civil and Environmental Engineering (36 units of required CEE courses and 48 units of electives, 24 of which must be CEE courses). Please consult your advisor for a complete curriculum listing.
In the first year, the student will pay tuition for two semesters to Tepper School at the rate for full-time MBA students. In the second year, the student will pay tuition for two semesters to the CEE Department at the rate for this program's full-time graduate students. During the third year, the student will pay tuition for one semester at the rate for full-time MBA students to the Tepper School.
Admissions
Each applicant must satisfy the admission requirements of the MBA program at the Tepper School and the MSCEE at Civil and Environmental Engineering, respectively.
The deadline for applicants is the same as the deadline for the regular master's program. Beginning in 2011, both programs will accept both the GMAT and/or the GRE, so a dual applicant need only take one of the tests to apply to the dual program.
For additional information, please contact:
Tony Gomez, Tepper School Masters Admissions Office
David Vey, Director of Graduate Programs for the CEE Department of the College of Engineering.
This dual-degree option, providing both degrees in four years, enables graduates to learn and apply in an interdisciplinary fashion, ultimately merging the policy considerations that underpin law and business in our society.
A cooperative educational program addressing the interaction of law and business administration is available through the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Tepper School of Business. We have designed a rigorous four-year, dual-degree program that benefits students by enabling them to receive integrated training in both law and business, while saving students a full year of schooling, enabling them to earn two degrees in four years.
Program Structure
The candidate must satisfy both schools' degree requirements. At the Law School, 88 credits must be completed for the JD degree, while MBA requires 192 units for the MBA degree. Completing the JD degree while enrolled in the dual-degree program entitles the student to 30 units of advanced standing at the Tepper School and completing the MBA entitles the student to 15 credit hours of advanced standing at the Law School.
The candidate must enroll either in the Law School or the Tepper School during their first year at the other school. The first year is solely dedicated to that program in which the student begins and the second year is solely dedicated to the other program, whereas years three and four are a mix of the two programs. The candidate is not permitted to take courses at the other school during the first or second year.
Admissions
Interested candidates must apply and be admitted separately to both the Tepper MBA Program and the JD program in order to partake in the dual degree. Students may submit their applications to both programs at the same time or during the first year of study at either school.
In addition, a dual degree application must be completed with a copy sent to each school. A joint admissions committee will decide upon admission to the dual-degree program once a student has been accepted to each school individually. The dual-degree application must be submitted no later than March 15.
During the first year, the student pays tuition at the full rate for that program. For example, if year one is spent at the Tepper School, the student pays tuition for full-time MBA students to the Tepper School that year. Year two, the student pays tuition for full-time law students to the University of Pittsburgh. This is applicable regardless of which program the student begins first. During each of the third and fourth years of the program, the total tuition equals the sum of 85 percent of the law school tuition and 42.5 percent of the tuition for full-time MBA students. Tuition payments should be made in accordance with the current policies of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh.
For additional information, please contact:
Tony Gomez, Tepper School Masters Admissions Office
Associate Professor of Law Peter B. Oh, University of Pittsburgh's School of Law
This program is designed to educate strong candidates whose professional careers require an understanding of the interface between the private and public sectors as well as issues that span management of business enterprises and public or not-for-profit organizations. This program is offered by the Tepper School of Business and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.
Program Structure
The MBA/MSPPM is a 2.5-year (five semester) program beginning in August. Students will begin at the Tepper School in their first year and must take 162 units of required core courses, which include 90 units of required core courses and 72 units of required electives. Students must also meet all MBA requirements such as Management Game, core elective requirements, concentrations and breadth. Students are required to take 108 units of coursework at the Heinz College, which includes 66 units of required courses and 42 units of concentration and elective courses.
Students are responsible for three semesters of tuition to the Tepper School at the MBA full-time rate and two semesters of tuition to the Heinz College at the full-time rate. In the first year, students will pay tuition for two semesters to the Tepper School at the MBA full-time rate. In the second year, students will pay tuition for two semesters to the Heinz College at the full-time rate. For the final semester (fifth) students will pay for one semester to the Tepper School at the MBA full-time rate.
Admissions
Each applicant must apply and satisfy the admission requirements of both the MBA program at the Tepper School and the MSPPM at the Heinz College. The deadline for applicants is the same as the deadline for the regular master's programs. Students are required to apply to both programs prior to enrolling as a student; however, first-year MBA students may also apply during the first year of their MBA studies but must meet the application deadline for the MSPPM program. Each applicant is required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) test.
Dual-degree students will have full access to the student services as well as the career services provided by both the Tepper School of Business and Heinz College. Each student will be granted equal access to both open and preselected interviews scheduled by the career offices, and the resumes of the students will also be included in the resume books under a special heading.
For additional information, please contact:
Tony Gomez, Tepper School Masters Admissions Office
For Heinz College-specific admission questions, please email the Heinz Admissions office.
The MBA/Software Engineering dual degree provides access to Carnegie Mellon's top-ranked School of Computer Science, preparing MBAs with advanced engineering, managerial, decision-making and communication skills necessary to advance to senior levels of technology strategist.
Program Structure
The MBA/MSE is a three-year (six-semester) program (plus a required internship in the summer of the first year) beginning in August. This dual-degree program is designed for exceptionally strong candidates who have engineering and science backgrounds or appropriate experience. This program is offered by the Tepper School of Business and the School of Computer Science.
Students also take a minimum of 195 MSE units: 150 units of core and studio courses and a minimum of 45 units of electives from either the Tepper School of Business or the School of Computer Science course listings. Elective courses must meet with the approval of the students’ advisors.
The candidate will pay tuition for six semesters: three semesters to the Tepper School of Business at the rate for full-time MBA students; three semesters to the School of Computer Science at the rate of full-time Software Engineering graduate students.
Admissions
Each applicant must apply and satisfy the admission requirements of the MBA program at the Tepper School and the Master of Software Engineering Program at the School of Computer Science. The deadline for applicants is the same as the deadlines for the regular master's program. Each applicant is required to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
For additional information, please contact:
Tony Gomez, Tepper School Masters Admissions Office
Marlana Ivey, MSE Senior Admissions Officer, School of Computer Science.
Tepper School MBA students can customize their degrees by selecting concentrations based on areas of interest.
Explore the possibilities. Our MBA concentrations — from traditional to cutting edge — offer the opportunity to dive deeper into something you already know or strike out in a new direction — or both! Unleashing your future career can start right here.
You are required to complete one concentration, but most students pursue three or four. An MBA concentration is not declared; once you take three or more elective classes in a subject area, your concentration is automatic.
*For Online Hybrid MBA Students - The following concentrations are not available in the Online Hybrid format: Accounting, Economics, Health Care Analytics, Operations Research, and Sustainability. However, Online Hybrid students who have the ability to take on-campus classes during the day will have the opportunity to pursue these concentrations.
Our full list of concentrations is below. An asterisk (*) indicates concentrations that are not available in the Online Hybrid format.
Accounting has been a mainstay in the MBA core curriculum since the school’s inception in 1949. While Financial and Managerial Accounting I and II are required core classes for MBA students, there are unique electives to choose from in building an Accounting concentration grounded in analytical decision-making, technology, strategy, and high ethical standards.
A concentration in Accounting is intended for those MBA students who want to have a role in evaluating, analyzing and communicating an organization’s performance. Students seeking a career in general management, investment banking, corporate finance, operations management or consulting should find the concentration very useful.
The AI in Business concentration provides avenues for MBA students to explore various topics in AI, from machine learning to the legal and ethical considerations of AI to use in business applications. AI is an area of significant interest and growth at CMU, and this course list is expected to be updated frequently, particularly as the Tepper School builds its foothold in business applications of AI.
The unprecedented speed with which technology transforms markets and economies has altered the way multinational organizations successfully compete. As the university that is synonymous with technology, Carnegie Mellon has been a key player in leading this trend.
Our students represent a new breed of leader, one who understands global issues and is able to appropriately take advantage of emerging trends and technologies via a deep understanding of the topic. Broadly encompassing an array of technical and managerial coursework as well as applied project experience, the Business Technologies concentration is aimed at preparing students for a career in solving business problems across different domains using data and technology.
Students are able to take advantage of a cross-campus academic experience through our MBA program as well as the School of Computer Science, the Software Engineering Institute, and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.
Concentrating in communications provides students with strategies for creating and implementing effective persuasive skills and behaviors to influence key stakeholders in multiple professional situations.
The concentration's strength lies within its approach to using real-world scenarios to explore communication styles and critical thinking needs for diverse management tasks. These include strategic planning, management consulting, negotiations, writing, executive actions, cross-team collaboration, change management, and corporate-wide communications. Acting for Business rounds out this diverse concentration.
The communication concentration features faculty whose research and practical experience focus on management issues facing today's leaders. These experienced faculty are ready to help students mature into strong communicators, no matter their prior experience upon beginning each course.
The Economics concentration provides students tools to become more effective and agile decision-makers in a variety of business areas, including finance, technology, consulting, and marketing.
The Tepper School created a revolution in management science decades ago, and this revolution was, in part, spurred by the school’s leadership in the economics arena. Nobel-winning research conducted at the Tepper School deepened the debate surrounding societal and economic issues and reshaped public policy and markets, and hence the environment in which businesses operate.
We continue this tradition by conducting cutting-edge research that explains how individuals and economies operate and how policy changes, global competition, and innovation affect individual and firm choices and economic outcomes.
The Entrepreneurship concentration is designed to provide MBA students with the tools, experiences, and support necessary to facilitate development as a leader and innovator in your chosen field or industry.
In sync with Carnegie Mellon’s interdisciplinary strengths, students collaborate closely with faculty, researchers, and other students at our top-ranked programs including engineering, product development, computer science, robotics, and design.
Carnegie Mellon has one of the world’s most robust and valuable entrepreneurial ecosystems. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends represent some of history’s most successful entrepreneurs and this concentration takes full advantage of CMU’s reputation and resources via the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship.
More than 260 companies have been launched since 2008 and Carnegie Mellon entrepreneurs have raised over $1 billion in capital since 2011.
Our Finance program emphasizes the analytical and quantitative aspects of finance and accounting, offering students an opportunity to explore various methodologies and analyses.
Faculty include some of the most prominent members of the financial academic community with successes in several fields of research in finance and economics. Tepper MBA alumni are well-represented in senior financial positions at investment banks and Fortune 500 companies, corporate finance and treasury programs.
Healthcare analytics uses analytical tools to offer insights into a broad range of problems in healthcare, including hospital management, insurance policies, patient records, medicine, diagnoses, and treatment.
This concentration prepares students to apply their analytical skills to a wider range of problems in the healthcare domain. It draws from the healthcare analytics courses offered at the Tepper School as well as several courses related to healthcare policies and AI applications to healthcare from the Heinz College and the School of Computer Science.
Marketing is the process of creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers. A Marketing concentration provides MBA students with knowledge of how to support this process through pricing, promotions, distribution channels, and product design.
A strength of our program is the use of analytical methods from statistical modeling, data mining, machine learning, and operations to understand marketplaces and make marketing decisions. Our students’ ability to approach marketplace and consumer issues as part of a honed, analytical framework is rare — and valued — in today’s fast-paced technology industries.
Marketing courses include work in product marketing, market entry planning, marketing with social media, segmentation, communications management, sales forecasting, channel distribution, consumer behavior, customer-driven strategies and services, technology strategy, and marketing research.
Our graduates are highly sought after for positions at technology, consulting, healthcare/pharmaceutical, and consumer products companies. Most Tepper School MBAs pursuing marketing careers work in marketing strategy, product management, product marketing, brand management, or marketing analytics roles or enter leadership development programs with a marketing focus.
Operations Management is concerned with planning, organizing, and supervising the design, development, and delivery of products and services. It provides conceptual frameworks and analytical tools to optimize key decisions in designing and managing operational processes.
With a broad variety of electives available, students explore operations topics such as:
- Demand management and price optimization
- Supply chain management
- Risk analytics
- Operations strategy
- Sustainable operations
- Real options
- Service management
- Six sigma tools and techniques
The Operations Research concentration draws upon our history of excellence in the area of quantitative decision making. During the 1950s, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University pioneered a revolutionary new approach to business management known as management science.
Our practice of applying analytical, quantitative decision-making techniques to management has since been adopted by virtually every leading B-school in the U.S.
The study of Operations Research provides a powerful career advantage in which MBA students master frameworks for:
- Building descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive models
- Using tools from statistics
- Data mining
- Machine learning
- Mathematical optimization
Concentrating in organizational behavior provides students with foundational knowledge regarding how organizations, and the people within them, function.
The program’s strength lies within the areas of groups and teams, social networks, organizational learning, negotiation and conflict management, strategy, and ethics, and justice. The Organizational Behavior courses feature faculty who are spearheading innovative research on the nuanced management issues facing today’s organizations, particularly in the arenas of knowledge transfer and management, team dynamics, conflict and negotiation, and organizational strategy.
Within our trademark framework of analytics, this concentration will help you to learn how to solve complex “human” problems facing organizations. Students who concentrate in Organizational Behavior have the opportunity to develop highly valued skills including effective negotiation and conflict management, organizational assessment and design, and leading effective teams.
Strategy encompasses a range of functions within both the corporate and the entrepreneurial landscape. A popular concentration for Tepper School MBAs, strategy provides the underpinning for helping students develop the fundamental skillset for formulating and executing strategies for competitive business advantage.
The elective and core coursework provides exposure to companies’ operating environments (both within the firm and in the external competitive environment), approaches to sustaining competitive advantage, methods for generating value for customers and shareholders, and a framework for balancing the opportunities and risks associated with dynamic and uncertain changes in industry attractiveness and competitive position.
This concentration utilizes a range of analytical tools and the ability to take an integrative point of view within a framework of decision-making that focuses on multiple disciplines. Students will understand how to integrate functions such as finance, law, operations, marketing, etc., all within the context of strategy.
Tepper School MBA students will become comfortable integrating coursework from other areas/concentrations to use their analytical skills to perform in-depth analyses of industries and competitors, predict competitive behavior, and analyze how firms develop and sustain competitive advantage over time.
Topics among various concentrations include, but are not limited to, consulting and conflict resolution, managing intellectual capital and knowledge-intensive business, strategic corporate management, technology strategy, trade, and investment strategy.
Our MBA Sustainability concentration encompasses a wide range of topics including energy, natural resources, the environment, health and social well-being, engineering, and architecture.
The essence of sustainability is considering the impacts of actions today on outcomes in the future. As an outgrowth of the Tepper School Sustainability Initiative and in response to increasing demand for sustainability studies, the MBA Sustainability concentration offers students an opportunity to pursue scholarship, coursework, and careers in this ever-growing field.
Both the initiative and concentration draw from the existing sustainability expertise among faculty within the Tepper School and across the university and the university-wide focus on technology, quantitative and computational approaches, and energy topics.
Capstones are immersive, experiential courses at the end of your Tepper School experience. Options include working alongside corporations or participating in a strategic management exercise.
Management Game is offered in the online format; Strategic Management of the Enterprise is available to students who can take classes on campus.
Management Game
We train prospective managers to solve open-ended problems with talented people in creative ways.
The Management Game is an applied strategic management and general management experience in which teams of students operate computer simulated companies for three years, acting as the executive committee of a multinational manufacturing company. Through this simulated management exercise, students are equipped to solve open-ended problems in innovative ways.
The class takes place at the end of the curriculum and illustrates how to apply the tools acquired in other classes in a complex international business environment. The main focus of the learning is the unstructured nature of the problem.
How It Works
Teams of students compete against each other as they work to add value to their companies while learning about competitive dynamics, group management skills, cross-functional management, and team leadership skills.
The class is unique in that students are evaluated primarily by external professionals and by the results they deliver. What matters is not how hard they work but how effectively they work.
The project’s externally-focused exercises are relevant to team members’ career choices and include interactions with industry partners. Some examples include negotiating a labor agreement with union representatives or presenting marketing plans to marketing executives.
The opportunity to practice and receive feedback directly from corporate partners is both unique and valuable to the learning process. Each team reports to an external board of directors and must defend their plans and outcomes to advisors who evaluate their performance.
Alumni and friends of the Tepper School volunteer to serve on the board of directors, offering their expertise and experience. The board meetings occur three or four times throughout the capstone experience, serving as an interactive feedback session for the team.
The external feedback and evaluation structure of the course makes the exercise sharply realistic. The highly unstructured nature of the class makes it invaluable for students preparing to enter the job market as skilled leaders.
Faculty Coordinator
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David L. Lamont
Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Management Games
Strategic Management of the Enterprise
Offered in partnership with Kearney and select sponsoring companies, Strategic Management of the Enterprise prepares students for real-world challenges faced by managers. Strategic Management of the Enterprise is an experiential learning course that features a broad range of exciting consulting projects where students work to solve business problems faced by client companies.
Students will learn how to handle ambiguity, perform a persuasive analysis, and communicate effectively. In addition, students develop a deeper understanding of how organizations can coordinate and leverage synergies across a range of disciplines through the effective deployment of technologies and existing organizational structures and processes.
The projects included in this course reflect the reality that managers must address daily — namely, the significant challenges surrounding identifying “real” problems and the importance of conducting your analysis in a transparent way to achieve buy-in from key stakeholders.
How It Works
Through the course, students work with client companies on a wide array of problems spanning strategy, operations, technology, and marketing — challenges that will put your Tepper School education to the test. Teams will address issues such as big data, mobile application strategies, supply chain, digital media, complexity management, health care delivery models, and health care marketing strategy.
Past Clients Include:
- Alcoa
- Ameriprise
- Costco
- Embraer
- Johnson & Johnson
- Meredith
- P&G
- PNC Bank
- Siemens
- TEGNA
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- UPMC
- Virtual Radiologic
- Walgreens
- Walmart
- WellPoint
- Wesco
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Sunder Kekre
Vasantrao Dempo Professor; Professor of Operations Management
Tepper School MBA students kick off their experience with a unique, month-long orientation where they begin preparing for academics and career planning, with a focus on the summer internship interview process.
Immersion
Unlike many B-school orientations, BaseCamp does not just focus on campus directions, lockers, and meet-and-greets.
BaseCamp help students quickly acclimate so that academic and career planning is accelerated. It includes workshops, networking with fellow classmates, faculty, and alumni, and sessions that detail how the fundamental disciplines integrate in business environments.
Networking
We’re one of the smallest top B-schools, and one of the many advantages of our small size is that everybody will know you. From professors to classmates, you will be known as a key member of our community.
While we like numbers, we don’t think our students should be treated like one. There are no cohorts and no large auditoriums of hundreds of students. Alongside the networking, BaseCamp offers sessions on ethics, diversity, and working in teams, as well as off-site team-building activities.
Leadership and Communication
We believe leadership and communication are valuable assets for leveraging the rare ability to address complex, unprecedented business issues. Beginning with BaseCamp and continuing throughout each mini-semester, the Accelerate Leadership Center program will guide you.
Their goal is to strengthen your leadership and communication skills through personalized leadership assessments, training workshops, one-on-one coaching sessions, and provide a framework for you to develop and execute your personalized leadership action plan.
An Integrated View of Business
The Tepper School MBA program is a popular choice for career switchers. We understand the desire and the components of career changes and ensure that broad knowledge is a component part of your career planning.
BaseCamp features modules that explore the various functional areas (operations, finance, entrepreneurship, strategy, marketing) and how they integrate within companies and organizations. These modules assist in career planning, giving you a broad understanding of the numerous options for internships, employment, companies, functions, and roles.
A STEM-Designated MBA That Blends Analytics, Leadership, and Real-World Learning
The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University prepares you to lead in a fast-moving, data-driven world. Employers seek leaders who can pair analytical precision with sound judgment, and this is why the Tepper School MBA emphasizes both. You will build deep skills in analytics and decision-making through a curriculum that integrates data with every core discipline. You will grow as a leader through personalized coaching in the Accelerate Leadership Center and team-based coursework that mirrors professional collaboration. You will apply your learning in real time through consulting projects, global experiences, and internships that connect classroom insights to real business challenges. The result is an MBA designed to meet the demands of today’s marketplace and prepare you for long-term career success.
BaseCamp: Your Tepper Starting Point
BaseCamp is the Tepper School’s orientation program. It prepares you for the academic rigor and collaborative culture of the MBA. Before the first mini begins, you refresh your analytic and communication skills. You work through team exercises and align on expectations with faculty and coaches. The experience builds confidence and a shared foundation so you are ready to contribute from day one.
The curriculum that follows covers marketing, finance, operations, accounting, economics, organizational behavior, and strategy. Each course is designed to show you how data and models are used to solve real business problems. The Tepper School’s four-mini format gives you more decision points during the year. It allows you to explore electives earlier, respond to new interests, and customize your degree as your career goals evolve. See the Schedule of Classes for detailed course listings.
Curriculum Maps
Below you’ll find the MBA Curriculum Maps, which outline course requirements and program progression. They are designed to help you visualize your path through the Tepper School MBA.
These diagrams are for illustrative purposes and depicts a typical curriculum for the MBA program. The timing of classes may change in a given academic year.
Concentrations and Tracks
After the core, you shape your Tepper School MBA around your career goals. Choose from a wide range of concentrations in areas such as finance, marketing, strategy, and entrepreneurship. Or pursue cross-disciplinary tracks that connect coursework across fields, including Business Analytics, Energy and Sustainability, and Technology Leadership.
Concentrations
Focus your studies in areas such as finance, marketing, strategy, and entrepreneurship.
Tracks
Explore cross-disciplinary pathways like Business Analytics, Energy and Sustainability, and Technology Leadership.
Leadership and Experiential Learning
Leadership development begins on day one through the Accelerate Leadership Center. You receive personalized coaching to strengthen communication, influence, and decision-making. You practice those skills in the classroom and beyond.
Experiential opportunities include consulting projects, case competitions, global learning, and internships. These settings allow you to refine your leadership in team-based environments. They also prepare you for both immediate impact and long-term careers.
Capstones and Applied Learning
Capstones bridge the classroom and the workplace. Working with company sponsors, you tackle real business challenges and deliver recommendations. You refine your problem-solving and leadership skills in the process.
Global Capstones extend this experience abroad. They combine international immersion with hands-on consulting for multinational firms. Together with electives and [internships], capstones give you the chance to demonstrate your readiness to employers before graduation.
Learn How the Tepper School MBA Can Advance Your Career
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2024 Summer Internships (Full-Time MBA Class of 2025)
100% Internship Rate |
Internships by Industry
Internship by Function
Internships by Geography
25.2% Northeast | 18.9% West | 28.3% Mid-Atlantic | 14.2% Midwest | 3.9% Southwest | 6.3% South | 3.2% interned outside North America
Internship Reports
Full-Time MBA Class of 2025 | Online Hybrid MBA Class of 2022 and 2023*
*scroll to bottom of the page to view the online hybrid data
$154,846 Average | $186,043 Average | $160,000 Median |
83% Received offers | 89% Received offers |
The Tepper School prepared me well for a transition from engineering to strategy consulting. In the intent of Andrew Carnegie, the school hits an optimal balance of technical rigor and leadership development. Classes like optimization deepened my analytical skills, while Acting for Business pushed me outside my comfort zone and strengthened my communication and presence.
Robert Jordan, MBA '25
Associate at McKinsey
Employment by Industry
Employment by Function
Employment by Geography
16.4% West | 20.9% Northeast | 21.8% Mid-Atlantic | 20.9% Midwest | 8.2% Southwest | 5.5% South
Employment Reports
Online Hybrid MBA
Career Outcomes and Advancement
- 90% of students seeking a career change and/or promotion achieved it within 4 months of graduation.
- Of those who reported salary data (51% of seeking students):
- Average salary increase from start of the program to graduation: 47%
- Average exit salary: $159,183
- 50% of students who reported an offer with a new company received a signing bonus.
*Career outcomes are based on 88 graduating students between August 2022 and May 2023 from the Part-time & Online Hybrid MBA programs. This data reflects student salary changes based on 32 months in the program.