
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.
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.
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.
Explore the Executive MBA Curriculum
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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
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.
As leadership education has transformed, Booth has been at the forefront, driving new ways of thinking about and teaching tomorrow’s leaders.
Prepare to guide people and organizations to better outcomes. Your growth as a leader is central to your Chicago Booth MBA experience.
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.
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.
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
Financial Statement Analysis
Advanced Financial Analysis and Valuation for Global Firms
Basic Courses
Microeconomics
Accelerated Microeconomics
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis
Advanced Alternatives
Advanced Microeconomics Theory
Price Theory I
Price Theory II
Basic Courses
Business Statistics
Applied Regression Analysis
Advanced Alternatives
Analysis of Financial Time Series
Financial Econometrics
Statistical Insight into Marketing, Consulting & Entrepreneurship
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Any PhD-level course
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 six of the following seven categories:
Basic Courses
Introductory Finance
Investments
Corporation Finance
Approved Substitutes
Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
Portfolio Management
Advanced Investments
Theory of Financial Decisions
Asset Pricing
Financial Instruments
Fixed Income Asset Pricing
Cases in Financial Management: Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
International Corporate Finance
Basic Courses
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Strategy with Simulation
Approved Substitutes
Consumer Behavior
Data-Driven Marketing
Data Science for Marketing Decision Making
Marketing Research
Developing New Products and Services
Lab in Developing New Products and Services
Pricing Strategies
Basic Courses
Operations Management
Approved Substitutes
Supply Chain Strategy & Practice
Revenue Management
Managing Service Operations
Basic Courses
Managerial Decision Making
Managerial Accounting
Managerial Decision Modeling
Approved Substitutes
None
Managing in Organizations
Strategic Leadership
Power and Influence in Organizations
Managing the Workplace
Competitive Strategy
Strategy and Structure
Business Policy
Basic Courses
Macroeconomics
The Firm and the Non-Market Environment
Business, Politics, and Ethics
Business in Historical Perspective
Approved Substitutes
The Legal Infrastructure of Business
Law, Economics & Business
Money and Banking
Understanding Central Banks
International Commercial Policy
International Financial Policy
The Wealth of Nations
Chinese Economy
Electives give you the chance to delve further into specific areas of interest. You’ll have maximum flexibility in choosing your 11 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
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Social Impact Practicum
Digital Marketing Lab
Energy Policy Practicum
Entrepreneurial Discovery
Global Social Impact Practicum
Healthcare Analytics Lab
Integrated Strategic Management
Interpersonal Dynamics
Lab in Developing New Products and Services
Lab to Launch
Leadership Effectiveness and Development (LEAD) Lab
Leadership Practicum
Leadership Studio
Marketing Research Lab
New Social Ventures
Private Equity/Venture Capital Lab
Real Estate Lab: Real Estate Challenge
Reputation, Regulation and Communications – How Media Influences Business - Lab
Scaling Social Innovation Search Lab
Social Enterprise Lab
Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Developing a New Venture (New Venture Challenge)
Strategy Lab
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 Macroeconomics
Advanced Models of Option Pricing and Credit Risk
Advanced Negotiations
Analysis of Financial Time Series
The Analytics of Financial Crises
Application Development II
Artificial Intelligence
Arts Leadership: Exemplary is Not Enough
Behavioral and Institutional Finance
Behavioral Finance
Big Data
Big Problems
Building the New Venture
Business in Historical Perspective
Cases in Financial Management
Chinese Economy and Financial Markets
Commercializing Innovation: Tools to Research and Analyze Private Enterprises
Consumer Behavior
Corporate Governance
Crony Capitalism
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: Markets, Models and Opportunities
Data Analysis with R and Python
Data Science for Marketing Decision Making
Data-Driven Marketing
Debt, Distress, and Restructuring
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 through Acquisition
Ethics of Business
Evolving Capitalism
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
Going to Market: Managing Channel Strategy
Healthcare Data Analytics
Hedge Fund Investing
History of Economic Ideas
Impact Investing
Implicit Bias in Business Applications
Innovation Leadership
International Commercial Policy
International Corporate Finance
International Financial Policy
Leadership Capital
Leading and Managing Teams
The Legal Infrastructure of Business
Life Sciences: Innovation and Finance
Machine Learning
Managing in a Regulated Environment
Managing Service Operations
Managing the Firm in the Global Economy
Merger & Acquisition Strategy
Money and Banking
New Products and Services
New Venture Strategy
New Venture Tech
Persuasion II: Influence Through Narrative
Persuasion: Effective Business Communication
Platform Competition
Portfolio Management
Pricing Strategies
Private Equity Transactions
Project Management
Quantimental Investment
Quantitative Portfolio Management
Real Estate Investments I
Real Estate Investments II
Reputation, Regulation and Communications – How Media Influences Business
Revenue Management
Social Enterprise Discovery
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Social Sector Strategy and Structure
Sports Analytics
Startup Marketing
Statistical Insight into Marketing, Consulting, and Entrepreneurship
Storytelling and Narratives in Business
Strategic Investment Decisions
Strategies and Processes of Negotiation
The Study of Behavioral Economics
Supply Chain Strategy and Practice
Taxes and Business Strategy
Technology Strategy
Urban Economics
The Wealth of Nations
Women as Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, Private Equity Executives, Investors and Board Members
Search the Chicago Booth portal for course descriptions and course schedules.
Choose from 13 concentrations and develop a deeper knowledge in the areas of business that most interest you. Some of our concentrations are STEM eligible.
At Booth, you’ll engage in spirited debate and take an active role in the classroom. Learn more about our immersive classroom experience.
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.
The Full-Time MBA Program provides you with freedom: academic freedom, freedom to take risks, and freedom to define your impact in the world.
Our top-ranked Evening MBA and Weekend MBA Programs accommodate the schedules and lifestyles of working, goal-oriented professionals.
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.
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