MBA Concentrations
Tailor the degree to your own interests.
You can tailor the MBA to your own interests with an optional concentration in Accounting, Business Analytics, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Information Systems Management, Marketing, Sales Management and Personal Selling, or Supply Chain Management.
Or, if you're not interested in one of these concentrations, choose any 9 credits from our extensive list of graduate business courses. Students may count up to 3 credits in non-business graduate courses or Business Internship (BI 500) toward the MBA electives with the approval of the Graduate Programs Office.
MBA Concentrations
MBA concentrations are optional and require 3 courses or 9 credit hours.
(3 courses/9 credits)
Choose any 3 graduate ACC courses beyond ACC 505
Students in the MBA Accounting concentration at UM-Dearborn can complete the CPA exam preparation course through CPAexcel® at a significant discount, and even qualify to receive a 100% reimbursement.
(3 courses/9 credits*)
DS 570 - Management Science
Choose two from the following:
DS 630 - Applied Forecasting
DS 631 - Decision Analysis
DS 632 - System Simulation
DS 633 - Data Mining for Business Applications
* Business Analytics concentrators must have completed a degree program which includes extensive coursework in statistics in order to waive the MBA core course DS 520, Applied Statistical Modeling. As a result, most business analytics concentrators should plan to complete DS 520 as a part of their MBA program.
(3 courses/9 credits)
Choose one from the following:
FIN 581 - Topics in Corporate Finance
FIN 651 - Investment Process, Analysis and Management
Choose two from the following:
BE 583 - The Global Economy: Crisis and Growth
FIN 581 - Topics in Corporate Finance
FIN 650 - Corporate Valuation and Strategy
FIN 651 - Investment Process, Analysis and Management
FIN 652 - Derivatives and Risk Management
FIN 653 - Topics in Investments and Capital Markets
FIN 654 - Banking, Insurance, and Fintech
FIN 655 - International Financial Management
FIN 656 - Fixed Income Securities
FIN 657 - Investment Fund Management
(3 courses/9 credits)
Choose three from the following:
HRM 561 - Human Resource Management
HRM 580 - Compensation and Human Resource Analytics
HRM 613 - Legal Issues in Managing People
OB 610 - International Dimensions of Management
(3 courses/9 credits)
Choose any 3 graduate ISM courses beyond ISM 525
(3 courses/9 credits)
Choose three from the following:
BE 583 - The Global Economy: Crisis and Growth
FIN 655 - International Financial Management
MKT 622 - Global Marketing
OB 610 - International Dimensions of Management
OM 571 - Supply Chain Management
(3 courses/9 credits)
MKT 565 - Advanced Marketing Management
Choose two from the following:
MKT 534 - Sales Management and Personal Selling *
MKT 535 - Advanced Sales Management and Personal Selling I * ^
MKT 540 - Advanced Sales Management and Personal Selling II * ^
MKT 564 - Graduate Marketing Research
MKT 620 - Understanding Customers
MKT 621 - Advertising and Promotion
MKT 622 - Global Marketing
BA 691 - Graduate Seminar (requires department approval; limited to relevant topics)
* Students who are interested in the Sales Management courses may wish to complete the Sales Management and Personal Selling concentration instead of the Marketing concentration. Students may not double-count courses from the Marketing concentration toward the Sales Management concentration.
^ These courses are available on campus only.
***Available starting fall 2023***
(3 courses/9 credits)
MKT 534 - Sales Management and Personal Selling
MKT 535 - Advanced Sales Management and Personal Selling I
MKT 540 - Advanced Sales Management and Personal Selling II
Students who have declared the Sales Management concentration should also declare the Sales Management and Personal Selling Certificate.
Students may not double-count courses from the Sales Management concentration toward the Marketing concentration.
(3 courses/9 credits)
OM 571 - Supply Chain Management (online only)
Choose two from the following:
OM 660 - Supply Chain Analytics
OM 661 - Supply Chain Logistics Management
OM 662 - Product Development and Technology Management
OM 663 - Lean and Six Sigma
OM 664 - Strategic Sourcing
OM 665 - Enterprise Resource Planning in Supply Chain Management