Concentrations
Concentrations
MBA Concentrations
A Concentration is a 9-credit group of graduate business courses focused on a defined area of business knowledge. Every student in the 36-credit MBA, 30-credit MBA, or STEM MBA completes at least one Concentration. The selected route determines whether the student completes additional Concentration or elective coursework.
Review the available Concentrations below. Course availability varies by term, modality, prerequisites, enrollment needs, and program requirements.
How Concentrations Fit the MBA Programs
How a Concentration fits your degree depends on your MBA route. Students in the 36-credit MBA may complete two Concentrations or one Concentration plus three graduate business electives. Students in the 30-credit MBA complete one Concentration plus one graduate business elective. The separate STEM MBA has its own STEM-designated Concentration and elective requirements.36-Credit MBA Option
Complete two 9-credit Concentrations or one 9-credit Concentration and three graduate business electives.
30-Credit MBA Option
Complete one 9-credit Concentration and one 3-credit graduate business elective.
STEM MBA
Complete at least one STEM-designated Concentration and enough additional STEM-designated coursework to reach at least 18 STEM-designated credits within the 36-credit program. Students should review the applicable curriculum page and work with recruiting, admissions, advising, or success-coaching support when course availability or completed coursework affects the plan.
| Students should review the applicable curriculum page and work with recruiting, admissions, advising, or success-coaching support when course availability or completed coursework affects the plan. |
Explore MBA Concentrations
Select a Concentration below to review its academic focus and course requirements. Graduate business electives may be selected from eligible course offerings outside the first Concentration, subject to prerequisites, course availability, and the student’s MBA program requirements.
Accounting
Learn crucial skills for a career path as a CPA, tax manager, budget analyst, and auditing manager and for moving toward VP or Chief Accounting Officer. Master budgeting process and operational planning. Gain insights into subsidiaries, partnerships, intercompany transactions, mergers, and acquisitions.
Business Analytics
Learn to analyze and interpret numerical data and qualitative information to critically explore and investigate past business performances, to gain insights that drive future decision-making and planning for improved performance. Areas of focus include optimizing processes, statistical forecasting techniques, and alternative decision-making.
Data Analytics
Become an exceptional critical thinker and learn how to solve business problems using software, data, and computational tools. Improve your organizational efficiency and gain experience in data mining, statistical analysis, data engineering, data warehousing, business intelligence and strategy, data visualization and presentation, and operations-related data analytics.
Entrepreneurship
Explore innovation while developing your entrepreneurial skills. Learn about the challenges and processes involved in startups, venture capital, real estate, corporate innovation, new product development, and sales. Entrepreneurial mindsets offer unique opportunities to transform the world we live in.
Finance
Prepare for a career path in finance, from security analysis, wealth and investment management, to financial or loan management, investment banking, personal financial advising, and retirement planning. Delve into financial coursework that combines quantitative techniques with practical experience. Ideal for those in pursuit of Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certifications.
HR Management
Master hiring, recruiting, training, and managing staff to promote a safe, healthy, and successful work environment. Learn to cultivate a strong company culture and ensure it aligns with corporate policy. Build an exciting career path in HR in corporate training, credit management, labor relations, or as a payroll specialist, training manager, or compensation specialist.
Management
Gain the insights, knowledge, and skills necessary for planning, supervising, and making decisions for organizations of all types. Learn responsible decision-making, strategic planning, organizational interrelationships, process analysis, predictive analytics, global leadership, and organizational culture.
Management Information Systems (MIS)
Discover how to lead organizations to reach maximum benefits from a person-first technology perspective. Grow skill sets in project management, business solutions, information utilization, technological resources, database management, and investing in personnel, equipment, and business processes in a world of rapidly changing technology.
Marketing
Explore the science behind data-informed marketing decisions, how consumers form attitudes, make decisions, and behave, and what drives consumers to value products and services. Develop expertise in collecting primary and secondary research and interpreting customer data. Gain insights on cultural, legal, economic, and political perspectives for responsive and effective marketing within an internationalized economy.
Organizational Leadership
Explore business ethics and the nuances of leadership in a multinational world while honing your ability to influence and empower teams with diverse backgrounds. Learn strategies for cultivating an exceptional organizational culture and achieving high-quality results within corporate, government, or not-for-profit entities.
Supply Chain and Logistical Systems
Prepare for an in-demand career that spans industry sectors and services the world. Explore commercial management, business logistics, and supply chain optimization modeling for corporate, government, and nonprofit realms. Learn to strategize and innovate to achieve highest quality assurance and maximum efficiency for any organization.
Sustainable Business
Examine the impacts of “green” industries, products, and business practices. Gain expertise on how to implement sustainability in areas ranging from operations and product design to finance, marketing, and human resources management.
Plan Concentration and Elective Coursework
Course planning should account for prerequisites, modality, course availability, completed coursework, and the requirements of the selected MBA program.Build Depth or Breadth in the 36-Credit MBA
Students in the 36-credit MBA may complete two related Concentrations to build depth or two distinct Concentrations to build breadth across business topics.
Combine One Concentration and Three Electives in the 36-Credit MBA
Students may complete one Concentration and select three graduate business electives to explore additional fields or reinforce the selected area of study.
Combine One Concentration and One Elective in the 30-Credit MBA
Students in the 30-credit MBA complete one Concentration and one graduate business elective.
Change or Confirm a Concentration
Recently admitted and continuing students should review Concentration changes with their Academic Advisor or Rowan Online Success Coach. Available changes depend on completed and planned coursework, course availability, modality, and the requirements remaining in the selected MBA option or STEM MBA.
- Campus-based or hybrid students: GraduateBusinessStudies@rowan.edu
- Online students: onlinestudents@rowan.edu
After a change is confirmed, review DegreeWorks to make sure the updated Concentration and degree requirements appear correctly.
