Concentrations
Concentrations
Pursuing Areas of Concentration
Students at Rowan University’s Rohrer College of Business customize their degree pathways based on career goals and employer, workplace, and industry demands.
Join one of the most flexible and customizable MBA programs in the country to hone your skills in specific targeted areas of business – or explore building knowledge across sectors – to expand your insights and set yourself apart from the competition.
All Rowan MBA students pursue the same 18 credits to satisfy core requirements of the 36-credit curriculum. Rowan MBA students also enjoy the freedom of customizing 18 credits to meet their career pursuits.
Rowan MBA students can choose two related Concentrations to build significant depth, two distinct Concentrations to build breadth, or even choose one Concentration and three elective courses across disciplines to gain a wide view from varying perspectives.
Curriculum Customization Options
Two Concentrations
To illustrate the many variations of curriculum customization for your Rowan MBA, consider the following combinations of concentrations and electives:
- Two Concentrations (9 credits or 3 courses each):
- Finance and Supply Chain and Logistical Systems
- Accounting and HR Management
- Business Analytics (Management) and Data Analytics (Systems)
- Organizational Leadership and Entrepreneurship
- Sustainable Business and Supply Chain and Logistical Systems
One Concentration plus 3 Electives
To illustrate the many variations of curriculum customization for your Rowan MBA, consider the following combinations of concentrations and electives:
- One Concentration (9 credits or 3 courses) plus three electives (9 credits or 3 courses):
- Sustainable Business + 1 Elective each in: Accounting, Finance, and Supply Chain
- Accounting + 1 Elective each in: Supply Chain, MIS, and Business Analytics
- Finance + 1 Elective each in: Accounting, Sustainable Business, and Finance
- Entrepreneurship + 1 Elective each in: Finance, Sustainable Business, and Supply Chain
- Management + 1 Elective in: Accounting
MBA Concentration Options
In order to satisfy Concentration requirements, students must select electives from the options designated for each Concentration. Refer to this website to review Concentration course requirements and options.
MBA students can choose among the following Concentrations:
Accounting
Preparing and interpreting financial reporting statements, mastering budgeting processes and operational planning, and insights into subsidiaries, partnerships, intercompany transactions, mergers and acquisitions are crucial for career paths including CPA, tax manager, budget analyst, auditing manager, and for moving toward VP or Chief Accounting Officer.
Business Analytics
Analyzing and interpreting numerical data and qualitative information to critically explore and investigate past business performances to gain insights and drive future decision making and planning for improved performance. Areas of focus include optimizing processes, statistical forecasting techniques, and alternative decision-making.
Cannabis Commercialization
Exploring competitive dynamics, opportunities for innovation, and current business landscapes of the rapidly evolving and highly regulated cannabis industry by delving into concepts and constructs that are unique to the cannabis industry but also exploring business model innovations that are applicable across industries.
Data Analytics
Exploring critical thinking skills and information analysis for purposes of improving organizational efficiency and solving business problems through software, data, and computational tools to explore and discover relevant insights are in high demand. Areas of focus include data mining and statistical analysis, data engineering and data warehousing, business intelligence and strategy, data visualization and presentation, and operations-related data analytics.
Entrepreneurship
Exploring and innovating unique opportunities, challenges, and processes that offer opportunities for improvement or demand a need for change to transform the world we live in. Innovation excites and the opportunities are endless. Areas of focus include startups, venture capital, real estate, corporate innovation, new product development, and sales.
Finance
Analyzing financial reporting statements for guiding decision making and implementation. Career paths include security analysis, wealth and investment management, financial management, managing loans, investment banker, personal financial advisor, retirement planning, and moving towards an executive level manager role.
HR Management
Hiring, recruiting, training, and managing staff to promote a safe, healthy, successful work environment and ensure that a strong company culture aligns with corporate policy. Career paths include corporate training, human resources, credit management, labor relations, payroll specialist, training manager, compensation specialist.
Management
Gain insights, knowledge, and skills to plan, supervise, and make decisions for organizations of all types. Topics include: responsible decision-making, strategic planning, organizational interrelationships, process analysis, predictive analytics, and global leadership and organizational culture.
Organizational Leadership
Leadership practice in a multinational world, influencing and empowering teams with diverse backgrounds, changing organizational culture, business ethics, and achieving high-quality results.
Sustainable Business
Impacts of “green” industries, products, and business practices and gain expertise on how to implement sustainability-oriented changes in areas ranging from operations and product design to finance, marketing, and human resources management.
Management Information Systems (MIS)
Lead organizations to reach maximum benefits from a people-oriented service technology perspective with a focus on 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.
Supply Chain and Logistical Systems
Commercial management, business logistics, and supply chain optimization modeling, help prepare for careers that span across industry sectors, corporate and government and non-profit realms.
Fall 2022 and Beyond!
Fall 2022 and Beyond
- Additional Concentration topics being explored!
Contact the Office of Graduate Business Programs at GraduateBusinessStudies@
Update your area of Concentration
To update your MBA Area of Concentration:
- MBA students can change their targeted Area(s) of Concentration, along the way in their studies provided there is still space and flexibility in their requirements, toward graduation based on any concentration/elective courses, already chosen/completed.
- Send an email with your full name, student ID, and preferred area of concentration to GraduateBusinessStudies@rowan.edu.
- If you have not already worked with an Academic Advisor to map out sequencing and selection of appropriate courses to achieve the area of concentration, please set up an appointment by sending an email request to GraduateBusinessStudies@rowan.edu. This is an important step as we do not offer every concentration in every delivery format (e.g., online vs. face-to-face ) and offerings vary by semester and academic year.
- After receiving an email confirmation that your Area of Concentration has been updated, check the Banner system to make sure that your new major code is reflected in your student account.
