Vanderbilt Master of Management
Gain the leadership confidence and career traction to accelerate your path from entry-level to impact. With a variety of concentrations to choose from, students can focus on coursework that aligns with their professional goals.
Program Snapshot
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9 Months
Length
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Full-time
In-person
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Nashville
Location
Curriculum
In the Master of Management program, you'll take core business courses and choose a concentration based on your unique career goals. Options for concentrations include consulting, entrepreneurship, healthcare, operations and analytics, and general management.
Outcomes
In a competitive global economy, employers value graduates who can think strategically and contribute immediately. Our program prepares you to adapt in fast-changing environments, solve complex problems, and make high-impact decisions that lead to exceptional outcomes.
Admissions
Our program's holistic approach to the admissions process ensures that we take the time to get to know you and your unique goals. We're here to walk you through the entire application process, helping you determine if this degree is the right next step for your career.
This program reflects where business education is headed. Students want real career momentum and flexibility in how they build their path.
Curriculum
The Vanderbilt Master of Management requires 30 credit hours. Classes are offered over four modules—the equivalent of two semesters—of full-time study. Students must be enrolled in a minimum of six credit hours per module to maintain full-time status. Residence for one academic year is required.
Concentrations
This concentration is designed to equip you with the core concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic management that are essential to a career in consulting and beneficial to a leadership role in any field. Courses are analytical and focus on senior management decisions that enhance profit maximization while taking into account the competitive response to those decisions.
The entrepreneurship concentration can help you develop an entrepreneurial mindset and the innovative thinking, perseverance, and creativity that entrepreneurs are known for.
This custom-designed concentration allows you to take advantage of the full spectrum of courses offered at Vanderbilt Business and build your ideal plan of study, in consultation with a full-time faculty member and the program office. The resulting proposal must be approved by the professor charged with overseeing your course of study.
This concentration provides unique insight into the complex world of healthcare through a blend of solid business basics plus experiential and integrative learning.
This concentration focuses on the design and management of the processes by which products are manufactured and services are delivered to customers. The courses provide an overview of the field and elective courses examine critical processes in depth.
Note: Degree requirements and course information are subject to change; not all courses are offered every year. View the most recent Course Catalog containing academic policies, degree requirements, and individual course descriptions for each of our degree programs.