Curriculum at a Glance
The Vanderbilt Master of Management offers a rigorous, nine-month curriculum combining MBA-level coursework with experiential learning and career development. Structured in two seven-week modules per semester, the program builds expertise across core business disciplines while allowing you to tailor your learning to specific career goals by choosing a concentration.
Here's what that means for you:
- Build a strong foundation through core business courses.
- Develop expertise in a specific concentration: consulting, entrepreneurship, operations and analytics, healthcare, or general management.
- Learn from world-class faculty in a collaborative, small-class environment.
- Benefit from a curriculum designed to support your interests and career goals.
9-Month Master's 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.
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.
Choose from 5 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.