Customize Your MBA

Vanderbilt's accounting faculty are actively involved in accounting and auditing research. Accounting faculty members serve on the editorial boards of leading accounting research journals and are often cited in leading business media like The Wall Street Journal.

The entrepreneurship emphasis can help you develop an entrepreneurial mindset and the innovative thinking, perseverance, and creativity that entrepreneurs are known for, regardless of concentration or career path.

Vanderbilt’s world-renowned finance faculty provide students with a strong grasp of the fundamental techniques required for the practice of financial management. The finance curriculum is continually updated to incorporate the latest developments and important innovations in the markets, as well as academic research.

This custom-designed concentration allows you to take advantage of the full spectrum of courses offered at Vanderbilt and build your ideal plan of study, in consultation with a full-time faculty member and the Academic & Student Affairs Office. The resulting proposal must be approved by the professor charged with overseeing your course of study. Students who feel that a general management concentration might work for them are encouraged to consult with the Career Management Center to receive guidance and coaching to achieve their career goals.

The Vanderbilt healthcare concentration provides unique insight into the complex world of healthcare through a blend of solid business basics plus experiential and integrative learning. You will complete a rigorous curriculum that requires more healthcare courses than other programs of its kind. In addition, the innovative seven-week modular framework allows you the flexibility to take a variety of healthcare electives.

Vanderbilt is known for an exceptionally strong human and organizational performance (HOP) program built by award-winning professors and scholars who are experts in organizational design, motivation, leadership, strategic human resource management, compensation, negotiation, teams, managing change, and business ethics. The HOP concentration prepares you to implement business strategies and enhance individual and organizational performance.

Our marketing faculty is diverse in its knowledge; areas of expertise include advertising, consumer research, branding, service marketing, networks, customer satisfaction, quantitative psychological research, and new products. The marketing program is flexible, offering students a wide variety of electives beyond the concentration requirements.

The courses in the operations and analytics concentration focus on the design and management of the processes by which products are manufactured, and services are delivered to customers. The core operations and analytics courses provide an overview of the field and elective courses examine critical processes in depth.

The strategy 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 considering the competitive response to those decisions.