Required Courses
Core courses are the foundation of your academic experience and provide you with the fundamental building blocks needed to excel in business.
The first year of the Evening MBA program, and the summer semester of the second year, are devoted to core curriculum studies. During the fall and spring semesters of the second and third years, you will have the opportunity to choose electives that best match your interests and career goals. To satisfy graduation requirements, Evening MBA students must complete:
- Nine core courses
- Three modules: Management Practice, Leadership Development and International Study
- Eight electives of your choice
The following nine core courses are required for graduation. Select a course to view its description.
- Marketing Management
- Decision Analysis
- Strategy
- Business Economics (½ semester)
- Processes & Systems (½ semester)
- Financial Accounting
- Managerial Finance
- Managing People and Organizations
- Managerial Accounting
Management Practice
This course, held during the first three semesters of the program, provides you the opportunity to develop and practice a crucial managerial ability: solving a business problem via critical thinking and analysis with ambiguous or less than perfect information at one's disposal. This course is a vehicle for strengthening the links between academic theory, effective business practices, and insightful skill integration across each discipline of study. It will expose you to various career paths early in your time at Goizueta, and will help you build essential skills to frame problems, discern the data you need to analyze a situation, make an evidence-based recommendation, and appropriately present a convincing case for your decision.
Leadership Development
At Goizueta, the idea of creating principled leaders isn't relegated to a single course or a passing notion, it's infused into every aspect of your MBA experience. Every student participates in our Leadership Development course. You'll delve into the key values that drive principled, effective leaders. You'll also explore other important leadership areas such as self-awareness, resilience, high performing teams, influencing others, and giving and receiving feedback. From there, you'll dig into more advanced topics, such as leading and facilitating teams, coaching, mentoring, and ethics. More...
International Study
Goizueta Evening MBA students have a variety of course options to fulfill the required International Study module. Each one-week course allows students to study business issues and cultural topics that expand their global perspective. More...
