MBA

Course Schedule

Overview

MBA students are admitted as a cohort and take the same classes during Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters. In the Summer Quarter, students take Global Business and Enterprise IT Management. Students may add an elective as an overload to the curriculum or by waiving a class.

During Autumn through Spring Quarters, classes are usually held on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 5:45 to 10:05 P.M. During Summer Quarter, students take two classes each lasting for four weeks and usually on MW evenings during the first and/or second parts of the quarter.

An MBA Orientation is scheduled in mid-September with a meal provided. The orientation includes MBA faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Students begin building their new MBA cohort in early September with the three-day Leadership, Team Process, and Decision-Making course (plus one Saturday and two evening classes) which concludes before the Strategic Management in High-Technology Firms and Quantitative Methods and Business Statistics classes start in late September.

During spring of the second year of the MBA Program, students complete Entrepreneurship Practicum, a capstone course, where teams develop new business plans and make final presentations to external experts.

Course Schedule 2009-2011*

For 2009-11, the MBA curriculum has been revised as part of our continuous improvements based on feedback from students and faculty. Course numbers and descriptions will be available in the late fall. 

Year 1

Autumn

Leadership, Team Process, and Decision-Making (4) Walt Freytag, Pete Nye
Strategic Management in High-Technology Firms (4) Kevin Laverty
Quantitative Methods & Business Statistics (6) Pete Nye

Winter

Financial and Managerial Accounting (6) Gowri Shankar
Economics for Business Leaders (4) Juan Gomez

Spring

Financial Management (4) James Miller
Marketing Management (4) Sandeep Krishnamurthy

Summer

Global Business (4) James Reinnold (First 4 weeks)
Enterprise IT Management (4)  (Second 4 weeks)
Summer classes may be taken the first or second summer

Year 2

Autumn

Organizational Behavior (6) includes an overnight, off-site retreat
Marketing Engineering & New Product Marketing (4) Sundar Balakrishnan
Business Law & Ethics (4)

Winter

Operations & Project Management (4) 
Technology and Innovation Management (6) Paul Collins

Spring

Organizational Theory and Knowledge Management (4) Tim Hargrave
Integrated Business Practicum (4) Alan Leong
 

Potential Electives*

Any Quarter, Year 1 or Year 2

Independent Study or Research (1-5, max. 15)
Internship (1-5, max. 15)
Other Electives at UW Bothell (Topics tba) (4)
Electives at UW Seattle or at AACSB-accredited MBA Programs (4)
 
The 2008-10 curriculum is linked here.