Concentrations and Areas of Focus

Terry College students

Our core courses provide a solid foundation of general management principles and best practices. However, in today’s challenging business environment, employers look for expertise — your expertise — to build and sustain their success. Increasingly, MBA graduates need to specialize their skills and knowledge. Our market-driven concentration options and areas of focus in Strategy, FinTech, and Social Innovation enable you to expand your skills and demonstrate value to your future employers.

Your Full-Time MBA specialization helps you stand out in internships and job searches. They are signals on your résumé so employers understand your areas of expertise. Our concentrations and areas of focus — much like our applied learning opportunities — present students with a variety of options and flexibility to design their own unique program of study. The required courses and electives within each concentration are designed with enough overlap so that students can combine more than one concentration and/or layer in an area of focus for a customizable academic experience.

Working closely with Student Engagement and Career Management, we help you align your academic path with your career goals. The flexibility of our curriculum allows students to tailor their concentrations to their interests while adding a focus in Strategy, FinTech, or Social Innovation. We can help you make the right choices to achieve your career goals.

Concentrations

Business Analytics Concentration

Overview

The concentration in Business Analytics will prepare students for this exciting realm. The demand for employees with the skills and understanding in this realm is growing fast and is not likely to subside. It will require the equivalent of four courses for the core plus at least four directional courses.

Curriculum

Required Courses (12 hours)
  • MARK 7600: Predictive Analytics (Fall & Spring)
  • MIST 7690: Business Process Management (Fall & Spring)
  • MIST 7600: Data Analytics (Fall & Spring)
  • MIST 7770: Business Intelligence and Analytics
Suggested Electives (9 hours)
  • FINA 7110: Valuation (Spring)
  • FINA 6320: Derivative Security Markets (Fall & Spring)
  • FINA 7920e: Financial Modeling (Spring)
  • MARK 7980: Marketing Analytics and Decision Making (Spring)
  • MIST 6550: Energy Informatics (Fall & Spring)
  • MIST 7775: Cyber Threat Intelligence (Fall & Spring)

Typical Job Titles

Analytics Consultant, Manager of Procurement, Business Analyst, Sourcing Analyst, Process Improvement Analyst, Concentration Path – Business Analytics

Entrepreneurship Concentration

Overview

Our rigorous Entrepreneurship concentration courses celebrate the innovation, original thinking, and entrepreneurial mindset actively sought by companies everywhere — skills that help you succeed in the new economy. We present a curriculum based on the four tasks of entrepreneurship: opportunity identification, resource acquisition and deployment, goal setting and strategy formulation, and implementation.

Curriculum

Required Courses (12 hours)
  • ENTR 7090: Critical Design Thinking (Spring)
  • ENTR 7510: Developing Successful Business Plans (Fall)
  • ENTR 7505: Entrepreneurial Finance (Fall & Spring)
  • ENTR 7525: Managing the Entrepreneurial Venture (Fall & Spring)
Suggested Electives

Finance Concentration

Overview

The Finance concentration prepares students for the role of financial manager, with core courses covering the essentials of financial management and elective courses providing exposure to specific areas of interest, such as Real Estate and Risk Management. Students interested in pursuing careers in investing and portfolio management can complete coursework in valuation, investments, and derivatives and have opportunities to gain a greater breadth of study through additional electives.

Curriculum

Required Courses (9 hours)
Suggested Electives (9 hours)
  • ECON 7940: Economics of Managing Organizations (HR & Human Capital) (Fall & Spring)
  • ENTR 7505: Entrepreneurial Finance (Fall & Spring)
  • LEGL 7050: Negotiations (Spring)
  • REAL 7830: Real Estate Finance (Spring)
  • RMIN 7100: Fundamentals of Risk Management (Fall & Spring)
  • ECON 7950: Competitive Strategy and Structure (Fall)
  • FINA 6320: Derivative Security Markets (Fall & Spring)
  • FINA 6810: International Finance (Fall & Spring)
  • FINA 7920e: Financial Modeling (Spring)
  • FINA 6320: Derivative Security Markets (Fall & Spring)
  • FINA 6810: International Finance (Fall & Spring)
  • REAL 7600: Investment Analytics (Fall)

Typical Job Titles

Associate Finance Manager, Business Analyst, Financial Analyst, Senior Financial Analyst, Associate – Asset Finance Group, Associate – Syndicated and Leveraged Finance, Relationship Associate

Healthcare Management Concentration

Overview

The concentration in Healthcare Management provides an interdisciplinary approach to the business of healthcare by combining coursework from the Terry College and the College of Public Health. Students in this concentration gain deep structural knowledge of the healthcare industry and acquire skills in data management and analytics, finance, risk management, leadership and negotiations, and business strategies.

Curriculum

Required Courses (6 hours)
  • HPAM 7010: Introduction to Health Policy and Management (Fall & Spring)
  • RMIN 7010: Fundamentals of Risk Management (Spring)
Suggested electives (12 hours)
  • ACCT 7600: Financial Statement Analysis (Spring)
  • ECON 7940: Economics of Managing Organizations (Fall & Spring)
  • ECON 7950: Competitive Strategy (Fall)
  • EHSC 7010: Foundations of Environmental Health Science (Fall & Spring)
  • EPID 7010: Introduction to Epidemiology (Fall & Spring)
  • FINA 7920e: Financial Modeling (Spring)
  • FINA 7920: Financial Modeling
  • HPAM 8700: Management of Public Health Organizations (Fall & Spring)
  • HPAM 7550: Quality Improvement in Health (Spring)
  • HPRB 7010: Social and Behavioral Foundations in Public Health (Fall & Spring)
  • LEGL 7050: Negotiations (Fall)
  • MGMT 7260: Service Operations (Spring)
  • MIST 7690: Business Process Management (Spring)
  • RMIN 7100: Risk Management (Fall & Spring)

Typical Job Titles

Administrative Fellow, Consultant, Account Manager, Territory Manager, Performance Partner, Concentration Path – Healthcare Management

Human Resources Concentration

Overview

With more than 70% of US GDP coming from the services sector, managing human resources has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges of modern corporate organizations. The Georgia MBA concentration in Human Resource Management builds an interdisciplinary approach towards managing organizations by combining course work from the Terry College of Business and the College of Education. Students in this concentration will acquire expertise in data management and analytics, employment law, risk management, leadership and negotiations, and business strategies. This concentration builds a strong quantitative approach to the management of human capital in complex business organizations.

Companies that have hired Georgia MBAs for roles in HR in recent years include AT&T, Coca-Cola, and Manhattan Associates.

Curriculum

Required Courses (9 hours)

Choose 3 of the following:

  • ILAD 7600: Leadership and Well-Being
  • MGMT 6000: The Science of Teams & Leadership (Spring)
  • MGMT 7830: Recruitment and Selection (Fall)
  • MGMT 7840: Training and Development (Fall)
  • MGMT 7850: Performance Management & Compensation (Spring)
Suggested Electives (6 Hours)

Typical Job Titles

Human Resources Leadership Development Program Associate, Recruitment Manager, Senior Recruiter

Marketing Concentration

Overview

Students with a concentration in marketing explore the traditional area of product management alongside the emerging topics of managing brands, services, and customers. In addition, Terry recognizes that launching a marketing campaign for a new product is vastly different from managing a century-old established brand.

Curriculum

Required Courses (12 hours)
  • MARK 7600: Predictive Analytics (Fall)
  • MARK 7720: Advertising and Promotions Management (Fall)
  • MARK 7550: Social Media Marketing and Strategy (Spring)
  • MARK 7980: Marketing Analytics & Decision Making (Spring)
Suggested electives (9 hours)
  • ACCT 7600: Financial Statement Analysis (Spring)
  • ECON 7950: Competitive Strategy & Structure (Fall)
  • ENTR 7090: Critical Design Thinking (Spring)
  • ENTR 7510: Developing Successful Business Plans (Fall)
  • ENTR 7525: Managing the Entrepreneurial Venture (Fall & Spring)
  • BUSN 7900: Directed Studies in Financial Modeling
  • LEGL 7050: Negotiations (Fall)
  • MGMT 7130: Designing, Managing, and Improving Supply Chains (Fall)

Typical Job Titles

Associate Brand Manager, Marketing Specialist, Market Research Analyst, Client Executive, Concentration Path – Marketing

Operations and Supply Chain Management Concentration

Overview

The Operations and Supply Chain Management concentration offers resource management courses emphasizing manufacturing and service operations to help students build their skill sets. In addition, an extensive list of electives allows students to further tailor the concentration to their personal interests and career goals. Students can earn their Green Belt and Black Belt Lean Six Sigma certifications as part of the concentration.

Curriculum

Required Courses (9 hours)
  • MGMT 7130: Designing, Managing, and Improving Supply Chains (Fall)
  • MGMT 7220: Project Management (Spring)
  • MGMT 7260: Service Operations Management (Spring)
Suggested electives (12 hours)

Typical Job Titles

Process Improvement Specialist, Internal Consultant, Advisory and Assurance Manager, Senior Analyst – Assurance and Advisory, Procurement Manager, Six Sigma Process Consultant

Real Estate Concentration

Overview

The Real Estate concentration challenges students by combining a rigorous theoretical foundation with applications such as case studies and market simulations. Upon completing the concentration, the student should be able to analyze the complex real estate environment using their strong technical skills and increased understanding of real estate markets.

Curriculum

Required Courses (9 hours)
  • REAL 7070: Real Estate Development
  • REAL 7100: Real Estate (Spring) or
    REAL 7200: Real Estate Law (Spring) or
  • REAL 7990: Directed Study in Real Estate
  • REAL 7600: Real Estate Investment Analysis
  • REAL 7830: Real Estate Finance (Spring)
Suggested Electives (9 hours)
  • ACCT 7600: Financial Statement Analysis (Spring)
  • FINA 7100: Corporate Finance
  • FINA 7310: Investments (Fall)
  • FINA 7920e: Financial Modeling (Spring)
  • LEGL 7050: Negotiations (Fall)
  • RMIN 7010: Fundamentals of Risk Management (Spring)
  • RMIN 7100: Fundamentals of Risk Management & Insurance (Fall)
  • REAL 7076: Development (Fall)
  • REAL 7880: Valuation (Spring)

Typical Job Titles

Senior Analyst, Development, Associate Vice President, Production Associate, Senior Associate, Enterprise Planning Manager

Risk Management Concentration

Overview

Required Risk Management concentration courses provide students with a framework for understanding risk in the firm and opportunities for applying that knowledge to business situations. They develop the analytical skills needed to identify, evaluate, and mitigate financial, operational and other risks in an integrated, enterprise-wide environment.

Curriculum

Required Courses (9 hours)
  • ACCT 7600: Financial Statement Analysis (Spring)
  • RMIN 7010: Risk Management (Spring)
  • RMIN 7100: Fundamentals of Risk Management (Fall)
Suggested Electives (9 hours)

Typical Job Titles

Operational Risk Manager, Senior Specialist – Alternative Risk Technique, Client Services Manager, Risk Consultant

Areas of Focus

FinTech Focus

Overview

The area of focus in FinTech enables students to acquire the necessary academic content within a project-based learning environment to start their professional careers in this fast-growing industry.

Curriculum

Pre-Requisites
  • BUSN 6700: Strategic Principles in Financial Services Technology
  • MIST 7600: Data Analytics
  • Coursework for concentration(s) in Business Analytics, Finance, Real Estate, Risk Management, or Entrepreneurship
Required courses (12 hours)
  • BUSN 7990: FinTech project with corporate partner
  • MIST 7775: Cyber Threat Intelligence (Fall & Spring)
  • MIST 7690: Business Process Management (Spring)

Social Innovation Focus

Overview

The Social Innovation focus prepares students to work on creative solutions to challenges facing business and society. The focus can be added on to any concentration in the Full-Time MBA program and involves 15 credit hours of coursework, which includes an applied learning experience where students work on either a service-learning project, a B Corp project with a corporate partner, or be selected to participate in our Non-Profit Board Fellows Program.

Curriculum

Required Courses

Choose ONE of the following applied learning experiences:

  • BUSN 7980s: Service Learning Project (as part of Leadership Fellows program)
  • ENTR 7090: Critical Design Thinking
  • Non-Profit Board Fellow Program
Suggested electives (9 hours)

Choose any THREE from the following list:

  • BUSN 7990: Business, Government, and the International Economy (Spring)
  • ECON 6650: Economics of Organizations and Management (Fall & Spring)
  • MARK 7550: Social Media Marketing Strategy (Spring)
  • MGMT 7011: Leading Evolving Organizations (Fall)
  • MGMT 7130: Designing, Managing & Improving Supply Chains (Fall)
  • MIST 6550: Energy Informatics (Fall & Spring)

Strategy Focus

Overview

The Strategy Focus concentration is an interdisciplinary and experiential approach to consulting, combining case-based (in-class) and hands-on (projects-based) coursework from different functional areas to build the analytical and practical skills essential to a successful career in consulting. The focus complements any concentration in the MBA program, requiring 15 credit hours of coursework.

Curriculum

Required Courses
Suggested electives

Any three of the following:

  • ENTR 7090: Critical Design Thinking (Spring)
  • MGMT 7011: Leading Evolving Organizations (Fall)
  • FINA 7920e: Financial Modeling (Spring)
  • LEGL 7050: Negotiations (Spring)
  • MARK 7980: Marketing Analytics and Decision-Making (Spring)
  • MIST 7690: Business Process Management (Spring)
  • MGMT 7220: Project Management (Spring)
  • ENTR 7320: Innovative Business Projects (Practicum) (Fall)

Typical Job Titles

Consultant, Senior Consultant, Associate, Senior Associate, Focus Path – Strategy

MBA-MSBA STEM Track

For students who are interested in analytics careers and want more extensive preparation, we offer an MBA-MSBA STEM Track. A deeper dive than our Business Analytics concentration, students earn two degrees in two years – our traditional MBA plus our STEM-certified Master of Science in Business Analytics which provides eligibility for a three-year U.S. work permit upon graduation. For more information, schedule a 1:1 with MBA Admissions.