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Full-time MBA curriculum

Earn a groundbreaking MBA from America's most innovative university. In addition to the core functions you'd expect to learn in a top-ranked MBA program, the W. P. Carey Full-time MBA emphasizes leadership development and a broad range of tools that will help you steer any organization through uncertainty.

Our transformative Connected MBA curriculum and experience shapes students into leaders who do, build, and catalyze. Over the course of your program, you will connect to yourself, others, industry, ideas, your community, and the world.

Do: Learn by doing. Practice new skills in a supportive environment and spark connections with classmates and faculty.
Build: Make an impact, establish your thought leadership, and create a career path on your own terms.
Catalyze: Become an action-oriented, connected leader with strong human skills.

Connect to your community

Use skills and expertise to address problems that matter.

Empowerment
Change agency
Net investor mentality
Make positive lasting changes

Connect to the world

Trust in skills to address far reaching, complex challenges.

Fostering an environment of stewardship
Cultivate ethical mindset in org culture
Accountability and inclusivity
Accept responsibility for social impact
Global MBA

Connect to yourself and others

Relationship building
Teamwork
Communication
EQ

Connect to industry and ideas

Tech startups
Disruptive business models

Because of the rapid rate of change across industries, the curriculum in the Full-time MBA is constantly re-examined to meet the needs of hiring companies. MBA concentrations allow you to focus on specific industries and career paths and tailor your degree to your long-term professional goals.

While most MBA programs teach theory or empirics, the W. P. Carey Full-time MBA goes a step further, by putting those elements into practice. You won't just gain knowledge, you'll learn to apply it, both as a thought leader and through collective decision-making. And you'll unlock the values and principles of being a Net Investor, leaving your surroundings better than you found them.

Full-time MBA students learn how to apply data analytics to key business decisions, work with non-business ASU master's degree students on action-learning projects to build cross-functional skills, and develop design thinking and improvisation skills to manage ambiguity.

Summer internship

An internship is required between your first and second year in the Full-time MBA program. An internship allows you to showcase the skills you've acquired in the program with a potential future employer, and give you real-world experience in the field or function you're looking to pursue. Your W. P. Carey internship fulfills Curricular Practical Training requirements for F-1 student visa status.

Full-time MBA core courses

Financial Accounting

Explores contemporary financial accounting and reporting systems, with an emphasis on the interpretation and evaluation of a company’s external financial reports.

Organizational Behavior

Investigates concepts and applications of understanding people at work, including developing a positive organizational culture, making sound business decisions, motivating and influencing people, building successful teams, and leading organizational change.

Sources of Competitive Advantage

Examines how strategic leaders create and maintain competitive advantage for their organizations through the formulation and implementation of business strategies, emphasizing the integration of decisions across various functional areas.

Career Coaching

Focuses on a system designed to help students take an active role in their career development through self-reflection, skills and values assessment, market research and identifying potential roadblocks to obtaining an internship or full-time role after graduation. Also introduces the concept of a personal narrative and provides experiential learning opportunities to refine their own personal narrative and understand how to fine-tune and tailor it for a variety of career applications.

Statistics for Business

Analyzes fundamentals of quantitative analysis to aid managerial decision.

Executive Connections

Teams you with senior executives to enhance leadership competencies through experiments in leadership and lunch and learn sessions, as well as coaching, mentoring, and career preparation outside of class.

Managerial Finance

Examines theories and practice of financial decision-making, including risk analysis, valuation, capital, budgeting, cost of capital, and working capital management.

Marketing Management

Considers the complexities of the marketing function, including segmentation, targeting, and positioning; customer decision making; market and environmental analysis; marketing planning and strategy; and concept control vital to forging competitive success.

Managerial Economics

Applies microeconomics analysis to managerial decision-making at the firm level in areas of supply and demand, production, cost, and pricing.

Managerial Accounting

Investigates managerial accounting strategic concepts, policies, and practices.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Reviews conceptual foundations for operational and logistic functions for all types of organizations, and applies analytical methods to production problems.

Decision-making with Data Analytics

Presents frameworks and approaches to consume and interpret results obtained from data analytics and equips you to recognize patterns in data and models, recommend actions, and implement necessary organizational changes. Readings and case studies address various decision-making dilemmas and challenges facing managers in an analytics-rich business environment.

Managerial Communications

Develops your ability to communicate to multiple audiences, with training in presentation skills, public speaking, and writing, along with opportunities to practice your skills and receive peer and instructor feedback.

Experiential Learning Labs

Pairs MBA students with non-business ASU master’s degree students on action-learning projects that deliver cross-functional skills. Business doesn’t happen neatly between the clear-cut lines of traditional business school core courses. Business happens across all industries, disciplines, and economies.

Ethical Issues for Managers

Investigates the ethical components of business decisions and the role of business in society.

Leadership & Teamwork

Prepares you to become more comfortable and skilled at dealing with ambiguous situations by building skills in design thinking, improvisation, super-flexibility, sense-making, rapid execution, and leading transformative change. Use experiential learning activities to experiment and recalibrate in real time, building immediate applied confidence and finesse.

Strategic Management

Explores the formulation of strategy and policy in the organization, emphasizing the integration of decisions in functional areas.

2024 - 2025 Course scheduling

Fall Semester

WPC 502: Career Coaching (.5) (runs the duration of the semester)

Quarter 1

ACC 502: Financial Accounting (2.5)
MGT 588: Sources of Competitive Advantage (2.5)
WPC 501: Statistics for Business (2.5)

Quarter 2

MKT 502: Marketing Management (2.5)
SCM 502: Operations and Supply Chain Management (2.5)
MGT 525: Leadership and Teamwork (2.5)
MGT 526: Executive Connections (.5 cr)

Spring Semester

WPC 502: Career Coaching (.5) (runs the duration of the semester)

Quarter 3

FIN 502: Managerial Finance (2.5)
CIS 503: Decision Making with Data Analytics (2.5)
WPC 503: Managerial Communications (1.5)
MGT 526: Executive Connections (.5)

Quarter 4

ACC 503: Managerial Accounting (2.5)
ECN 502: Managerial Economics (2.5)
MGT 526: Executive Connections (.5)

Summer Semester

WPC 584: Internship (.5) (runs the duration of the semester)

Fall Semester

BUS 593: Experiential Learning Lab (3) (runs the duration of the semester)

Quarter 5

MGT 502: Organizational Behavior (2.5)
MGT 526: Executive Connections (.5)

Quarter 6

MGT 526: Executive Connections (.5)

Quarter 7

LES 582: Ethical Issues for Managers (1.5)
MGT 526: Executive Connections (.5)

Quarter 8

MGT 589: Strategic Management (3)