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Full-Time MBA Consulting Track
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Get a STEM-designated MBA focused in consulting.
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One of the top MBAs for consulting in the US.
Wherever your consultancy career takes you—advising senior management as an internal consultant or helping clients solve critical business problems as an external consultant—Simon’s MBA consulting track will give you the tools to become a valuable and sought-after advisor.
Our world-class consulting courses provide the knowledge to consult on strategic management as well as sector-specific topics such as IT, finance, marketing, HR, and operations. Specializing your MBA in consulting will prepare you for any analytical problem, strategic pivot, and implementation challenge. Get ready for a new level of strategic clarity.
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Study under renowned MBA faculty.
Students focusing their MBA in consulting benefit from studying with top business researchers and innovators to equip them for success in their own consulting careers. The MBA faculty at Simon Business School have deep knowledge and practical experience in a range of business topics and are often at the forefront of research. Their areas of focus include operations, human resources, pricing, analytics, business modeling, and process improvement.
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Focus your MBA in consulting.
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With Simon’s Integrated Student Experience, your career development begins before you reach campus. Throughout the program, you are supported by a Career Action Team made up of peers with similar career interests, Simon advisors, and alumni.
Network with your peers and alumni, find your MBA specialization, prepare for your consulting career—it’s all possible at Simon.
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Students specializing in consulting will find a variety of extracurricular opportunities at Simon that will complement their consulting courses and prepare them for a future in strategic management. These hands-on events and organizations include:
- Simon Consulting Club and case competitions
- Vision Consulting(short-term consulting partnerships with Rochester organizations)
- Simon Data Analytics Club
- Simon Finance and Investment Club
- Simon Pricing Club
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See how Simon clubs drive your professional growth.
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Career-ready MBA consulting specializations.
Simon offers four MBA consulting specializations: strategy, pricing, technology, and operations. Students focusing their MBA in consulting benefit from more than just a world-class MBA education; they’ll also gain experience that will help them succeed in a range of consulting careers. In addition, each MBA specialization has an option to graduate with STEM designation. Pursuing STEM designation signals quantitative rigor to future employers and allows international students the opportunity to extend Optional Practical Training (OPT).
Click the specializations below to see required courses, which you’ll take in addition to Simon’s core MBA curriculum and electives.
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Strategy
Organizations frequently face unstructured, ambiguous business challenges and often depend on consultants to overcome them. In our strategy consulting specialization, you’ll learn to bring clarity to these situations by identifying the root causes of business problems and sources of new opportunities. Our MBA consulting courses will prepare you to respond to problems and opportunities by using advanced business strategies obtained using Simon’s economics-based approach to management.
Click each tile below for a brief course description.
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Pricing
Simon was the first business school to offer a specialized pricing track within the MBA program. Today we are one of just two US business schools to offer a pricing program. As part of our consulting courses, students earn comprehensive, state-of-the-art training in pricing theory and techniques. Our MBA graduates are well-equipped to pursue strategic consulting opportunities related to pricing and make an immediate impact on their company’s bottom line.
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Technology
The technology specialization in our MBA consulting track examines leading approaches for the design and development of effective business processes that leverage information technology. It also emphasizes the business issues that arise in choosing information technologies, designing information processes for the effectiveness of specific applications, and using enterprise information technology for gaining competitive benefits. Throughout your technology consulting courses, you’ll learn how to analyze the fundamental subjects of business information and decision processes in organizations as well as the resulting economic and technological trade-offs.
A technical background prior to entering the MBA program is not a prerequisite to success in Simon’s technology consulting track.
Click each tile below for a brief course description.
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Operations
Operations consulting has become increasingly important due to growing interest in productivity and in streamlining an organization’s operations for competitive advantage. Our operations specialization as part of the consulting MBA will provide a deep understanding of how firms manage physical, financial, and human resources through operations strategy. These consulting courses prepare you to advise on producing, distributing, and selling goods and services.
Click each tile below for a brief course description.
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