Program Options

• First Year. You’ll study finance, statistics, marketing, supply chain, global business, ethics, legal issues and more, including a variety of courses focused on leadership.
  • Business Simulation. At the end of your first semester, you’ll tackle a weeklong business simulation that integrates everything you’ve learned to date, challenging your team to form a business plan and navigate a variety of unexpected shifts in market conditions. The simulation tests your strategic thinking, team leadership and presentation skills. For many, it’s a foot in the door for internship opportunities with major companies.
• Second Year. You’ll study strategic management and your choice of electives that fit your goals.

The Accelerated TCU MBA gives you 100% of the MBA experience for 50% of the time. Designed for professionals interested in moving ahead in your current or closely related career field, the 36-hour curriculum combines 13.5 credit hours of core classes with 22.5 credit hours of electives that complement and complete your résumé.

Your electives can focus on a specific discipline (finance, supply chain, marketing or management) or industry (energy, health care, real estate, entrepreneurship or consulting).

• Summer. You’ll study marketing, finance, supply chain and career development and end with a business simulation that puts it all to the test. These modules are mostly online, paired with several Saturday in-person sessions, so you can continue your full-time employment until August.
• Fall. You’ll study strategic management, legal environment of business, global business and electives and intern with a DFW corporation.
• Spring. You’ll study business ethics and managerial economics, plus your choice of electives.

Qualifications
You must have a strong business background to qualify:

• BBA or equivalent from an AACSB-accredited business school with a strong academic background
• Strong performance on the GMAT
• Minimum of three years' postgraduate professional work or military experience

The Analytics Certificate meets the growing demand of graduate students and employers for expertise and experience in collecting, managing, analyzing and interpreting data. These skills are vital to organizational leadership in any field.

The Analytics Certificate is compatible with any TCU Neeley graduate business degree: Full-time MBA, Professional MBA, Health Care MBA, Energy MBA and the MS Supply Chain Management.

To earn the Analytics Certificate, TCU Neeley graduate students take 4.5 credit hours of statistical models, business analytics and data visualization, plus 3 credit hours of in-depth electives, to learn how to integrate data analytics across all areas, from supply chain to marketing to finance.

• Brand Management
• Corporate Finance
• Investments
• Supply Chain Management

Include 6-9 credit hours of electives usually taught by industry insiders.

• Consulting
• Energy 
• Entrepreneurship
• Health Care 

A mix of on-campus workshops and online lessons – featuring the same experts and organizations that hiring companies use – provide focused time to learn management-level business analysis.

• Harvard Business Online: Quantitative Analysis. Summer before enrollment. A comprehensive online introduction to quantitative analysis for business, presented as if you are a consultant to a resort hotel. Subjects include decision analysis, decision trees, estimation, hypothesis testing, probability, project planning, regression analysis, sampling, statistical analysis, statistical methods and value of information.
• Excel. We offer five separate Excel modules to first-year TCU MBA students during the fall to provide more in-depth knowledge and experience with specialized topics.

TCU Neeley is recognized for embedding a significant portion of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge into the curriculum. This signals that our curriculum is closely tied to the practice of investment management and helps you prepare for the CFA Program exams. More than 100 TCU Neeley graduates have earned CFA charters and gone on to highly successful careers in investment management around the world.

If you are interested in the program track for the CFA exam, take it as your elective credit in the finance concentration.