Majors, Certificates & Specializations
Customize your MBA to meet your career goals
Kellogg's approach to majors and specializations gives our students the flexibility and guidance they need to create an academic experience that fits their career goals.
As an Evening & Weekend MBA student, you'll start with courses in general management that provide a solid business foundation. Next, you can select from higher level electives that speak to your career and personal goals.
Kellogg does not require students to select a major.
Instead, students have the ability to customize their own intellectual journey through our optional majors and specializations. Majors offer a structured approach to understanding a specific discipline. Specializations take a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding a specific topic. Enjoy full flexibility: you may choose to bypass majors and specializations or explore several of each. Our Evening & Weekend MBA academic advisor is available to help students determine the right path to reach their goals.
Some of our majors and specializations will require remote or Evanston campus coursework, while others – including Finance, Marketing and Strategy – are commonly achieved with all in-person Chicago courses (if desired).
Majors
Kellogg's majors are grounded in our academic departments.
- Accounting
- Economics
- Finance
- Management Analytics formerly Management Science
- Managing Organizations
- Marketing
- Operations
- Strategy
Certificates
To propel the next generation of leaders in healthcare, we offer a Certificate in the Business of Healthcare designed to equip you with a foundational knowledge of the entire healthcare ecosystem, while also allowing you to tailor your courses to your career goals in the sector.
Specializations
Specializations are sequences of courses that serve as a guide to students who want to hone a specific skill set or industry expertise. Cross-functional and integrative by nature, specializations enable students to build knowledge in emerging areas and evolving industries for which there is student and recruiter demand. Pursue any number of specializations and dive as deeply as you like into each. Specializations are not noted on transcripts.
Specializations are described for:
- Analytics and AI
- Asset Management
- Sustainability: Climate, Environment, & Energy
- Entrepreneurship
- Growth and Scaling
- Healthcare at Kellogg
- Real Estate
- Social Impact and Responsible Leadership
- Technology Management
- Venture Capital and Private Equity
The above applies to students who begin their Kellogg studies during or after Summer Quarter 2015.