Your Learning Experience
The MBA That Puts You First
The DeGroote MBA seamlessly integrates classroom learning with real-world experiences to address industry needs and opportunities. Our program emphasizes hands-on learning in a supportive and inclusive environment, helping you develop critical thinking and collaborative skills essential for success.
Core Curriculum
The first year of our redesigned MBA program’s prioritizes your needs. We’ve streamlined classes, coursework and schedules to offer an uncompromised education and a balanced workload. Our emphasis on experiential learning gives you more hands-on opportunities in real-world scenarios.
Following your first and second term, you have the option to choose a specialization, or continue to study business more broadly. This allows you the flexibility to customize your academic experience to meet your career goals. See below to see specializations.
| Term 1 |
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| Financial and Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making |
| Organizational Behavior: Understanding People at Work |
| Essential Business Skills: Effective Decision Making, Communication and Team Success |
| Managerial Economics: Economics for Investment Decision Makers |
| Business Analytics: Generating Insight through Data and Analytics |
| Digital Transformation: Thriving in a Changing Landscape (Co-op Only) |
| Management Consulting: The Theory and Practice of Delivering Value to Your Clients (Full-Time Only) |
| Key Milestones in the First Four Months of Your MBA |
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| Career Launch Course: July-August (Virtual) |
| International Welcome Week: August 26-30 |
| Onboarding: September 3-6 |
| Classes Start: September 9 |
| GRIT Week: October 15-18 |
| Industry Consulting Project: September-December (Full-Time Only) |
| Fall Exam Period: December 7-19 |
| Start of Co-op Work Term 1: January (Co-op Only) |
| Career and Professional Development support throughout including career coaching, interview prep, alumni coffee breaks and networking. |
| *Key Milestone dates are for 2024 entry. Dates for 2025 entry will be confirmed in May 2025. |
| Term 2 |
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| Core Business Skills: Foundational Tools for Strategic Management |
| Corporate Finance: Tools for Value Creation and Risk Management |
| Marketing Strategy: Creating Firm and Customer Value |
| Operations Management: Improving Processes in Service, Retail, and Manufacturing Industries |
| Digital Transformation: Thriving in a Changing Landscape (Full-Time Only) |
| Management Consulting: The Theory & Practice of Delivering Value to Your Clients (Full-Time Only) |
| Health and Society: Shaping the Vision for Efficient and Equitable Healthcare (Co-op Only) |
| In term 2, Full-Time MBA with Co-op students choose between |
| Sustainability Leadership: Creating Sustainable Futures for Strategic Transformation OR |
| Emerging Industries and Disruptive Innovation: Navigating the VUCA Environment for Strategic Leadership |
| Term 3 and 4 |
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| Allows you to customize your academic experience to meet your career goals. More information about specializations is below. |
Experiences Throughout Your MBA
GRIT Week
Once per semester in your first year, you’ll participate in a week-long immersive experience, allowing you to apply your newly-acquired knowledge in practical scenarios developed with our faculty and employer partners. Expect the unexpected. These unique activities generate resilient, integrated thinkers, and provide valuable talking points for interviews.
Specializations
As a first-year DeGroote student, you’ll build a solid foundation in business education, regardless of your background in science, engineering, history or political science. Our Foundations module is designed to develop your business acumen and ensure you grasp essential business concepts. Throughout your first year, you’ll delve into core business principles, preparing you for the comprehensive MBA curriculum. In your second year, you’ll have the opportunity to declare your specialization, tailoring your education to your career goals.
General MBA
Our General MBA offers a comprehensive foundation in all key areas of management, complemented by a wide range of electives. This allows you to design a broad course of study, tailored to your individual backgrounds and interests.
Business Analytics
Our Business Analytics specialization blends descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics courses with practical applications. You’ll gain hands-on experience with industry-standard analytics software.
Data analytics is a rapidly growing field, with significant employment opportunities in Canada. This specialization offers diverse career paths in finance, marketing and operations.
Additionally, it prepares you for professional designations like the INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) and SAP Business Integration Certification.
Finance
Our Finance specialization covers modern financial decision-making for firms and investors. After an introductory course on financial management, you’ll learn to:
- Price options, futures, and derivatives
- Utilize portfolio management tools
- Apply economic and quantitative analysis to financial problems
- Implement these concepts through cases, simulations, projects, and market analysis
This specialization also prepares you for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation exams and is recognized by the CFA Institute for incorporating over 70% of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge (CBOK).
Health Services Management
The Health Services Management (HSM) specialization equips future leaders with essential management skills in planning, operations and evaluation. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the complexities, challenges and opportunities within our health system.
- Solid Management Foundation: Our curriculum provides a robust grounding in management principles, tailored specifically for the health services field.
- Real-World Experience: Engage in work terms within the health sector, designed to meet specific educational objectives, ensuring you graduate with practical, hands-on experience.
- Accelerated Career Growth: The combination of MBA training and specialized health services courses prepares you to excel rapidly in your career.
Through our strategic alliance with the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL), the HSM specialization offers advanced standing towards earning the Certified Health Executive (CHE) designation, the only professional credential for health leaders in Canada. You must complete the CHE program requirements within three years from the date of enrolment.
Marketing
The Marketing specialization will help you master both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of customer behavior in consumer and business markets. This specialization offers a comprehensive curriculum that covers essential concepts, theories and applications needed for successful marketing. Integrated experiential learning opportunities ensure you gain hands-on experience, applying what you learn in real-world scenarios.
Graduates are well-prepared for careers in various marketing roles, including marketing management, new product marketing, brand management, services marketing, marketing research, retailing, sales, advertising and promotion. You’ll receive the education and experience necessary to excel in both consumer and business marketing, whether operating in domestic or international markets.
Strategic Business Valuation
The Strategic Business Valuation prepares you to be part of the next generation of valuation professionals. Through a unique interdisciplinary approach that blends finance, economics and accounting principles, you’ll learn best practices for business valuation. This includes mastering investigative techniques to identify the drivers of value in an enterprise, engaging in case analysis and class discussions and participating in panel discussions with industry experts.
When you graduate, you’ll be well-equipped to excel in the field of business valuation.