At Kelley, we start with you—helping you change careers through the right academic focus in our proven two-year curriculum that lets you tailor your education to your future, with leadership, global opportunities and teamwork built into the program.
Personalize your MBA education to successfully change careers
After you understand the basics of business, you’ll start to specialize, designing your own academic schedule of electives starting in the second semester of your first year—a huge advantage in your internship and career focus.
From the start, a Kelley MBA is your MBA—your major, your Academy and a minor or dual degree if you choose, all leading to the career you want. And, with faculty, mentors and career coaches to help get you there.
You’ll start with the Integrated Core your first semester, an intense 15-week program, led by a team of Kelley’s best faculty members, providing a strong, coordinated foundation in business fundamentals and how they work together:
- Business Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Economic Foundations
- Finance
- Financial Accounting
- Marketing
- Operations Strategy
- Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions
- Strategic Management
Throughout the Core, you’ll be on a small team with fellow students from a diverse range of professional and cultural backgrounds. Together, you’ll work on projects, become better managers, stronger collaborators, build lasting bonds, and gain a new understanding of the business world.
You’ll choose one of Kelley’s industry-focused Academies, giving you career experience through real-world cases and consulting projects while still in school—and a huge advantage in your job search.
Select from one of Kelley's seven majors or design your own. With approximately six additional credit hours (four courses), you can also add a minor in another academic area.
Apply your expertise to some of today’s most pressing business issues through our Certificate Programs.
While pursuing your MBA, you can pursue an additional master’s degree in another Indiana University school through our Joint Degree Programs.
With Kelley’s global experiences, you can be immersed in international business through our innovative, student-led programs.
Career transition
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The Core curriculum at Kelley is incredibly challenging. It stretches you in ways that you don't know you need to be stretched, but it definitely prepares you for that next step into the corporate world. I remember being four weeks into the program and being very unsure of whether I'd made the right decision to come back. But as I started to get feedback, as I started to get grades back, I started to realize that I was really learning and embraced all of the information that I was being fed as I moved through the remainder of the Core.
One of the best experiences at Kelley was finishing the Core case competition and really appreciating how much we had all developed as individuals, but how close we had also come as a team. The second semester of first-year is a really busy time with the GLOBASE [Global Business and Social Enterprise] and EME [Emerging Markets Experience] trips happening over Spring Break. And of course, classes and having to balance all of that work at the same time.
Going abroad and getting to do work in Ghana was an incredibly eye-opening experience. It gave me an appreciation for global business and the relationships that have to be built in order to do that successfully. For me, GLOBASE was an incredibly rewarding experience. It had given me some real-life experience when it came to working in teams, developing myself as a leader, as well as having an appreciation for how other cultures do business. I definitely felt prepared and ready to go into my summer and continue to learn while on the job. But I definitely felt like I was ready to go out and do that, and it was amazing to see how much I had developed over the nine months before that.
Learning goals
The knowledge, skills and attitudes our program provides for your success.
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