Some Delaware MBA programs offer concentrations to their students based on their desire to deepen their learning and understanding of leadership, human resources, or health administration. These classes allow you to master specific skills that will most benefit you after graduation from your MBA program.
University of Delaware’s Lerner Business & Economics program provides the following concentrations:
Healthcare Management
In a healthcare concentration, you’ll gain advanced leadership and business skills. You’ll also receive opportunities that allow you to enter this fast-growing industry. The content of the specialization includes healthcare reform, informatics, population-based care, E-service delivery, and patient experience.
Hospitality Business Management
In the hospitality business management concentration, your learning focuses more on the hospitality industry, specifically the functional business areas. Your hospitality coursework will be taught by hospitality faculty. Once you graduate, you’ll be able to find employment as a restaurant manager, hotel manager, marketing strategy consultant, casino manager, director of food and beverage, hospitality information systems manager, or event manager.
Human Resource Management
Goldey-Beacom College’s MBA program has a human resource management concentration. If you already work with an organization, this specialization will help you to expand your knowledge of recruiting, on site mediation, and more. Joining a specialization such as this will also allow networking with others in the field and help you gain insight.
Marketing Management
In the Goldey-Beacom College’s MBA program, a marketing management concentration gives you additional coursework in international marketing and current topics. You’ll also be able to choose an elective in information technology/computer science, which will add credit hours to your total degree but can be very useful if this subject is of interest to you.
Entrepreneurship/Business
Goldey-Beacom College MBA also has an entrepreneurial studies concentration. If launching your own business is one of your plans, this concentration includes everything you need to learn, including innovation and intrapreneurship in larger organizations. Your concentration coursework includes entrepreneurship, creating and leading new ventures, project management, and social entrepreneurship.