- Exceptional Faculty
Many MBA students across the country take the same classes, so what makes the experience differ from college to college? One of the most important factors is the person at the front of the classroom.
At Neeley you will learn from respected, experienced scholars. Many work as sought-after business consultants, sit on corporate boards, have owned their own businesses or have held influential positions with leading companies.
They’re notable in the academic world as co-editors of the Journal of Management, officers on the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ board of directors and leaders of the Asia Academy of Management.
Most importantly, however, they are talented educators who help you discover new ways of looking at business, the world and yourself.
See faculty research highlights.
- Curriculum Plan -- Full-time MBA
Year One – Integrated Class Experience
| Fall Semester (18 semester hours) |
| You’ll work with a four- or five-person project team throughout the first year. This team approach to learning helps you expand your outlook and skill set. Because each team member brings a different work background, you’ll push each other to sharpen your personal strengths—and to develop new ones. |
| 3-Week Intensive Module |
| ACCT 60010 |
Financial Reporting (1.5 hours) |
| INSC 60010 |
Statistical Models (1.5 hours) |
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| First 6-Week Module |
| FINA 60010 |
Financial Management I (1.5 hours) |
| MARK 60010 |
Marketing Management (1.5 hours) |
| INSC 60660 |
Supply Chain Concepts (1.5 hours) |
| MANA 60330 |
Engaging and Guiding Organizations (1.5 hours) |
| BUSI 66100 |
Career Management and Professional Development (1.5 hours) |
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| Second 6-Week Module |
| MANA 60340 |
Leading and Guiding Organizations (1.5 hours) |
| BUSI 60050 |
Global Business (1.5 hours) |
| INSC 60020 |
Managing Operations and Processes (1.5 hours) |
| Plus choose one from the following: |
| FINA 70010 |
Financial Management II (1.5 hours) |
| MARK 70010 |
Marketing Issues and Problems (1.5 hours) |
| INSC 70600 |
Supply Chain Analytics (1.5 hours) |
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| 1-Week Intensive Module |
| BUSI 60070 |
Business Simulation -- Integrative Project (1.5 hours) |
| The Integrative Project, a semester-end business simulation that throws market-changing curveballs your way, tests everything you’ve learned so far. You’ll encounter supply-chain disruptions, compete for the attention of venture capitalists and resolve labor disputes. And corporate execs will be on hand to see how you handle those crucial business decisions. |
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| Spring Semester: (12-15 hours) |
| First 8-Week Module |
| MANA 60460 |
Business Ethics (1.5 hours) |
| ACCT 60020 |
Accounting for Managerial Planning and Control (1.5 hours) |
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3 - 4.5 hours of electives |
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| Second 8-Week Module |
| FINA 60020 |
Managerial Economics (1.5 hours) |
| MANA 60230 |
Legal Environment of Business (1.5 hours) |
| Plus |
3 - 4.5 hours of electives |
| During the spring semester, many students participate in Neeley & Associates Consulting as an elective. These student teams work for corporate clients, gaining new experience transforming businesses such as: assessing supply chain best practices for Lockheed Martin, building an endowment to fight family violence for Safehaven, or optimizing sales in Walmart’s new “clean store” concept for PepsiCo. |
Summer Internship
A required summer internship gives you new experiences that will transform your résumé and propel your career. TCU MBA students have interned with AT&T in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Halliburton in Houston; Intel in California; Kellogg’s in Michigan; Procter & Gamble in Ohio; Nomura Securities in New York City; and many other companies.
Year Two – Academic Concentration and Career Interests
You’ll focus on the courses, consulting projects and career activities related to your area of interest as you prepare for your career transition.
Second Year:
MANA 60630 Strategic Management (1.5 hours) taken in the first 8-week Module of the Fall Semester
19.5 - 22.5 hours of electives
Total Program = 54 semester hours
*Current students go to my.tcu.edu for curriculum information.
- Curriculum Plan -- Full-time Accelerated MBA
Fast-Track Your Career with a Tailored Curriculum
The abbreviated 36-hour plan for the Full-time Accelerated MBA is a combination of core classes (9-12 hours) and electives (14-27 hours). Each degree plan is individually developed based on your past academic and professional experience, career goals and course availability. All Full-time Accelerated MBA students are required to complete Business Ethics (MANA 60460).
You can use your electives to tailor your MBA to focus on finance, supply chain, marketing or management, or on industries such as energy, health care, real estate, entrepreneurship or consulting.
When You Start
To take advantage of the typical graduation and corporate recruiting schedule, students generally begin the Full-time Accelerated MBA in the summer semester and graduate in May. Students also may begin in the fall.
| Admission |
Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
Semester 3 |
| Summer (May) |
Summer - 6 hours * |
Fall - 15 hours |
Spring - 15 hours |
| Fall (August) |
Fall - 15 hours |
Spring - 15 hours |
Summer - 6 hours * |
* Evening courses only in summer semesters, allowing students time to continue or start employment/internships.
- Course Descriptions
Neeley MBA courses are frequently updated to reflect the innovation, information and technology that drive business forward. Consult our online catalog of courses by clicking the link below.
Accounting Courses
Business Courses
Finance Courses
Info Systems & Supply Chain Courses
Management Courses
Marketing Courses
- Available Concentrations
- ACCOUNTING
Prepares students for careers in financial analysis with professional service firms, or other accounting-related careers.
- FINANCE
– Corporate Finance:
Get ready for careers solving complex financial problems for corporations. You’ll learn how to analyze capital investment, new products, potential acquisitions, financial forecasts, capital projects and corporate assets—and how to guide corporations to make smart decisions.
– Investments:
Start a career managing financial securities and investment portfolios. You’ll learn about financial instruments, risk/return and valuation, and trading analysis.
Read more about finance concentrations
- MARKETING
– Product and Brand Management:
Move your career into brand management at a major consumer packaged goods firm. You’ll develop skills in market analytics, consumer insights and marketing innovations while learning to manage and launch multi-million dollar brands.
– Marketing Management:
En route to careers in marketing management, you’ll learn about topics ranging from campaign management to service excellence to customer satisfaction and retention.
Read more about marketing concentrations
- SUPPLY AND VALUE CHAIN MANAGEMENT:
Prepare to work at firms with extensive supply, materials, and distribution management activities. This concentration encompasses logistics planning, supply chain analysis, project management, and other operations issues. TCU’s MBA program was ranked in the nation’s top 15 programs specializing in business operations, according to The Princeton Review’s Student Opinion Honors survey of student satisfaction.
Read more about the supply chain concentration
- Industry Emphasis Areas
In addition to choosing a functional concentration, students may choose to add an industry emphasis that includes 6-9 hours of elective courses focused on a specific industry. Many electives in the emphasis areas are taught by industry insiders or feature guest presentations by industry executives.
Emphasis areas include:
- Energy
Develop your understanding of industry fundamentals: production, transportation, distribution of different commodities, the organization of specific markets and the characterization of different types of companies across all sectors of the energy complex.
Read more about the energy emphasis
- Health Care
Develop your understanding of the national health care system at all levels: manufacturing, distribution, provider, insurance, services and public policy.
Read more about the health care emphasis
- Real estate
Develop your understanding of a wide scope of real estate issues—from investments to commercial real estate to property development.
Read more about the real estate emphasis
- Consulting
Prepare to work as a consultant with businesses of all types. You’ll learn to analyze core business functions, identify strategic improvements and implement proven techniques that build a company’s competitive advantage.
Read more about the consulting emphasis
- Entrepreneurship
Prepare to launch your own business or manage new ventures for an existing company. You’ll learn how to spot and evaluate opportunities, acquire resources and create new enterprises that succeed.
Read more about the entrepreneurship emphasis
- Integrative Project
- Here’s your chance to show what you can do. In the business world, problems don't come in tidy packages. Effective business professionals must draw from many disciplines to make sound, strategic decisions. The Integrative Project requires you to do just that.
At the end of your first semester, you will tackle a week-long business simulation that tests all that you have learned to date. You and your team must be ready to convince a panel of business professors — and the corporate execs there to see you in action — that your plan solves the problem at hand and makes the most of the opportunities ahead.
The Integrative Project tests your strategic thinking, team leadership and presentation skills. And for many students, it’s a foot in the door for internship opportunities with companies such as:
Wells Fargo
Alcon
Deloitte Consulting
Ericsson
Healthpoint
Frito Lay
McKesson
American Airlines
Bell Helicopter Textron
Primerica
Federal Reserve Bank
NuStar Energy
Sabre Holdings
TTI – Techtronic Industries
Watch the video
Learn more about the Integrative Project
- Enrichment Modules
Numerous enrichment modules, a mix of on-campus workshops and online lessons, hone your technical skills and provide focused time to learn management-level business analysis. The innovative modules we use come from industry leaders – the same experts and organizations that hiring companies utilize.
Module
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Description
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Harvard Business Online:
Quantitative Analysis
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Offered summer before enrollment. A comprehensive online introduction to quantitative analysis for business originally designed for incoming MBA students at Harvard Business School. The module is presented as if you are a consultant to a multifaceted resort hotel business. Subjects covered include Decision Analysis, Decision Trees, Estimation, Hypothesis Testing, Probability, Project Planning, Quantitative Analysis, Regression Analysis, Sampling, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Methods, Value of Information.
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JumpSTART: Quantitative Analysis Seminar
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Offered in conjunction with START Workshop. Custom half-day quantitative workshop developed by the Neeley School’s Dr. Terry Dielman based on input from the Harvard Business Online quantitative analysis module. Provides students with level of proficiency needed for the Statistical Models course.
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JumpSTART: Financial Accounting Seminar
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Offered in conjunction with START Workshop. Custom three-part workshop developed by the Neeley School’s “award winning” professor, Janice Cobb. Provides students with the skills needed to understand financial statements and record transactions. Uses actual financial statements and footnotes, and provides in-class exercises to help students learn (or refresh their knowledge of) the language of accounting and obtain a level of proficiency required for Financial Accounting courses.
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JumpSTART: Excel
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Offered in conjunction with START Workshop. Provides common level of proficiency for all students using Excel for financial and valuation modeling. After a review of the basics, covers many of the features needed for modeling and other skills sought by employers, such as functions, formulas, data tables, macros and an introduction to modeling techniques.
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Career JumpSTART: Marketing
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Offered in conjunction with START Workshop: This one-day workshop is designed to familiarize students with various aspects of the Marketing discipline, including the academic preparation at Neeley, the supporting student organization, career development, career path and opportunities, etc.
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Career JumpSTART: Supply Chain
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Offered in conjunction with START Workshop:. This one-day workshop is designed to familiarize students with various aspects of the Supply Chain Management discipline, including the academic preparation at Neeley, the supporting student organization, career development, career path and opportunities, etc.
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Career JumpSTART: Finance
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Offered in conjunction with START Workshop: This one-day workshop is designed to familiarize students with various aspects of the Finance discipline, including the academic preparation at Neeley, the supporting student organization, career development, career path and opportunities, etc. |
Excel Modules
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Five separate Excel Modules will be offered to first-year students during the Fall semester to provide more in-depth knowledge and experience with specialized topics. |
- International Experiences
Get ready to learn about worldwide business issues through TCU's travel classes and study abroad options. There’s no better way to see the world and how it works.
Option 1: International Experience Electives (10-14 Day Intersession)
You'll jet to China, Italy, India, Argentina or other destinations to meet with business execs working in pharmaceuticals, apparel manufacturing, banking and other industries. And the good news: TCU's travel grants make these international experiences affordable.
Other international opportunities focus on social entrepreneurship. Students have traveled to the Dominican Republic to study how micro-loans build communities, to South Africa to learn about doing business in Africa and to Guatemala to help a handicrafts co-op put together a business plan.
Watch a video of the Dominican Republic trip.
These 3-semester-hour elective courses are taught in English by Neeley faculty and are conveniently offered between regular semesters in Winter, May and August Intersessions.
Option 2: Semester Abroad Opportunities
If a longer study abroad option would benefit your career goals, you may choose to spend the fall semester of your second year taking elective courses at one of our partner universities listed below. In some cases, you can even earn an additional degree from the partner university with only a short extension to your stay.
Burgundy School of Business, Grande École ESC Dijon - Dijon, France
Universidad Mayor - Santiago, Chile
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Prep
Pass rates for our Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) review course consistently exceed worldwide pass rates. The course is designed and taught by Dr. Larry Lockwood, Neeley professor and the Academic Coordinator for the Dallas Society of Financial Analysts (DSFA). The CFA Prep course for the Level I and Level II examinations can be taken for elective credit in the MBA finance concentration.