Michigan Ross Announces New STEM-Designated Track For Its MBA Program
A number of business schools in the U.S. are offering STEM-designated programs that allow students on an H-1B visa to get a 24 month extension as part of the training that directly relates to their field of study.
We recently compiled a list of some of the top business schools across the U.S. that offer STEM-designated programs, including Wharton, MIT Sloan, Columbia Business School among many more, and now we have yet another school joining the list.
Michigan Ross’ STEM-designated track for its MBA program
Michigan Ross School of Business recently announced a STEM-designated track for its full time MBA program designed for students interested in pursuing quantitative management and business analytics roles.
Talking about the introduction of the STEM-designated track, Scott DeRue, the Edward J. Frey Dean of Michigan Ross said:
Business analytics has become essential in helping organizations make strategic business decisions, and we are excited to announce this new pathway for our Full-Time MBA students who are interested in pursuing STEM-related careers in business. Our new STEM track will leverage the world-renowned general management curriculum at Ross to prepare students from a variety of backgrounds to be leaders in the business world of today and tomorrow.
The STEM-designated track will require the completion of 18 credit hours during the full time MBA, including electives across business disciplines such as accounting, finance, management and organizations, marketing, and technology and operations.
Set to be inculcated in the curriculum from Fall 2020, the electives within the STEM-designated track include courses like Big Data Management: Tools and Techniques; Marketing Engineering and Analytics; and FinTech: Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Other Technology Innovations.
With Michigan Ross set to focus on the three above mentioned electives, we take a slight look into them to see what they bring to the table.
Big Data Management: Tools and Techniques
Big Data Management focuses on the basic tools in acquisition, management, and visualization of large data sets, with students being taught to use SQL, Tableau, and Python. The course will further enable students to handle and construct larger data sets that would help them form an initial hypotheses based on visualization. The course will be taught by Lennart Baardman, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations, and Mehmet Begen, Visiting Associate Professor of Technology and Operations.
Marketing Engineering and Analytics
This course would focus on a systematic, analytical approach to marketing, allowing students to learn about how to target customers, optimize and position product attributes, while also helping them employ accessible analytic techniques that would potentially transform the current-day marketing practices. The course will be taught by Fred Feinberg, Joseph Handleman Professor of Marketing Professor of Statistics.
FinTech: Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Other Technology Innovations
This course introduces students to financial technologies such as blockchain, cryptofinance and smart contracts, mobile payments, P2P lending, and robo-advising, while also inculcating topics such as big data and technology commercialization within the course. The course will be taught by Robert Dittmar, Professor of Finance and Andrew Wu, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations and Finance Stein Research Scholar.
For more details, you can visit Michigan Ross’ website.
