Willamette University

Full-Time MBA Formats

Early Career

The Willamette Early Career and Career Change MBA is an excellent choice for recent college graduates and applicants with limited work experience who are seeking their first professional position or career change. Previous work experience is not required.

The program features an excellent faculty, an integrated curriculum that provides the knowledge and perspective required for management decision-making, a full program of career services and student organizations, and resume building professional experience through internships, class consulting projects with real clients and a realm of innovative courses that emphasize "learning by doing." 

In just 21 months, Willamette MBA students learn the principles of management, refine their career interests, develop one or more career areas of interest, and build the network and portfolio of experience needed for successful careers in a competitive global economy.

MBA Curriculum

Fall Semester - First Year

  • Data Analysis, Modeling & Decision Making
  • Accounting for Managers
  • Managing Organizations: Individuals, Teams and Human Resources
  • Managing Organizations: Design and Change
  • Marketing: Creating Satisfied Consumers
  • PACE I: Practical Application for Careers & Enterprises
    * Consulting for Not-for-Profit & Government Organizations
    * Achieving Your Career Goals

Spring Semester - First Year

  • Economics, Finance and Markets I or II
  • Operations and Systems Management
  • PACE II: Practical Application for Careers & Enterprises
    * Consulting for Not-for-Profit & Government Organizations
    * Developing an Entrepreneurial Venture
  • Elective
  • Elective

Summer - Internship or Other Pursuits

Fall Semester - Second Year

  • Politics and Public Policy for Managers
  • Leading Ethical, Socially Responsible and Sustainable Organizations
  • Experiential Elective or Elective
  • Elective
  • Elective

Spring Semester - Second Year

  • Strategic Management
  • Experiential Elective or Elective
  • Elective
  • Elective
  • Elective

Areas of Interest

Early Career students may pursue their individual career interests in one or more of the following areas of interest:


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Early Career/Career Change MBA Brochure