The Marquette MBA: Shaping Excellence

MBA Blog / 9th April 2025

Q. To what extent are students able to personalize their MBA experience?

Personalization is at the heart of Marquette’s MBA offerings. Students tailor electives to match career goals, with in-demand options like negotiations, leadership, and management. We also factor prior business studies into decisions on whether to grant waivers for foundational-level courses, which can expedite program completion for students with business backgrounds.

In addition to MBA specializations in finance, marketing, and leadership, I want to particularly highlight the STEM-designated Business and Managerial Analytics specialization, which was launched in 2024 and has already been selected by 16% of new students. We’re also excited to support three new specializations planned for fall 2025: Data Science and AI, Systems Engineering and Clinical Immersion in Medical Device Design.

The EMBA experience is also highly personalized through the tight-knit cohort format and electives offered based on students’ interests. Recent electives have included Interpersonal Influence, Authentic Leadership and Sponsorship and Mentorship.

Q. How does student diversity impact learning and support?

Diverse academic and professional perspectives greatly enrich Marquette’s MBA program, which is designed to support students with academic backgrounds within and beyond business.

MBA student Valeria Navarro Villegas:
“Collaborating with classmates from diverse industries has provided fresh perspectives and challenges me to think critically about innovative solutions to real-world problems.”

Within the EMBA, teams are purposefully mixed to foster dynamic learning—pairing, for example, service-industry pros with manufacturing experts, or technical minds
with liberal arts thinkers.

Recent EMBA graduate Cynthia Baricos:
“My team had a marketing leader from France, an accounting leader from Upper Wisconsin, an ER Physician from Korea, and an operations leader in the legal field born in Colombia. This diversity offered different lenses with which to view the world and the materials I was learning. My experience was better for having them in my cohort and my life is richer because of our continued friendships.”

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