Pursuit of your degree begins early August with pre-term intensive workshops in statistics and team management in preparation for a first-year focus on core business functional areas including accounting, finance, marketing, management and strategy. Career Management and Professional Development programming prepares Leeds students for internships over the first summer.

The second year provides opportunity to customize your experience through the selection of electives. Elective courses offers deeper exploration of functional core disciplines of the business world: finance, accounting, marketing, management, systems-operations, as well as special-interest coursework like entrepreneurship, real estate, sustainability and global seminars. You can chart your own course toward completion of your degree, or you can leverage our unique MBA Pathways – recommended combinations of courses and co-curricular programs in fields the Front Range business community is known for: Natural & Organics, High Growth Ventures, Clean Energy, Commercial Real Estate, and ESG and Sustainability. Through partnerships with our Academic Centers of Excellence (Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, The Burridge Center for Finance, and the CU Real Estate Center) Leeds MBA students acquire targeted skills, knowledge and professional connections in these high-interest industries.