Accelerated MBA

The Moore School's AMBA is business-focused and career-oriented. You will spend half of the program taking foundation courses and courses in our global business core with some of the world’s top business school faculty—a faculty who possess a global perspective and who are leaders in their respective fields.

From there, you’ll have the opportunity to focus in an area that aligns with your individual career goals.

Program Elements

Business FoundationFoundation courses are designed to provide a common framework for the program and all subsequent coursework. The business foundation curriculum is designed to allow some flexibility because students have different backgrounds and objectives. Foundation courses include Decision Analysis, Financial and Managerial Accounting, Global Economics, Management of Information Systems, Management of Human Capital, and Leadership. The business foundation addresses the need for business analytics as well as broad managerial and leadership skills.Global Functional CoreThese courses focus on best business practices across the disciplines of finance, marketing, and supply chain and operations management from a global perspective. Courses integrate functional and international expertise in an interactive classroom environment.Areas of FocusThe Moore School offers a curriculum relevant to students and beneficial to their career upon graduation. Students select one area of focus to gain expertise in a particular subject. These areas of focus cover different business disciplines in an in-depth manner to give students a better understanding of current business practices. A variety of learning methods are utilized including consulting projects and creating business plans, depending on which area of focus is selected. Focus areas offered:   

• Global Supply Chain and Operations Management 
• Human Resource Management
• Corporate Accounting
• Entrepreneurship
• Marketing Analytics
• General Management (ideal for JD/AMBA program option see below)

Capstone ExperienceThe capstone course is designed to integrate material covered throughout the program. A key purpose of this course is to hone critical thinking skills and develop a strategic perspective. It requires teamwork, communication skills and involvement in challenging projects and simulations. The capstone course provides exposure to cases addressing some of the most pressing issues facing the business world today, as well as exposure to the complexity of the business environment, the role of ethical leadership and the nature of stakeholder influence.

The Moore School’s AMBA program is designed for driven professionals who want to enhance their career by immersing themselves in an accelerated, focused and dynamic educational experience. Students share a desire to develop new functional expertise and a curiosity about global business structures and practices. Your AMBA cohort will be comprised of individuals from very diverse academic and professional backgrounds. From business and engineering, to liberal arts, the military or law, each student’s previous experience will play an important role in the classroom and the group learning process.

Students may also opt to pursue a joint degree, such as a Law and MBA degree (JD/MBA). Through this option, students combine elective courses from the AMBA’s General Management area of focus with courses from the University of South Carolina School of Law’s Juris Doctorate program. A student can potentially complete the requirement of this joint program in 3 ½ years.

Why Choose the Moore School?

• Ranked #3 for fastest return on an MBA student’s educational investment. Bloomberg BusinessWeek
• Ranked among the top 15 business schools identified by graduate students for excellence in operations education. The Princeton Review
• Ranked as one of the Aspen Institute’s top 30 schools that best prepare future leaders for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern business. The Aspen Institute
• Ranked as the top public university MBA program for international business and ranked #3 among all institutions in that specialty. U.S.News & World Report