Academics
The Tuck offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) as well as a joint degree in medicine (MD/MBA) and engineering (MEM/MBA), evaluative clinical science (MAH/MBA), law and diplomacy (MBA/MALD), and public administration (MBA/MPA). Other programs include cross-registration with Fletcher School at Tufts, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Vermont Law School, and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies; a dual degree in law and diplomacy; work-study programs; foreign exchange with 6 countries; internships; and joint research with faculty. The strongest areas of study are general management, finance, marketing, and consulting. Regular programs bring approximately 300 distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. Executives typically spend a day or more at Tuck, participating in classroom discussions, giving lectures, holding office hours, and dining with students and faculty.
Eighty-one total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 39 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Analysis for General Managers
- Capital Markets
- Competitive and Corporate Strategy
- Corporate Finance
- Decision Science
- Financial Measurement, Analysis, and Reporting
- First-Year Project
- Global Economics for Managers
- Leading Organizations
- Management Communication
- Managerial Economics
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Statistics for Managers
- Strategic Analysis of Technology Systems
Exemptions from Truck’s required courses are permitted for students whose academic background and/or work experience comprehensively cover the content of a specific course. Exemptions are considered on an individual basis at the discretion of the faculty member responsible for the course.
Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time is 21 months; maximum, 21 months.
There are 42 total full-time graduate business faculty, all of whom hold a doctorate; there are 18 part-time faculty, of whom 56% hold a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated well above average for Category I institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 3; average business class size is 40.