Industry-engaged business education at the graduate level focuses on specialization, depth, and strategic application in professional settings. You may participate in full-time internships, consulting projects with corporate partners, global immersion programs, or advanced capstone courses in sectors like energy, analytics, and finance.
MBA in Finance
Our full-time MBA with a Finance concentration explores derivatives, fixed-income analytics, risk valuation, risk management and more. Graduate students complement classroom knowledge with experiential learning opportunities—whether it’s conducting equity research and writing investment reports or participating in a student-managed fund.
Climate Change, ESG, & Financial Markets
In this program, students explore how climate change risks can affect the economy and financial markets. Focusing on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors, they work in teams to design and test trading strategies that either hedge against climate-related risks or aim to generate stronger returns by investing in climate-conscious and ESG-aligned assets.
Course Spotlight
Burkenroad Reports
Each year, 200 Freeman students work in teams to provide coverage for 40 small-cap public companies headquartered in six southern states. Teams meet with top management, visit company sites, design financial models, and publish in-depth, unbiased investment research reports.
Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund
In the Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund course, students actively manage more than $5.8 million in equity assets across three portfolios, often outperforming benchmark indexes. They develop proprietary sector models and make investment decisions with real portfolios—an opportunity few undergraduate programs offer.
Alternative Investments
The Selber courses move students as close to the real world as possible. Industry experts serve as mentors throughout the semester, as students build an investment pitch to raise committed capital for a distressed debt fund or a hedge fund. The celebrated speaker series allows students to interact with leaders actively doing the work in the alternative investment space.
MBA Impact Practicum
In the project courses for the Masters of Management in Energy and the Master of Business Analytics, students engage directly with industry leaders to solve the cutting edge challenges presented by the energy transition and rise of analytics. Past projects have included analyzing solar investment opportunities and optimizing logistics costs for immediate application.
MBA Consulting Practicum
Students gain a mix of strategic, analytical, and client-facing skills while working on real business challenges in this practicum. They work in teams and collaborate with corporate or nonprofit clients to solve real business challenges, guided by experienced faculty advisors.
Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development
We equip our graduates with a blended education in business, economics, sustainable design, urbanism, and legal issues in the MSRED degree. The program is practice-oriented and emphasizes opportunities for students to gain experience and build a professional network in innovative for-profit, nonprofit and public settings.
Master of Accounting (MACCT)
Students learn forensic accounting by testifying in moot court and how to work with a team through improv exercises.
