About The Program
The Cohort MBA program equips students with timeless business skills and proficiencies while emphasizing the mastery of managerial technologies and concepts that are altering the business landscape. Established in 1996, the Cohort MBA program is new enough to be evolving but established enough to build on courses that have been refined over the last 25 years in the School of Management.
Admission to the program is selective with a maximum of 60 highly qualified students entering each year. Students typically average over 640 on the GMAT and have completed at least three years of work before joining the program.
This 53-credit-hour program features a full-time, daytime core curriculum that students complete in 16 months. Each
"cohort" of students starts the program in August, and graduates 16 months later, in December. Students follow a lock-step progression through the program, taking all their core classes together Monday through Thursday of every week.
Students start adding elective coursework from their second semester onwards based on their areas of interest. They may select from the large number of elective courses offered by the School of Management. Most of these elective classes are taught in the evening. Many students work as interns and/or take elective coursework during the summer semester.
In addition to academic classes, Cohort MBA program students receive a number of benefits designed just for this program, including:
- Mentors who help individual students with career planning
- Refresher courses in accounting and math during orientation
- Business communications training that is built into the first semester
- Seminars from The UTD School of Management Career Management Center
- A staff dedicated to managing the full-time program
