Specialized career tracks

The new climate career track equips MBA students with the knowledge and skills to make a positive impact on the business landscape of the future. Learn to navigate the interconnections between the business world and the natural world with climate-focused courses and future-minded career development opportunities.

• Course highlights
  Ethics & Sustainability; Sustainability & Innovation; Impact Investing; Indigenous Relations & Climate Economy; Supply Chain Management; Applied Methods in Technology Start-ups at CDL Climate
• Where can it take you?
  Corporate consulting; Business strategy, development and analytics; ESG corporate governance
• Companies hiring UBC grads
  PwC, Amazon, Elemental Energy, Recycle Smart 

The technology and analytics leadership career track is designed to give MBA graduates the skills to drive change and lead in the evolving digital age. You will learn to lead in technology industries, consult with dynamic technology companies and deepen your skill in data analysis and visualization.

• Popular courses
  Data visualization; AI commercialization; business development for scaling up; fintech; customer analytics; automation; economics of strategy & innovation; predictive analytics and machine learning

• Where can it take you?
  Technology consulting, product management, business analysis, business intelligence, process improvement

• Companies hiring UBC grads
  Amazon, Deloitte, Lululemon, PwC, Teck Resources

Become an expert on topics including: mergers and acquisitions, capital budgeting, strategic financial management, corporate restructuring, credit analysis, private equity, and venture capital.

• Popular courses
  Corporate finance: planning and valuation; banking, currency and capital markets; fintech; venture capital; corporate finance; investment management; risk management; mergers and acquisitions

• Where can it take you?
  Financial analysis, commercial banking, corporate finance, asset management, investment banking, risk management, securities sales and trading, financial and management consulting, financial technology, financial innovation, venture capital, executive leadership, governance, market and business regulation.

• Companies hiring UBC grads
  BMO, Bosa, BCI, CIBC, Colliers, Deloitte, InvestX, JP Morgan Chase, Lululemon, Nicola Crosby, RBC

Discover how to transform market insights into market opportunities, and develop the skillset required to develop, introduce and sustain products and services in the private and public sectors.

• Popular courses
  Brand management; process fundamentals; market research; supply chain management

• Where can it take you?
  Marketing management, category management, brand management, business analysis, product management, product marketing, business intelligence, sourcing, logistics

• Companies hiring UBC grads
  Amazon, Aritzia, Microsoft, TELUS, PwC, RBI, Stemcell

Learn a systematic process to validate market gaps and validate hypotheses for viable new ventures.  Or become an ‘intrapreneur’ who builds innovation and manages creative product development within organizations— from early stage startups to established market leaders.

• Popular courses
  Technology entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial finance; growing and exiting a venture; Creative Destruction Lab – start-up venture analytics; sustainability and innovation; new product development; social entrepreneurship

• Where can it take you?
  Create your own company, Work in a fast-growth, early stage company, Venture capital and seed financing, or as an ‘intrapreneur’ - corporate innovator within a larger company

• Companies hiring UBC grads
  Appara, Article, ChopValue, DaaNaa, Hootsuite, KPMG (Ignition Group), TTT Studios.
  
  Our graduates have created their own successful companies, like Cartems Donuterie,  HeadCheck Health, Komo Comfort Foods, Laid Back Snacks, Susgrainable.

You also have the option of creating a customized MBA, which enables you to explore multiple sectors. This is a particularly valuable option for those considering a career in consulting, where deeper knowledge across various industries and business function is an asset.

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  By tailoring your courses, you can further explore your interests and combine knowledge acquired from different career tracks. Companies that have hired MBAs have who opted for the customized track include: Bain & Company, BCLC, Cascadia, City of Vancouver, EY, IBM, KPMG, Monitor-Deloitte.