Ross Full-time MBA

The Ross MBA curriculum prepares you to lead by offering a combination of rigorous fundamentals, practical experience, and the freedom to explore. We want you to leave with broader aspirations, the tools to achieve them, and the confidence to pursue them.

Year One: Absorb the Fundamentals … Then Test Them

The first year core features four seven-week terms: Fall A, Fall B, Winter A, and Winter B. The first three terms give you a broad grounding in the fundamentals of

• accounting
• business economics and public policy
• business information technology
• finance
• law, history, and communication
• management and organizations
• marketing
• operations and management science
• strategy

In the fourth term, you put the core to work in the Multidisciplinary Action Project (MAP) course, integrating your analytical tools with teamwork and leadership development on a strategic consulting project inside an actual firm or organization.

Year Two: Electives

In the second year, choose electives at Ross and other top-ranked graduate and professional schools at the University of Michigan. You may want to broaden your MBA to explore social enterprise, emerging markets, or operations. Perhaps you are interested in entrepreneurial management or environmentally sustainable business. Ross also offers more than 20 dual-degree options in cooperation with other U-M schools and colleges. You’ll need to take enough coursework to complete 57 total graduate credit hours during your two years at Ross.

At Ross, we believe that the lack of necessary financial resources should not be a barrier to attending our MBA Program. A number of scholarships, fellowships, and guaranteed loan packages are available, and approximately two-thirds of students at Ross receive some form of financial aid.

Estimated Expenses for 2009 – 10

• Tuition and Fees $42,989 (Michigan Resident)
  $47,989 (Non-Michigan Resident)
• Books (includes first-year computer expense) $4,160
• Room and Board $11,762
• Federal Loan Fees $100
• Other/Personal (includeshealthcare costs) $4,042
• Estimated Total $63,053 (Michigan Resident)
  $68,053 (Non-Michigan Resident)

The Stephen M. Ross School of Business is the business school of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as an executive education program. Ross also offers dual degrees with the colleges and schools of urban planning, engineering, medicine, law, public policy, social work, education, nursing, information, music, and the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE).

The Ross School of Business is consistently ranked as one of the top business schools in the world and prides itself in developing strong leaders for the global marketplace through its unique action-based learning approach. Ross has highly ranked Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), MBA and Executive Education programs. Publications such as U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times have consistently ranked both the school's undergraduate and professional programs highly, often as one of the top five in the U.S. In the year 2006 The Wall Street Journal ranked the MBA program #1 overall; in 2008 BusinessWeek ranked the MBA program #5 overall, while U.S. News & World Report ranked its undergraduate program #3 overall.