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Concentrations

Tailor your MBA to your career goals

When you pursue your MBA, you’ll gain skills and knowledge that span the core disciplines of business: finance and accounting, operational excellence, marketing insight, data analysis, and more. These broad fundamentals create a strong foundation for your success.

Through concentrations and career pathways, you’ll develop specialized knowledge and get hands-on experience that aligns to your professional goals. Career pathways – a short, sequenced set of courses – are thoughtfully designed to build progressive knowledge and prepare you to solve complex problems in an industry-relevant context. You’ll also have access to a wide variety of electives to further personalize your MBA experience.

UNC Kenan-Flagler is recognized for its robust concentrations, including:

  • Real Estate: One of the nation’s largest programs.
  • Healthcare: Collaborates with UNC’s top-ranked schools of medicine and pharmacy and major companies in the RTP area.
  • Consulting: Ranked #5 among MBA programs by Fortune for 2025.
  • Business Analytics & Management Science: Equips students with strategic decision-making and data analytic skills to lead companies.

Regardless of the pathway or concentration you choose, you’ll work with world-class professors and industry experts, engage in unique experiential learning opportunities, and graduate ready to excel in your internship and post-MBA career.

Learn what it takes to join the UNC-Kenan Flagler Full-Time MBA program

Explore career pathways and concentrations

Courses and experiential opportunities are updated regularly to reflect the skills employers value most, while delivering the leadership development and competencies that are central to the UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA program.

Our focus area reflects the school’s unique resources and depth of expertise in supporting the next generation of family business leaders.

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