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Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business is one of the nation's highest-ranked Undergraduate Business Administration programs at one of the world's most prestigious universities. This rigorous four-year program teaches a wide range of business skills to ensure students become well-rounded leaders in the workplace. The program and its faculty hold students to high standards and expectations while helping them develop a strong work ethic and a valuable skill set to apply to all aspects of their professional lives.

Consistently ranked as one of the top 10 programs in virtually every category in the U.S. News and World Report: America's Best Undergraduate Business Programs, our students always strive for success. Among private institutions, our program is currently 5th place in the Best Undergraduate Business Program rankings.

  • #2 Management Information Systems
  • #2 Quantitative Analysis
  • #2 Production/Operations Management
  • #5 Supply Chain Management/Logistics
  • #9 Finance
Source: 2006 U.S. News and World Report: America's Best Undergraduate Business Programs

Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate business students excel both in and out of the classroom. Not only are they regarded highly in quantitative analysis, but they are also skilled information analysts, creative problem solvers, and effective communicators. Outside the classroom, students participate in a wide range of university and community activities, including case competitions, business clubs, service groups, and sports teams.

A unique feature of Carnegie Mellon's Undergraduate Business Administration program is that, in addition to developing a solid base of technical skills and business competencies, students tailor their specific interests and talents through a curriculum that offers nine comprehensive business tracks and concentration areas. Most Business Administration majors complete at least one of these tracks, while others pursue additional minors and majors in many of the other colleges within Carnegie Mellon's campus.

Although all business majors must complete at least one track, minor, or double major in a particular area of interest, they also complete a rigorous sequence of technical courses in programming and information systems. This reflects the School of Industrial Administration's high ranking in both Quantitative Analysis and E-Commerce. Simulating the business world where the combination of technical know-how and teamwork are crucial to creating success, virtually every business class includes at least one group project, helping to develop strong communication and excellent teamwork skills.

The experience they develop through this curriculum comes from a wide variety of concentration areas, such as:

  • Computing and Information Technology
    This concentration combines two of Carnegie Mellon's core strengths: technology and business. Students learn how to integrate their business knowledge in areas such as finance, marketing, and operations with information systems and technology. You will find some of the most technologically savvy business students in the nation in this #2 ranked program.
  • Marketing
    The business program's marketing students understand and apply the principles of consumer behavior to create concrete solutions for all forms of products and services. With their strong background in statistics, computer programming, and communications, our graduates are prepared to contribute to your business in product & sales management, marketing research, and strategic planning to create effective solutions that produce results.
  • Entreprenuership
    Students pursuing this concentration have the fundamental skills necessary to create a new business venture. Students learn to recognize good business opportunities, obtain necessary resources, direct employees, and find innovative solutions to any business situation. Entrepreneurship students are equipped with the skills necessary to help your business ventures thrive.
  • Finance
    Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate finance program produces a sound understanding of the key concepts and models central to the financial industry. Students in the finance program have excellent skills to handle your capital budgeting, securities trading, diversification, arbitrage, and option pricing challenges. From asset management to venture capital financing, graduates from this program have the analytical tools to work in a wide variety of financial areas.
  • General Management
    A self-defined, flexible program that allows students with multiple business interests to tailor their own program to fit their strengths and needs, this #4 ranked general management program produces highly motivated and innovative workers with strong communication, excellent problem solving, and superb analytical skills. General management students are dedicated to achieving their goals, making them valuable additions to your business environment.
  • Graphics Communications Management
    This concentration trains students to manage every aspect of printing, publications, and media development in today's fast-changing information age. Graphic Media Management students are talented individuals with strengths in visual creativity, communications, and technologies that can help them manage your electronic and emerging media needs.
  • International Management
    The International Management track prepares students for business on a more global scale by emphasizing cultural understanding. These students are conversant in at least one additional language upon graduation. International Management students are prepared to network and manage effectively in the international business arena.
  • Manufacturing Management and Consulting
    Students graduate from this concentration with a rich knowledge base and experience to handle operations and management issues from the boardroom to the tool room. This track concentrates on helping students develop one of the most advanced set of quantitative and analytical skills. Students in this #2 ranked program can help you meet your ever-changing logistics, manufacturing, servicing, and consulting needs.