The BYU Marriott Executive MBA requires 54 credit hours of coursework. The curriculum provides broad management training while strengthening strategic thinking, leadership judgment, and cross-functional decision making.
Core areas of study include:
- Accounting
- Finance
- Marketing
- Operations
- Strategy
- Organizational behavior
- Global management
Courses are designed to complement professional experience and deliver immediate value in the workplace.
The program schedule is structured to be accessible and relevant for working professionals and to help maintain a balance between work, school, and family commitments.
First Year Courses
Leadership: Identifying and Developing Convictions, Strength, and Key Competencies
Examines contemporary leadership challenges. Students clarify personal values, identify leadership strengths, and build a plan to develop capabilities required for senior leadership roles.
Corporate Financial Recording
Focuses on financial accounting and reporting used by leaders to assess performance, manage risk, and allocate resources.
Business Analytics
Introduces descriptive and predictive analytics with an emphasis on managerial decision making, data visualization, and forecasting.
Human Resource Management
Explores how leaders attract, develop, and retain talent while building effective teams and organizational culture.
Marketing Management
Develops analytical tools for understanding customers, shaping strategy, and making informed marketing decisions.
Managerial Accounting I
Covers cost accounting concepts used to evaluate profitability, support strategic decisions, and manage performance.
Operations Management
Focuses on operational excellence across processes and supply chains, including capacity planning, forecasting, lean systems, and continuous improvement.
Intentional Principles for Leading and Thriving: Razor’s Edge A
Introduces principles of thriving personally, within families, and as leaders. Draws from motivation theory and positive psychology. Includes a three-day experiential learning experience and creation of a personal plan to thrive.
Second Year Courses
The General Manager’s Role
Focuses on aligning strategy, structure, culture, and leadership to drive organizational performance and manage change.
Strategy
Applies strategic frameworks to competitive environments using case analysis. Emphasizes enterprise-level thinking and long-term value creation.
Business Ethics
Examines ethical decision making, leadership responsibility, and corporate accountability within a values-based framework.
Introduction to Global Management
Integrates strategy, finance, operations, marketing, and human resources in a global context.
International Business Tours
Provides immersive exposure through visits to global companies and interaction with international executives.
Intentional Principles for Leading and Thriving: Razor’s Edge B
Builds on first-year concepts with emphasis on time, energy, resilience, and well-being. Students develop and present a comprehensive Plan to Thrive as a capstone leadership experience.
Electives
Students complete five elective courses aligned with professional goals and areas of interest while continuing core coursework.
A Cohesive and Intentional Academic Experience
The curriculum is fully sequenced and scheduled before the program begins. This structure supports academic rigor while allowing students to balance work, family, and community responsibilities.
Graduates leave the program prepared to lead with greater strategic insight, broader perspective, and lasting impact.