The curriculum is built on three core principles:

• Comprehensive Business Education: Provides a solid foundation in key business functions, including marketing, finance, human resources, and production.
• Analytical and Decision-Making Skills: Emphasizes the importance of strong analytical and decision-making abilities.

What sets Cornell's Two-Year MBA apart are its program cornerstones:

• Advanced Business Fundamentals: Offers a comprehensive foundation in key business areas during the first semester, enabling a swift transition into career-focused studies.
• Performance Learning: Integrates coursework with hands-on fieldwork, providing an immersive learning experience that develops leadership, collaboration, decision-making, and strategic thinking skills.
• Flexible Electives: Allows rapid skill and knowledge development tailored to individual goals, with access to over 4,000 courses across Cornell's top-ranked schools and opportunities for dual degrees.

Here’s what you can expect during your intense Two-Year MBA journey:

Year One

FIRST SEMESTER includes core courses to cover advanced business fundamentals and features Leading Teams and the Core Team Practicum to help you acquire critical leadership skills.

SECOND SEMESTER includes two core courses, an operations course as well as a data modeling and analyticis course, to prepare you for the growing business demand for actionable insights and predictive outcomes. The semester-long immersion of integrated class and fieldwork prepares you for a competitive summer internship.

Year Two

FIRST SEMESTER allows you to fully customize the rest of your study with electives and concentrations to broaden and deepen (respectively) your general and specific business knowledge and skills. Electives are available throughout all of Cornell University, including the University’s top-ranked schools of engineering, hotel administration, labor relations, and law.

SECOND SEMESTER continues your pursuit of career-focused study through your selected concentration and/or electives taken at Johnson or throughout Cornell, and access to a robust roster of leadership electives and expeditions, skill-building workshops, and mini-courses.

The Cornell Johnson Two-Year MBA program leverages its position within Cornell University to offer students expansive interdisciplinary opportunities. Students can cross-register across Cornell's prestigious colleges, enabling them to build a truly customized MBA experience that aligns with their specific career aspirations.

The program's cornerstone is its immersion learning model during the second semester of the first year. Students dive deep into focused career tracks like investment banking, strategic operations, digital technology, or sustainable enterprise, combining intensive coursework with real-world projects alongside industry professionals.

Leadership development remains central to the Johnson experience through programs like the Leadership Fellows and Leadership Crisis Challenge. The Park Leadership Fellows Program, offering full-tuition scholarships to exceptional leaders, demonstrates the school's investment in cultivating future business leaders.

The program's strong ties to both Wall Street and the tech sector, particularly through Cornell Tech in NYC, create robust career pathways for students. The intimate class size fosters close relationships among students, faculty, and the school's accomplished alumni network, particularly strong in finance, consulting, and technology.