Management

Unique Features

• Build your strategy, management, marketing, and financial skills to launch a startup or elevate your existing business venture.
• Take a deeper look at idea generation, financing, customer engagement, and value proposition through Northeastern's practice-oriented approach to learning.
• Tap into Northeastern's vibrant entrepreneurial community—including IDEA, our student-led venture accelerator—to bring your best business concepts to life.
• Benefit from applied learning and real-world problem-solving opportunities.
• Complete your degree in as few as 12 months with full-time study or opt for a summer vacation and complete your studies in 16 months.
• Apply your credits toward a future MBA offered at Northeastern's Boston campus.

Program Objectives

Northeastern University's MS in Management (MS x) in Oakland prepares you to take a great business idea from a raw concept to a successful launch. Your coursework covers management, data analysis, strategy, finance, and operations, through an entrepreneurial lens. You'll explore timely topics like emerging technologies, lean design, and venture financing.

Studying at our Oakland campus gives you access to all these high-impact entrepreneurship hotspot offers. You can build professional connections in one of the world's great technology centers for established companies and startups.

Career Outlook

As the world changes, how and where we do business is changing. Launching a successful business requires an increasingly broad range of expertise and the resilience to adapt in a fast-moving environment.

Earning your MS in Management (MS x) with an entrepreneurship concentration from Northeastern's D'Amore-McKim School of Business prepares you to take your ideas from a raw concept to a thriving business—and builds your professional network in one of the world's best-known hubs for tech innovation. It will also identify you as a bold and creative thinker—elevating you in your search for funding, partnerships, and support. Companies value D'Amore-McKim's emphasis on the role of data and technology in the global business world, which is why top firms, multinational businesses, and startups enjoy recruiting our graduates.

Accreditation Information

The D'Amore-McKim School of Business is accredited by AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).