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Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Flexible MBA program offers eight MBA specializations for you to choose from. An MBA specialization can be beneficial in preparing you with a deeper understanding of a specific industry to support your career goals. Customize your learning experience in one of the eight specializations listed below.
Specializations
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Specialize in artificial intelligence for business
The Artificial Intelligence for Business specialization empowers students to lead in a fast-changing environment. It offers a comprehensive learning experience that blends AI's technical foundations with real-world business applications and strategies, including a focus on responsible AI and human-AI collaboration. By mastering these critical areas, graduates will be equipped to drive transformative solutions that not only optimize business processes but also uphold ethical standards, ensure effective governance, and enhance human capacities in an increasingly AI-driven world.
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Specialize in business analytics and risk management
The Business Analytics and Risk Management MBA specialization includes quantitative courses that focus on business decisions and applications. Learn the essentials of data analysis, spreadsheet models, and risk assessment to harness data and navigate uncertainty with confidence.
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Specialize in entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship MBA specialization is designed to teach the methods, processes, challenges, and success factors in innovating and creating new products, enterprises, and services. These courses help to develop creative skills that can also apply directly back to your current organization.
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Specialize in finance
The Finance specialization within our Flex MBA program is designed to equip students with a deep understanding of financial principles and advanced analytical skills, essential for navigating today’s dynamic financial landscape. Whether students aim to master portfolio management, explore global financial markets, or develop expertise in risk management, this specialization offers a comprehensive curriculum to prepare them for successful careers in finance.
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Specialize in health care management
Harness the resources and reputation of the Johns Hopkins network and expose yourself to the experts, knowledge, and practices available at a world-leading medical school and health innovator. Prepare to stay ahead of the curve and become a leader in health care with the Health Care Management MBA specialization.
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Specialize in leadership
Regardless of industry or function, effective leadership is critical to driving high performance, innovation and financial success. Build your skills to inspire others, coordinate teams, and develop and leverage the full capacity of the people around you.
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Specialize in marketing
The Marketing specialization is designed to meet the demands of professionals in the changing field of marketing. The curriculum provides students with a strong foundation in marketing knowledge as well as skills in analytics. Most courses have a strong “hands on” component with in-class examples and group projects. Students are supplied with cutting-edge marketing techniques to identify, understand, and cultivate relationships with customers in the digital environment.
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Specialize in real estate
Taught by real estate and infrastructure practitioners, including industry titans from the Carey Business School’s real estate advisory board, the Flex MBA Real Estate specialization is curated to convey a broad and current understanding of how real estate and infrastructure deals are sourced and financed. Students will be equipped with skills such as modelling and proforma development, feasibility analysis, risk mitigation, leadership, and entrepreneurship, and an understanding of zoning and land use policy.
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Scholarship opportunities for MBA programs
We know your MBA is a big financial commitment. That’s why we offer a variety of scholarships to support your journey. Carey Business School’s scholarships recognize the achievement and promise of our prospective MBA students. Our scholarships support our commitment to diversity and inclusion by amplifying the presence of diverse voices and opinions in the classroom.
Most scholarships do not require an additional application. Talk to an admissions officer to see if you qualify.
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The Dean’s Scholarship is a merit-based scholarship for incoming students across all degree programs at Carey Business School.
With no separate application required, consideration is given based on available funding and can result in an award of up to full tuition for full-time applicants. The scholarship awardees will be notified at the time of admission to the program.
Applicable programs: Full-Time MBA, Flexible MBA, Design Leadership (MA/MBA)
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Funded through philanthropic and institutional resources, all domestic, full-time Johns Hopkins MBA applicants may be considered for financial aid. This new funding provides need-based aid up to the full cost of attendance for U.S. citizens and permanent residents in the full-time Johns Hopkins MBA program. This scholarship is NOT available for those completing a dual degree aligned with the full-time Johns Hopkins MBA program.
Domestic applicants must submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form with their Carey Business School application to be considered for these funds. The amount of scholarship will be based on the student’s demonstrated need and will be shared at the time of admission to the program.Applicable Program: Full-time MBA only
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Johns Hopkins MBA applicants may be considered for the Carey Business Fellowship, which provides full-tuition and a $19,800 stipend per year.
Students are eligible if they have three years of work experience by program start, scored above the 80th percentile on the GMAT/GRE (if required), and have a GPA of 3.3 or higher.
Applicable programs: Full-Time MBA
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Johns Hopkins Carey Business School partners with Reaching Out to offer scholarships and exclusive programs for budding LGBTQ+ business leaders in the full-time Johns Hopkins MBA, online Flexible MBA, and the Design Leadership MA/MBA programs.
Fellows receive $10,000 or more per year and access to Reaching Out programming and mentoring, LGBTQ+ leadership opportunities, summer career treks and more. No separate application is required. Fellows will be notified at the time of admission to the program.
Applicable programs: Full-Time MBA, online Flexible MBA, Design Leadership MA/MBA
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As a Forté Foundation partner, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is among a select group of schools and corporations supporting Forte’s mission to advance women in business. Forté Fellowships are competitive awards that recognize students in the full-time Johns Hopkins MBA who demonstrate a commitment to advancing women in business. The fellowships reflect the school’s longstanding investment in educating and empowering women for future leadership roles in business. These fellowships can be combined with other scholarship awards as applicable.
Students named as Forté Fellows receive scholarship funding from Carey ranging from $10,000 per year to full-tuition, renewable for two years. No separate application is required. Forté Fellows will notified at the time of admission to the program.
Applicable programs: Full-Time MBA
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The Baltimore Scholars Fellowship recognizes high-achieving Baltimore City public high school graduates in the full-time Johns Hopkins MBA program. The scholarships reflect the university’s long-standing investment in Baltimore’s students and public schools.
Baltimore Scholars Fellows receive full tuition for two years, subject to good academic standing. We select a cohort of up to five Baltimore Scholars Fellows for each full-time Johns Hopkins MBA class.
Students considered for the Baltimore Scholars Fellowship must meet the minimum eligibility requirements:
- Minimum of three years of full-time work experience by program start
- Graduated from a Baltimore City Public High School
- High academic achievement
No separate application is required. Fellows will be notified at the time of admission to the program. Meeting the above criteria does not guarantee being named a finalist.
Applicable programs: Full-Time MBA
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The Baltimore Business Scholarship recognizes high-achieving Flexible MBA students employed at an organization in Baltimore.
This scholarship reflects the school’s ongoing commitment to educating current and future Baltimore business leaders. Awards could include up to 50 percent off tuition for up to three years of enrollment in the program.
Applicable programs: Flexible MBA
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The Johns Hopkins MBA offers residents and fellows the analytical and leadership skills to advance your career and excel in the ever-changing medical industry.
Equipping excellent, ambitious medical professionals to build for what’s next, this one-of-a-kind scholarship is awarded to leaders who find technology-driven, human-centered solutions to complex health problems.
Select Johns Hopkins School of Medicine residents and fellows will receive full tuition coverage for two years, subject to good academic standing.
Students considered for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Residents and Fellows Scholarship must meet the minimum eligibility requirements:
- Current Johns Hopkins residents and fellows in good standing without any current or prior disciplinary action, academic warning, or remediation plan
- Engaged in full-time training and on schedule for an on-time graduation
- Allowed by their training program director to commit to the two-year MBA program either during a leave of absence, with the expectation to return to fulltime clinical training at the completion of the MBA program, or as part of the training program.
No separate application is required. Fellows will be notified at the time of admission to the program. Meeting the above criteria does not guarantee being named a finalist.
Applicable programs: Full-Time MBA
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Select Johns Hopkins doctoral students will receive a full-tuition scholarship for year one and will be eligible to receive a half-tuition scholarship for year two of the full-time Johns Hopkins MBA program subject to good academic standing.
No separate application is required. Awardees will be notified at the time of admission to the program. Meeting the above criteria does not guarantee being named a finalist.
Applicable programs: Full-Time MBA
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