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Overview
The students in the Concurrent Degree Program with MCS and MBA (MBA/MCS) will begin the first year in the Master of Climate Solutions Colloquium, which is a year-long series of speakers, outings, and events while they are enrolled in the MBA core. The Colloquium, which features guest speakers including leaders in sustainable business, as well as site visits to businesses and public agencies, is designed to create connections between the MBA core materials and climate topics during the first year.
In their second year, MBA/MCS students will fully immerse themselves in the MCS program, together with MCS standalone students, creating a strong cohort. They will take both business and climate/sustainability courses, and a project-based capstone course.
The capstone and the colloquium, which are required for both standalone MCS and MBA/MCS students, are explicitly designed to tie together content, themes, and skills that cut across business and climate/sustainability and to ensure practical application of core ideas and to facilitate contact between students and practitioners. The capstone projects will address a practical climate-related challenge or opportunity faced by a real organization, including private businesses. This experience will leverage the core climate skills and knowledge taught in the MCS, as well as the leadership and business skills emphasized in the MBA, to engage students with applying that to generate a solution to a real climate challenge.
MBA/MCS students will be positioned to take advantage of the opportunities in both Rausser College and Haas School of Business for a full five semesters. Unlike the MBA only peers, the MBA/MCS students get to have two summers of internship and other experiences.