Not every career direction fits inside four walls, so we built one that doesn't have any.
The custom track gives Oregon MBA students the freedom to draw electives from across the Lundquist College of Business graduate curriculum, building a degree aligned precisely with their goals rather than a predefined field of study.
Most Oregon MBA students choose one of our four curricular specializations: finance and securities analysis, innovation and entrepreneurship, sports business, or sustainable business practices. Some students, however, arrive with a career direction that doesn't map neatly onto a single field, or with goals that cut across two or three. For them, there's the custom track.
Rather than following a set list of required courses, custom track students work with an academic advisor to select graduate electives from across the college's full curriculum, assembling a course of study built entirely around where they want to go next.
What You'll Learn
- Build fluency across disciplines instead of depth in just one. Pull a securities analysis course, a product management seminar, and a negotiations workshop into the same transcript.
- Work with your advisor each term to translate a shifting career target into a concrete set of electives, rather than locking in a fixed curriculum on day one.
- Graduate with a course of study you can explain in a single sentence, because you're the one who designed it.
How It Works
- Meet with your academic advisor to map your target roles and industries against the college's full elective catalog.
- Select electives term by term from any graduate department—finance, marketing, business analytics, operations and supply chain, entrepreneurship, and more.
- Check in each term to adjust course selections as your goals sharpen, internships shape your thinking, or new interests emerge.
Who It's For
- Career changers moving into a field like product management or business analytics that doesn't have a dedicated specialization of its own.
- Students whose goals span more than one specialization, such as sustainable finance or entrepreneurial marketing.
- Anyone entering the program with a well-defined destination and a preference for choosing the route themselves.