The Daniels MBA: One-year Program
Field-tested and business ready.
Learning at Daniels gets you out of the classroom and into the field interacting with
business leaders, solving real business problems and using your business skills when
the stakes are real.
You emerge from the Daniels MBA experience field-tested and business ready--adaptable
to new situations and well-versed in both big picture strategic thinking and cross-functional
intricacies.
Gain real world experience.
- Enterprise Solutions: Corporate partners "hire" a team of four to five students to analyze a business issue and make comprehensive recommendations. Students are often involved in implementing their recommendations.
- Community Capital Project: Student teams identify gaps in the social framework and create a business plan to address them often by partnering with local businesses and community groups. It's social entrepreneurship in action.
- Marisco Investment Center: Students use the same investment technology and tools as professional portfolio managers to manage part of the University of Denver's endowment fund.
- Deutsche Bank Microfinance Class: As the exclusive educational partner of Deutsche Bank's Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium, students interact with Deutsche Bank managers overseeing the microfinance fund, perform due diligence on loan requests and visit a microfinance institution in a developing country. Learn more
Interact with business experts and leaders.
- Marketing Roundtable: Sit down with leading industry professionals and renowned educators for candid discussions of marketing trends and techniques. Learn more
- Walk Down Wall Street: Get inside access to Wall Street executives and entrepreneurs during this week-long trip to investigate career opportunities in finance. Learn more
- Voices of Experience: Dynamic discussions with business leaders on the challenges and opportunities in today's business world. Learn more
- Executive and Alumni Mentoring: You are paired with an executive and/or alumni mentor who helps you explore and pursue career opportunities. Learn more
Enhance your professional skills.
- Daniels Community Square: A place to meet, learn and connect with other students and faculty. Services provided include: technology coaching, computers with specialized programs (like Crystal Ball financial modeling software) and a Bloomberg terminal. There are also meeting facilities that can accommodate two to 20. Learn more
- The Writing Center: Open to all DU students, the Writing Center at Penrose Library assists students with all types of writing projects: class assignments, professional writing and multimedia presentations. Learn more
Compete against the best.
- Race & Case: Daniels' signature event that combines an ethics case competition with a ski race. The Daniels' team once again took home the prize in 2009. Learn more
- Inclusive Excellence Case Competition and Business Awards: Daniels' case competition focused on diversity and real-world problem solving for participating companies on issues of inclusive excellence.
- NAIOP Challenge: Students will work on a complex real estate problem culminating in internal competition with other student teams and external competition with another university.
- Cable Apprentice Challenge: This unique combination of education and networking with the best and the brightest in the business is a challenge to develop research and analysis tactics to help Comcast Colorado.
- Association for Corporate Growth Case Competition: A regional business school case competition. The ACG Cup is a case study competition designed to give students from leading MBA programs invaluable insights into mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, financial advisory and private equity.
