MBA Concentrations: Choose Your High-Impact Career Path
The University of New Haven’s online MBA program offers five distinct MBA concentrations designed to align your graduate education with your career aspirations. These online MBA concentrations provide focused pathways that combine core business competencies with specialized expertise, preparing you to lead in today’s dynamic business environment.
Choosing an online MBA with a specialization allows you to differentiate yourself in the job market while developing deep expertise in your chosen field. Each concentration at the University of New Haven combines rigorous academic training with practical applications, ensuring you graduate ready to make an immediate impact in your organization. Our faculty bring real-world experience to the virtual classroom, and our curriculum reflects current industry needs and emerging trends.
Whether you’re looking to pivot your career, accelerate your advancement, or deepen your expertise, our MBA concentrations provide the focused pathway you need to achieve your professional goals.
Find Your Focus
Whether you’re drawn to data-driven decision-making, global operations, cybersecurity leadership, or healthcare management, our online MBA options provide the technical skills and strategic thinking needed to advance your career.
Data and Applied Artificial Intelligence (STEM)*
In an era defined by big data and sophisticated computing techniques, this STEM-designated concentration equips you with technical awareness of how data enhances business operations. You’ll master the tools necessary to collect, identify, and understand patterns that drive informed organizational decision-making. With a specific focus on applying mathematical statistics to business data description, analysis, and forecasting, you’ll work with data from multiple firm sources, including marketing, finance, and human resource management. The R-programming language serves as a central component of the curriculum, ensuring you graduate with practical, in-demand skills.
What You’ll Achieve:
- Analyze data to answer complex research questions
- Communicate data analytics findings in technical terms
- Apply AI and statistical methods to real business challenges
*Upcoming for Fall 2026
Global Supply Chain Management (STEM)
This STEM-designated concentration advances your knowledge and proficiency in integrated decision practices that create organizational efficiencies. As global supply chains become increasingly complex, businesses need leaders who can optimize operations across international networks. You’ll develop expertise in evaluating supply chain decisions for process improvements and applying data-based optimization tools to inform strategic recommendations.
What You’ll Achieve:
- Evaluate global supply chain decisions for efficiency and effectiveness opportunities
- Apply advanced optimization tools to complex logistical challenges
- Drive measurable improvements in supply chain performance
Business Analytics
Among our most versatile MBA specialization areas, Business Analytics builds technical proficiency in implementing and overseeing data-driven business decisions. You’ll learn to form inferences and predictions from data while making optimal and robust decisions that span all functional business areas. This concentration emphasizes both the technical aspects of analytics and the critical ability to translate findings into actionable business strategies.
What You’ll Achieve:
- Analyze data using economic forecasting tools
- Communicate analytics findings in non-technical terms to stakeholders
- Bridge the gap between data science and business strategy
Cyber Risk Management
This concentration addresses one of the most pressing challenges facing modern organizations. You’ll develop skills and competencies to understand the complex world of cybersecurity as it relates to business operations. Through exposure to cyber techniques and vulnerabilities, you’ll learn to recognize and combat aggressions in cybersecurity, financial crimes, and general business irregularities. The program emphasizes key managerial components, including communication, leadership, and implementing effective crisis response.
What You’ll Achieve:
- Develop strategic internal communications in response to cybersecurity events
- Evaluate and enhance leader communications during emergent crises
- Implement comprehensive cyber risk management strategies
Healthcare Administration*
Designed for professionals in the public, private, or nonprofit healthcare sector, this concentration provides a foundation across the five domains of healthcare administration: communication and relationship management, leadership, professionalism, knowledge of the healthcare environment, and general business knowledge and skills. You’ll become knowledgeable about key aspects of the healthcare industry while developing the management expertise needed to lead healthcare organizations.
What You’ll Achieve:
- Demonstrate competence in health systems and organizational structures
- Master healthcare information technology applications
- Excel in communication and relationship management within healthcare contexts
- Understand organizational climate and culture in healthcare settings
*Upcoming for Fall 2026
Not Sure You Want to Choose a Concentration? No Problem
The General Concentration may be the right choice for you. You can take any combination of Pompea College of Business elective graduate courses to satisfy your degree requirements. You’ll need 9 credits of electives to complete the online MBA program. Internship courses, directed studies, and approved graduate courses outside of the Pompea College of Business may be used to satisfy the requirements with approval from the program coordinator.
Earn the Online MBA That Fuels Your Next Move
The University of New Haven’s online MBA was designed for this moment in your career. Whether you’re positioning yourself for a promotion, pivoting to a new industry, or preparing to lead at the highest levels, this program gives you what employers are actively seeking: strategic thinking, data-driven decision-making, effective leadership, global business acumen, and the ability to communicate insights with clarity and impact.
Join an online MBA program with proven outcomes and see what the Pompea College of Business can do for you.