Curriculum
Our curriculum prepares you for where business is going: a future fueled by data, powered by technology, and unleashed by human intelligence.
The landscape is changing, and you are part of its future.
About Our Curriculum
Tepper’s quantitative curriculum equips you to unlock the full power of data. Here, you won't just learn more. You'll learn more powerfully, equipped with the analytic skills to develop inventive solutions and the leadership presence to inspire others to join you.
Our curriculum offers breadth and flexibility. You’ll take classes from across Carnegie Mellon to build your quantitative and analytical skills and gain the social, business, economics, and political context to make data-informed decisions in an ever-changing global environment.
Check the undergraduate course catalog for additional curriculum details.
Our curriculum is designed around core courses that include business, economics, mathematics, and statistics course requirements. Our concentrations allow students to go deep in their specific business area of interest. Courses build on leading business practices while being informed by the innovative research of our faculty.
After your first semester, you will discover that our curriculum is flexible and allows you to maximize your undergraduate studies to achieve your academic goals. During sophomore and junior years, you’ll concentrate on your core classes, electives, and general education courses and select a minor. Senior year includes a senior capstone course and is flexible enough to finish your degree requirements in the pathway that works best for you.
Humming with the energy of next-generation education, arts, robotics, computing, and engineering, Carnegie Mellon is a campus unlike any other. Tepper students benefit from the best that Carnegie Mellon has to offer.
The required academic minor expands students’ depth and breadth through other renowned CMU schools and colleges — whether it’s fine arts, computer science, statistics, psychology, or any CMU program. You can also pursue an additional major or add a global perspective through study abroad opportunities.
Through projects, internships, and leadership development, you’ll exercise what you’ve absorbed in the classroom — giving you the confidence to launch and multiply your career over a lifetime.
Explore Curriculums
Business Administration
In your first year, you'll take core business courses while building foundational skills for analysis, communications, and context through additional courses, and pick a concentration to gain depth in a specific business area.
Economics
The Undergraduate Economics Program at the Tepper School offers a solid foundation built upon analytical rigor, asks data-informed questions about key societal issues, and provides a curriculum in which students are exposed to forefront research by the faculty doing the work.
General Education Requirements
As part of an undergraduate degree at the Tepper Business School, students are required to complete general education coursework in the liberal arts and sciences. These courses connect students to the vast array of academic disciplines offered at CMU and offer an opportunity for students to explore intellectual interests in new ways to meet their academic goals.
Check the undergraduate course catalog for additional business curriculum details.
Tepper School University Core Requirements
These requirements are for Tepper School students who started the program in 2020 and later. Students majoring in Economics in the Tepper School complete the Tepper School’s University Core requirements instead of the Dietrich College general education program.
The University Core offers deliberative choice in selecting courses to meet the general education that aligns with university competencies. Students select courses from particular CMU departments and two courses as free electives.
- Semester Long Writing Course:
- 76-101 Interpretation and Argument
- 76-102 Advanced First Year Writing (requires application)
- OR Select 2 Mini Writing Courses:
- 76-106 Writing about Literature, Art, and Culture
- 76-107 Writing about Data
- 76-108 Writing about Public Problems
- Any Biological Sciences course 03-100 or higher
- Any Computer Sciences course 15-100 or higher
- Any Physics course 33-100 or higher
- Any Chemistry course 09-100 or higher
- Any Psychology course 85-102 or higher
- Any Philosophy course 80-100 or higher
- Any Information Systems course 67-100 or higher
- Any Social and Decision Science course 88-100 or higher
- Any History course 79-100 or higher
- Any English course 76-200 or higher
- Any Modern Languages course 82-100 or higher
- Any Institute for Strategy and Technology course 84-100 or higher
Please note that this requirement requires at least 18 units (two or more classes) to complete.
- Any Carnegie Mellon course outside of Business or Economics that follows the University Core policies per the Undergraduate Catalog.
Please note that this requirement requires at least 18 units (two or more classes) to complete.