University of Wisconsin–River Falls Expands Fully Online MBA with Five Specialized Tracks
The University of Wisconsin–River Falls has expanded its fully online, AACSB-accredited MBA program to include five new specialized tracks: Agribusiness, Healthcare Analytics, Business Analytics, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Leadership. These additions give working professionals more options to align their graduate business education with specific career goals while completing a rigorous, flexible program.
What the program will teach
- Core MBA foundations: Strategy, leadership and ethics, finance, managerial accounting, operations, managerial statistics, and a capstone in strategy and organizational performance to sharpen decision-making and cross-functional management skills.
- Agribusiness: Risk management in agriculture, credit analysis, agricultural sales, and market development for leadership in food and ag value chains.
- Healthcare Analytics: Population health analysis, healthcare data governance, compliance, informatics, and visualization to improve outcomes across providers, payers, and health systems.
- Business Analytics: Applied analytics, visualization, forecasting, and data-driven decision-making to convert raw data into actionable organizational insights.
- Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Design thinking, business model innovation, venture creation, and intrapreneurship for launching or scaling initiatives.
- Strategic Leadership: Human capital development, project leadership, and enterprise execution skills to align people and processes with organizational strategy.
Why it matters
By combining a strong general management core with industry-relevant specialties, UW–River Falls enables students to immediately apply what they learn to current roles while positioning themselves for advancement. The fully online, eight-week course format and multiple start dates per year accommodate working professionals, and AACSB accreditation assures academic quality and employer recognition.
References
- UW–River Falls official news release on MBA track expansion — https://www.uwrf.edu/News/2025-MBA-Tracks.cfm
- UW System “All In Wisconsin” coverage of the online MBA growth — https://www.wisconsin.edu/all-in-wisconsin/story/uwrf-mba-expansion/
- UW–River Falls Online MBA program page — https://www.uwrf.edu/GraduatePrograms/MBA/
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