The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) offers these departments and concentrations: accounting, consulting, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics, finance, general management, health care administration, international business, leadership, marketing, production/operations management, organizational behavior, portfolio management, real estate, sports business, supply chain management/logistics, and quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research. Its tuition is full-time: $64,250 per year; part-time: $1,860 per credit; and specialty master's: $66,025 per year. At graduation, 61.10 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.
At the Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School, MBA students are taught a core curriculum and then specialize in one of five Career Platforms. The platforms – Consulting & General Management; Corporate Finance & Investments; Marketing; Entrepreneurship; and Operations & Supply Chain Management – are each made up of concentrations, so students can further cater their education to their career aspirations. Students can combine their MBA with a master of architecture, urban design, biomedical engineering, East Asian studies, social work, public health, or energy, environmental and chemical engineering, or they can complete a combined MBA/J.D.
The school also has master’s degree programs for finance, supply chain management, leadership and accounting, as well as Ph.D. programs. The Olin Business School offers a professional MBA program held in the evenings and an executive MBA program that runs during weekends in St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Denver, Co., and Shanghai.
There are several research centers on campus, including the Institute for Innovation and Growth and the Boeing Center for Technology, Information and Manufacturing, which is sponsored in part by Boeing Co. Each year, student teams can participate in the Olin Cup Competition, which has prizes of up to $50,000 for winning business ideas. Students can complete three-week to semester-long study abroad exchange programs in England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India and Spain. In St. Louis, graduate students may live in university-owned apartment complexes, but most choose to find their own housing.