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Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today that its MBA Program has been reclassified to qualify as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degree, effective this fall for the class of 2025 and onward.
This change is in recognition of the addition of a course on data science and artificial intelligence for leaders in the first year Required Curriculum (RC) and the recent significant growth of management science content in the second year Elective Curriculum (EC).
“This change will enable all students, particularly our international students, to pursue the opportunities a STEM-eligible degree affords,” said Jana Pompadur Kierstead, executive director, MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations.
The HBS MBA Program continues to emphasize the foundational, general management education with which it has trained leaders for over a century with the now integral tools and skills of management science. Today, many roles in finance, strategy, innovation and operations rely heavily on data science for important managerial decisions, and HBS faculty members have responded by developing courses and content focused on quantitative and analytical skills that now permeate both the required and elective curricula.
