intended to provide students with the breadth of knowledge to build a solid business foundation. Full-time MBA students are required to take 27 credits of core courses encompassing Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Decision Technology, Organizational Behavior, Marketing, Strategy, and Information Systems. Elective courses which total 30 credits are intended to provide depth in a particular concentration. MBA students typically choose one or two concentrations and then choose electives within those concentrations. Katz concentrations: Finance Business Analytics Information Systems Marketing Operations Management Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management Strategy, Environment, & Organizations The Katz Graduate School's program features an Experience-Based Learning curriculum that allows student to work on various projects ranging from consulting and fellowship experiences to team-based business competition projects. Examples of these experiences include the Kenneth Woodcock Fellows in which students work with not-for-profits, the Randall Family Big Ideas Competition, and the Consulting Field Projects during which students have worked with such participating companies as Westinghouse Electric Company, Siemens, Philips, and PNC Financial Services. Katz also offers ten MBA certificates which are designed to allow students to enhance the core curriculum according to their career goals: Global Supply Chain Management; Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship; Organizational Leadership; Global Management; Corporate Valuation; Corporate Financial Management; Investments and Trading; Project Management; Digital Marketing; and Business Analytics. Katz is a partner of the CFA Institute. As a partner school, the finance curriculum covers 70% of the topics on the CFA exam. Katz also offers scholarships that fund students’ costs for pursuing a CFA. For the Class of 2019, 94 percent of Katz MBA graduates received job offers within three months of graduation earning an average salary and bonus of $107,793. Non-traditional and joint degree programs One-year MBA Part-time MBA Executive MBA Joint program with Law School (MBA/JD) Joint program with Swanson School of Engineering (MBA/MS in Engineering) Joint program with Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (MBA/MPIA and MBA/MID) Joint program within Katz in Information Systems (MBA/MS-MIS) Joint program within Katz in International Business (MBA/MIB) The Katz Graduate School was the first school to offer a one-year MBA program in the United States when it instituted the program in 1963. The program begins in August and finishes the following July, covering the same ground that a traditional MBA program covers in two years. For flexibility, Katz offers electives in the day and evening, as well as some Saturday courses. The one-year program