Operations Focus

With a focus on efficiency and execution, operations keep the wheels turning and ensure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.

Knowing how to optimize your organization’s operations drive efficiency and impact overall success. The MS in Management operations focus equips you with essential skills to streamline processes and tackle real-world challenges.

Be Career Ready

  • Deepen your knowledge of supply chains, purchasing, sustainability and entrepreneurship.
  • Prepare yourself for a management role by learning about project, service and operations management.
  • Learn to tackle operational challenges in a variety of cultures around the world
  • Acquire skills designed to cover all facets of operations on a global scale. 

Curriculum

required courses

Availability varies by semester.

  • MGO 524 Business Operations (3 credits)
  • MGO 630 Operations and Service Management (3 credits)
  • MGO 634 Project Management (3 credits)
  • MGO 637 Purchasing and Supply Chain Management (3 credits)

Review course descriptions in the Graduate Catalog.

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Brooke (Mentkowski) Cianfichi, BS/MBA ’04

  • Chief Operating Officer, AscendAmerica
“Analytical ability is one of the top skills employers seek in UB School of Management students.”
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Erin O’Brien, MBA ’00

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Naeim Khanjani, BS ’16, MBA ’17

  • CEO and Founder, Electo
“Students have access to huge data sets that can bring their schoolwork to life. ”
3/8/23

Ananth Iyer

  • Dean and Professor, UB School of Management
“The UB MBA program helped me become a problem-solver and better communicator, and really taught me the analytical skills I needed to be successful in the real world.”
6/8/23

Scott Allen Jr., MBA '07

  • U.S. Military
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