Tippie Career Academies

In Tippie's career academies, you'll partner with a seasoned expert in your career area, execute consulting projects for real clients, build your skill set, and better understand your desired career path.

Your Community

Your career academy is your home at the Tippie MBA. You'll find like-minded colleagues with a shared purpose, driven toward a career in a common field.

Customized Learning

You'll work closely with Career Academy Directors to pinpoint areas for personal soft-skill improvement, and create a personalized career development plan to ensure you succeed.

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Career Academies

Tippie's career academies are the gateway through which you'll become an expert in your field. Each career academy provides a set of academic and professional experiences—tied to industry—that result in marketable skill sets. The academies have a singular goal: to enhance your placement and career success. This is how we do it:

Understand target employer needs and respond to them by developing our program, inside the classroom and out
Ensure you get the analytical, technical, and strategic skills critical to career success from our curriculum
Integrate experiential learning opportunities to accelerate career readiness
Provide a personalized professional development plan to focus soft skills and academy business director coaching
Build a professional network with faculty, alumni, and industry leaders
Develop real-world connections that relate current issues and ethical challenges