The requirements, reviews, and curriculum for CCA's Design MBA programs are designed such that graduating students successfully achieve the following program learning outcomes:

Students in the program can work with and beyond the traditional approaches to business strategy, into human-centered methodologies, empathy-driven leadership, and future-focused approaches.

Students in the program can apply an expanded definition of value—beyond financial—and models of resilience (personal, institutional, equity-driven, climate-related) to business practices.

Students in the program can lead a design process for the creation of any novel solution--products, experiences, services, processes, organizations, and beyond.

Students in the program can display fluency and ethics with both quantitative and qualitative research methods, with the acknowledgement that traditional methods have inherent biases; gather, generate, read, interpret, analyze, and share qualitative and quantitative data, including appropriate and accurate mix of both.

Students in the program can understand complex systems, including how to navigate within existing systems as well as design better systems that account for the needs of diverse, potentially marginalized stakeholders.

Students in the program can exhibit the highest standards of professionalism and leadership by operationalizing the leadership style they would like to embody as well as their individual codes of ethics; effectively, compellingly, and confidently communicate via written, oral, and visual media, including but not limited to storytelling, presentations, and triaging difficult workplace conversations.