Full-Time MBA Energy Concentration | UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

UNC Kenan-Flagler offers an MBA energy program, unique among major business schools, that allows you to explore every aspect of the energy value chain – from oil and gas to power, petrochemicals and renewables.

Courses focus on day-to-day business and economic situations unique to the energy industry and address challenges faced by specific industry segments. Graduates emerge well-prepared to assume leadership roles within the ranks of multinational corporations, independent producers, power generators, renewables firms, and financial and consulting firms.

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Explore how our Energy Center is promoting sound public policy through balanced programming, research and career placement across the energy value chain.
Check out our Energy Concentration at a Glance (PDF)
Read more about one of the newest course innovations, Fossil Fuel Firms and the Challenge of Carbon, and how UNC Kenan-Flagler is Asking The Right Questions About Energy on Poets & Quants

"The professors who run the energy program are industry veterans, and they have a very comprehensive view of the space. Although I worked in the energy space before my MBA, I learned a huge amount of new information that I'm using now in my post-MBA career. I have a much broader view of the energy space specifically because of the energy concentration."

John MacAree, MBA 2022

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The Energy Value Chain
The Business of Renewable Energy
The Business of Electric Power
The Business of Midstream, Refining, and Petrochemicals
The Business of Oil and Gas: Exploration and Production
Fossil Fuel Firms and the Challenge of Carbon
Strategy of Project Finance
Industrial Finance
Renewable Energy: Project Development and Financing
Energy Taxation and Policy
Energy Consulting
Decision Making in the Energy Industry

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Energy Faculty

Our Energy Concentration courses are taught by practitioners with experience in specific segments of the industry, including major international energy firms and power, finance and consulting. Additionally, many have taught at business or law schools or in business-specific training programs.

UNC Kenan-Flagler Energy Center

The Energy Center promotes sound energy public policy to achieve a Feasible Energy Transition. We do this through balanced programming, unbiased research and career placement across the energy value chain. We enhance the student experience through career-focused events and conferences, research assistantships, curriculum development, internship assistance, and access to faculty and industry professionals.

MBA Career & Leadership

Two dedicated associate career directors are focused on energy. One works directly with students to prepare them for successful careers in energy, while the other develops relationships with top firms across all segments of the energy industry so that students can apply to a wide array of roles.

Energy Club

The Energy Club is a forum for students to gain exposure to the energy industry and an opportunity to practice leadership around energy issues. This student-led organization organizes educational events and conferences, case competitions and career treks to provide students with experiential learning and networking opportunities with industry and alumni.

Energy Industry Conferences

The Energy Center hosts unique industry conferences, which are invitation only and conducted to promote open dialogue. Recents events include: Meeting the Renewables Intermittency Challenge, Emerging Technologies for Carbon Capture Utilization/Sequestration, and Electric Vehicles – Carbon Footprints, Grid Impacts and Likely Pace of Adoption. Energy MBA students help organize and participate in these events.

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Experience-Based Teaching

All courses use cases based upon the operations and deals of energy companies. Faculty use cases and problem sets they wrote based on transactions encountered in their careers as the method for teaching how to apply the MBA skill set to energy issues.

National Case Competitions

Teams of MBA students represent UNC Kenan-Flagler at premier MBA energy case competitions, such as the UCLA Challenges in Energy Case Competition. These competitions provide students with a chance to apply their industry and business knowledge and to network with peers and professionals from across the United States.

Energy Center Student Research

The Center offers students cutting-edge research projects on topics related to each year’s Energy Conference, where students present their results to industry leaders. Past studies include: “The All-In Cost of Renewables as Base Load Power” and “The Value of Regulatory Certainty for New Nuclear Plants” and “Comparing Life Cycle Carbon Footprints of Battery Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrids and Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles.”

Clean Tech Summit

Co-hosted by the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and the Energy Center, this annual summit welcomes over 1,000 industry professionals, academics and government representatives to discuss the clean tech and the Energy Transition. This past March the Energy Center facilitated two panels on nuclear power’s role in the Transition and two more on carbon capture.

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Why do we teach the full energy value chain at UNC Kenan-Flagler?

Hear from Stephen Arbogast, one of the industry experts you'll learn from, whose teaching focuses on business ethics, international finance, and the business of energy.

How UNC Kenan-Flagler helped launch my career in energy.

Darby Casey, MBA '23, shares insight into the energy concentration at UNC Kenan-Flagler, her internship experience and post-graduation plans in the energy industry.

How practitioner faculty enhance the UNC Kenan-Flagler Energy MBA.

Learning from professors who have built their expertise by working in the industry helps students better tackle the real-world problems facing the energy sector.

Why must the Energy Transition take an ‘all-of-the-above’ approach to addressing climate change?

Professor Stephen Arbogast discusses the Energy Transition, including current challenges, potential solutions that extend across all energy sources, and the role that MBAs can play in shifting to a lower carbon energy future.

How can the oil and gas industry be part of the climate change solution?

Professor Dan Domeracki addresses the role that the oil and gas industry can play -- and is playing -- in becoming a critical part of the climate change problem.

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