This program is designed to provide the officers with fundamental interdisciplinary techniques of quantitative problem-solving methods, behavioral and management science, economic analysis, and financial management, and to enable the officers to evaluate the written research, study and analysis products of others throughout their careers. The curriculum will further provide the officers with the specific functional skills required to effectively manage. Specialty concentration areas are selected by the student by their choice of course options.
International students are free to choose any of the specific management curricula available.
Most choose the more general Defense Systems Management International Curriculum . The 818 curriculum allows students to design a program of course work specific to management effectiveness in the host country's military system. The student may elect to specialize in the relevant portion of a functional area such as financial, logistics, human resources and organization, or manpower and personnel analysis. Or, the student may choose to follow a general management program which would include an overall balance of courses from many functional areas. A baccalaureate degree with above-average grades is required.