What is an EMBA?

If you’ve made it to this page, you’re probably already thinking about how advanced management education can enhance your career. Whether you’re an engineer or entrepreneur, medical doctor or juris doctor, architect or arts booster, teacher or trader, you’re at a point in your life where you want to get to the next step but are missing a critical piece or two in your experience. Maybe you feel that you need greater depth of management skills, more exposure to seasoned strategy experts, or a richer understanding of team dynamics. Or perhaps you need the challenge of a demanding peer group putting your assumptions and methodologies through the wringer.

An Executive MBA might be the solution you’re looking for. Keep your job, learn from the experts, apply new skills immediately back at the office, and actively build your network of contacts across industries and around the world. In less than 2 years, you’ll have an advanced degree in hand and be the confident, well-rounded leader you want – and need – to be to achieve your career goals.

An Executive MBA is a special type of MBA program tailored to mid- and senior-level working professionals who want to study and keep their full-time jobs. Unlike mainstream MBA programs, which focus largely on the core disciplines of business management, EMBA programs assume that participants are familiar with the fundamentals of business and provide a curriculum that develops the skills to succeed in a climate of increased complexity, competiveness, and uncertainty.

Typically, applicants to an EMBA program have more professional work experience than a general MBA applicant and candidates are often evaluated based on what they will bring to the program. EMBA students are almost always fully employed during their program; their professional experience and expertise are critical to the curriculum and the cohort dynamic. Classes typically meet on Fridays and Saturdays, with learning outside the classroom and extensive faculty and student/team interaction.