In times of change, how and what we learn must keep pace.  Recognizing that, we’ve spent the last six months reinventing our Executive MBA program.  While our program was already a sound career development investment and offered an empowering educational experience, we recognized that there were opportunities to improve and to better meet your needs.  With a taskforce of top educators, administrators and alumni, aided by the wisdom of the business community, we redesigned and refocused the program.  Our goal was, and continues to be, to help you make the transition from specialist or functional manager to general manager and executive.    

We’ve made a good program even better.    So, what has changed and why?  First, we saved the best from our past and combined it with significant new content in order to better prepare you for high-level management and leadership responsibilities.  Recognizing the demands that an increasingly competitive workplace and personal obligations make on your life, we reduced the program length from 24 to 18 months and the course work from 48 to 41 credit hours.  To reduce non-productive travel time to classes and to aid your time management, we scheduled classes every other weekend on Fridays from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  As before, no classes are scheduled on three day weekends.   

Program content combines the best of the old and the new.  We’ve retained a strategic look at the foundation disciplines of business – economics, finance, marketing, strategy, leadership and management.  To better prepare you for high level responsibilities, we’ve added new modules on change management, global management, statistical and decision making tools, and ethics.  We’ve also incorporated formal communication skills instruction to facilitate your personal development.    Finally, recognizing that one size does not fit all, we have incorporated four elective courses that allow you to focus your attention on subjects specifically related to your career and professional development needs and interests.   

We offer innovative opportunities to apply what you learn.  We employ two in-depth business research and analysis projects that make our program unique.  The Triad project serves as a vehicle to integrate and apply your learning in Finance, Marketing and Law while the International Business Consulting Experience, with its two weeks of overseas field research, serves as the program’s capstone project.   Both projects provide unparalleled opportunities to apply what has been learned in the classroom to the real world concerns of the corporations and organizations who sponsor these projects.  

Join us.  I believe you will find that our Executive MBA program offers quality, meaningful preparation for the important next steps in your career.  Your investment of time and resources in the program will help forge the strategic perspective and hone the competitive edge you’ll need to rise to the top in your field of endeavor.  We look forward to the opportunity to contribute to your success!  

Louis G. Pol, Ph.D.                                                                            Dean, College of Business Administration