University of Chicago Booth School of Business Adjusts Executive MBA Program
The Executive MBA (EMBA) program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is getting a makeover to include new courses, more time devoted to international exchange and more opportunity for students to specialize through their choice of electives, the school announced this week.
Chicago Booth’s EMBA program, which is taught at campuses in Chicago, London and Singapore, is part-time and designed to be completed by experienced professionals as they continue working full time.
The curriculum revamp will be implemented beginning with the class that enters in June 2013. As part of the new program, students will take part in a capstone course – a complex simulation comprised of multiple rounds in which students will be expected to use concepts and tools from throughout the program. The culmination of this course will include presentations to a panel of investor-judges.
The international exchange component of the program will also be increased from four to five weeks, and all students will spend at least two weeks studying on Booth’s downtown Chicago campus.
EMBA students will also have greater ability to specialize by choosing electives in one of several academic areas, including capital markets, corporate finance, entrepreneurship, strategy, marketing and leadership and management. The electives will be taught at Harper Center, on the main campus of the University, which is also home to Chicago Booth’s full-time MBA.
“With these changes, students will be exposed to more members of our faculty, create closer connections with our other MBA programs and will spend more time studying alongside Executive MBA students from all of our campuses,” Chicago Booth Dean Sunil Kumar said in a statement. “Many students have told us the international exchange is important and creates a unique learning environment.”
The new program will be the same length as the old EMBA – 16 weeks of instruction spread over 21 months, the school announced. To accommodate the curriculum changes, classes in strategic leadership and quantitative marketing have been shortened and some offerings that were previously part of the core will now be offered as electives.
Apart from the elective courses taught at Harper Center, students in the United States will take classes at Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago, students in Europe will take classes at the school’s London campus and students in Asia will take classes at the school’s Singapore campus adjacent to Orchard Road.
Learn more about planned changes to Chicago Booth’s EMBA program.
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