Executive MBA (EMBA)
In today's competitive business environment, you need a degree that sets you apart—and harnesses the power of your experience.
Our transformative 20-month program will help you hone your analytic capabilities, business knowledge, critical thinking, and management and leadership skills.
The Quinlan School of Business offers four MBA programs. Learn which one best fits your needs through our MBA guide.
Curriculum
As a student in Quinlan's EMBA program, you will participate in courses focused on building your leadership, management, decision-making, and analytic skills.
The advanced knowledge and skills the Quinlan EMBA helps you develop are invaluable to any business. Many companies recognize this and therefore sponsor EMBA training (either in part or whole) for promising managers, directors, and executives at our business school.
Code | Title | Hours |
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Required Courses | ||
Business Fundamentals | ||
ACCT 400E | Financial Statement Analysis and Decision Making | 3 |
ACCT 424E | Strategic Cost Accounting | 3 |
ECON 420E | Managers, Markets and Decision Making | 3 |
FINC 450E | Financial Management | 3 |
MARK 460E | Marketing Management | 3 |
SCMG 481E | Performance Improvement in Business Processes | 1.5 |
Business Analytics | ||
INFS 604E | Business Data Analytics - Infrastructure | 1.5 |
INFS 605E | Business Data Analytics - Application | 1.5 |
ISSCM 400E | Quantitative Methods | 1.5 |
Human Resource Management | ||
HRER 501E | Performance Management | 1.5 |
HRER 513E | Strategic Human Resource Management | 1.5 |
Leadership | ||
ETHC 441E | Business Ethics and Values | 1.5 |
MGMT 460E | Values Based Leadership | 1.5 |
Management | ||
ISSCM 484E | Project Management | 3 |
LREB 443E | Executive Legal Liability | 1.5 |
MGMT 430E | Capstone | 1.5 |
MGMT 472E | Organizational Change and Development | 1.5 |
MGMT 474E | Strategic Management | 1.5 |
MGMT 481E | Innovation and the Entrepreneurial Mindset | 1.5 |
International Business | ||
ECON 424E | Global Issues in Economics | 1.5 |
FINC 455E | International Financial Management | 1.5 |
MGMT 606E | International Immersion | 3 |
SCMG 486E | Global Supply Chain Management | 1.5 |
Other | ||
BSAD 409E | Integrative Strategy | 1.5 |
ISSCM 491E | Data Analysis for Managers | 3 |
Total Hours | 49.5 |
Suggested Sequence of Courses
The below sequence of courses is meant to be used as a suggested path for completing coursework. An individual student’s completion of requirements depends on course offerings in a given term as well as the start term for a major or graduate study. Students should consult their advisor for assistance with course selection.
Year 1 | ||
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Fall | Hours | |
ETHC 441E | Business Ethics and Values | 1.5 |
ISSCM 400E | Quantitative Methods | 1.5 |
ISSCM 491E | Data Analysis for Managers | 3 |
MARK 460E | Marketing Management | 3 |
Hours | 9 | |
Winter | ||
ACCT 400E | Financial Statement Analysis and Decision Making | 3 |
ECON 420E | Managers, Markets and Decision Making | 3 |
MGMT 460E | Values Based Leadership | 1.5 |
Hours | 7.5 | |
Spring | ||
ECON 424E | Global Issues in Economics | 1.5 |
FINC 450E | Financial Management | 3 |
ISSCM 484E | Project Management | 3 |
Hours | 7.5 | |
Summer | ||
INFS 605E | Business Data Analytics - Application | 1.5 |
LREB 443E | Executive Legal Liability | 1.5 |
MGMT 606E | International Immersion | 3 |
SCMG 486E | Global Supply Chain Management | 1.5 |
Hours | 7.5 | |
Year 2 | ||
Fall | ||
BSAD 409E | Integrative Strategy | 1.5 |
FINC 455E | International Financial Management | 1.5 |
MGMT 472E | Organizational Change and Development | 1.5 |
Hours | 4.5 | |
Winter | ||
INFS 604E | Business Data Analytics - Infrastructure | 1.5 |
MGMT 474E | Strategic Management | 1.5 |
SCMG 481E | Performance Improvement in Business Processes | 1.5 |
Hours | 4.5 | |
Spring | ||
ACCT 424E | Strategic Cost Accounting | 3 |
HRER 513E | Strategic Human Resource Management | 1.5 |
MGMT 430E | Capstone | 1.5 |
Hours | 6 | |
Summer | ||
HRER 501E | Performance Management | 1.5 |
MGMT 481E | Innovation and the Entrepreneurial Mindset | 1.5 |
Hours | 3 | |
Total Hours | 49.5 |
Graduate & Professional Standards and Regulations
Students in graduate and professional programs can find their Academic Policies in Graduate and Professional Academic Standards and Regulations under their school. Any additional University Policies supercede school policies.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Quinlan Executive MBA (EMBA) program, graduates will have learned, achieved, or experienced the following:
- Core Business Fundamentals:
1. Exposure to and be academically rooted in core business fundamental coursework in the areas of accounting, finance, data analytics, economics, management, marketing, human resource management, and operations management
2. Develop an ability to integrate and see the interplay of core business fundamental coursework - Entrepreneurship and Innovation:
1. Anticipate the challenges of leading and managing evolving business and markets
2. Demonstrate an innovative, entrepreneurial approach to strategy and decision making - Global Perspective and Diversity:
1. Equip or enhance global perspective by recognizing international business issues
2. Understand, appreciate, and leverage individual, team, and organizational diversity - Ethics and Values-Driven Leadership:
1. Be exposed to and rooted in ethics and values-related coursework
2. Demonstrate ability to operationalize ethics and values-related frames into business strategy
3. Distinguish self as a leader in business who exhibits personal integrity and an ability to apply ethical principles to business practice - Decision Making:
1. Achieve a capacity for an integrated critical analysis of business opportunities, processes, and problems
2. Develop an ability to understand, synthesize, and accordingly activate quantitative and qualitative information to improve managerial decision making
3. Apply knowledge to solve for real-world business issues and areas of practice
4. Develop and execute strategic approaches to lead, manage, and operationalize businesses and organizations