Curriculum
Our 53-credit program addresses a key question throughout the curriculum:
How do competent, credible, confident emerging leaders contribute to sustainable value creation for all stakeholders?
The lockstep curriculum immerses you in a rigorous and relevant education. Supporting the core business theories and fundamentals, our unique Jesuit values-centered approach will challenge you to grow on all levels, honing your leadership skills and testing your ethical decision-making capabilities through a variety of real world experiences, including live cases, internships, mentoring, and international field studies. You’ll find your character strengthened as you test everything against an ethical framework. This innovative MBA program was designed for those bright young minds who possess an uncanny ability to look at themselves, others, and the world and explore new ways of thinking. These are tomorrow’s leaders and we need them to get moving on the challenges that lie ahead, taking their place in a new world that is increasingly more global-yet-fragile and filled with exciting opportunities.
As a graduate of the Emerging Leaders program, you will have the requisite skills to accelerate your career bringing increased business knowledge and leadership aptitude to all that you do. Your MBA and the overall experience gained through the ELMBA will provide the strongest foundation possible for your continued success.
The ELMBA program will get you ready to launch your career, ready to make a difference in the world because of the difference a Sellinger education will make in you.
Below are some of the programs key highlights:
Boot Camp
A boot camp may be required for those without the requisite business courses. The boot camp is a separate tuition.
Opening Residency
Students will complete an opening and closing 1-credit residency in which they will be introduced to and reflect upon the key elements of the program.
Core Courses
The ELMBA program has a lock-step curriculum. Students will complete the following courses:
- Leadership & Management
- Managerial Economics
- Ethics & Social Responsibility
- Marketing Strategy
- Financial Applications & Strategy
- Information & Technology for Management
- International Field Study: New Governance/Partnership
- Risk Assessment & Process Strategies
- New International Management
- Advanced Finance Elective/Advanced IT Elective
- Integrated Business Plan
- Business Strategy
First Fridays
First Fridays is a required course. Each semester will include three First Fridays where students will have the following opportunities:
- Individual development plans
- Local excursions
- Team exercises
- Networking opportunities
- Panel discussions with alumni
- Panel discussions with Howard County professionals
- Live cases
- Service opportunities
- Career development
- Reflection
Internship
Students will complete an internship in a field aligned with their career goals and team-based field study/consulting opportunities.
International Field Study
Students will complete an international field study in Barcelona, Spain, in which European approaches to regulation, and the ways law, affinity group regulation, self-regulation, ethical precepts, the media, and an engaged society work to inspire companies that work toward improved social and economic conditions.
Domestic Field Study
Students will travel to Silicon Valley, Ca. to study emerging technology in a domestic field study.
For more information on the Emerging Leaders MBA program, please call 410-617-2510 or e-mail elmba@loyola.edu. You may also request information online.