In just 21 months which includes a summer break, a cohort of up to 40 Executive MBA students complete a Master of Business Administration degree program designed to give already successful business leaders and professionals a cutting-edge and a heightened set of values, skills and knowledge to take back to their organizations on an as-learned basis. The curriculum is structured and includes an accelerated grounding in the business functions of accounting, quantitative decision making, economics, finance, marketing, organizational behavior and international business, followed by high level strategic course work emphasizing current conceptual and practical trends for effective leadership of today’s organizations. Loyola’s Sellinger School of Business and Management is a leading provider of business education in the Baltimore community. Loyola’s Executive MBA students are leaders in companies from every sector of the business landscape, and have come from all six Fortune 1,000 companies based in the Baltimore area: Constellation Energy, Grace Chemicals, Black & Decker, Legg Mason, T. Rowe Price and McCormick & Company. As reflective leaders in their organization and in their lives, Executive MBA students learn not only to consider the effect their decisions will have on the community, but also to serve the needs of their community. At their final retreat, Executive MBA students complete a service learning trip. This year, Executive MBA students volunteered at Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Foundation. Service retreats in past years have included volunteering at the Golden Harvest, the Susanna Wesley House, Gallagher Services, and the William S. Baer School as well as participating in leadership panel discussions and training on mentoring others. Executive MBA students are in class one day a week from September through May for two academic years with the summer off. Class days alternate between Fridays and Saturdays requiring fifteen Fridays out of the office per academic year. The typical class day begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 4:50 p.m. The academic year is divided into three ten-week modules; each ten-week module includes three classes. THE ACADEMIC YEAR
Following the Residency, the September to May period is divided into three ten-week modules during which EMBA students take three classes per module. Thus, an EMBA student takes the equivalent of nine classes each year for two academic years. The newly launched curriculum has four focused modules built around the concept, “What do CEO’s do?” The Firm: Tools and Basics
Residency (2.5 credits)
Ethics & Corporate Responsibility (2.0 credits)
Financial & Managerial Accounting (3.0 credits)
Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness (2.0 credits)
Economic and Business Analysis (Microeconomics) (2.0 credits)
Decision Making Tools (2.0 credits)
Strategy Formulation (1.0 credit)
Integrated Application #1 – Basic Firm Analysis (2.0 credits) The Industry: Competitive Advantage
Analysis of Domestic and Global Economic Markets (Macroeconomics) (2.0 credits)
Government & Legal Environments (2.0 credits)
Global Business (2.0 credits)
Integrated Application #2 – Industry Analysis (2.0 credits) What Are Organizations Doing: Opportunity Identification
International Field Study (2.5 credits)
Team Development (1.0 credit)
Strategic Marketing (2.5 credits)
Strategic Finance (2.5 credits)
Strategic Operations (2.5 credits)
Integrated Application #3 – Strategic Opportunity Identification (2.5 credits) What Should Organizations D Solution Identification and Change Planning
Information Technology & Strategy (2.0 credits)
Leading Change (2.0 credits)
Strategy Implementation (1.0 credits)
Integrated Application #4 – Strategic Solution Design (5.0 credits)
Retreat (1.0 credits)
THE TYPICAL WEEK
A typical week for an EMBA student will include between twenty to thirty hours of effort divided among class time, team time and personal study time. Each team determines how often, where and for how long it would like to regularly meet over the course of the Program. Usually, teams meet at least once a week for several hours and perhaps more than that in weeks preceding team projects or presentations. Personal study time is variable depending on each student’s habit and preference. CANDIDATE PROFILE
The single most important quality of an Executive MBA Program candidate is leadership. The ideal candidate will have eight to ten years of significant leadership or management experience and may come from a variety of organizations - small, medium, or large-sized for-profit companies, public, private or non-profit organizations, entrepreneurs, leaders in the professions - medicine, law, engineering, etc. The Program is ideally suited to a rich diversity of professional backgrounds with the most important common denominator being the depth and breadth of management or leadership experience. Because the Program hinges on leadership and provides for foundational skill development within the curriculum, all academic backgrounds are welcome to apply. Most Executive MBA students range in age from mid to late thirties to early fifties with the mean generally at 37 to 40. SCHOLARSHIPS
Need and Merit-Bashed Scholarship are available to qualified Diversity Candidate, Non-Profit Managers, Entrepreneurs and Female Executives. To discuss eligibility and application process, contact the Director of Executive MBA Program at 410-617-2836. NO GMAT REQUIRED
Rigorous and demanding, admission to Loyola’s EMBA and MBA Fellows Programs doesn’t hinge on the results of a standardized test. Provided that a candidate can demonstrate prior undergraduate or graduate academic success and has a proven track-record of significant professional leadership roles and well-developed communication skills, no GMAT is required. For more information send an email to Jan Vohrer, Program Assistant, jvohrer@Loyola.edu or call 410-617-5064. Apply now to the Executive MBA or MBA Fellows
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