ROI at a Glance
When you enroll in Columbia’s EMBA Program you make a strategic investment in your personal and professional future. The substantial return on that investment has long-lasting — and far-reaching — implications.
Here, at a glance, are just a few of the benefits you can expect from the Columbia EMBA Program:
The EMBA Structure
- You can enjoy all the benefits of a distinguished, Ivy League MBA program — an outstanding range of classes, resources and networks are at your fingertips.
- The EMBA Program fosters the development of management skills and techniques that are immediately usable and that provide real-time, measurable benefits for both you and your organizations.
- The very nature of the EMBA Program — the time commitment and the delicate balancing of professional and academic demands that it entails — provides a framework in which you can demonstrate your dedication to and investment in your job for the long term. As a result, you will find that you are better positioned for more rapid career progression and advanced leadership roles.
The EMBA Curriculum
- The EMBA Program gives you access to curricular programs like the Program on Social Intelligence, which improves students’ skills and imparts the importance of social acuity in business leaders, and the Individual, Business and Society curriculum, which addresses the ever-important topics of ethics, personal integrity, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in today’s business world.
- The group work that is central to the EMBA Program allows you not only to learn the nuances of working in complex teams but also to benefit from exposure to a wide array of working styles, personalities and perspectives.
- You have access to Columbia’s renowned faculty members, who are globally recognized for creating knowledge in their respective academic fields and who have a tangible impact on business practices around the world.
- The EMBA Program is global in its outlook and its outcomes, and that perspective is reflected in the experiences of the faculty members, many of whom focus their research, teaching and consulting on international business topics. You will have the chance not only to study international business concepts in the classroom but also to visit other countries and analyze them firsthand through the International Seminar.
- Through field studies and group projects, you will have an unparalleled opportunity to study the specific business challenges facing your current organizations. The open, collaborative learning environment promotes rich dialogue that often leads to innovative solutions.
The EMBA Network
- Columbia’s New York location and access to many of the world’s most successful and influential business leaders affords you incomparable opportunities for hands-on learning, mentoring and career networking. More than 500 noted business leaders from a wide variety of sectors visit the School each year as lecturers, teachers and advisers.
- Through Columbia faculty members , guest speakers and fellow students you will be exposed to a host of ideas, many of which are already being put into action in businesses around the world, helping to change management, organizational and financial practices.
- From day 1 you have the opportunity to build a network that will be a lifelong resource, beginning first with your classmates and extending to a worldwide community of more than 36,000 alumni around the world.
