The Columbia Difference
Columbia’s Executive MBA (EMBA) Program helps you define and refine the skills you need to advance in today’s business world, where timeliness in capturing opportunity is critical and, as a business professional, you are called upon to make important business decisions at ever earlier stages of your career.
Columbia Business School’s EMBA Program offers several competitive advantages to prepare you to deal with a global and constantly changing business environment. The School’s New York location, world-renowned faculty and extraordinary alumni and corporate networks guarantee you a rich experience that is distinct to Columbia Business School.
The program is also designed to give you a career advantage, whether your goal is to assume greater responsibility, make a transition within your organization or bring additional knowledge and a broader perspective over the long term.
The New York Advantage
Beyond having the distinction of being the only Ivy League business school in New York City, Columbia’s location and proximity to more than 3,000 multinational companies and the major stock, bond and commodity exchanges offers you opportunities for hands-on learning, mentoring and career networking.
World-Class Faculty
The Columbia Business School faculty members are innovators and thought leaders, pioneering and teaching groundbreaking concepts and ideas that others will later adopt, teach and apply. In the classroom, lectures and case studies come alive thanks to faculty members’ extensive experience in the business world.
An Innovative Curriculum: Solid Foundation, Diverse Electives
Columbia Business School emphasizes an education that goes beyond the fundamentals with a curriculum that focuses on leadership development, decision making, interpersonal skills and creative thinking. At Columbia, you’ll find cutting-edge programs like the Program on Social Intelligence and the Individual, Business and Society curriculum. The EMBA Program also uses its extensive corporate network to give you the chance to apply what you learn to current, relevant business issues. And you will enjoy a wide variety of elective choices to help ensure that the education you receive at Columbia truly speaks to your interests and strengths.
Global Focus
Beyond taking advantage of faculty members’ extensive international business experience, as well as that of your fellow students, you can also take part in the International Seminar, which gives you firsthand experience with international business challenges and interaction with business leaders.
Diverse Connections
Columbia EMBA classes are made up of talented, global and intellectually curious students, drawing students from all over the world. As a student, you will find that the intensive EMBA experience creates both an immediate and long-lasting network. And beyond the network that you build in the classroom lies the lifelong resource of more than 36,000 alumni who are tied together by having been a part of the exceptional Columbia Business School experience.
