Executive MBA

Curriculum Overview

The Executive MBA Program is a general management program that equips professionals with the tools and perspectives required to manage and lead a company or business unit. Our learning experience embodies the rich academic tradition for which ILLINOIS is famous. Our curriculum is comprised of four essential levels of learning, layered to enable you to build your knowledge.

Level One, Leadership & Teams, explores and develops the specific concepts and skills effective leaders need in today's business environment.

Level Two introduces you to the core areas of business: accounting, economics, finance, marketing, and quantitative methods.

Level Three delves deeper and broader, focusing on cross-functional and enterprise-level problem solving, providing the knowledge and critical thinking skills required in well-rounded managers.

Level Four, the capstone global experience, is a unique and defining aspect of our program. The ILLINOIS global experience is an international consulting project on which you'll work for nine months on a current issue faced by a global company, and then travel to present your recommendations in boardrooms on the other side of the world.

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Classes begin in September and continue for 20 months, with sessions every other weekend for two full days on Fridays and Saturdays. Our bi-weekly schedule maximizes your immersion in the program but minimizes disruption to your professional and personal commitments. The program begins with a four day residential session in Chicago in September. Partway through the Program, you'll have a similar residential session in Champaign, where in addition to your classes you'll get to know our main campus. The Program concludes with a ten-day international trip for the culmination of the global experience.

The curriculum is comprised of nineteen courses covering all major disciplines of business study. The courses are organized into ten modules with typically two courses per module, each lasting four or five weekends. A typical weekend includes morning and afternoon classes on Friday and Saturday. Friday evening programming before and after dinner may include guest speakers, workshops, review sessions, or time for group project preparation. We provide you with meals, lodging, and a laptop computer so you can focus on learning.

Upon successful completion of the Program, you'll earn an MBA degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Executive MBA