The Executive education program (EMBA) at Kent State is designed to be a highly personalized, adult oriented, and interactive classroom and online experience designed to prepare students for managerial positions of significant responsibility. This MBA degree program is an academically enriching, comprehensive and challenging professional education that has produced nearly 1,000 gradutes since the program's induction in 1978. Among the many factors that influenced these students to enroll in the EMBA program are:
- Full accreditation by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
- The only (AACSB) fully accredited Executive MBA program in the Canton/Akron area
- Concentrated 19-month program (39 credit hours)
- Comprehensive and participative approach to management study
- An Executive MBA curriculum that emphasizes management skills and global issues
- Special Topic Sessions and two Residencies that integrate the EMBA curriculum and themes with the IBE
- International business experience (IBE) a trip abroad for applied learning experience
- Opportunities for applied research project based on "on-the-job" activities
- Highly qualified and experienced graduate faculty
- Limited class size (twenty-five) with careful selection of participants to ensure a wide variety of management and professional background and experience
- Saturday on-site and online classes, averaging three on-site sessions per month and one online session.
- Conveniently provided texts, instructional materials, registration, parking, and scheduling of all courses to provide busy professionals with a "hassle free" learning environment
- Progressive computer facilities
- State of the art executive classrooms for effective communication
- Extensive library collections with more than 2 million volumes and computer networks to access holding at other universities
- Conveniently located rural setting
The Executive MBA curriculum is designed in a modular format with two courses being offered concurrently over each eight-week period. This "focused approach" enhances the learning process by concentration on only two subject areas at any given time.
While the instructional method is determined by the nature of the course and the orientation of the faculty, the nature and composition of the Executive MBA class lends a unique element to the education process. Since the class is composed of practicing professionals, their individual and collective experience creates an interactive and applied learning environment. Furthermore, a spirit of camaraderie that is difficult to duplicate in other professional education programs develops as the class moves together from the first day of the Residency through graduation.
