Participant Profile...
The target audience is managers or managers-to-be who will earn the MBA degree while continuing their employment. The objective is to provide broad general management training to experienced corporate personnel who presently have, or are about to assume, administrative responsibilities - individuals who require such training both to function more effectively in their current assignments and to enhance their career advancement potential.
The programs are cohort in nature; that is, all students in each class enter together, take a common set of courses, and graduate together. There are 48 total credits, 16 per module for each of the three modules, that participants must complete within two years.
Program participants have been highly motivated, upwardly mobile individuals. As promising business people, they are adept at managing their time, working long hours, challenging themselves intellectually, and combining their business experience and coursework meaningfully. Some additional characteristics include:
- an average age in the mid-30s when entering the program.
- an average of 12 years of professional work experience.
- a diversity of previous educational backgrounds including engineering, science, law, liberal arts, and medicine, as well as management and economics.
- functional titles such as division controller, information services manager, hospital administrator, operations manager, technical sales representative, manager of customer service, development leader, project engineer, advisory market support representative, product program manager, manager of technical services, and plant manager. Senior managers of small- and medium-sized manufacturing and service firms are regular participants, as are professionals from not-for-profit organizations and government agencies.
Benefits for the Participant...
The EMB program is intensive and demanding, as would be consistent with a graduate professional program in management. Serious preparation is expected, and academic standards are carefully maintained to ensure integrity of the earned degrees. As a result, however, the educational benefits are substantial, and the degrees earned are significant professional credentials.
Some specific benefits to program participants include:
- Participants earn an accredited MBA from Purdue University without interrupting their career.
- Courses focus on immediate applications to actual work situations.
- A cohort structure, in which participants move through the program as a unit, maximizes interaction and stimulates creative learning.
- Participants learn sophisticated analytical tools while gaining knowledge of the full range of Business disciplines.
- The program takes an analytical approach to business problem solving which develops the managerial skills required for career advancement.
Benefits for the Sponsoring Company...
By sponsoring high-potential individuals to the Krannert Executive Master's Program, the firm gains a cost effective means to reward, retain, and educate superior middle- and upper-level managers.
Some specific benefits to the company include:
- Promising managers or managers-to-be develop analytical skills and an understanding of innovative management concepts that immediately influence the organization's investments in new products, cost-reduction programs, and total quality management.
- The participants' exposure to the various functional areas of an organization helps them attain a broader corporate perspective which enhances their contribution to its success.
- The participants learn to develop efficient and effective processes that positively affect the organization's bottom line.
- The exchange of experiences and ideas among the participants in the program brings fresh ideas to the sponsoring organizations.
- The concepts and skills developed in the program permit new challenges to be met with insight and strategy.
- Sponsorship of a high-potential manager to the program is a powerful investment in the company's future and a powerful motivation for the manager.
