The EMBA Program is designed specifically to facilitate ‘learning while working’ for students who wish to continue their studies after graduation while not being required to leave their jobs/ employment. 

EMBA has proved to be a strategic investment to one’s superior career growth. There are numerous success stories from various universities across the world to substantiate the value EMBA delivers as a concrete Program. 

Real-time classroom learning is implemented back to the workplace making the combination fruitful.

The value of both EMBA and MBA remains the same from a degree perspective but is more from a ‘learning outcome’ perspective as this has a bigger impact on one’s career growth. 

According to The Executive MBA Council (EMBAC)’s report, 39% of EMBA graduates get promoted immediately after graduation.

This Program is ideally suitable for professionals in their mid–careers and looking for leadership growth, for entrepreneurs who are seeking business insights, and for graduates who want to enhance their capabilities and improve their decision-making skills while being employed.

The Advantages 

The Program also lie in the following four differentiating factors over and above great course structure or curriculum: 

  1. Flexible approach – which allows students to complete education over a specific year span (varies for different universities); flexible class schedules to adjust to their work timings; typically weekend or weeknight classes. 
  2. Contemporary Pedagogy – Teaching includes pedagogical tools that help one reflect the learnings back to the workplace and measure progress.
  3. Networking/ Peer Learning - Each batch of EMBA consists of professionals from various industries, experiences and domains making the ‘networking’ element critical and harnessing on each other’s strengths and expertise which brings in a great deal of holistic learning. 
  4. Making of a General Manager/ Global leader - The Alumni Perspectives Survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, found that 73% of EMBA alumni met with leadership growth. EMBA is typically a transformational experience; as students get a 360- degree understanding of Businesses; build strategic capabilities; enhance decision-making skills, and have a global mindset at the forefront. 

Core aspects/courses of EMBA 

Marketing is an indispensable function of any business. This Program equips students with critically essential business insights and skills, helps them to understand and interpret data, and improves critical thinking ability that turns analytics into strategy-enhancing decision-making skills. It explores all involvement that focuses on revenue generation, customers, markets, brands, products, stakeholder management etc., and the fundamental values that connect all. 

The ability to make strategic decisions by data crunching is a useful skill, even outside of the usual marketing scope. 

Business Economics and Financial Accounting  

Business Economics allows students to gather knowledge of economic models, frameworks, theories, principles and concepts/ terms whether it is ‘scarcity,’ ‘opportunity cost,’ or equilibrium; it gives in fundamental learnings needed to understand market dynamics and which students can apply to their organizations.

The Financial Accounting course allows students to develop business ownership and interpret all transactions via accounting tools and documents, the various financial statements, income statements, the balance sheet, the cash flow statement, etc. Financial analysis and decision-making goes hand in hand for business leaders.

The learning helps even to decode one’s own behavior and make wiser financial decisions. 

Many times EMBA students have commented to me ‘that the core EMBA courses helped them to assess situations, interpret financial statements, data and make a variety of business decisions for their organizations, leveraging on economic tools and various frameworks, theories learnt’.

Authored by: Parmita Debnath (Global Head – Student Experience and Professional Development, EMBA)