The Executive MBA (EMBA) Program at Columbia Business School is a 20-month graduate program designed specifically for high-achieving businesspeople that are looking to enhance their education without interrupting their careers. The EMBA Program meets on alternate Fridays and Saturdays on the Columbia University campus. The program offers both September and January entry dates.
The program’s innovative curriculum and collaborative learning environment helps you apply your knowledge and skills to problems you face in today’s marketplace. An outstanding faculty exposes you to cutting-edge ideas and practices — ideas and practices that others will later adopt, teach and apply.
To date, more than 800 organizations have sponsored executive-potential employees as students in Columbia’s EMBA program. Leaders of these organizations can attest to the fact that the skills you will acquire in the EMBA program are invaluable to the growth and development of their respective organizations. (Learn more about sponsorship). While financial sponsorship is not a requirement, employers must endorse your enrollment, work with you to develop a flexible work schedule and allow time away for class commitments.
In addition, there is the opportunity to participate in dual-degree programs, such as the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA and EMBA-Global, administered in partnership with London Business School. These programs divide class time between Columbia and the partner institutions and award students MBA degrees from both schools.
EMBA fees cover tuition, books, meals (breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack) on all class days and conference center accommodations during the weeks in residence at the start of the first two terms. The fees also include residence and meals during the week long International Seminar in the second year. Students must purchase a laptop computer for the program, pay their own airfare for the International Seminar and arrange their own travel throughout the program.
September 2009U.S.$144,000
May 2009U.S.$136,530* *Accommodations are provided during class dates for the first year.
May 2009U.S.$120,00* *Accommodations are provided during class dates for the first year.
May 2009U.S.$144,960* *Accommodations are provided during class dates throughout the 20 months.
Columbia University Graduate School of Business, also known as Columbia Business School (CBS), is the business school of Columbia University in New York, New York. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students. Its admission process is among the most selective of top business schools and it is one of six Ivy League business schools.
Columbia Business School is known for its close ties to Wall Street and the seminal work completed in the field of Finance by professors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd. It is affiliated with 13 winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics including current professors Robert Mundell, Joseph Stiglitz and Edmund Phelps. The School has an international emphasis, and many alumni have achieved distinction in the public as well as the private sector.
For the class entering in 2009, the acceptance rate into Columbia's MBA program was 15%. The class has a GMAT score range (middle 80%) of 680–760, 33% of the class are women, 38% are international citizens, and 23% are members of a minority group of US origin.
