Executive MBA

Our Chapman Graduate School of Business’ Executive MBA (EMBA) program offers extraordinary benefits both to you, as participants, and to your employers.

Participant Benefits

• The time to degree is just twenty months.
• The Executive MBA program’s recognition in the Financial Times as among the top EMBA in the world for three consecutive years adds value to your degree.
• The Chapman Graduate School of Business in FIU's College of Business Administration is nationally ranked among the top 15% of graduate business schools and in the top 25 for international business.
• The Executive MBA’s facilities in the new College of Business complex (CBC) on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus in Miami, Florida, offer a fully appointed, state-of-the art environment with multi-media classrooms, case study rooms, and a high-speed, wireless network.
• Our EMBA program’s Advisory Council participates actively to provide students with all types of benefits—from mentoring individuals to enhancing the strategic value of the program.
• Our Career Services office offers a range of support for program participants and alumni to enhance their range of career opportunities and contacts.

Sponsoring Employer Benefits

Organizations that sponsor one or more EMBA participants share with the program's faculty and staff a keen interest in their employees’ professional growth. Besides certain mutual responsibilities, there are many potential benefits to this three-way relationship among the student, their employer and the university.

Through their investment in the program, sponsoring employers’ realize the direct benefits of building more effective organizations through:

• direct return on their investment in their managers' education
• nurturing and developing the potential of key people
• broadening the experience and perspectives of their future leaders
• motivating their more promising managers to excel
• transferring leading-edge management thinking directly to their organizations
• enhancing the teambuilding and team-working skills of their top performers
• gaining direct access to the resources and extensive professional network offered by Florida International University’s College of Business Administration
• receiving and applying the collective knowledge, skills, and perspectives of participants in the EMBA program directly through their hands-on class projects and reports.

While the program is designed to minimize conflicting demands between work and school, employers are expected to recognize and support their student’s commitment by limiting, to the extent possible, any extraordinary demands such as travel and new assignments or responsibilities. In doing so, the employers will reap the benefit of employees who are fully able to absorb new information and apply their knowledge to their work.

Our Executive MBA program delivers a curriculum that is cross-disciplinary, contemporary, and relevant for participants and their employers. We evaluate and update it continually based on recommendations from our faculty, participants, alumni, and advisory council—an elite group of South Florida's business leaders. We also benchmark our program periodically against those offered by top business schools in the U.S. and around the world.

Your first experience as a new student begins with a Teambuilding Residency featuring a series of interactive exercises in decision making and problem solving. Also included are outdoor challenges to build needed skills for working together in the program and for succeeding in today's team-based organizations. From there you will embark on an educational journey that will prepare you for the next stage of your business career.

• Residency One: Teamwork, Leadership, and Personal Development
• Operations Management
• Legal Environment of Business
• Economics for Managers
• Accounting for Managers
• Marketing Management in the Global Environment
• Corporate Finance
• Organizational Behavior
• Organization Information Systems
• Residency Two: Global Business Trip
• Global Financial Strategy
• International Business
• Financial Reporting and Analysis
• Strategic Management
• Strategic Market Orientation
• Leadership

Drawing on the top-ranked Executive MBA (EMBA) program’s expert faculty, the college and its advisors have carefully crafted it  to guide managers in their quest to become leaders. As a participant, you’ll appreciate the intrinsic qualities that add significant value to your educational experience.

No other EMBA or weekend program in Florida can offer you the following:

• You’ll learn with and from experienced executives. Our program is restricted to only those with at least eight years of relevant work experience (five of those in management) so you can expect your fellow students to enhance your personal and professional development during the program and in the years to come.
• The integrated curriculum helps you build knowledge incrementally. The curriculum topics are complementary and structured to flow from course to course and quarter to quarter.
• Our faculty experts will truly stimulate and engage your mind. Professors who work with our Executive MBA students are carefully selected for their unique knowledge and experience and for their achievements as great educators and international business scholars.

• Extensive management skills training will boost your confidence and distinguish you as a person of high potential. Our unique offering encompasses training in team-building and individual coaching to hone your presentation skills.

• The Global Business Trip is an extraordinary opportunity to network with corporate leaders in other countries and expand your knowledge of international business practices.

• Our VIS (Very Important Student) services are provided for your convenience and comfort during the program. We strive to provide an unparalleled level of support, beginning with the “No-Red-Tape” registration and including catered meals, book delivery, parking passes and more.

Our Chapman Graduate School of Business’ top Executive MBA in Florida is a twenty-month program structured to fit your work and life style as well as your career aspirations.  The enriching curriculum starts with the Teambuilding Residency and culminates with the Global Business Trip. The program’s close-knit learning environment and weekly sessions help you to integrate new knowledge and apply skills and insights to your current work.

EMBA Class of 2010

• Average years of work experience - 14 years
• Average age - 38 years old
• Average salary - $104,000
• Average undergraduate GPA - 3.12

At the Chapman Graduate School we care very deeply about how well we are accomplishing our mission, how our programs contribute to our overarching goals and how we assure that the institution conforms to specified industry and academic norms.  Consequently we are committed to measuring the effectiveness of our programs using a well defined Assurance of Learning process that ensures “accountability and transparency”. 

Student Learning Outcomes

In recent times there has been a preponderance of student learning-based models which emphasize that Faculty should model the learning process in consultation with all our stakeholders.   Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) detail what we aim for our students to know, what they can actually do, and what are their vocational attitudes.  These are:

• LO1: Evaluate the financial position of organizations through the examination of balance sheets, cash flow statements, and budgets.
• LO2: Use team building and collaborative behaviors to accomplish group tasks.
• LO3 : Recognize and analyze ethical problems/ choose and defend resolutions for situations that occur in business.
• LO4: Critically analyze complex business issues and recommend sound solutions, in local and global environments.
• LO5: Demonstrate competency in IT as an enabler of business strategies in all functional areas.
• LO6: Make decisions that meet expectations and requirements of an organization’s stakeholders.

Program Outcomes

Given our mission, this program has defined the benefits to students as you gain new knowledge, increase your skills, change your values, and modify your behavior through the following program outcomes:

• PO1: Graduating students are satisfied with program value and potential for career advancement.
• PO2: The program will admit well qualified students who will successfully complete the program.
• PO3: The curriculum is relevant, coherent, and improves skill development in organizational management.
• PO4: The program will provide quality instruction. 
• PO5: The program will provide quality advising, program administration, academic and student support services, and facilities.
• PO6: Maintain sufficient gross revenues to cover all program expenses and be self sustainable.
• PO7: Graduating students will see an increase in salary as a result of obtaining degree.

Our four international business schools have agreed to establish this EMBA Consortium on Business Innovation in a Global Context in order to enrich our students’ educational experience.  Our underlying philosophy is that by offering a global portfolio of regionally focused programmatic alternatives, we seek to confront our students with the reality of doing business in vastly different countries in ways that will reinforce other learning and experiences and provide an important global perspective on business innovation, so critical in today’s environment.  Living in and learning from different markets, teachers, colleagues, companies, government institutions and cultures, even if for only a short period of time, can represent a paradigm shifting experience for senior executives.

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We admit students to our top EMBA in Florida every fall term only. To be eligible for admission to our Executive MBA program, you must:

• have eight years of work experience, five of which need to have been in a managerial role (managing people, budgets or projects).
• meet the general university requirements for admission to a graduate degree program.
• be in good standing with all previously-attended colleges and universities.
• have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• have a grade point average of 3.0 or better based on upper-division coursework. Applicants with less than a 3.0 with strong work experience may be considered.
• have official transcripts from all previously-attended universities (undergraduate and graduate) in an envelope *sealed* by the degree-granting institution(s).
• have official proof of degree—a copy of the original diploma is required if the degree is not posted on the official transcript.
• for international transcripts needing translation, place request for two sets of transcripts: one for the translation agency and another one for us.
• For those whose native language is not English, have taken the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS.) Must have a minimum score of 213 on the computer-Based TOEFL (CBT), 550 on the paper-based TOEFL (PBT), or an 80 on the internet-based TOEFL (iBT). Applicants taking the IELTS must score a minimum of 6.3 overall. To obtain information about the TOEFL exam, please contact the English Language Institute 305-348-2222, or visit www.toefl.org. When requesting the official scores, please refer to the Florida International University Institution code 5206. To obtain more information about the IELTS, visit www.ielts.org.
• For international students, have submitted the following documents: Declaration of Certification of Finances (DCF), a bank letter, a sponsor letter, if applicable, and an F-1 transfer if they already have an F-1 Visa.
• Although the GMAT is not required for this program, you may be asked to take it to strengthen your admission package.

Application deadline

Our top Executive MBA program admits students every fall. Applications are accepted on a continuous basis. July 1st is the last day for all students to submit an online application. After July 1st, please call 305-348-1036 for assistance.

Application Process

Be sure to submit all of your application materials directly to the EMBA office, even though you are applying online using the university’s online application form.

All materials need to be sent to:

Chapman Graduate Admissions Office
Executive MBA
Chapman Graduate School of Business
Florida International University 
11200 S. W.  8th Street—CBC 223
Miami, FL  33199-0001

• complete the graduate admissions online application form.
• have official transcripts, proof of degree, relevant test scores and additional documentation required by the university sent to the EMBA office.  Doing so will expedite your application.

3. submit a current resume of professional experience (8 years of work experience are required, five of which are in management).
4. provide a statement of purpose: a one-page essay describing your professional goals and reasons for pursuing the EMBA program at this point in your career. Also what is unique about your experience that you bring to the class.
5. participate in a personal interview once your complete application is received.
6. provide two letters of recommendation. If you would like, you can provide your references with the recommendation letter format we have prepared for this purpose.

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Tuition for our top Executive MBA Program is $59,000 for Florida residents and $63,000 for non-residents and international students.  The fee covers tuition, fees, books, materials, and other support.

Students pay for courses at the beginning of each semester. All fees are subject to change.  A $2,000 nonrefundable residency fee is due upon acceptance into the program. The remaining balance is payable on a quarterly basis. Payments are due the first day of each class quarter. Those who leave the program receive no refunds.

Executive MBA tuition covers:

• tuition
• all books and supplies
• athletic and health fees
• parking decal
• breakfasts, breaks, and lunch on class days
• lodging and meals during the residency sessions
• special events

Because state law prohibits the university from extending credit, fee payment cannot be delayed beyond the start of classes or financed by the Executive MBA program or the university. An exception to the advance payment policy will be made only for those who have been awarded financial aid by the university (scholarship, fellowship, loan) and granted a deferment.

If you expect to receive aid from other sources for all or part of the program, but will not receive that aid in time to meet the advance payment deadline, you should arrange for financing through a bank or other financial institution to ensure that your program fees are paid on a timely basis.

Payment Schedule

Payment Schedule with Financial Aid

GENERAL APPLICATION PROCEDURES

To receive financial assistance you must be fully admitted to an FIU degree program or be enrolled in a qualified certificate program.

To receive need-based assistance you must complete and submit the Free Application for Federal Aid (FAFSA) online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.  Completing the FAFSA correctly and submitting any requested document(s) by the annual priority deadline date, March 1st, increases your potential to receive the maximum financial aid for which you are eligible.

FIU's INSTITUTION CODE: 009635

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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

The financial assistance offered through the University requires USA citizenship or permanent USA residency to qualify for any federal or state aid.  Need-based federal and state assistance is not available to international or ineligible non-citizens.

LOAN ELIGIBILITY

Eligibility/Requirements 

Recipients of federal loans must meet the following criteria:

• Completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Application for each academic year
• Demonstrate financial need;
• Be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen;
• Be registered with Selective Service, if required;
• Admitted to a degree seeking program or an eligible certificate program;
• Be enrolled at least half time (6 credits/undergraduates-5 credits/graduates) when loan proceeds are received;
• Not be in default on a previous student loan or owe a repayment on a previous federal financial aid award received at any institution;
• Applicant can not have an adverse credit history (for Graduate Plus loans only).

Additional requirements may apply depending on the aid programs awarded to you.  

LOAN OPTIONS

Loan Types:

Subsidized – is awarded to student’s demonstrating a financial need as determined by the federal processor as a result of your FAFSA application.  Your loan eligibility is also based on your academic level (see chart below).  Interest payments on this loan is subsidized (you are not charged interest) by the federal government while you are in school or during authorized periods of deferments.  You begin repayment six months after you graduate or stop attending at least half-time.

Unsubsidized – a student does not have to demonstrate financial need to receive this loan.  You may borrow the cost of attendance minus all financial aid awarded and based on your academic level (see chart below).  Interest payments on this loan are not subsidized by the government. You can choose to pay the interest while you are enrolled fulltime or it can be accrued and added to the part of the principal of the loan that you owe.  You begin repayment six months after you graduate or stop attending at least half-time.

Graduate Plus - Graduate students are now eligible to borrow under the PLUS loan program up to their cost of attendance minus other estimated financial assistance.  Students need to first apply with the Department of Education to initiate the loan application process; the terms and conditions applicable to Parent Plus Loans also apply to Graduate Plus Loans.  All Graduate Plus Loans are awarded to all graduate students who meet the eligibility requirement upon receipt of your financial aid award letter for each academic year.  This loan is a credit-worthiness loan which will require a credit history approval.  Interest Payments on this loan are not subsidized by the government.

Graduate Need Grant - awards based on financial need which do not have to be repaid.

• To be eligible applicant must have an EFC between 0 – 7500
• Must complete FAFSA by March 1st priority deadline
• Must be enrolled for at least 9 credits per semester for disbursement (Fall & Spring)
• NOTE: EMBA students that apply by the priority deadline (March 1st) are only eligible for disbursement in the Spring semesters during the program due to number of enrollment credits per semester in the schedule.