Executive MBA
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The Executive MBA (EMBA) program at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business is designed for experienced professionals seeking to elevate their careers with advanced leadership, strategy, and decision-making skills. With classes held just two weekends a month, the program lets you apply what you learn in real time — without stepping away from your job. Whether you want to launch a venture, move into senior leadership, or explore a new path, the Freeman EMBA program provides the tools, network, and credibility to help you succeed.
Why Enroll in Our Executive MBA Program?
With an emphasis on preparing students for success in an increasingly globalized business landscape, Tulane’s Executive MBA program enables you to build connections with your peers around the world through a weeklong business seminar held abroad and facilitated via Tulane’s relationships with 30 partner schools in 13 countries.
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Career Outlook for Executive MBA Graduates
Whether you have C-suite ambitions or are looking to grow your own business, the Executive MBA program allows you to enhance your business expertise and leadership acumen, empowering you for the next step in your career.
Take a look at a few executive roles you can pursue with this degree:
- Chief Executive: Median Annual Salary: $206,700*
- Chief Operating Officer: Median Annual Salary: $148,900**
- Chief Technology Officer: Median Annual Salary: $177,500**
- Chief Financial Officer: Median Annual Salary: $149,800**
- Chief Marketing Officer: Median Annual Salary: $187,000**
*Salary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023
**Salary data from Payscale, 2024
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Explore the Executive MBA Program
Tulane’s Executive MBA program provides you with top management-level knowledge, strategy, leadership, and decision-making skills — all while collaborating with your peers from diverse backgrounds. Designed for experienced managers and professionals, the program requires you to attend classes just two weekends a month, as you develop the expertise you need to excel.
Benefits of an Executive MBA
When you earn an Executive MBA at Tulane, you’ll develop a broad-based understanding of business decision-making and hone the skills needed to advance as a proactive, effective business leader. Our graduate business degree coursework is both robust and comprehensive — covering topics in decision modeling, entrepreneurship, finance, management, marketing, negotiations, strategy, and leadership.
Skills You Will Learn
- Time Management: Balancing work, home, and school responsibilities
- Teamwork & Collaboration: Working in study teams, including global teams
- Communication: Persuasive presentation skills and face-to-face interaction with international business leaders
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Working with foreign organizations to solve real business problems
- Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: Navigating difficult conversations for successful collaboration and negotiating strategy
Core Competencies
- Strategic Thinking & Decision-Making: Approaching complex business challenges with strategic frameworks
- Global Business Acumen: Understanding global business challenges and management strategies
- Financial Management: Managing financial resources and investments skillfully
- Leadership & Ethics: Developing leadership styles and ethical decision-making
- Innovation & Change Management: Identifying opportunities for change and leading organizational transformation
Our goal in the EMBA program is to create a holistic leadership journey. We connect a future-focused curriculum with the concierge-level support of the Stewart Center to ensure our students can focus on what matters: transforming their perspective and preparing to lead at the next level.
— Carmen Weigelt, Associate Dean, Stewart Center for Professional and Executive Education; Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship
I was learning from someone in healthcare, someone in city administration, someone in finance, someone in media. We all brought our special talents – we were like the Avengers. Everybody had a distinct superpower.
— Andy Quick, EMBA ‘01
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Executive MBA FAQs
Tulane University’s Executive MBA program is different from other MBA programs, offering an accelerated 17-month format with classes on alternating Fridays and Saturdays, a seminar abroad, as well as two immersive weeks. Intended for professionals with significant management experience, the program curriculum emphasizes expanding students’ expertise to address significant challenges, manage global business strategies, and drive corporate growth.
Executive MBA graduates tend to reach the upper echelons of the business world. As the program’s name suggests, an Executive MBA program prepares students for executive-level positions, sometimes in specialized roles that focus on a particular business area, such as finance or marketing.
Professionals’ salaries depend on several factors, including what industry they’re in and the size and maturity of their organization as well as their location, position, and incentives. As an example, the median annual salary for chief executives was $206,420 as of May 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Yes. With classes held on weekends and hybrid course options, the EMBA program at Tulane makes a top-notch graduate business education accessible and flexible for working professionals.
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