Executive MBA

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Locations Offered

In person at Tulane University, New Orleans

Time to Completion

17 Months

Credit hours required

48

Application Deadlines
  • Priority Decision: November 1
  • 2nd Round: December 1
Year-round applications accepted. GMAT waivers for eligible candidates; all considered for fellowships.

Transform Your Skills Into Expertise

In just 17 months you can earn an Executive MBA (EMBA) from Tulane University's Freeman School of Business. Refine your years of business experience into formal knowledge and expertise in an accelerated weekend format.

Accomplish your goals with a robust, broad-based curriculum covering advanced topics in management, decision modeling, finance, marketing, negotiations, strategy, and leadership. You can also choose to specialize in finance or management.

Find Success Wherever You Go

Gain an international business perspective, enriched by our relationships with 30 international partner schools in 13 countries. Study international business first-hand and learn from peers around the world.

More About the EMBA

For Experienced Professionals Who Aspire to More

You're ready to drive corporate growth, solve bigger challenges, and transform businesses. Whether moving up, shifting roles or industries, or creating a new business, you aspire to more. Gain fresh technical skills and bolster soft skills for better decision making and leadership. You’ll join a diverse cohort of peers, creating enhanced opportunities for learning. Our students are military veterans, doctors, entrepreneurs, family business owners and more.

An Executive MBA Class

Take a Proven Path to Success

Accomplish your goals with a robust, broad-based curriculum covering advanced topics in management, decision modeling, finance, marketing, negotiations, strategy, and leadership.

  • Almost half of our students land new jobs or promotions before graduation.
  • Students report that our curriculum - with a leadership and decision-making focus - makes them more effective leaders.
  • All students earn a global strategy concentration.
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Appreciate a Program Designed With You in Mind

We’ve designed the program to meet the demands of busy executives. Freeman’s Executive MBA program will equip you to drive corporate growth, solve bigger challenges and transform businesses without disrupting your career.

  • Take courses in an accelerated weekend format - Friday and Saturday, twice per month.
  • Learn from renowned researchers and practitioners.
  • Travel to complete projects for multinational organizations as part of your final global business seminar. Past destinations include Beijing, Cape Town and Paris.

Experience an Advanced Business Curriculum

Four Terms | 12 Modules

PRE-PROGRAM

  • Online Prep Courses
    • Excel/Spreadsheet Modeling
    • Financial Accounting
    • Quantitative Methods
  • Orientation and Team Building Weekend (mandatory)

TERM ONE

  • Module 1 - Intensive Week 1: Economics for Managers | Managerial Perspectives
  • Module 2 - Decision Models | Strategy Formulation
  • Module 3 - Accounting for Managers | Management Communication

TERM TWO

  • Module 4 - Business Analytics | Negotiations
  • Module 5 - Financial Management | Marketing Management
  • Module 6 - Financial Management II | Operations Management

TERM THREE

  • Module 7 - Entrepreneurial Management | Finance or Management Elective
  • Module 8 - Financial Statement Analysis | Finance or Management Elective
  • Module 9 Intensive Week II: Managing People | Leadership & Ethics Weeklong Multi-Cultural Session with Tulane International EMBA Students

TERM FOUR

  • Module 10 - Legal Environment of Business | Finance or Management Elective
  • Module 11 - Global Strategy | Finance or Management Elective
  • Module 12 - International Seminar (6-day business seminar abroad) | Managing the Global Enterprise

Finance Track
  • Cases in Finance
  • Corporate Risk Management
  • Options
  • Portfolio Theory

Management Track
  • Change Management
  • Corporate Strategy
  • Managing Innovation
  • Performance Management

Explore the EMBA

The Tulane Executive MBA program provided me with the perfect combination of soft skills and the confidence necessary to run my biotech company.

- Trivia Frazier-Wiltz (MBA ’18) , co-founder, president and CEO, Obatala Sciences