Business. To a higher degree.
If you’re ready to take your career to a whole new level, the Vanderbilt Executive MBA is a degree that will set you apart. The program is designed to help managers and executives gain the strategic business tools and cross-functional integration perspectives critical for senior management. The program focuses on:
- Enhancing leadership, vision and strategic thinking
- Applying quantitative measures—critical, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Competing on a global scale
- Creating value throughout an entire organization
Vanderbilt Executive MBA students represent a wide range of backgrounds, industries, and sizes of companies—from successful entrepreneurs to emerging and senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies. Most typically, they are:
- Mid- to senior-level corporate executives who already are proven professionals in their chosen fields and seek to advance their careers within their companies
- Successful entrepreneurs who need to move their business to an even higher level
- Professionals—such as accountants, attorneys and physicians—who seek to “manage” instead of “practice”
- Professionals in technology-driven industries (such as healthcare, biotechnology, and information systems) where the pace of change makes spending two years away from the job unwise
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Profile of Current Students in the Executive MBA Program
Average age: 35
Average experience: 12 yrs
Advanced degrees: 27%
Women: 19%
U.S. minorities: 9%
International: 15%
Industry
High Tech: 22%
Health Care/Biotechnology: 19%
Manufacturing: 15%
Financial Services: 13%
Other*: 31%
* Includes Consulting, Telecommunications, Consumer Products, Energy, Environment, Government, Non-Profit
Job Function
General Mgmt./Services: 30%
Sales Mgmt./Marketing: 24%
Operations/Quality Mgmt.: 20%
Information Systems Mgmt.: 15%
Finance/Accounting: 11%
Educational Background
Business/Management: 39%
Engineering: 37%
Liberal Arts: 13%
Science/Technical: 11%
Employer funding of the Executive MBA Class of 2009
Received full financial support: 28%
Received partial financial support: 43%
Self-funded (income, savings and/or loans): 29%
