Fox School of Business Redesigns Executive MBA into 16-Month Program

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Jun 06, 2011, 11:46 ET

PHILADELPHIA, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Temple University's Fox School of Business has redesigned its highly ranked Executive MBA into a 16-month program while maintaining its rigorous standard for curriculum.

The Fox School's EMBA – ranked No. 14 in the U.S. by Financial Times – can now be completed in just 16 months, beginning in mid-August and ending in mid-December of the next year. The AACSB-accredited program, designed for experienced executives, entrepreneurs and managers, was formerly 22 months long.

Fox's EMBA is built on face-to-face classroom time delivered over one weekend per month and supplemented by interaction with classmates and faculty via WebEx, a premier web-conferencing program that allows students to collaborate live – by audio and video – anytime, anywhere. The online collaboration reduces travel and minimizes the time students spend away from home and office.

Since 1985, the Fox EMBA's cohort system and executive learning teams have fostered discussion, team building and strong relationships among classmates and faculty. World-renowned professors lead a classroom of diverse executives with extensive management experience to discuss organizational challenges, benchmark best practices across industries and create a lifelong network. The EMBA offers an immediate return on investment: being able to apply class lessons during the next day at work.

Classes meet at one of the region's finest conference facilities, the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center in Malvern, Pa. But the Fox EMBA is connected to a global network of Fox EMBA partner programs in Colombia, Paris, Japan and, soon, China and Singapore. All of the partner programs feature Fox EMBA faculty and lead to a Temple degree. Through Fox's EMBA Global Strategy course, students also participate in a hands-on learning experience by traveling internationally and networking with executives from across the world.

The Fox EMBA program starts with a four-day residency for students to establish connections with classmates and professors. The program also includes a unique career management program as well as access to an extensive EMBA alumni network.

In addition to being ranked No. 14 in the U.S., Fox's EMBA program is ranked No. 43 in the world by Financial Times, which measures the salary increases, career progress and work experience of recent EMBA graduates, among other criteria.

Fox and the Wharton School are the only Executive MBA programs in Greater Philadelphia to be ranked in the Top 15 nationally.

For details, visit www.fox.temple.edu/emba.

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SOURCE Fox School of Business