Program Description

The William & Mary Executive MBA Program (EMBA) is brimming with real-world experiences from classes taught by one of the best faculty in the country to a cohort of professionals.   The program is packed with experience, including two international cultural and business immersions in the third and final semesters.

Fact Sheet/Tuition

Web site: mason.wm.edu/emba

Length of Program

• 19 months (January start)

Format

• Five semesters. Classes held two weekends a month (Friday/Saturday) including domestic residency periods and two international immersions.

Designed For

• Focused, hard-driving mid-career professionals without a minute to spare who want to go to the next level in their careers or start their own business.

Admissions Requirements

• Professional and managerial experience, application, transcripts, two letters of recommendation, GMAT/GRE score and an interview is required.

Application Deadline

• November 15 (admission on a space availability basis after this date)

Class Profile

• Average age: 38
• Average Work Experience: 15 years
• Average GMAT: 547*
• Average Income: $126,000
• Male: 80%; Female: 20%
• Graduate Degrees: 28%

* Our Waiver Policy skews the average GMAT score down and thus this statistic is less representative of our student body.

Represented Companies

• Afton Chemical; APM Terminals; Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Blank Rome Government Relations LLC; Bureau of Economic Analysis; DuPont Sustainable Solutions; Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.; Fox Joss & Yankee; Hankins & Anderson Architects & Engineers; Magellan Health Services; Mission Essential Personnel, LLC; Navy Installations Command (CNIC); Norfolk Southern Corporation; Novonics Corporation; Optima Health/Sentara Health Plans; Pepsi Co.; Prevailance, Inc., Sentara Healthcare; Smithfield Packing; STIHL Inc.; Super Radiator Coils; United States Army; United States Navy; University of Virginia; US Department of Defense; Virginia Military Institute Foundation; Washington Baptist University

Program Cost $89,500

• Microsoft Surface Computer
• Tuition and Fees
• Books and Cases, delivered
• Online Collaboration Software for Study Teams
• Tutors (1st semester)
• Parking Fees
• Lodgings on Friday Nights
• Domestic Residency Periods (lodging/meals)
• Global Immersions (airfare/lodging/most meals)
• Mason Career Tools
• Family Events
• Executive Partners Network
• William & Mary Campus Facilities
• Saturday Scholars Alumni Programs

Tuition Payment Schedule

• Nov. 2, 2013: $4,500 (Non-refundable Deposit)
• Dec. 14, 2013: $14,438
•  May 6, 2013: $17,242
• Aug. 12, 2014 $17,242
• Jan. 3, 2015: $18,501
• May 2, 2015: $17,377

Contact

• Susan Hughes, Director, Executive MBA Program susan.hughes@mason.wm.edu, 757-221-2912

Team Guidelines

Designing and leading effective teams is an essential skill for executives and, for this reason, teams are an integral component of the Executive MBA Program. Most of your learning of course material relies upon your active participation in assigned study teams. To support your learning and your effectiveness as a team player, the program includes a series of team assessment and feedback activities.

As part of your first-semester Leadership course, you will be asked to create a team contract, provide peer feedback to teammates mid-semester, complete a self assessment of team skills, participate in a facilitated team feedback session, and to submit a revised version of your team contract. These activities are intended to raise your awareness of team processes and to increase your effectiveness as a team player. A coach will be assigned to each of the study teams to assist you in your team dynamics.

While it is very common for teams to experience growing pains and challenges as they develop an effective working style, occasionally issues arise that go beyond what should reasonably be expected and team performance is significantly impacted. If this happens, teams have several options.

The first step is for the team to address the problem on its own, using the revised team contract as a guideline for acceptable behavior and the first-semester facilitated team feedback sessions as a model for confronting unacceptable behavior. Teams should use this opportunity to renegotiate team contracts.

If members are unable to resolve problems on their own, the team should ask the Director to provide an External Facilitator to help the team resolve the problem. The External Facilitator will do an independent diagnosis of the problem and provide feedback to individuals and the team as a whole. On the basis of this feedback, members will be asked to submit individual personal development plans to the External Facilitator and Director detailing what steps they will take to address problematic behaviors and conform to agreed-upon acceptable behaviors.

If these steps are not successful, at the discretion of the Program Director, teams may disband entirely. Members of teams that disband will be reassigned to other teams by the Program Director. This measure will be considered as a last resort only.

Refund Policy

Initial Deposit: Nonrefundable

• If an individual does not attend the orientation program and cancels participation in the program, s/he will be considered ‘dropped’ from the College of William & Mary. The deposit will not be refundable, and “Tuition and Other Program Fees” will follow the refund schedule below.
• If a student completes orientation, begins classes, and then discontinues in the Executive MBA Program, they will be considered ‘withdrawn’ from the College of William & Mary. The deposit will not be refundable, and “Tuition and Other Program Fees” will follow the refund schedule below.
• Attendance is required for all elements of the program and no fees are transferable or refundable. If a student is unable to attend a part of the program, he or she must meet with the Assistant Dean and no refunds will be granted.

Refunds for Fall and Spring Academic Semesters: The chart below refers to the amount that can be refunded to a student for the “Tuition and Other Program Fees” portion of the overall cost of the Program. “Text Books and Supplies” and “Meals, Travel and Lodging” fees are non-refundable after the semester has begun.

Refunds for Summer Semesters: The chart below refers to the amount that can be refunded to a student for the “Tuition and Other Program Fees” portion of the overall cost of the Program. “Text Books and Supplies” and “Meals, Travel and Lodging” fees are non-refundable after the semester has begun.

Courses

• BUAD 701 - Accounting - Reporting and Analysis
• BUAD 703 - Statistics for Business
• BUAD 707 - Marketing Management
• BUAD 709 - Leadership in an Uncertain Era: Understanding Organizational Behavior and Processes

• BUAD 702 - Accounting for Decision Making and Control
• BUAD 704 - Quantitative Models for Business
• BUAD 706 - Managerial Economics and Public Policy
• BUAD 710 - Communications for Executives

• BUAD 705 - Global Environment of Business
• BUAD 713 - Marketing Strategy
• BUAD 714 - Financial Management
• BUAD 715 - Operations and Supply Chain Management

• BUAD 716 - Leading Change in Organizations
• BUAD 717 - Corporate Financial Policy
• BUAD 719 - Business Policy
• BUAD 721 - Managing Information Systems
• BUAD 722 - Ethical Accountability

• BUAD 720 - Global Business Immersion