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The Executive MBA (EMBA) Program

The The EMBA is a cohort-style team-based program tailored for driven professionals seeking to earn their MBA in an intensive and accelerated format. This program is designed for individuals with substantial and progressive work experience, including several years in management, leadership, or related professional roles.

EMBA Highlights: 

  • The program is 30 credit hours with no prerequisites allowing a 12-month completion timeline.
  • Classes meet in person typically once a month on selected weekends during the semester on Friday nights from 6:30 to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with lunch being provided between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m.
  • The EMBA program embraces a hybrid learning model, combining in-person instruction with an asynchronous component.
  • The EMBA program is a cohort-style, team-based program. Students move through the curriculum together in teams of four or five students with complementary skills and experiences.
  • EMBA students can only start the program in the spring semester.

 

MBA

Accolade

U.S. News: Bellarmine’s part-time MBA among nation’s best

Business

U.S. News & World Report has named Bellarmine University’s part-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) program as one of the best in the nation in its 2021 Best Graduate Schools Rankings.

Bellarmine’s part-time MBA program was one of 272 programs included on the list. U.S. News numerically ranked the top three-quarters of the list. For schools in the bottom quarter of the rankings, U.S. News made an editorial decision to display only the ranking range. Bellarmine’s program fell into this 207-272 category, which was listed alphabetically.

Part-time business programs play a vital role for working people who can’t attend school full time for family, job-related or financial reasons. Bellarmine’s flexible part-time MBA program, taught by faculty with a combination of professional and academic experience, allows students to earn their MBA on one-weeknight, two-weeknight or weekend schedules. The program offers MBA concentrations in business analytics or emphases in finance, marketing, management or innovation.

The U.S. News part-time MBA rankings were based on five factors: 

  • Average peer assessment score from fall 2019 surveys (50%)
  • Average GMAT score and average GRE quantitative, verbal and analytical writing scores of part-time MBA students entering in fall 2019 (15%)
  • Average undergraduate GPA of part-time MBA students entering in fall 2019 (12.5%)
  • Number of years of work experience of part-time MBA students entering in fall 2019, with more years of work experience scoring higher in the rankings (10%)
  • Percentage of the business school's fall 2019 total full-time and part-time MBA enrollment that is in the part-time MBA program, with a higher percentage of MBA students being part-time scoring higher in the rankings (12.5%)

The statistical data was collected in fall 2019 and early 2020.

To be eligible for the current part-time ranking, a program had to be accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International in summer 2019 and have reported fall 2019 part-time MBA program enrollment of 20 or more students, based on the statistical data the MBA program reported to U.S. News in fall 2019 and early 2020. In addition, a school must have had a part-time MBA program enrollment of 20 or more students in fall 2018.

Bellarmine’s Rubel School is the first and only private university in Kentucky to achieve AACSB International accreditation, a distinction held by fewer than 5 percent of business schools worldwide.

Data was standardized so that each school's value was compared with the mean and standard deviations of all other schools, and standardized scores were weighted, totaled and rescaled so that the top-scoring school received 100; scores for the others were calculated as a percentage of the top score. Part-time MBA programs were then numerically ranked in descending order, based on their scores.

Every year, U.S. News ranks professional school programs in business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing, including specialties in each area, based on two types of data: expert opinions about program excellence and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research and students. The data for the rankings in all six disciplines comes from statistical surveys of more than 2,081 programs and from reputation surveys sent to more than 24,603 academics and professionals, conducted in fall 2019 and early 2020.

Information on U.S. News’ website can help prospective students compare factors such as schools’ student-faculty ratio and job-placement success.

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Spalding Endowed International Travel Support Fund

Funds available to support undergraduate students from the Rubel School of Business interested in participating in an international, study abroad experience.  Get more information and apply through the Bellarmine Study Abroad and International Programs Office at internationalstudies@bellarmine.edu or Study Abroad and International Programs.
Funds available beginning in Fall 2022.

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AACSB Accreditation

The W. Fielding Rubel School of Business at Bellarmine University is accredited by the AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), which places it among the most elite business schools in the nation. Not only is Bellarmine the first and only private university in Kentucky to achieve AACSB accreditation, but fewer than 5 percent of business schools worldwide have achieved this distinction.

Program Highlights

  • The EMBA is a cohort-style team-based program tailored for driven professionals seeking to earn their MBA in an intensive and accelerated format.
  • This program is designed for individuals with substantial and progressive work experience, including several years in management, leadership, or related professional roles.
  • EMBA students can graduate in 12 months.
  • Classes meet in person typically once a month on selected weekends during the semester on Friday nights from 5:30 to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with lunch being provided between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m.
  • The EMBA program is considered hybrid as it entails an asynchronous component between in-person classes.

EMBA Program Tuition Rate

$1,300 per credit hour. The total cost for the program is $39,000 and includes books and fees.

Additional Resources

 

Brown Endowed Study Abroad Fund

Funds available to support undergraduate and graduate students from the Rubel School of Business interested in participating in an international, study abroad experience.  Get more information and apply through the Bellarmine Study Abroad and International Programs Office at internationalstudies@bellarmine.edu or Study Abroad and International Programs.
Funds available beginning in Fall 2022.

 

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Dr. Diane G. Bruce
Dean, Rubel School of Business
502.272.7443
dbruce@bellarmine.edu

Dr.  Jorge Pazmiño
Director of Graduate and Executive Education Programs
502-272-7240
jpazmino@bellarmine.edu