Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) The Executive Master of Business Administration program provides a curriculum that will allow its graduates to perform effectively as top-level executives. The instructional activities coupled with the educational experiences found in the program provide students with skills that can be utilized in a wide variety of management positions and settings. Through course work and experiences in this program, the student will be able to: 1. enhance his or her skills in analyzing the global business industry’s threats and opportunities; 2. assess the durability of competition found in all industries; 3. develop forecasting patterns as they relate to change within the markets found in all business concentrations; 4. develop a business approach and understand the significance of the planning process as it relates to business changes; 5. gain experience in applying the planning process framework to a variety of strategic settings found in the business environment; develop the knowledge and skills necessary to implement business decisions at all levels of management; and 6. experience the making of presentations of analyses of complex management problems and implement feasible strategies. The Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) Program consists of twelve EMBA graduate-level courses taken over a nineteen-month schedule; one course will include an international component. The degree earned from the EMBA program is the Master of Business Administration (MBA). Students will enter the program as a cohort to complete the twelve required courses (36 semester hours). Students must have a minimum of five years management experience or five years in a private professional practice or five years experience as a business entrepreneur before entering the EMBA Program. Any student’s graduate courses in business taken at another institution will not transfer into the EMBA Program at Wesleyan. Applications will be accepted anytime during the year for the next scheduled class.
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A completed application must be submitted to Graduate Admissions, Office of the Director of the Graduate Business Program, Wesleyan College, and 4760 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA 31210-4462. Each applicant must provide documentation of business ownership or employment in a management position for at least five years. Documentation must be provided by letter, on company letterhead, from the applicant’s employer stating the applicant’s position(s) within the company and length of employment. If the applicant has held employment in different companies, each company must document the position(s) held and the length of employment; the management experience entries must total at least five years. If the applicant is self-employed, three letters of support from individuals who know of the applicant’s self-employment must be submitted. These letters must include the kind of business that the applicant owns and the length of time that the writers have known the applicant to be in business. Applicants may substitute some work experience with adequate performance on a nationally-normed graduate admission exam—GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, or other approved exam, as per the guidelines set by the Graduate Admissions Committee. The Graduate Admissions Committee must approve all candidates with insufficient professional experience. Such candidates should contact the director of the EMBA program or his/her representative to obtain EMBA admissions guidelines. The applicant must have either a bachelor’s degree or at least the first professional degree with a minimum of five years of study from a regionally-accredited United States college or university. Degrees awarded by a foreign college or university will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applicants not meeting this requirement at the time of application may petition the director of the graduate business program for provisional acceptance. If provisionally accepted, the applicant must have completed degree requirements and submitted appropriate transcripts from a college or university before attending the orientation or any EMBA classes. The applicant whose native language is not English must submit a Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score report. The minimum score acceptable is 550. Wesleyan College will also accept International English Language Testing System (IELTS) scores, sponsored by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. Students must score at least 6.0 on the IELTS, with no subscore lower than 5.0. The applicant must submit the EMBA Recommendation Form which is available in the office of the director of the graduate business program.
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