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Executive MBA Residency Format and Schedule

The Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. Schoool of Business Executive MBA blends online learning with quarterly on-campus residencies to provide you with peer learning and networking opportunites. The 1-2 week residencies improve retainment of core skills and competencies while allowing you to live and work anywhere in the world while pursuing your degree.

Your 19-month EMBA journey will be broken into 5 or 6 modules. A module consists of:

Pre-residency: 8-10 weeks (online)

On-campus Residency: 1-2 weeks of classes, company visits, guest speakers, career management and social events (West Lafayette, Indiana or an international location dependent on program choice)

Exam Prep: 1 week (at home)

Exam Period: 9 days (online at home)

Break: 1 week

When students are on campus, they are more removed from their typical daily responsibilities and immerse themselves in the program and their learning. At Purdue, you’ll learn from our award-winning faculty, but more importantly, you’ll learn from your cohort, a diverse group of executives from a wide range of industries and backgrounds. We know that the outside-of-class interaction is just as important as the in-class interaction, so we give our students opportunities to engage in plenty of social activities during the residency, like attending Purdue sporting events, rowing, bowling, yoga and more.

Vish Thottingal, EMBA Class of 2020, shares his experience with our hybrid-learning approach, traveling to Purdue University for a 1-2 week immersion residency just once per quarter.

"I reached a point where I needed to do some big. That's when I thought an MBA degree from a Top-50 college would help. I work from Minnesota, and I have projects across the U.S.

Purdue's EMBA is a program that is truly a hybrid model where you do a pre-residency and then you come to a residency, which really helped me because I'm not committed every week like the conventional executive part-time program. "

Schedule

Program Launch at Purdue University

 

 
11 cr.

Module 1

Fall Term

 

Pre-Session Assignments (9 wks.) August - October 
Purdue Residency October - November
Examination Period (online) November 

Courses:

Accounting for Managers

Managing Behavior in Organizations

Business Analytics

Executive Presence

 

3

3

3

2

 
8 cr.

Module 2

Spring Term

 

Pre-Session Assignments (8 wks.) December - February   
Purdue Residency February
Examination Period (online) February - March

Courses:

Financial Management

Strategic Management

Leadership

 

3

3

2

 
8 cr.

Module 3

Summer Term

 

Pre-Session Assignments March - April               
Purdue Residency April - May
Examination Period (online) May 

Courses:

Operations Management

Marketing Management

Legal and Ethical Foundations

 

3

3

2

 
8 cr.

Module 4

Summer Term

 

Pre-Session Assignments (8 wks.) June - July            
Purdue Residency July - August 
Examination Period (online) August 

Courses:

Managerial Economics

Risk Management

Mergers & Acquisitions

Capstone Course Part 1

 

3

2

2

1

 
7 cr.

Module 5

Fall Term

 

Pre-Session Assignments (8 wks.) August - October     
Purdue Residency October
Examination Period (online) November 

Courses:

Capstone Course Part 2

Negotiations

Crisis Management

Immersion Elective

 

3

2

1

1

 
6 cr.

Module 6

Spring Term

 

Pre-Session Assignments December - February
International Residency* February - March
Examination Period (online) March 

Courses:

Change Management

Intl Residency Special Topic

Functional Elective

 

2

2

2

48 cr
 

Graduation at Purdue

May 

 

 

*The international residency location is to be determined by the student and the trip dates may vary.