Why The Executive MBA Program?

The Executive MBA is designed for working managers, professionals and emerging business leaders. Candidates usually have ten to fifteen years of practical business experience, and several years of management responsibility. This means that the classroom is a forum of talented and experienced business professionals, ready to fully engage on wide-ranging business topics – a place to learn from peers as well as faculty, to broaden personal and career networks, and gain new perspectives on issues challenging organizations today. It is a learning environment that is face-to-face, intense and often transformational. What you learn in the Executive MBA will continue to pay dividends for many years after graduation.

Leadership, Strategy and Global Thinking

SFU pioneered the Executive MBA for working professionals in 1968. Since then, more than 1500 graduates have risen to leadership positions across a range of sectors in organizations locally, nationally and internationally. Uniquely designed for experienced professionals, the program is different from other MBA programs in important ways:

• What you learn -- the core MBA knowledge at a strategic level plus additional topics appropriate to executives.
• Who you learn it from -- experienced internationally recognized faculty who combine exceptional academic credentials with real-world business experiences and engaging, dynamic teaching styles.
• How you learn --  bringing together leading edge knowledge and frameworks with practical application through case studies, and projects for your company you take the learning from the classroom to your work tomorrow and into the future.
• Who you learn it with - this team-based, small-classroom environment combines the diverse and extensive experiences of your professional cohort, for a multi-faceted education.

The SFU Executive MBA is about expanding knowledge and expertise, increasing confidence, and enhancing your career:

• Gain new insights and frameworks for thinking, analyzing, strategizing and leading
• Improve skills in communication, presentation and negotiation
• Experience the benefits of collaboration and teamwork

If you thrive on challenge and are ready to take your career to the next stage, we have the knowledge, tools and techniques to lead you there.

At-a-Glance

• Part-time
• 20 months
• Downtown Vancouver
• Cost: $48,500*

*Subject to senate approval.

Contact Us

778.782.5012

emba_program@sfu.ca