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The Columbia Business School EMBA program exceeded my expectations. I developed new ways of thinking about business and gained insights I could not have gained through years of business experience. My career will take new directions as a direct result of participating in the Columbia EMBA program. --Software Technology
Columbia attracts some great professors, gives you the opportunity to meet colleagues from all walks of life in NYC, and carries Ivy League status. --Marketing
Location, program elements and quality of the program were the key components I used in evaluating business schools. Columbia meets these criteria the best in the New York location. --Marketing
Columbia's program, including class schedules, curricula, and teacher training, is extremely well-designed to accommodate the working executive without detracting from the quality of education. --Finance
Columbia's electives had great instructors, however their core course in the first semester had several poor instructors who had difficulty handling the regular MBAs let alone the more aggressive EMBAs. --Operations
Columbia primarily provides only the best faculty to the program and they usually have valuable and highly relevant experiences to draw from. The key weakness of the instructors is that the addition of adjuncts to teach new (non-core) electives wasn't as effective or valuable. --Marketing
The strengths of the excellent teachers were their ability to draw on the collective experience of the students and real world applications. Quite frankly, I learned more from other students via group projects than I did from the instructors lecturing in class. The weaknesses from the less talented instructors were an inability to see the difference between EMBA students and MBA students. EMBA students are more time pressed and need to accomplish tasks in group formats, similar to real world jobs. --Finance
Range of quality for instructors varied far too much. Some were truly outstanding, where others should have been teaching in the undergraduate program. --Global Sales
(Instructors?) The strong ones were able to adapt and cover their subject in a way that fit with the experience/needs of the very diverse class. The weak ones were either not knowledgeable enough or talented enough to teach such a diverse class. It's a difficult balance - they have to cover the basics but also apply the material to the current situations and experiences of the class. Most could have done better by bringing in current business news stories that related to the topic they were covering. --Marketing
(Improvements?) Less focus on theory, more interactive discussions about what problems students grapple with every day and how they overcome them. There should also be more presentations and a focus on what makes a good presentation as public speaking and communication is a large part of the real world. --Finance
Columbia offered the ability to remain within New York City while providing an excellent teaching staff and school experience. Nothing is perfect, but several of the professors far exceeded my best expectations. Classmates as well were top-notch. --Project Management
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