The quality of instruction and the professor/student ratio makes Wake Forest an easy choice. --Product Development
The Babcock School was sensitive to the challenge of juggling careers and families that EMBA students have, in terms of class schedules, accommodations, and academic expectations. The latter wasn't lessened, but certainly wasn't the same as a full-time student. --Marketing
Wake Forest had the depth and flexibility to provide a good basic business understanding with the availability to concentrate on particular subjects of interest. --Entrepreneur
The experience was an amazing combination of continuous learning and dedicated support from the faculty and my classmates. --Marketing
I had the opportunity to study with a number of great professors. Beyond that, I was in a class with a high level of diverse backgrounds and experiences. The different perspectives on key issues was extremely enlightening for me. --Compliance
I was curious about the international focus Wake EMBA offered and they exceeded my expectations. The professors are well informed, not just focused on what's going on in the U.S., but they really know "the world." --Strategy
Due to the current market situation, I haven't seen the benefits from my education/investment. Long term may be a different story. --Marketing
[Faculty strengths/weaknesses?] With the rare exception, instructors were using leading-edge materials and teaching methods. Methodology was 90% case study and instructors challenged each individual to think analytically and prepare thoughtful responses. Instructors also valued the experience of those in the Exec. program and used their day-to-day experiences to test case-study material. Using different tactics, each instructor [gave students an incentive] to come to class prepared...which enriched the discussion. An example of instructor strength was how an instructor changed the material in September, 2001, in Global Strategy class to include the 9/11 events. Powerful discussions directed at business impact. --Human Resources
[Faculty strengths/weaknesses?] Strengths were their vast experience (research and consulting) and passion for teaching. Nearly all the professors had an ability (and desire) to connect with their students in a learning environment. Most did a great job of leveraging the experience in the room held by the students. --Marketing
[Faculty strengths/weaknesses?] Most of the instructors also did research and field work. This helped a lot. --Operations
[Faculty strengths/weaknesses?] The majority of the instructors taught using problems in today's global marketplace, which I found as their biggest strength. I thought one of their weaknesses was not allowing some of the EMBA students who had expertise lead clesses. --Marketing
[Faculty strengths/weaknesses?] One of the most important strengths is certainly the continuing education of the professors themselves. Most of them never stopped to learn more, they write books, speak to the public, and give a sense of "having lived it," instead of having read it in the textbook. --Strategy
[Faculty strengths/weaknesses?] Strengths: Good classroom facilitation by some professors. Good overall teaching and energy. Weakness: Need to add more basic business courses like Business Law, Business Ethics, Deeper Marketing, Deeper Finance, Deeper Evaluations. Inconsistency among the faculty. Some faculty were great facilitators and understood that many of the executives in the class has deep skills and knowledge. Some of those faculty could pull that experience out, while others decided to lecture. Those professors who were good facilitators who could pull out the knowledge in the class, were great at it. --Relationship Manager
[Improvements?] More time. In an executive program, the classroom time is limited for the breadth of material covered. It would have been helpful to stay on some subjects longer for a deeper understanding, but no one wanted to give up the broad base of topics to cover. --Human Resources
[Improvements?] Because of the nature of an executive program, relationships and class rapport is not established until after first 3-4 sessions (weekends). A team building "boot-camp" at the start would have been helpful. --Marketing
One of the challenges of any EMBA program is the low frequency of class meetings. To accommodate work and travel schedules, classes meet less frequently but for longer durations per meeting. As a result, individual sessions are sometimes too long to hold students (and professor's) attention. --Operations
The school reached out to assist all student needs and made a great effort in preparing our families for the stress of the program. --Marketing
Except for the food....everything else was excellent. The school should do something to improve the quality of the food. --Finance
[Company support?] My company selected me for the EMBA program, paid 100% of the costs, provided time off with pay for class attendance, and to the degree possible, re-organized some of my duties to allow me to go to school. I couldn't have asked for more. --Human Resources
The Wake Forest program is very well done. To fit a market niche, they have shortened the program time to 17 months which causes it to be very intense for the entire period (although, that was one of the attractions of the program). --Human Resources
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