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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Queen's University

Queen's School of Business

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Executive Education
      • Queen's School of Business
      • Goodes Hall
      • 143 Union Street
      • Kingston, K7L 3N6
      • Canada
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 23
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 53
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 3,270
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? Yes
      • Year building opened: 1980
      • Number of classrooms: 6
      • Does the school offer temporary housing for executive education participants?: Yes

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • EQUIS
        • European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

      • Open-enrollment executive programs run in other countries: 2
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 10
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 40

    • School partnerships with non-business schools:

      • Title: Coaching for Challenging Conversations
      • Partner(s): Performance Coaching Inc.
      • Title: Credit Officer Development Program
      • Partner(s): Saudi Industrial Development Fund
      • Title: Developing Your Leadership Presence
      • Partner(s): The Ariel Group
      • Title: Making Partner
      • Partner(s): Royal Sun Alliance
      • Title: Leadership Foundations
      • Partner(s): OASIS
      • Title: Sales Leadership Program
      • Partner(s): Canada Post Corporation

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 809
      • Full-Time MBA: 117
      • Executive MBA: 498
      • PhD Program: 76
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 1,456
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Finance, Other, Master of International Management/Business

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $795.00
      • High: $24,500.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 5 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 10 %

    • Percentage of Participants in open enrollment executive education programs are:

      • Female: 45 %
      • International : 10 %
      • Business owners: 7 %
      • Completely sponsored by their employers: 87 %

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Queen's Executive Program
      • Type of Course: General Management, Strategy, Leadership, Business Acumen
      • Course Length: 19 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $24,500.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/QEP/index.php
      • Title: Queen's Public Executive Program
      • Type of Course: Public policy, strategy, leadership
      • Course Length: 13 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $15,700.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/PEP/index.php
      • Title: Queen's Leadership Program
      • Type of Course: Leadership, coaching, communicating
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/programs/leadership.php
      • Title: Queen's Strategy Program
      • Type of Course: Strategic planning and implementation, leading change
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/programs/strategy.php
      • Title: Finance for the Non-Financial Manager
      • Type of Course: Finance and accounting, budgets, forecasting, risk
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/programs/fftnfm.php
      • Title: Queen's Operations Leadership Program
      • Type of Course: Leadership, project management, teams, operations
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/programs/operations.php
      • Title: Queen's Human Resources Program
      • Type of Course: HR strategy, attracting talent, retaining, developing talent
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/programs/hr.php
      • Title: Queen's IT Management Program
      • Type of Course: IT strategy, emerging technologies, valuing IT, competitive advantage of IT
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/programs/IT.php
      • Title: Queen's Enterprise Management Program
      • Type of Course: General management, functional area management, decision making, managing people and projects
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/programs/enterprise_management.php
      • Title: Queen's Marketing Program
      • Type of Course: Marketing, social networking, aligning with sales and strategy
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: http://business.queensu.ca/execdev/programs/marketing.php

    • International programs:

      • Title: Strategic Leadership Program
      • Type of Course: Strategy, leadership
      • Partner(s): Mubadala
      • Year Established: 2010
      • Title: Goldcorp Financial Agility Program
      • Type of Course: Finance and accounting
      • Country: Mexico
      • Partner(s): Goldcorp
      • Year Established: 2009
      • Title: Queen's Strategy Program
      • Type of Course: Strategy
      • Country: Nigeria
      • Partner(s): First City Monument Bank
      • Year Established: 2009

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 81

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Distance Learning: 10 %
      • Experiential Learning: 25 %
      • Lectures: 20 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %
      • Other: 5 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: In August 2010, Queen’s School of Business added a virtual team option to its EMBA. Students can now earn an Executive MBA through a combination of on-campus residential sessions and desktop learning.

  • COMMENTS

      • Queen's Executive Development Centre is one of the world's largest and most respected providers of management education. Over the past 30 years, more than 3,500 organizations from 60 different countries have sent managers and executives to our programs. Queen's School of Business is consistently ranked among the best in the world by Financial Times and Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the best in Canada in the Environics Report on Executive Education.

  • CONTACT INFORMATION

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