Program Basics

• • 110 Pfahl Hall
  • 280 W. Woodruff Ave
  • Columbus, 43210, Ohio
  • United States
  • Length of program (months): 18

• Classes meet:

  • • One weekend per month

• Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

  • Resident: $78,500.00
  • Non Resident: $78,500.00

ADMISSIONS

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT Required? No
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No
  • If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? Past academic performance / transcripts and professional experience is reviewed prior to admission.
• • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
  • Application fee: $60.00
  • Number of applications to the newest class: 68
  • Applicants accepted: 79 %
  • Admitted applicants enrolled: 69 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 84 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

CLASS PROFILE

• EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

  • Female: 13 %
  • International: 11 %

• Entering students are from the following regions:

  • Africa: 0 %
  • Asia: 6 %
  • Europe: 4 %
  • North America: 90 %
  • Oceania: 0 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

• Entering U.S. citizens are from the following regions:

  • West: 2 %
  • Midwest: 92 %
  • Southwest: 0 %
  • South: 2 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 2 %
  • Northeast: 0 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

• U.S. students in newest entering class who are:

  • African American: 2 %
  • Asian American: 4 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 11 %
  • Chose not to report: 83 %
• • Average months of work experience: 178

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 84
  • To: 286
• • Average age: 38

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 30
  • To: 46

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 28 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 17 %
  • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 19 %
  • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 11 %
• • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 43 %
  • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $137,224.00

• Middle 80% base salary range:

  • Low: $73,700.00
  • High: $190,600.00

• Students work in these functional categories:

  • Consulting: 2 %
  • Finance/Accounting 13 %
  • General Management : 36 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 11 %
  • Management Information Systems : 6 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 28 %
  • Other: 4 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consulting: 6 %
  • Consumer Products: 11 %
  • Financial Services: 9 %
  • Government: 9 %
  • Manufacturing: 25 %
  • Non-Profit: 11 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 4 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 6 %
  • Technology: 11 %
  • Other: 8 %

• Top organizations sending students:

  • The OSU medical center
  • General Electric
  • The Sherwin Williams Company
  • IBM
  • JPMorgan Chase

FINANCIAL AID

• • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 28 %
  • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit, Need
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months: 1
  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? No

STUDENT LIFE

• • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
  • Description: Students participate in a global immersion as part of their international business course.
  • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
  • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
  • Description: On-site executive level hotel rooms at a reduced rate.
  • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
  • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: The program offers more access to online materials.
  • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 15

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods:

  • Case Study: 23 %
  • Distance Learning: 20 %
  • Experiential Learning: 10 %
  • Lectures: 15 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 25 %
  • Other: 2 %
• • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 93 %
  • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 66 %
  • Average class size, core EMBA class: 47
  • Average class size, EMBA electives: 47
  • Elective courses: 132

• Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

  • Hours per week in class: 6
  • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 20
• • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2007
  • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
  • Joint degree programs: MBA/JD (Law), MBA/MD (Medicine), Other, MBA/MHSA (Health Services Administration)
  • Leading areas of study: Finance, Leadership, Economics, Marketing, Strategy

• Graduation Requirements:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
    • Other
  • Students must participate in a required international experience as part of their international business course.
• • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2007

CAREER SERVICES

• • Do EMBAs have access to career services? Yes
  • Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs? Yes
  • School's policy regarding recruiters targeting EMBAs: Determined on a case by case basis.

SCHOOL COMMENTS

• • Additional school comments: Fisher EMBA participants select through a democratic process 2 electives and 1 integrative course for their final module of courses. These courses can be new courses developed exclusively for the EMBA program where students have expressed a strong interest or students can select from an existing list of Fisher courses.

• • -The professors and staff at the Fisher College of Business were extremely supportive of the students and their learning experience. The classes provided a balance between theory, cases, and discussion. I learned so much from not only the professors, but my fellow classmates as well.
    
    -The OSU Fisher EMBA program provided an outstanding experience. They were truly life changing learning experiences. The strategy, finance, marketing and leadership courses and instructors were amazing. Ethics, integrity, personal growth and leadership were covered extensively and thoroughly.
    
    -The EMBA program at Ohio State is undoubtedly a top-notch program. Students have to be dedicated to learning because the workload will push anyone to new limits. The faculty was great. I am honored just to be in some of their classes. The program has a great international aspect to it as well. I would recommend this program to anyone who is motivated and able to learn quickly.
    
    -Every Thursday night there is a guest speaker after class. The speakers come from a variety of backgrounds. I found most of them to be experts on topics that I had absolutely no interest in. This area could definitely be improved.
    
    -There should be less focus on technical courses like statistics and operations, greater focus on international and e-business.
    
    -There needs to be greater access to the school's placement office and interview contacts would be a great improvement. They need to understand that as more mid-tier companies lower support of these programs and more students self-sponsor themselves that EMBA students should be given the same career counseling support as full-time MBA students.
    
    -I’d like to see better team and relationship building in the beginning, such as perhaps workshops throughout for struggling teams or individuals. Stronger emphasis/warning on need for sharp analytical skills - I think a prep math class would have been extremely helpful.
    
    -The International Business course could be revisited, the interaction with the professor was minimal and I struggled to engross myself in the course as I did with many of the other courses in the program. While the International trip abroad was life changing, I think more could be done to examine the nature of business execution on a global level, and not center on just China. I imagine that in previous years the center of focus was Japan, with China emerging as a recent dominant force in global commerce. But there are other emerging markets such as the former Eastern Bloc and the European Union which we did not spend much time on in favor of several manufacturing discussion focused on China.
    
    -The program needs to break away from traditional books and binders and move to more portable formats (iPad, Kindle), so business travelers can take their learning on the go.
    
    The staff at Fisher for the Executive MBA program is top-notch and makes improving the experience difficult. They literally took care of everything for us and made sure that communications between classes were as plentiful and as meaningful as the updates while on campus.
    
    -The quality of the classroom experience was nearly perfectly correlated with the skills of the professor leading the class session. This was one of the strong points of the experience and program.
    
    -The adjunct faculty was ineffective in adequately leveraging the immense variety and depth of the EMBA participants’ professional and personal experiences. Perhaps that is an inherent part of being adjunct, i.e. one is not able to fully dedicate to getting to learn about the students more.