Program Basics

• • Queen's Executive MBA
  • Queen's School of Business
  • Goodes Hall
  • 143 Union Street
  • Kingston, K7L 3N6
  • Canada
  • Status:
    • Public
  • Length of program (months): 16

• Classes meet:

  • • Other

• Graduate business school is accredited by:

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

SCHOOL BASICS

• 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

ADMISSIONS

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT Required? Yes
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No
• • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? No
  • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

CLASS PROFILE

• EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

  • Female: 26 %
• • Average months of work experience: 178

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 96
  • To: 264
• • Average age: 39

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 32
  • To: 47

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 17 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 2 %
  • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 26 %
  • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 4 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consulting: 1 %
  • Consumer Products: 2 %
  • Financial Services: 12 %
  • Government: 11 %
  • Manufacturing: 19 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 1 %
  • Non-Profit: 2 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 6 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 16 %
  • Real Estate: 0 %
  • Technology: 11 %
  • Other: 19 %

FINANCIAL AID

• • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 81

STUDENT LIFE

• • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
  • Description: Global Business Project to any city outside of North America
  • Description: Participants stay in our Executive Facility while studying on the Queen's campus
  • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

  • Hours per week in class: 6
  • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 25
• • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2007
  • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? Yes
  • Describe distance learning EMBA: Half of the program is delivered during residential sessions on the Queen's campus and the other half is delivered in major cities across Canada and the U.S. via live, interactive videoconference.
  • Joint degree programs: MBA/JD (Law)
  • Leading areas of study: Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Business, Leadership, Strategy

• Graduation Requirements:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
    • Class participation accounts for some percentage of students' grades
    • Write a complete business plan
    • Present final company-specific project results to relevant parties
• • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2007

• Domestic partnerships or in-house EMBA programs:

  • Cornell University

• 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.

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 6,542
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 8
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 4
  • Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni? Yes
  • Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • University alumni networking site: http://www.alumni.queensu.ca
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.queensbusiness.ca
  • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

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

• • -Sometimes, I felt that the study load was too heavy and the deadlines too short. A little bit more time to better prepare would help.
    
    -Considering all the hard work and sacrifice and the marital pressures, I am completely satisfied and don't regret earning the EMBA one bit. My wife has completely supported me, which was critical to the completion of the program. You should ask questions about this in relation to program success.
    
    -The EMBA was presented through a virtual classroom using very good video conferencing tools and interactive Internet Web sites. These Web sites could have been used more frequently to further engage students as the video conferencing was not as interactive as a classroom setting would have been.
    
    -In retrospect the EMBA wasn't "MBA light" like I thought it might be. However, it is also the business school's cash cow, and it is priced to the point where it is tough to justify the tuition paid. I would advise others to take a regular MBA instead whenever possible.
    
    -It was a life changing experience. The EMBA teaches you a about life, not just business. I would recommend that anyone interested in the program, should definitely do it regardless of the cost, time, and effort. The payback will be life long and more than you ever imagined.
    
    -Queen's administration was superb. Most professors and lecturers were top notch. The program could have opened the doors with recruiters as most of the EMBA class was looking for a career change.
    
    -The program was great and I would definitely do it again at Queen's if I had to do it over. The only major drawback was that under a team-based learning environment, you are stuck with the people on your team. These people may not possess the same enthusiasm or rigor as you are prepared to put in, which takes away from the experience. On our team of six, only myself and another team member actually discussed the knowledge learned and spent time discussing it.
    
    -Despite huge nationwide networking potential in this program, there was a lack of networking opportunities. Given the structure of this nationwide program, I found we were not given much opportunity to network with students in other cities, which was unfortunate given the vast range of incredible people in the program.
    
    -The school could do a much better job of facilitating team interactions, and of being up-front about what would be involved in a "virtual" team experience. On that note, I feel lied to and cheated. I would also focus curriculum more on practical work and less on theory. Faculty should also be held to higher standards; most were great, but a couple were terrible. I think there should be a required minimum "grade" for faculty in student evaluations to be eligible to continue teaching at this level.
    
    -This program gave me the confidence to launch my own business and see things from a different perspective.