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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

University of Alberta

School of Business

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Executive Education, Alberta School of Business
      • Alberta School of Business
      • 2-006 Enterprise Square
      • 10230 Jasper Avenue
      • Edmonton
      • Canada
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Name: N/A
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 14
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 11
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 4,996
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? No

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

      • Open-enrollment executive programs run in other countries: 0
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 0
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 7

    • School partnerships with non-business schools:

      • Title: Directors Education Program
      • Partner(s): Institute of Corporate Directors
      • Title: Governance Essentials Program
      • Partner(s): Institute of Corporate Directors, TELUS
      • Title: Governance Forums
      • Partner(s): Institute of Corporate Directors
      • Title: Business Leadership for Technical Professionals
      • Partner(s): Consulting Engineers of Alberta
      • Title: Business in Dentistry
      • Partner(s): U of A Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
      • Title: Advanced Program in Project Management
      • Partner(s): Interthink Consulting

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 454
      • Full-Time MBA: 142
      • Part-Time MBA: 278
      • Executive MBA: 34
      • PhD Program: 53
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,011
      • Other graduate degree programs: Other

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $600.00
      • High: $9,000.00

    • Range of costs, custom programs:

      • Low: $6,500.00
      • High: $87,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 87 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 1 %

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Advance Program in Project Management
      • Type of Course: module-based
      • Course Length: 14 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $6,400.00
      • Title: The Executive Program
      • Course Length: 9 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,825.00
      • Title: The Corporate Social Responsibility Program
      • Course Length: 12 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,200.00
      • Title: Leadership Development Program
      • Course Length: 8 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $3,920.00
      • Title: Management Essentials Program
      • Course Length: 12 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $6,670.00
      • Title: Financial Management Program
      • Course Length: 3 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $1,910.00
      • Title: Directors Education Program
      • Course Length: 12 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $16,175.00
      • Title: Leading Series
      • Course Length: 4 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,445.00
      • Title: Business Leadership for Technical Professionals
      • Course Length: 14 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,230.00
      • Title: Certificate in Municipal Management and Leadership
      • Course Length: 15 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $6,000.00

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 109

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 60
      • Non-Tenured: 49

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 8
      • Non-Tenured: 16

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 52
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 42
      • Non-Tenured: 35

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 59
      • Non-Tenured: 42

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 25 %
      • Distance Learning: 10 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 40 %
      • Simulations: 0 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 34 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 66 %

    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 14 %
      • International: 2 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: The most important technological improvement in the last three years involved a conversion from traditional IT infrastructure to virtual computing. The Alberta School of Business has invested over a quarter of a million dollars in virtual computing architecture. This new architecture has become the foundation for the delivery of most IT services.
      • Amount spent: $2,000,000.00

  • COMMENTS

      • As a key program at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta, Executive Education serves clients across all industries and in the public sector. Offering approximately 40 programs and serving over 5,000 participants per year, Executive Education is a premier executive education source in Canada. Programs are closely aligned to the Alberta MBA and several of provide credits toward MBA completion.

  • CONTACT INFORMATION

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