Program Overview
Through a mix of rigorous courses, innovative seminars, and experience-based learning, including a global trip, you can deepen your leadership competencies, refine your business skills, and increase your ability to address global business opportunities. Classes meet one weekend per month on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for the duration of 20 months.
Business Administration - Executive, MBA
The USF Executive MBA is designed to help advance your career in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business world. When you enter the program, you will be joining an elite group of peers who possess depth of business knowledge gained through years of professional experience in a diversity of functions and industries.
In this cohort of experienced professionals, business acumen will play an integral part in your learning experience. You will work with faculty and students to find innovative ways to employ newly learned theories, concepts, and skills in creating solutions to the challenges you encounter at work, thereby adding significant value to both you and your company. Not only is the format of the program designed with the demands of a busy professional life in mind, but also faculty have developed courses that support active learning in a dynamic setting across all subjects. The USF Executive MBA offers a student-centered, rigorous curriculum focused on applied learning, leadership skill development, and a global mindset. The outcome will be greater confidence in your ability to lead and make sustainable decisions for both your business and yourself.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrates ethical and values-based leadership in decision making
- Collaborates with others to shape new perspectives and innovations for products, processes, systems, and/or services
- Engages in strategic decision making to solve problems
- Sustains a global perspective that attends to business, social, and environmental implications
Major Requirements (41 units)
Students in the Executive MBA program have the advantage of increasing their professional network as they complete the entire curriculum with the same cohort of students. The sequence in which your cohort will complete the program requirements together is pre-determined each semester to allow for comprehensive study and optimal learning.
Fall 1 (9 units)
Spring 1 (8 units)
- EMBA 6905 - Financial Management
- EMBA 6911 - Marketing Management
- EMBA 6925 - Leadership Communication
- EMBA 6971 - Developing Power and Influence
Elective (2 units)
Fall 2 (10 units)
Spring 2 (10 units)
Elective (2 units)
What to Expect
Fall 1
During your first semester, you'll begin studying management foundations and leadership development with a selection of courses on financial and managerial accounting, leadership and teams, negotiations, business analytics and ethics.
Silicon Valley Immersion
Be immersed in the epicenter of global innovation and entrepreneurship — Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area — where you can closely observe and learn how this unique ecosystem supports communities of startups and businesses to successfully lead and thrive in a competitive global economy. Leverage the Silicon Valley advantage with your organization.
Spring 1
The following semester will focus on local perspectives with courses in marketing, financial management, cross-cultural leadership and global business conditions.
Fall 2
At the start of your second year you'll focus on strategy, communication and influence. Courses include topics on financial information analysis, data visualization, developing power and influence, strategic management and the supply chain
Global Business Practicum – International Trip
Over 7 days in October, students visit corporations, organizations, and cultural sites in two international destinations. During the Practicum, students are immersed in experience-based learning through capstone, strategy-challenge, and service-learning projects to further develop an understanding of global business and stakeholder management.
Spring 2
Your final semester will cover entrepreneurship, technology, and disruption. Courses include topics in entrepreneurship, technology trends, ethics and social responsibility, leading organizational change. You will also complete your final project.
Business Administration - Executive, MBA
The USF Executive MBA is designed to help advance your career in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business world. When you enter the program, you will be joining an elite group of peers who possess depth of business knowledge gained through years of professional experience in a diversity of functions and industries.
In this cohort of experienced professionals, business acumen will play an integral part in your learning experience. You will work with faculty and students to find innovative ways to employ newly learned theories, concepts, and skills in creating solutions to the challenges you encounter at work, thereby adding significant value to both you and your company. Not only is the format of the program designed with the demands of a busy professional life in mind, but also faculty have developed courses that support active learning in a dynamic setting across all subjects. The USF Executive MBA offers a student-centered, rigorous curriculum focused on applied learning, leadership skill development, and a global mindset. The outcome will be greater confidence in your ability to lead and make sustainable decisions for both your business and yourself.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrates ethical and values-based leadership in decision making
- Collaborates with others to shape new perspectives and innovations for products, processes, systems, and/or services
- Engages in strategic decision making to solve problems
- Sustains a global perspective that attends to business, social, and environmental implications
Major Requirements (41 units)
Students in the Executive MBA program have the advantage of increasing their professional network as they complete the entire curriculum with the same cohort of students. The sequence in which your cohort will complete the program requirements together is pre-determined each semester to allow for comprehensive study and optimal learning.
Fall 1 (9 units)
Spring 1 (8 units)
- EMBA 6905 - Financial Management
- EMBA 6911 - Marketing Management
- EMBA 6925 - Leadership Communication
- EMBA 6971 - Developing Power and Influence