Executive Leadership MBA - Curriculum
The Executive Leadership concentration is offered in Northern Virginia and takes 28 months to complete. A cohort of students takes fourteen 8-week courses, one course at a time, for a total of 42 credit hours. Each course meets face-to-face for four hours at the beginning, four hours at mid-term and four hours at the end of the session on a Saturday. Instruction between face-to-face sessions is online, using synchronous and asynchronous teaching methods.
For additional course descriptions, please see the Executive Leadership MBA Concentration catalog.
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Year 2 |
Year 3 |
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Spring Semester |
Block 1 |
MBA 616 – Financial Statement Analysis |
MBA 614 – Global Business Leadership |
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Block 2 |
MBA 613 – Found. Of Marketing |
MBA 695^- Cultural Awareness Experience |
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Summer Semester |
Block 1 |
MBA 615 – Supply Chain Management & Logistics |
MBA 621 – Leadership Through Big Data Analytics |
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Block 2 |
MBA 617 – Corporate Financial Decision Making |
MBA 622 – Managing Risks in Global Environments |
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Fall Semester |
Block 1 |
MBA 608 – Organizational Behavior |
MBA 653 – Business Law |
MBA 618 – Information Systems Strategy |
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Block 2 |
MBA 609 - Leadership Accelerator |
MBA 606 – Managing Innovation |
MBA 691* – Strategic Organizational Leadership |
^MBA 695 is the course component of the international residency. The international residency is recommended, but not required. Students opting out of the international residency will have the option of taking MBA 654 or MBA 610.
*MBA 691, Strategic Organizational Development, is considered the capstone course in the Executive Leadership M.B.A. Program and replaces the comprehensive examination requirement. A grade of “B” or better must be earned to pass the course, and graduate from the program.
For more information, please see The Graduate Catalog.