What is the difference between an executive fellow MBA and a traditional MBA degree?

Answer 1

Executive MBAs are usually designed for individuals at senior level jobs. They are more expensive, participants have more work experience and the entry requiements are different. The content may also be different since the senior level executives may not be interested in some subjects.

An EMBA is reserved for professionals who have been specializing in their field for at least five years. These are usually upper-tier managers and executives who still want to improve their craft. EMBA courses tackle a broad range of subjects. Even if you're already at the top of your game, an EMBA degree could still inject some growth to your career.

Answer 2

Both an Executive MBA (EMBA) and MBA are Master of Business Administration degrees: both courses teach business, finance, and management concepts for a managerial audience.

The main differences between the two include:

a) what they require from applicants

b) how the courses are presented.

Both EMBA and MBA programs require that applicants hold a bachelor degree in something. If your bachelor degree was in a non-business-related field, you could also have to take catch-up courses in some areas, like business math or statistics, before you could enroll.

About MBA Programs

MBA programs are for anyone who has a bachelor's and scores highly enough on the GMAT test (Graduate Management Admission Test; applies to US schools). You can start an MBA program right after you finish your bachelor's, if you want.

MBA degrees often have specializations, which are a bit like a major. They allow you to focus on a certain area of business. You could get an MBA in Finance, or Property Management, or Sustainable Business Practices if you wanted. Depends on the school.

You will have different classmates for different classes in an MBA program, and you will probably have flexibility regarding the order in which you take courses. MBA programs are usually designed to take two years.

About EMBA Programs

Executive MBA programs require applicants to have a certain number of years of experience in business before applying. It differs from school to school, but five or seven or even ten years isn't unheard of, and they may want you to be in a fairly senior or even C-level (CEO, COO, CIO, whatever) position at your job, too.

Some EMBAs may not require you to take the GMAT first.

EMBAs usually don't offer specialization options: they are meant to bring current executives up-to-date with a broad range of business administration topics and functions. Technology, globalization, finance, ethics, organizational psychology-- these are all likely to be covered in an EMBA.

Classes are usually presented in seminar format, in a fixed order, often with the same group of students participating in every class. This means that some EMBA programs can be done in slightly less than two years, although it means a really intense workload. But most EMBAs are meant to be taken over two years.