Executive MBA program

About the EMBA program

With your resume reflecting your mid-level to senior status, you require an MBA program that builds on your accomplishments and fits around your various commitments. You’re likely guiding a team or making decisions that shape cross-departmental operations. And you bring to the classroom a perspective defined by a decade or more in the workforce.

There’s no need to start your education at the beginning. Instead:

• The Executive MBA program recognizes that you’re a seasoned professional whose insights enrich lessons and projects. Your classmates all arrive with similar backgrounds as doctors, engineers, military personnel, nonprofit directors, government employees and small business owners. The resulting environment encourages everyone to share their knowledge and forge career-enhancing partnerships.
• You’ll explore what it means to be a leader, getting tips from your professors and classmates, trying out strategies on the job, and accessing training to progress to the next level in your company or industry.
• Classes are held every three weeks on Saturday and Sunday, an arrangement that allows you to balance your education with everything else in your life.
• Expect to devote 15-20 hours per week to classes, assignments, group projects and networking opportunities. EMBA students take three business courses and one leadership course per term.

Tuition assistance

Being a discerning decision-maker has gotten you this far.

So as you make a decision about your future, think about these numbers: half the cost of our competitors, the lowest debt, and a network of executive peers you can tap into for advice and business deals.

Added to this, multiple funding opportunities turn our EMBA into a must-pursue degree:

• Employer tuition assistance: Because your success is their success, many employers offer to offset the costs of attending Warrington’s Executive MBA program.
• Military benefits: Make the transition to civilian life or enrich your knowledge as a current service member with an EMBA from a top 10 Military Friendly School. For more information about using the Post-9/11 GI Bill® and other benefits, read about UF’s process for military tuition assistance or email Gus Kreatsoulas.
• Tuition waivers: The State Agency Employee Tuition Waiver is available to qualified employees on a space-available basis for the EMBA program. If you are a UF or state employee who wishes to attend a program for which the waiver does not apply, we offer a 22% tuition discount if you qualify and meet specific requirements.

Experiential and co-curricular activities

You know your industry and the qualities its leaders possess. When you want to upgrade how you use data or contemplate topics from another angle, you can do so with one or more of the following optional experiences:

• Global Immersion Experience: Cultivate key cross-cultural communication skills on this required international trip that offers insight into the practices and political factors that frame global business operations and the relationships you build with clients and customers. Over the course of a week, students tour a region’s companies and address a challenge with a group consulting project.

Other programs that may be available to you under certain circumstances:

• The Washington Campus: In Capitol Hill, you’ll get a firsthand perspective of the policymaking process and its effects on businesses from the professionals who propose laws and regulations.
• Domestic Immersion Course: A new locale often means a new way of doing business. This trip takes you to another U.S. business hub, where you’ll tour its top companies, hear insights directly from their leaders, and lend your expertise through a consulting project.
• Residential and online asynchronous courses: Refresh your skills with a weeklong, in-depth and fast-paced course in leadership, fintech applications, a programming language or another related topic.
• Professional development events: Expand your knowledge and your network at these short-term to two-day sessions led by subject matter experts.

Application requirements

The Warrington College of Business MBA program considers and evaluates applications as they are received.

• Bachelor’s degree or a four-year international equivalent.
• Eight years of significant, full-time work experience, with some of it in a management or leadership role.
• Two or more letters of recommendation from a supervisor. Recommendations from student/peer leaders will not be accepted.
• Recommenders can upload their own evaluation or use our Common Letter of Recommendation Form.
• Required and optional essays that convey your unique background, personality and ability to add to the diversity of the MBA community.
  • We require everyone to respond to the first essay question. The second one is reserved for Full-Time candidates. The third prompt is optional.
• An interview, by invitation only, with an MBA admissions representative.
• Official, original transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate institutions attended. Send electronically or mailed in a sealed, signed and unopened envelope to Graduate Admissions.
• $30 application fee. Application fee waivers are granted to students who attend admissions events. Additional waivers may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
• International candidates: Refer to requirements for international students, including English proficiency and transcript evaluations. Warrington interviews candidates who attended a non-U.S. institution as part of the admissions process.