Newswise — The University of Virginia Board of Visitors at its June meeting formally approved an MBA for Executives to be administered by the University's Darden School of Business. The new degree will enhance the backgrounds of experienced managers, who have been in the workplace for 10 or more years and who want to earn a graduate business degree but cannot interrupt their careers. The Darden MBA for Executives charter class will start in June 2006.
"We are excited about the opportunities associated with this new MBA option," says Robert S. Harris, dean of the Darden School. "We join the School of Engineering and the McIntire School in offering an advanced degree in an innovative format and hope this will help to make our outstanding program accessible to a broader population.
"The addition of the Darden MBA for Executives extends our portfolio of educational programs. It will integrate distance learning into the curriculum on a routine basis, allowing us to leverage new educational methods in all our programs," Harris adds.
Darden will build on its success in the full-time MBA program and its experience teaching executives in its highly-ranked executive education programs. The Darden community—its dedicated faculty, student support services staff, alumni, and students—will deliver the MBA for Executives with the same standard of excellence as in all of Darden's programs.
The 21-month program will occur through a blend of long-weekend classes at Darden, extended residencies on site and at an international location, coupled with distance-learning components. The course program is designed to be as rigorous as the daytime MBA program and will transform experienced managers into leaders of complex business environments. The program will be taught by the same Darden faculty who teach the fulltime and executive education students and will primarily be located on the North Grounds in Charlottesville. Tuition will be competitive with top ranked programs.
Preliminary information is available at Darden's web site, and later this summer, an online application will be available at http://www.darden.virginia.edu/execMBA/index.asp
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