EMBA is a killer
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15 Jun 2008, 23:41
I know most of the students in here are full time but as an EMBA guy, let me just tell you that it's tough. If any of you guys get asked about executive MBA programs...here's my insight so far (it's only been a few weeks).
I also know that Wharton is a top school but I honestly don't think it's much different at Chicago, Kellogg, UCLA, Haas, Columbia, etc.
Our normal sessions are 2 days (fri/sat) ever other week.
But we kicked off with a 6 day session at the end of May. It lasted from Mon-Sat. Mon was fairly relaxed with team building stuff and orientation type stuff. Tuesday we started classes. It was 6 hours of class per day + 2 hours of misc stuff (orientation type presentations, review sessions, etc.). The classes were tough though because each 3 hour class consists of 2 1.5 hour lectures. These class days went from Tues-Sat. Included was a paper assignment handed out on Tuesday and due Friday.
I prepared for about 3 weeks for those 5 days of classes and that included over 1000 pages of reading and learning material. I studied about 3-4 hours on average per day.
Session 2 was a week ago (fri/sat) and that was cool because we didn't have anything due. It was nice seeing everyone and going to class.
But session 3 (this fri/sat) has 2 midterms and a paper.
Here's life as a typical, fairly studious, full time student:
mon-fri: get up, go to class, eat, hang out, meet people, eat dinner, study 8pm-11pm.
sat: have fun all day, read a bit in the evening
sun: watch football, eat lunch, study in the afternoon/evening
Life as a EMBA student:
mon-fri: get up, go to work, come home, eat dinner, study 8pm-12am.
sat: get up, run errands, eat lunch, study in the afternoon, eat dinner, study at night
sun: watch football, eat lunch, study in the afternoon/evening
every other fri/sat is filled with classes all day
In terms of the number of hours in class and the number of hours that you are expected to study...it's actually the same in both scenarios. for EMBA, it's 2 years with no breaks (no summer internship break).
RVD (taking a quick break from all this studying).