While some MBA programs in recent years have struggled with dwindling enrollment, programs in the DC area have expanded their options with new executive MBAs.
“By expanding the student base you’re able to have more students and bring in more resources,” Jan Williams, of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, recently told the Washington Post. “It’s a way to maintain your MBA enrollments or even grow them in a time when it would be otherwise difficult to maintain or grow them.”
Executive MBA Programs in the DC area still enroll far fewer students than Full and Part-Time MBAs, but these programs have been expanding, even through the tough years of recession.
Executive MBA programs are designed with the expectation that their students will continue as full time professionals. They often meet as infrequently as two times per month, over weekends. Instruction typically assumes a greater deal of background experience and starts at a more advanced level from traditional MBAs.
Some schools from the wider area like John Hopkins have also been setting up their executive programs in DC itself, to take advantage of the metro’s population of wealthy, educated professionals, who might still be looking for a boost in their knowledge of business.
One especially unique option is at Maryland, which has set up an executive program in Beijing.
The trend in increasing EMBA enrollment holds nationwide, where a recent survey showed a 10% increase from 2008 to 2010.
