Tulane's Executive MBA

Top-ranked, top-notch

At Tulane, you get the best of everything: great professors, top-ranked b-school, top-ranked Executive MBA program, academically strong, experienced classmates, and an accelerated, weekend schedule that helps you achieve your goals within your time frame.

Designed for busy managers and seasoned professionals

In the Executive MBA program, you'll gain global business knowledge for today's business world.  We'll introduce knowledge, tools, methods, insights, and ideas for creative and strategic business decision making.  You'll gain the competence and confidence to make critical business and management decisions for your company.

Earn a Tulane MBA degree with minimal interruption to your career.   

How?  Here you'll see a few of the ways the Executive MBA will work for you.

• Convenient alternate-weekend schedule
• Broad-based curriculum completed in just 18 months
• Finance or management concentration
• Class dates set well in advance so you can plan your schedule
• Almost two weeks off between classes to help you manage work and travel commitments
• Experienced classmates from diverse backgrounds and industries
• Advanced student services: we take care of all the details (like registering you for classes; providing books and course materials; distributing grades and coordinated billing; providing meals on class days; arranging your international seminar; and more)

You'll earn Tulane's globally recognized MBA degree from the Tulane University Freeman School of Business.

Admission Requirements

The Executive MBA Admissions Committee evaluates each candidate for the Tulane Executive MBA program based on these admission criteria.

Professional Experience and Leadership Potential 
Applicants should have a minimum of seven years of full-time postgraduate work experience, with five of those years in a position of significant management responsibility. The Committee will consider exceptions based on career progression, depth and breadth of experience, and level of management responsibility.

Demonstrated Ability
In assessing a candidate's academic ability, the committee considers the candidate's professional history and academic performance as evidenced by a resume and transcripts.

Application Form
The online application form includes personal and professional biographical information about the applicant.

Resume
Submit/upload a resume detailing your employment history and academic background. List professional distinctions, affiliations, and activities. Describe honors, awards, scholarships, publications, and recognitions. Describe significant college, community, and professional activities.

Degree Requirements and Transcripts
A bachelor's degree is required; however, neither a business degree nor specific business courses are required for admission. Official transcripts from the registrar of all colleges and universities attended must be requested by the candidate and sent directly to the applicable Admissions Office at Tulane University. Email and postal mail addresses are listed at the bottom of this page. 

A limited number of non-degreed candidates may be admitted to the program as an exception to admission policies. The admission process for non-degreed applicants is competitive, highly selective, and only outstanding candidates will be considered for admission. The GMAT is required for all non-degreed candidates.

GMAT
GMAT scores may be required for admission to the EMBA program. Requests for GMAT waivers are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Personal Interview
The interview aids the Committee in assessing the candidate's strengths, motivations, personal commitment, and ability to meet the demands of the program. The interview also offers the candidate an opportunity to ask questions and to discuss individual considerations with the program director. Contact the applicable program office to schedule an interview. Early interviews are encouraged.

Recommendations
Two recommendations, attesting to the applicant's academic and professional abilities, are required. One recommendation should be from a high-ranking officer from the candidate's organization. A second should be from an immediate supervisor (or for self-employed applicants, a business associate) who has personal knowledge of the candidate's work.

Essays
The essays demonstrate the candidate's ability to express thoughts clearly and effectively, and assist the committee in evaluating the candidate's character, personal and professional aspirations, and motivations for applying to the program.

Application Fee
A non-refundable $100 application fee is required. This fee can be paid online by credit card. Checks or money orders can be mailed to the addresses below. This fee is waived for applications that are completed in full by July 1.

Computer Skills
Candidates are expected to use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and to be prepared to produce documents, spreadsheets, and presentations using these programs.  A laptop computer is required (see computer specifications on website). 

Please click here for computer specs.

Essential Skills
To help you prepare for the demands of this curriculum, we have partnered with Harvard Business School Publishing to offer you online preparatory courses in Quantitative Methods, Spreadsheet Modeling (Excel), and Financial Accounting. All candidates, applicants, and accepted students are encouraged to enroll in these courses before the curriculum begins. In some cases, applicants may be required to complete one or more of these courses as an admission requirement.