No, this is not Evanston, Il. But it is the home of Kellogg's Miami-based EMBA program in Coral Gables, FL.

Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
James L. Allen Center
2169 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Admissions: 847-467-7020

Email: emba@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Website: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/emba.aspx
Apply: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Programs/EMBA/Application_Process.aspx

Application Deadline: June 1

Designed for senior and mid-career executives, the Kellogg Executive MBA program emphasizes teamwork and cross-cultural collaboration, leadership, and adaptability. To accommodate the varied schedules of its students, Kellogg offers four Executive MBA program schedules each year from two locations, Evanston and Miami.

In both the Evanston program and the Miami program, core and advanced courses help students to grasp the tools of general management, providing techniques for solving managerial problems. At the same time, the curriculum allows students to pursue special areas of interest by choosing elective courses at one of the Kellogg School’s Global Partner Institutions. Kellogg offers EMBA candidates the chance to take twice as many electives as those at Chicago–four courses instead of just two.

Evanston-based students have all core classes on the Northwestern’s main campus. The Miami-based students have most core classes on the Miami campus and travel to Evanston in January of their second year for an International live-in week and to begin their winter quarter studies. Like all the top EMBA programs, this is a tough sled. Students spend an average of 25 to 30 hours of work outside of class weekends studying.

Latest Up-to-Date Executive MBA Rankings:
2012 Poets&Quants: 3
2010 The Wall Street Journal: 5
2011 U.S. News & World Report: 3
2011 BusinessWeek: 3
2011 Financial Times: 17

Rankings Analysis: The Kellogg School managed to hold onto its rank of third place among the world’s best EMBA programs in the latest PoetsandQuants survey for 2012. This was despite losing its premier status in the 2011 BusinessWeek ranking, having been nudged aside by local rival Chicago Booth which took the number one spot for the first time in the magazine’s EMBA ranking. The school also fell one place in the 2011 U.S. News ranking, dropping to third from second.

The Financial Times helped to offset these setbacks somewhat by giving Kellogg’s EMBA program a three-place boost in 2011, to a rank of 17th in the world from 20th in 2010.

Kellogg lost ground in the BW survey largely as a result of slightly lower satisfaction scores from the recent graduating class. In general, grads thought some of the coursework needed updating and there was a lack of leadership exercises in the program. As one member of the Class of 2011 put it: “Leadership is stressed but I felt the curricula should more formally introduce a leadership practicum for students who wish to lead, have them be tested against practical situations and feedback and coaching provided. This would be invaluable particularly in mid-career positions for those who are truly interested in leadership. Some coursework such as statistics should be updated to more truly reflect the use of data in the business today.”

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