Washington University's Olin School of Business

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15. Washington University in St. Louis
Olin Business School
Campus Box 1133
1 Brookings Drive
Saint Louis, Missouri 63130
Admissions: 314-935-EMBA

Email: emba@wustl.edu
Website: http://www.olin.wustl.edu/executiveeducation/ExecutiveMBA/Pages/default.aspx
Apply Online: http://www.olin.wustl.edu/executiveeducation/ExecutiveMBA/StLouis/Admissions/Pages/default.aspx

In the first year of the Olin Executive MBA program, students are immersed in fundamental business functions and processes. They build on concepts introduced during the opening residency and explore the synergies and complexities of business disciplines. Critical-thinking, analytic, quantitative, negotiation, and problem-solving abilities are developed while case studies, skill-building exercises, and assignments encourage immediate application to the workplace.

During year-two, the curriculum incorporates an interdisciplinary, team-taught approach to four top management challenges: developing leadership in the organization, operating strategically in global and emerging markets, creating a culture of innovation and creativity, and growing profitably and sustainably.

Through Olin’s domestic and international residencies, students increase their understanding of how business is conducted in different environments. The school’s required residencies include an orientation residency, leadership residency, and an international management residency.

Olin offers two class formats in St. Louis: Executive MBA Monthly (once a month, three-day sessions on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) and Executive MBA Weekend (every other week on Friday and Saturday).

The school says that 35% of its EMBA students already have advanced degrees and 11% have the title of president, CEO or Chairman. The average base salary of an incoming EMBA student is $140,000.

Application Deadline: March 1

Latest Up-to-Date Executive MBA Rankings:

2012 Poets&Quants: 15
2011 BusinessWeek: 20
2011 U.S. News & World Report: 17
2010 The Wall Street Journal: 2
2011 Financial Times: NR

Rankings Analysis: Washington University pretty much held its own, losing just one spot in the 2012 PoetsandQuantsforExecs’ ranking of the best Executive MBA programs. It would have had the same rank as last year–14th–if not for a change that includes non-North American schools. That change allowed Madrid’s IE Business School to slip just ahead of Olin in the 14th spot it had occupied in 2010.

While Olin’s EMBA program improved its standing in both the BusinessWeek and U.S. News’ rankings in 2011, it completely fell off The Financial Times radar where it had ranked an impressive 18th only a year earlier. BusinessWeek, which had declared the program a “second-tier” one in 2009, ranked it 20th in 2011. U.S. News, which failed to rank the program in 2010, gave it a 17th place finish last year.

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