It seems from the dialogue that everyone is mentioning countries and schools but nothing in terms of your area of concentration, expertise, or interest. Since I am more familiar with the North American EMBA programs many offer areas of concentration or even industry specialization. If you are an engineer, IT, finance, medicine, law, etc., there are EMBAs that have specific tracks to help you focus or strengthen. THe case may be the same in Europe. Also, many US schools have joint programs overseas and are introducing such models. Is there an area you wish to hone your skills further or an area of interest you wish to develop? If so then I am happy to look for you. Of course check out the program comparison tool on our site, this may provide some details that may help. Let me know.
Jason Price

If you are an engineer, IT, finance, medicine, law, etc., there are EMBAs that have specific tracks to help you focus or strengthen.

I totally agree on this with Ralph

I tried yesterday to look at several programs in benelux or germany that offer dual mba graduation (ie. With partnership with another university or business school)? In my tuition range I found the interesting DBS & EBS program. Any insight on this specific program or any other program of this type ?

I tried yesterday to look at several programs in benelux or germany that offer dual mba graduation (ie. With partnership with another university or business school)? In my tuition range I found the interesting DBS & EBS program. Any insight on this specific program or any other program of this type ?

According to this website (Find-MBA) there are comments by readers identifying EMBA programs in Europe that have specific concentrations/specializations. Here is the link: http://www.find-mba.com/board/6376. I suggest to take a look at this as it may trigger some thoughts (I suggest Ralph and Nanand1977 do the same). Good luck.

If you are an engineer, IT, finance, medicine, law, etc., there are EMBAs that have specific tracks to help you focus or strengthen.

No, this isn't really the case. With some exceptions, functional and industry-oriented career tracks are usually only available for full-time MBA programs.

Please, if you don't have any constructive advice to add to this thread, you might want to market your website elsewhere.

Ralph: go to this page and look for the comments by someone named JKLOREN. This person talks about specialized EMBA programs, just FYI in case you want to provide something that is helpful: http://www.find-mba.com/board/6376

If more money can be put on the table, IMM program (Purdue/Tias/CEU/Gisma) can be an interesting option with a double degree (American and European) option.

http://www.mostinternationalmba.com/

Cvm.

If more money can be put on the table, IMM program (Purdue/Tias/CEU/Gisma) can be an interesting option with a double degree (American and European) option.

http://www.mostinternationalmba.com/

Cvm.

Hi,

I don't know but I remember that in the last years they were there, somewhere between 20th-30th (from top of my head)?

Also, at lower fee, WU/Carlson can provide a double degree American/European.

Regards,

Hi,

I don't know but I remember that in the last years they were there, somewhere between 20th-30th (from top of my head)?

Also, at lower fee, WU/Carlson can provide a double degree American/European.

Regards,

WU and Carlson is much stronger.

@ jdierickx

Yes, as Duncan has already mentioned the WU/Carlson is stronger.

However, WU itself is a very well perceived school in Center and Eastern Europe. They are running their own EMBA also in Bucharest (where I am located). I have one good friend who graduated this program and another one who is about to do it beginning of next year and myself, I turned them down for another offer. If it helps, below is listed some insight information from Bucharest, together with some comparison with dual one:

Pros:
- academically they are quite strong and demanding, considering that entire program is 14 months long;
- the professors/lecturers in Bucharest are from WU and other good universities (Thunderbird, Harvard, Minnesota, etc);
- I have observed (from different brochures and speaking with them in different MBA fairs) that in the dual program (WU/Carlson), most of the modules (maybe ~70%) are taught exclusively by Carlson's faculty, compared with Bucharest, so there is a big chance to be more American oriented style;
- There are more business trips for the dual one (3 if I remember correctly) in USA/China/India for the dual program, so a good opportunity to experience other cultural environments; For the Bucharest program, there are only 2: 1 in Minnesota and 1 in Vienna.

Cons:

- In Bucharest, both of my friends are complaining about career services which were almost not existent. However, recently, WU started to improve in this direction by arranging meetings with some head hunting agencies for executives.

I don't know if the situation would be similar for the dual program but this is the situation with their program in Romania. Maybe addressing them some pointed questions in this direction would worth if you contact them.

Regards,

@ jdierickx

Yes, as Duncan has already mentioned the WU/Carlson is stronger.

However, WU itself is a very well perceived school in Center and Eastern Europe. They are running their own EMBA also in Bucharest (where I am located). I have one good friend who graduated this program and another one who is about to do it beginning of next year and myself, I turned them down for another offer. If it helps, below is listed some insight information from Bucharest, together with some comparison with dual one:

Pros:
- academically they are quite strong and demanding, considering that entire program is 14 months long;
- the professors/lecturers in Bucharest are from WU and other good universities (Thunderbird, Harvard, Minnesota, etc);
- I have observed (from different brochures and speaking with them in different MBA fairs) that in the dual program (WU/Carlson), most of the modules (maybe ~70%) are taught exclusively by Carlson's faculty, compared with Bucharest, so there is a big chance to be more American oriented style;
- There are more business trips for the dual one (3 if I remember correctly) in USA/China/India for the dual program, so a good opportunity to experience other cultural environments; For the Bucharest program, there are only 2: 1 in Minnesota and 1 in Vienna.

Cons:

- In Bucharest, both of my friends are complaining about career services which were almost not existent. However, recently, WU started to improve in this direction by arranging meetings with some head hunting agencies for executives.

I don't know if the situation would be similar for the dual program but this is the situation with their program in Romania. Maybe addressing them some pointed questions in this direction would worth if you contact them.

Regards,

In Bucharest, the average work experience is 11-12 years with no one having less than 7-8. the average age is around 35-36.

The cohorts are around 26-30 persons spanning over different domains (banking, IT, Telecom, FMCG, Energy, Oil and Gas, etc.). Almost all of them are managers and directors in the local branches of some multinational companies or entrepreneurs.

A big part of them (maybe around 50% or slightly more are supported by their companies), but among the others some of them got a tuition reduction between 3K to 15K from a total fee of 35K Euro (business trips excluded).

My personal opinion is that WU's program in Romanian market is the most challenging and rewarding one with the best quality. Of course, there is no other such prestigious university like WU running a MBA program here in Romania but this is another story. We used to have CEU till couple of years ago (which was also very well perceived) but they closed the Bucharest program.

However, I hope it helps even if it is a more local insight info which is not your scope.

One other question: among all of those mentioned programs ie. RSM, Vlerick, TiasNimbas, Nyenrode, Louvain, Maastricht, Antwerp, Euro MBA, WU Carlson & Katz Prag - which one would be academically stronger on Finance/Management Accounting? and with the best focus on Finance (and I know executive mba are rather general than with a focus on one specific area)?

What do you mean by academically stronger? The best research will generally be done at schools with large permanent faculty. The most captivating teaching will be done by the more expensive programmes. The widest range of elective will be at the largest schools.

One other question: among all of those mentioned programs ie. RSM, Vlerick, TiasNimbas, Nyenrode, Louvain, Maastricht, Antwerp, Euro MBA, WU Carlson & Katz Prag - which one would be academically stronger on Finance/Management Accounting? and with the best focus on Finance (and I know executive mba are rather general than with a focus on one specific area)?

What do you mean by academically stronger? The best research will generally be done at schools with large permanent faculty. The most captivating teaching will be done by the more expensive programmes. The widest range of elective will be at the largest schools.