Executive MBA

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There is a wide choice of institutes offering Executive MBA or PGPX programs. You can aim to pursue it from the top notch B-schools like the Indian School of Business (ISB)-Hyderabad, various Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), XLRI-Jamshedpur, FMS-Delhi, S.P Jain Institute of Management and Research-Mumbai, etc. You can plan your admission by checking out this list of Institutes offering Executive MBA programmes across India. You can sort them course-wise and city-wise to suit your requirement.
To pursue Executive MBA you need to have:
- A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in any discipline from a recognised university.
- Around 3-5 years of post-qualification managerial/professional work experience. The work experience criteria may differ from institute to institute.
- Other than this, depending on the institute's requirements, you would have to clear the entrance exam, group discussion and personal interview rounds.
- Institutes like the IIMs require a valid GMAT score (taken within last 36 months of Application date).

If you are ambitious, your career is on the upswing, and you are looking to turbo-charge your resume, an Executive MBA (EMBA) is something you might want to consider. Unlike a full-time MBA, where the students are younger and relatively inexperienced, an EMBA program is designed for professionals who have at least six to seven years work experience. Best of all, it's a flexible program that allows you to keep your full-time job while earning your degree. In spite of its nomenclature, an EMBA is not aimed at executives (I.e. the privileged few perched at the top echelons of the company) at all and is apt for anyone identified by either themselves or their organization as a future leader. The degree is aimed at anyone who is driven, keen to develop their managerial acumen, and wants to deepen their knowledge of the business. With a degree like this under your belt, you can go from being, say, a team leader, to someone involved in strategic thinking, leading large initiatives in your firm and becoming a key driver of business at work. Clearly, the degree paves the way for a huge shift in the role in the corporate world. Typically, seen as a career booster by professionals in finance, accounting, marketing and consulting, an EMBA is now sought by candidates looking to up their game in all sorts of domains. And why look only at the classic corporate paradigm. Many at this stage in their careers plan to turn entrepreneurs, and an EMBA is their ticket to running their own business. So an executive MBA from IIMs does worth if you have a defined objective for your career.

The program is truly demanding. I believe that the program weeds out students who might not able to bear the demands of the program. There are a lot of my fellow classmates struggling to balance job, life and the MBA program. So, one should leave the job to pursue an executive MBA program. But, is it worth to quit your job? This depends on a lot of factors. Let us see. If you are happy with your job, it pays well, your family is happy, then there is no need to take a risk of losing that job. Think ten times before taking such step.If you are not happy with your current job profile and want to improve your value, then it is for you. MBA programs tend to be tailored to people who already have a comparatively significant position within an organization. My opinion is that a large majority of people attending these programs have them paid for by their employers. So, see if something like this can be arranged by your office.