Executive Management

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Contact: emp@cgu.edu

Faculty

Academic Program

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito (Drucker School) Executive Management Program offers executives (mid-career and beyond) programs in strategy, leadership, core business management, and non-profit management. Applicants must demonstrate professional experience and the potential for contribution to the program’s participative learning environment.

Degrees Offered

The Drucker School offers several Executive Management options:

Certificates in General Management, Strategy, or Leadership.
Executive Management, MAM
Executive Master of Business Administration, EMBA
Advanced Management (Executive), MSAM

The modular format of the Executive Management curriculum provides participants with a flexible,highly individualized educational experience. The curriculum, much of which is offered in 2-unit, seven-week evening and Saturday sessions, covers the concepts, concerns, functions, and processes essential to the practice of management.

Professional Development

Students who are admitted into the Program participate in a customized Executive Management Assessment and Coaching process. The process includes a battery of assessments along with a series of Executive Coaching sessions. Working with the Executive Coach, the student creates a professional development plan which supplements, supports, and informs academic advising, career counseling, and the ongoing coaching process. Participation in the process helps each incoming student identify current skills, strengths, gaps, and opportunities for professional growth and provides a context for charting growth and progress as they work toward a degree or certificate and achieve professional goals.

Admission Requirements

Admission to the Executive Management Program is possible at the beginning of any of the six seven-week modules offered each year.

The Executive Management admission process involves careful examination of each applicant’s managerial experience, academic background, and professional and educational goals.
Applicants must demonstrate, except in cases of unusually rapid advancement, at least five years of mid-to-senior-level management or professional experience.

Applicants must submit an application, a current résumé, a statement of career goals, three letters of recommendation, and official copies of all undergraduate and graduate transcripts, including a transcript indicating completion of a bachelor’s degree granted by an accredited college or university. Applicants to the executive program are also required to participate in an interview with a member of the admissions team. For international applicants, scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) are required.

Enrollment Policies. The Drucker School welcomes experienced executives from other CGU departments to take Executive Management classes. To enroll in EMP classes, CGU students must meet the program’s admission requirements and must obtain the approval of both their program advisor and the director of the Executive Management Program.

Certificate Programs

General Management (12 units)
Leadership (8 units)
Strategy (8 units)

Executive Management certificates provide managers with the opportunity to do advanced study in selected management topics. For some participants, certificates provide an introduction to graduate management education, and for others they prove to be valuable in updating past graduate degree work and exploring the latest advances relevant to their practice of management.

Three certificate programs are currently available, focusing on General Management (12 units), Leadership (8 units), and Strategy (8 units). Participants in certificate programs may apply for admission to a degree program. All certificate work completed for graded credit applies toward the total units required for a degree upon admission to that degree program.

Students enrolled in other CGU degree programs wishing to earn a certificate in the Executive Management Program may apply. Certificate courses must meet the distribution requirements outlined in the department brochure. Units from other departments do not count toward the Executive Management certificate series.

All CGU students from other schools or departments must meet the management experience requirement.

Dual Degree Programs

Students who wish to pursue an EMBA with another master’s or PhD degree may find additional information and description of the dual degree programs in the “Registration and Degree Information” section of this Bulletin. The rules governing the Dual Degree programs allow students to earn both degrees at less cost and time than would be the case if the degrees were pursued consecutively.

Jointly Offered Programs

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Graduate School of Management jointly offers the programs below. Refer to the section titled “Jointly Offered Programs” in the Bulletin for program details.

The School of Arts and Humanities and the Peter F.Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management jointly offer the Master of Arts in Arts Management and Executive MA in Arts Management (EMAAM).