There are hundreds of MBA programs and dozens of EMBA programs. Why chose this one? The answer is simple: We offer the best return on your investment.

The level of repeat business we get in our open-enrollment public EMBA program from companies like Alcoa, Boeing, CSX, Dell, Disney, Dover, Eastman Chemical, FedEx, and Northrop Grumman shows we’re generating a strong return on investment for our corporate customers. By more narrowly focusing on the needs and opportunities of a single industry, we can generate even better returns in the Aerospace MBA program. Here’s how.

Minimized Cost. The biggest cost of any MBA degree for working professionals is the time your employee is away from work and/or distracted by the program. We work aggressively to minimize this with our “high compression,” one-year program built around only six residency periods. There is simply no quicker, less disruptive alternative for receiving an MBA from an accredited business school.

We also do a good job on controlling your out-of-pocket expenses. Our $40,000 tuition fee includes all materials and most meals, making it a moderately priced degree program when compared to the total costs of most two-year programs.

Focused on Your Needs. This is the only program available from an accredited US business school that is designed from the ground up around the specific needs of the aerospace industry. This industry consideration impacts everything about our program - from the content of our curriculum, to the focus of our personal development efforts, faculty recruiting, international experience and the nature of the networking opportunities we build into the program. If you have employees that are considering pursuit of an MBA or EMBA degree, why not send them to the one specifically designed for your needs?

Stay in the Mix. Our classes assemble the best and brightest from across the aerospace industry. Our classroom has representatives from private and government MROs, airlines, OEMs, and research facilities. Can you afford not to have a representative at the table? Can you afford to miss the exposure and networking opportunities such a program offers? Can you afford to miss involvement in the development and implementation of cutting-edge business concepts specific to aerospace? Keep your company in the mix by having your best and brightest spend a year studying with the best and brightest from across the industry.

Application Projects. Application projects are major yearlong efforts completed under the supervision of a faculty member. In this program not requiring a thesis, these projects constitute approximately one-third of the graduate credit hours required for the Masters degree. They are selected through a three-way interchange between the sponsor, the participant, and the faculty. In guiding the project selection process, we advise every participant to look for a project with a payback that will more than cover the cost of the program during the school year.

This level of payback is a very aggressive goal, and of course we don’t hit it every time. But, on the other hand, some of the projects cover tuition many times over! Here are examples of field projects from the last couple of years that have all had at least million dollar impacts, selected to provide a sense of the variety and scale of application projects in our public EMBA program:

• A participant from an automotive parts manufacturer redesigned the company’s new product development process. When applied to the development of a new transmission, the improved process reduced development cost an estimated one million dollars while increasing speed to market.
  
  
• A manufacturer of construction site earthmoving equipment needed to develop a more cost-effective source before it could profitably enter the low-end market. The application project evaluated several offshore alternatives and developed a business plan around the most promising option. Cost-savings allowed the firm to enter the new market segment, creating a potential multi-million dollar source of revenues.
  
  
• A manufacturer of fuel dispensing equipment needed a new business plan for entry into Europe. Work had been underway for several years with little progress to show. The student taking over the assignment was able to redesign the product to meet European requirements, get the new design approved, and book the first orders within the school year. Estimated first full-year sales were forecast to be more than twenty million.
  
  
• A participant from a computer-manufacturing firm used activity-based cost accounting to better understand the firm’s production cost- drivers. Initial applications during the school year reduced manufacturing costs by more than one million dollars.
  
  
• A participant from a shipping company implemented a six-sigma program applied to portside processes for containerized shipping. The pilot project improved cycle times, both cutting costs and improving customer service. The improved competitiveness was expected to lead to significant growth in a strategically important, high visibility market segment.
  
  
• A student from an oil drilling and pumping equipment manufacturer returned from the international residency period in Russia with a key contact that yielded a multi-million dollar contract before the year was out.
  
  
• A student from a software company used a contact developed during the program’s international residency period in China to set up a new international joint venture. The venture was cash-positive by year-end and longer-term forecasts called for bottom line impact of several million dollars.
  
  
• A student from a package delivery company develop a new business for Saturday home deliveries that was forecast to net several million in its first full year of operation.
  
  
• An airfreight company had a goal of simply cutting existing costs in its process for turning planes around. But their participant in the program broadened the project to rethink many of factors that had been limiting process performance. The effect of the redesigned process had a first-year net impact of several million dollars.

Even Broader Projects. Because everyone attending the Aerospace MBA is from the aerospace industry, we can structure team assignments that link suppliers, customers, and/or joint venture partners to take application projects to a whole new level.

Traditional EMBA projects are limited to addressing company-specific, “inside-your-four-walls” issues, but some of the greatest gains are to be had in working across the value stream on multi-company issues. We encourage companies to team with other key industry players to tackle issues that simply could not be addressed in more traditional EMBA programs. In fact, if you would like to arrange these teams before the program starts so that the right set of students can be recruited as a team, we will be happy to work with you in creating your “dream team”.

Bottom Line: You cannot find a program more closely designed to fit your aerospace needs, nor one that does a better job of controlling your costs and generating a greater return on your investment.