The Vanderbilt Advantage
In an innovative alliance with leading business schools in Brazil, Mexico and Canada, Vanderbilt offers an MBA for executives who aspire to senior-level management responsibility for—or an expat assignment within—the Americas.
Here are 14 reasons to consider an Americas MBA for executives from Vanderbilt.
- It's a real 60-credit-hour MBA from Vanderbilt University, a highly ranked university known for its strong academics, global prestige and loyal alumni network.
- You will become more valuable to your organization. In a 2010 survey of Executive MBA applicants, 92 percent of the organizations represented consider the Americas strategically important or very important.
- Unlike most international MBAs, the Vanderbilt Americas MBA boasts North/South cross-border expertise, extremely valuable for executives within the Americas Division of leading companies.
- As a Vanderbilt Americas MBA executive student, your first 12 months will feature the Year One curriculum and camaraderie of Vanderbilt's traditional Executive MBA program. This program is known for helping current and aspiring executives gain in-depth cross-functional perspectives and executive decision-making skills needed for C-suite positions.
- Year Two of the America's MBA brings you into an international cohort of 60 executives from Brazil, Mexico and Canada—15 students from each host school.
- You'll benefit from a Year Two program design and curriculum that blends the best academic offerings of our Americas Alliance schools with a total, real-time immersion into the culture, business practices and consumer perceptions and behaviors of the host country.
- Each of the four international immersion programs is conducted by those who know it best – the business faculty of leading business schools in that country. During the program, they'll serve as mentors, friends and hosts. Later they can become part of your career network.
- While it will be to your advantage to have Spanish, Portuguese or French as a second language, the entire second-year program will be conducted in English.
- In a team of cross-border peers, you will complete a Year Two Capstone Strategy Project that will expose you to the challenges and opportunities of doing business with established and emerging markets in the Americas.
- The entire program focuses on your success. We start with pre-application counseling to ensure that you're a good fit for the program and that you'll be able to work alongside first-rate colleagues in the demanding environments of both Year One and Year Two.
- You'll earn the credentials needed for an expat assignment—a Vanderbilt MBA and the Americas MBA Alliance Certificate, jointly issued by leading business schools in the four most powerful economies in the Americas.
- You'll enjoy the many benefits of the Vanderbilt MBA program for executives—family inclusion in activities, a highly supportive network of students and alumni around the world, and exceptional executive support and services to help ease the burdens of a rigorous and demanding program that includes international travel.
- You'll reap the benefit of Vanderbilt's connections and expertise in the Americas. The Owen School has a long-standing reputation of helping companies like Bridgestone Americas, Louisiana Pacific and Nissan understand the markets of Latin America.
- Vanderbilt boasts the Center for Latin American Studies, designated a Comprehensive National Resource Center on Latin America by the U.S. Department of Education.