UCLA Fully Employed MBA

Can you provide me the Core Course Requirements for applying for Fully Employed MBA Program (FEMBA) offered by UCLA: Anderson School of Management?

[Kiran Chandar]

The 33 months of Fully Employed MBA Program (FEMBA) offered by UCLA: Anderson School of Management allows maximum exposure to the wealth of assets available at UCLA Anderson.

Students enjoy full access to the resources, recruiting and corporate events of the Parker Career Management Center, and full-time FEMBA career counseling on a one-on-one basis.

Core Course Requirements

1/Fall
Leadership Foundations
Five-day residential format. Managing and working with people, with emphasis on motivation and development of individuals, leadership and interpersonal relationships, and group dynamics in complex organizational settings.

1/Fall
Data & Decisions
Lecture, three hours per week. Topics include probabilities, random variables (expectation, variance, covariance, normal random variables), decision trees, estimation, hypothesis testing, and multiple regression models. Emphasis on actual business problems and data.

1/Fall
Organizational Behavior
Lecture, three hours per week. Introduction to human resource management function and management of human behavior in organizations. Emphasis on relationships among individuals, groups, and organizational units as they influence managerial process and development of prospective general managers. Letter grading.

1/Winter
Managerial Economics
Lecture, three hours per week. Designed for graduate students. Analysis of consumer, producer, and market behavior. Market structure, pricing, and resource allocation. Applications to managerial strategy and public policy, with emphasis on competition, market power, and externalities.

1/Winter
Financial Accounting
Lecture, three hours per week. Designed for graduate students. Introduction to fundamental financial accounting methods and procedures, with emphasis on financial statements. Provides basis for firm understanding of "language of business" -- accounting.

1/Spring
Marketing Management
Lecture, three hours per week. Principles of market-driven managerial decision making: consumer, competitor, and company analysis, market segmentation, definition of target markets, and product positioning.

1/Spring
Foundations of Finance
Lecture, three hours per week. Introduction to managerial finance. Topics include time value of money, discounting and present values, valuation of bonds and stocks, risk and return, construction of optimal portfolios, capital budgeting, and weighted average cost of capital.

2/Fall
Operations & Technology Management
Lecture, three hours per week. Requisites: courses 402, 403. Principles and decision analysis related to effective utilization of factors of production in manufacturing and non-manufacturing activities for both intermittent and continuous systems.

2/Fall
Business Strategy
Lecture, three hours per week. Evaluation and formulation of organization's overall policies and strategies. Economic, heuristic, and social process approaches to policy formulation, environmental analysis, and organizational appraisal.

3/Summer & 3/Fall
Global Access Program
Faculty-guided consulting project with international company or U.S. company with international project focus. Establishment of client relationships, identification of problems or strategic questions, design of study, collection and analysis of secondary and primary research data, development of comprehensive business plan, and formal presentation of findings and recommendations.

Electives
Consulting
Finance
Marketing
Management
Real Estate
Entrepreneurship