Schedule
The IMM Executive MBA Program is divided into three 26-week instructional modules spanning approximately 18 months. Each of the 3 modules provides 16 hours of graduate course credit satisfying AACSB standards.
IMM is a ‘cohort’ program: all students in each class enter together, take a common set of courses in sequence together, and graduate together. This format, coupled with Internet-based communication tools, is what makes it possible for the class sessions to be concentrated into a series of two-week residencies.
- A new group of participants enters the program each year in February - beginning with a five-day orientation session on the Purdue campus - and continues through the 18-month course of study as a cohort, sharing the same educational experiences.
- During the initial five-day orientation session, the entering class is introduced to the Program courses, the faculty, the curriculum, the business software applications used, and the Internet-based communications and information retrieval system which is used to interact with the faculty and other participants.
- The subsequent instructional sessions are concentrated into six two-week residencies every three months. The residencies rotate among the campuses of the four collaborating schools and the new in-residency location in Asia.
- Each residential session begins with the participants' arrival on Sunday before the start of classes on Monday. For the next two weeks, from Monday through Saturday, the class schedule includes 36 hours of classroom work each week.
- The time prior to each residency is spent on readings, written assignments and computer-supported assignments as preparation for the class sessions. During these off-campus periods, participants work approximately 15-20 hours per week. Completed assignments are submitted to the faculty and returned to the students via the Internet.
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