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The ROI of FEMBA

Meet Our FEMBAs

Get a glimpse of the community you’ll join. You’ll find that UCLA Anderson
is constantly on the move.

As an attending physician in UCLA Health’s Department of Emergency Medicine, Judy Choe (’22) acutely understands the urgent need that area hospitals have for critical medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. So, she took action.

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Find a New Path

“I found myself wanting to make a big career transition out of finance into marketing, and really believing and knowing I needed to do that with an MBA at Anderson. My MBA is an ongoing difference-maker in my life.”

Amber Jackson (FEMBA ’15)
Director, Sales & Retail Development - Warner Bros. Consumer Products

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Why FEMBA?

DISTINCTION: FEMBA is a top-ranked MBA offering at UCLA Anderson. U.S. News and World Report has ranked FEMBA “#1 in SoCal” for 22 years (and counting), “Best in the West” for 13 years and “Best in the U.S.” for 2 years.

THE SAME MBA DEGREE: FEMBAs enjoy the same faculty, diploma, alumni network and student clubs offered in the full-time program. Like the full-time MBAs, FEMBA students can also participate in on-campus recruiting and work with their own dedicated career services team to fully realize their professional potential.

THE VALUE OF FIRSTS: FEMBA students also benefit from programs and features that originated at UCLA Anderson, like the Global Access Program, International Studies & Exchanges and the uniquely adaptive Flex hybrid schedule. FEMBA students utilize their new skills right away, gaining precious practical experience and graduating with three years’ more work experience than their full-time peers.

More Options, Fewer Obstacles

We appreciate the significant challenges FEMBA students overcome to achieve their goals — from busy jobs to personal commitments to lengthy commutes, the stakes are often as high as their ambition. That’s why the FEMBA program offers three scheduling options to complete core courses and even more flexibility during the elective phase.

Electives are even more flexible — customize your second- and third-year schedules.

The first half of the program consists of 44 units of core courses, while the second half consists of 36 units of elective courses (scheduled in multiple formats) that may be taken with full-time MBA students during regular hours or up to 8 units outside of UCLA Anderson.

For the required capstone project, choose between being part of a consulting team working for an international tech company with the Global Access Program (GAP) or creating your own business from the ground up with the Business Creation Option (BCO). Students wishing to fast-track have the option of finishing their degree in 27 months, while those needing more time to complete course requirements because of personal or career reasons can extend their studies over five years.

Part-Time Program, Full-Time Resources

Program Profile

What Else Makes Us Unique

Optimize Your Time and Career

“I work for a great company and really enjoy my job. The FEMBA program has allowed me to stay with my company while enhancing my career. The quality of the students is beyond compare, the professors are excellent and all of the events are exciting and fun! It’s hard work, but in the end it’s absolutely worth it!”

Sofia Freytag (FEMBA ’18)
Account Manager, FM Global

Curriculum-at-a-Glance

Fast-Track and At-Your-Own-Pace options available when your career or life require them.

Two-and-a-half to Three Year Part-Time Program: 80 Units = 44 Core + 36 Elective

1st YEAR

26 – 30 Units

Summer

June – August

Leadership Foundations

Mandatory 1-week
on-campus intensive
typically held
the last week of August

Fall

September – December

Data & Decisions
-
Organizational Behavior

Winter

January – March

Managerial Economics
-
Financial Accounting

Spring

April – June

Marketing Management
-
Foundations of Finance
-
Optional Elective

2nd YEAR

28 – 44 Units

Summer

June – August

Optional Elective

Fall

September – December

Operations & Technology
Management
-
Business Strategy
-
Optional Elective

Winter

January – March

Elective
-
Elective
-
Optional Elective

Spring

April – June

Elective
-
Elective
-
Optional Elective

3rd YEAR

26 – 42 Units

Summer

June – August

Global Access
Program or Business
Creation Option
-
Optional Elective

Fall

September – December

Global Access
Program or Business
Creation Option
-
Optional Elective

Winter

January – March

Elective
-
Elective
-
Optional Elective

Spring

April – June

Elective
-
Elective
-
Optional Elective

Optional one-week Global Immersion or International Exchange electives are available between quarters in more than 20 different countries.

	Summer	Fall	Winter	Spring
YEAR	June – August	September – December	January – March	April – June
1st 26 – 30 Units	Leadership Foundations - Mandatory 1-week on-campus intensive typically held the last week of August	Data & Decisions - Organizational Behavior	Managerial Economics - Financial Accounting	Marketing Management - Foundations of Finance - Optional Elective
2nd 24 – 44 Units	Optional Elective	Operations & Technology Management - Business Strategy	Elective - Elective - Optional Elective	Elective - Elective - Optional Elective
3rd 26 – 42 Units	Global Access Program or Business Creation Option - Optional Elective	Global Access Program or Business Creation Option - Optional Elective	Elective - Elective - Optional Elective	Elective - Elective - Optional Elective

Optional one-week Global Immersion or International Exchange electives are available between quarters in more than 20 different countries.

Your Future Network

Surround yourself with talented classmates from all backgrounds and industries working for some of the top organizations:

FEMBA companies logos

Baxter BioScience

Chevron

Cisco Systems Inc.

Ernst and Young LLP

Fox Entertainment Group

MGM Studios Inc.

United Technologies Corporation

Yahoo! Inc.

Abbott

Activision Publishing

AIG

AT&T

Deloitte

General Electric (GE)

Honeywell Aerospace

Johnson & Johnson

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Medtronic

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Oracle Corporation

Pacific Gas & Electric

Raytheon

Southern California Edison

Tesla Motors

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The Business & Science of Microbrewing

Diego Benitez (FEMBA ’19), Founder|Owner|Brewer, Progress Brewing

What’s it like for a chemistry Ph.D. to found a thriving microbrewery, now be opening a wine bar, and already be changing management style, thanks to Professor Corinne Bendersky’s Organizational Behavior course in his first quarter of business school?

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Application Deadlines

Round 1: Oct. 22, 2019
Interview Day: Nov. 2, 2019
Decision Release: Dec. 19, 2019

Round 2: Jan. 14, 2020
Interview Day: Jan. 25, 2020
Decision Release: Mar. 26, 2020

Round 3: Apr. 7, 2020
Interview Day: Apr. 18, 2020
Decision Release: Jun. 14, 2020

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