Flexible 33-Month Curriculum
| School Year | Summer | Fall | Winter | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEAR | June – August | September – December | January – March | April – June |
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*Foundations of Inclusive Leadership: 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 |
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Break or electives can be taken to accelerate the program & graduate in 27 months |
Operations & Technology Management - Business Strategy |
*Foundations of Ethical Decision Making - *Global Economics & Business Cycles - Elective |
Elective - Elective - Elective |
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Capstone Project: Global Access Program or Business Creation Project |
Capstone Project: Global Access Program or Business Creation Project |
Elective - Elective |
Elective - Elective |
1st YEAR |
SummerJune – August*Foundations of Inclusive Leadership Mandatory 1-week |
FallSeptember – DecemberData & Decisions |
WinterJanuary – MarchManagerial Economics |
SpringApril – JuneMarketing Management |
2nd YEAR |
SummerJune – AugustBreak or electives can be taken to |
FallSeptember – DecemberOperations & Technology |
WinterJanuary – March*Foundations of |
SpringApril – JuneElective |
3rd YEAR |
SummerJune – AugustCapstone Project: |
FallSeptember – DecemberCapstone Project: |
WinterJanuary – MarchElective |
SpringApril – JuneElective |
*Denotes 2 unit course. Most courses are 4 units.
Optional one-week Global Immersion or International Exchange electives are available between quarters in more than 20 different countries.
FEMBA offers three flexible schedule options to complete the core portion of the program.
9:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
All Day
Saturdays
6:30 p.m. – 9:45 p.m.
Tuesday & Thursday
Evenings
Regardless of your core schedule, once you move into the elective portion of the program you can choose any schedule option from weeknights, Saturdays, hybrid and can include daytime electives with full-time MBA students, any graduate level electives across UCLA and global electives. Elective course offerings and schedule options vary quarter to quarter.
Student Perspectives
“FEMBA impacted my career immediately. I became a Senior Architectural Associate halfway through the first year of the program. I was naturally taking concepts and perspectives from the classroom directly to my new role, and also able to better create innovative strategies while making purposeful decisions.”
Jessica Ta
FEMBA '19
Senior Architectural Associate, UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services
What to Expect for Foundations of Inclusive Leadership (Formerly Leadership Foundations)
Core Course Requirements
| Course Info | Description |
|---|---|
| Year/Qtr: 1/Fall Unit: 2 Course ID: 401 |
Foundations of Inclusive Leadership 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. |
| Year/Qtr: 1/Fall Unit: 4 Course ID: 402 |
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. |
| Year/Qtr: 1/Fall Unit: 4 Course ID: 409 |
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. |
| Year/Qtr: 1/Winter Unit: 4 Course ID: 405 |
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. |
| Year/Qtr: 1/Winter Unit: 4 Course ID: 403 |
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. |
| Year/Qtr: 1/Spring Unit: 4 Course ID: 411 |
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. |
| Year/Qtr: 1/Spring Unit: 4 Course ID: 408 |
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. |
| Year/Qtr: 2/Fall Unit: 4 Course ID: 410 |
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. |
| Year/Qtr: 2/Fall Unit: 4 Course ID: 420 |
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. |
| Year/Qtr: 3/Summer & 3/Fall Unit: 10 Course ID: 427 A/B |
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. |
"With FEMBA, the fact that I have the ability to apply what I learn in class to the workplace in real time, as well as bring professional problems to the classroom for my professor's input, has greatly benefited my educational experience."
Kyle Bernier (FEMBA '18)
Laboratory Analyst, UCLA
Leadership@Anderson
UCLA Anderson is changing the practice of business. In the Leadership@Anderson program, we integrate our Transformative Leader framework into classroom learning and real-world opportunities so that students can drive the change they want to see.
An MBA education must not be a performative experience yielding only short-term gains. This is why UCLA Anderson ensures that each MBA student’s entire learning journey integrates leadership development through monthly one-on-one coaching and observation. As a result, students grow their skills and acumen via academic insights, personal reflections and coaching conversations that promote accountability. Students will see themselves develop into better leaders over the course of the program, and this valuable coaching comes included in the MBA experience.
How Leadership@Anderson Works
- Each MBA student develops a leadership practice plan in their first week.
- Students begin monthly coaching designed to advance and iterate on their plan.
Monthly written deliverables and in-person conversations track progress. - All MBA courses have a focus on building the capabilities of the Transformative Leader:
Solves complex business problems in a transforming industry landscape
Catalyzes action by organizations, teams and individuals