Executive MBA in Strategic Leadership
Washington, USA
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
06 Jan 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 800 / per month **
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* The Executive MBA is divided into eight cohorts per year, which are enrolled on a rolling basis.
** The Valar scholarship program empowers enterprising leaders around the globe with affordable access to a selective MBA or Executive MBA. You’ll have the option to request consideration for the following partial scholarships when you apply to Valar. I
Introduction
A Collaborative Online EMBA
The Valar Executive MBA in Strategic Leadership combines the best qualities of residential programs — peer-based academics, events, and an incredible network — with an award-winning*, interactive teaching method. You’ll learn to lead and collaborate with other driven self-starters remotely and face-to-face, while developing essential skills in strategy and leadership. The flexible, online program with in-person opportunities is ideal for today’s hybrid world of work.
Dynamic Curriculum, Unparalleled Network
Collaborate with high-achieving peers as you learn modern strategy, management, and leadership techniques to transform your career. The interactive, self-paced curriculum is enriched with peer-based learning and access to an extensive, highly selective network comprised of exceptional professionals around the globe.
What You’ll Learn
- Strategic Leadership
- Creativity and Innovation
- Business Communications and Storytelling
- Strategy and Global Economics
- Leadership Foundations
- Organizational Behavior
- The Degree
Beyond The Classroom
Valar’s revolutionary teaching method is supplemented with workshops, meet-ups, and weekend-long conferences in cities around the world. You’ll have ample opportunities to put your learning into action while connecting and socializing with your peers.
Accelerate Your Career
Valar’s EMBA provides the confidence and competitive edge to accelerate your career. Learn to navigate change on a global and organizational level with the degree’s future-forward approach to leadership and strategy.
Innovative Tuition Model
Our mission is to democratize high-quality business education and we are committed to lowering and sometimes eliminating tuition costs for our global students by leveraging employer-funding and scholarship opportunities. Learn more about our innovative model that enables most students to receive partial or full funding.
Valar Institute is a Division of Quantic School of Business and Technology, which is licensed by the District of Columbia Higher Education Licensure Commission in Washington, DC and accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC). The DEAC is listed by the United States Department of Education as a recognized accrediting agency and is also recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
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Ideal Students
Who Enrolls?
The Valar MBA is a truly global program designed for early career students from diverse industries and roles. Selective in admissions, the MBA is an ideal fit for digital natives looking for a more modern approach to leadership and management education. Students have 2 to 7 years work experience and are seeking an MBA to establish themselves as standout leaders in their field or organization.
The Global Network
The network at Valar fosters meaningful social and learning-based connections that augment the core curriculum. Collaboration with a diverse set of peers opens up new perspectives and fuels innovation. In addition to meeting bright peers in each cohort, students have access to the extensive (and thriving!) Quantic network - over 15,000 top professionals and entrepreneurs from over 150 countries.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
The Valar scholarship program empowers enterprising leaders around the globe with affordable access to a selective MBA or Executive MBA. You’ll have the option to request consideration for the following partial scholarships when you apply to Valar.
If accepted into a program, you will be notified of any scholarship offer with your accepted student materials.
Leadership Scholarship
These are merit-based awards recognizing exceptional academic performance and career achievement. We motivate students from a variety of industry and geographic backgrounds, including Women in Leadership, to build the highest caliber global classes.
Valar Impact Scholarship
These merit awards are given to exceptional global candidates based on their commitment to social impact initiatives, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and rising leadership potential.
Recruitment Scholarship
This scholarship is offered to students who opt in to our career service that promotes job opportunities at our employer partners. This optional service is part of our employer tuition model that reduces fees for all students.
Financial Aid Scholarship
Valar is committed to broadening access to a higher education for high potential global business leaders. These need-based awards support students in financial hardship or living in a global region with economic disadvantages. Students must submit documentation and a personal statement. Award outcomes vary based on demonstrated financial need and available funds.
Curriculum
The curriculum is composed of 9 required concentrations and a capstone project during the 12-month course of study.
Concentrations
- Leadership Foundations (3 credit hours)
- Organizational Behavior (3 credit hours)
- Strategy & Global Economics (3 credit hours)
- Marketing & Pricing (3 credit hours)
- Business Communications (3 credit hours)
- Data and Decisions (3 credit hours)
- Strategic Leadership (3 credit hours)
- Advanced Corporate Strategy (3 credit hours)
- Finance & Accounting (3 credit hours)
Business Consultancy Capstone
Students have the opportunity to work individually or as a group in the Capstone Project.
Students in the Valar EMBA program are required to create a business consultancy plan for an external organization. Students must submit a one-page response to a very short client brief in order to win the consultancy project, the decision about which will be made by Valar faculty and staff.
Over the course of five months, students will meet with their client and develop a consultancy plan informed by their client’s needs. While the final format of the plan may vary depending on the client’s requirements, all consultancy plans should include an Executive Summary, Company Overview, Problem Statement, Research Overview, Theories and Frameworks Discussion, Statement of Recommendations, Strategic Action Plan, Costings Plan, and Reflective Statements (one for each team member).
After the Capstone Project is complete, students record a video presentation of their recommendations on behalf of the client to be reviewed and graded by Valar faculty.
Program Outcome
Become a 21st Century Leader
In an accelerated, 12-month program, learn the modern management skills to lead in the new world of work.
Lead With Confidence
Learn strategy and management theories and practices that allow you to command a room, motivate a team, and boldly take the lead into uncharted territory. Innovate from within and master the complexities of a changing business landscape with skills that will help you overcome resistance and streamline decision making.
Multiply Your Strategic Impact
Set the course for success — for you and your company. Courses in strategic leadership, global economics and innovation provide frameworks to understand and leverage the dynamics of politics and power within an organization. Business communication courses ensure you are an effective, confident, and persuasive communicator.
Master the Fundamentals
Core MBA courses in marketing and pricing, creativity and innovation, and financial management provide you with foundational business knowledge necessary to lead organizations. Each student also completes a Capstone Project during their course of study where they put their learning to the test.
Best-in-Class Educational Experience
Our Active Learning method is more effective and engaging - students learn faster and retain more!
Our Method vs. Top EMBAs
In a 2016 study performed by Stanford researchers, learners in our platform performed as well or better in a standardized test covering Accounting and Finance than EMBA students who attended top 10 business schools. Oh, and they did so over 5 times as quickly.
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Why study at Valar Institute
Amazing Education
Our revolutionary teaching method and peer-based learning make Valar’s 12-month, leadership-focused MBA and EMBA programs the most accessible, effective, and rigorous online business degrees available.
Meaningful Connections
Collaborate with exceptional, global peers virtually and in-person and join a network of over 15,000 professionals from the world’s top companies.
Accelerated Career Outcomes
Harness the power of a cutting-edge curriculum in strategy, management, and leadership to navigate change and gain the confidence to excel in your role.
Disruptive Tuition Model
Thanks to an innovative tuition model, our programs are radically affordable at just $800 per month for the 12-month MBA or EMBA degree. Programs are often partially or fully funded by employer tuition reimbursement or scholarships.
Program delivery
Our Method
Valar leverages the pioneering, technology-driven instruction designed by Quantic. This highly-engaging system, which frequently prompts students to interact and gives individualized feedback, has been proven to be more effective than lecture-based programs.
Bite-sized lessons, available from your cell phone, are married with a social learning platform that directly connects you with a cohort of like-minded peers.