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Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) mob

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Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

Total Credit Hours

Duration

2 Years

Fee Per Credit (AED/USD)

AED 2,200 / USD 605

Class Commencement

September 2025

Total Credit Hours

Duration

2 Years

Class Commencement

September 2025

Fee Per Credit (AED/USD)

AED 2,200 / USD 605

Amity University Dubai's Executive Master of Business Administration (Executive MBA or EMBA) degree prepares learners for leadership and transformational roles in dynamic business environments. It allows professionals to use their experience and knowledge to develop innovative solutions that positively impact businesses and society.

Executive MBA is built for the next CEO. Our graduates are strategic thinkers who are looking to become senior leaders, and this qualification will be the first step to achieving this goal.

Entry to Amity University Dubai’s EMBA programme is selective and competitive, and is only granted to applicants with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience.

Our EMBA degree has flexible intake dates that work around your schedule. Admission to the degree can begin at the start of each module.

The degree consists of 35 credit hours spread over two years. It comprises of 16 modules of 5 weeks each, and classes are held on Saturdays and Sundays from 9am to 12pm.

Programme Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the Executive Master of Business Administration programme, the graduate will be able to:

1. Knowledge

Integrate advanced knowledge of various business and allied disciplines with their entrepreneurial and professional experience in providing strategic direction for the enterprise.
Demonstrate in-depth understanding of intervention research concepts and their application to business contexts.

2. Skills

Create value for the business through innovation and organisational transformation.
Manage crises and uncertain business conditions.
Conduct data-driven intervention research projects.
Integrate information technology in data retrieval and assessment.
Communicate a clearly articulated position orally and in writing using appropriate media.

3. Competence

Autonomy and Responsibility
- Account for diverse governance structures and frameworks.
- Reflect on sustainability, cross-cultural, and ethical issues in professional contexts.
Self-Development
- Take responsibility for further learning and training by participating in development opportunities.
Role in Context
- Take responsibility for leading and managing activities in professional settings.

Programme Completion Requirements

For Programme Completion Requirements, refer to our Graduate Programme Completion Requirements Policy, which can be downloaded here.

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Graduates who pursue this degree should understand what their career goals are post-graduation. Getting an Executive Master of Business Administration can help students strengthen their business skills.

EMBA graduates can boost their careers with finance, strategy and leadership skills. The degree also supports employees who need confidence and competency to move into senior roles.

For those looking to change careers, an EMBA provides an intense walkthrough of all major business areas and allows students to specialise in particular fields and build careers as:

Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Human Resources Officer

EMBA 510 Financial Reporting Analysis

Understanding the financial health of a company through financial statements has significant implications for equity valuation and net worth assessment. Students get acquainted with financial statements prepared under different accounting practices prevailing globally. They develop a perspective on interpreting, analyzing and applying them in an appropriate manner. Through problem solving and analysis of corporate annual reports, students make reliable estimates about the present financial health of a corporation and expected future performance.

EMBA 520 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Effective financial management is essential for the value-creation and long-term survival of a business organization. Students learn valuation of securities issued by corporations and managerial decisions related to long-term investments, sources of funds, and distribution of earnings among shareholders. Through case studies, numerical problems, and projects based on real life situations, the students learn the dynamics of financial management at corporate level.

EMBA 525 Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

The survival of our planet is dependent on the collective efforts of all entities. Students explore how firms’ responsibilities are expanding to include non-financial elements as society welfare and global sustainability. They learn about the models and theories explaining concepts as corporate social responsibility, sustainability and global ecosystems. Through case studies, in-class discussions, students grasp the shift occurring in firms’ operations and strategies to become more sustainable, yet remain profitable.

EMBA 530 Contemporary Corporate Governance

Corporate governance calls for accountability and transparency. Students learn are introduced to its related concepts and implications for the sustainability of modern business enterprise. Through case studies, group activities and simulation exercises, they gain insights into key mechanisms of corporate governance, the policies influencing them, and the methods used in line with globally accepted best practices.

EMBA 535 Negotiation for Executives

Effective negotiation skills are essential as a personality trait in an entrepreneur for clinching beneficial deals, building strong inter-personal relations and overall corporate success. The students learn the science and art of negotiating with business partners, regulatory bodies, subordinates and top management for win-win solutions with wider acceptability. By using case studies, group activities and simulation exercises, the students develop the skills of closing business deals, managing conflicts, resolving deadlocks and communicating effectively as an executive in any organization.

EMBA 540 Supply Chain Strategy and Management

With increasing competition around the globe, supply chain management is both a challenge and an opportunity for companies. The course introduces students to the key concepts and techniques to analyze, manage and improve supply chain processes for different industries and markets. Students also learn how to assess supply chain performance and make recommendations to increase supply chain competitiveness. Learning methods include team presentations, individual assignments, and class tests.

EMBA 545 Strategy Formulation and Implementation

Sustainable competitive advantage is the product of well-formulated strategies. Students learn to envision business successes by finding market gaps, capitalizing on competitive advantage, and executing strategic plans in effective manners. They explore topics such as critical thinking, planning, and decision-making, strategic plan development and effective operational implementation. This will be done through case studies, in-class discussions and presentations.

EMBA 550 Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Diversity management helps organizations to create a mutually beneficial and harmonious relationship with its employees. It also offers students the opportunity to understand issues such as cross-cultural communication, leadership dilemmas, power, inclusion, creativity and innovation. Students learn successful inclusion approaches to maximise corporate diversity in the workplace. They develop strategies to maintain a balanced and harmonious workplace through interactive presentations, role plays, group discussions and projects on diversity management.

EMBA 555 Marketing Strategy

Modern trends in local and global economies have significant implications for marketing strategies in dynamic environments. Students will learn marketing mix, marketing analytics, market segmentation, target and positioning, and implementation of the marketing plan. Through case studies, simulations and projects, students learn how to formulate marketing strategies for the business.

EMBA 560 Leading Crisis Management

Unanticipated change, if not well managed, can jeopardize business continuity. Students learn how to handle sudden market threats that can affect the firm or its stakeholders. Concepts as cues’ detection, organizational resilience and agility, contingency planning and risk management provide them with tools to shape a managerial mindset capable of effectively dealing with unpredictable. Through extensive case reviews, simulations, in-class discussion students grasp how to strategize during crisis in order to ensure survival or; may be; growth of their firms.

EMBA 565 Leading Organizational Transformation

Rapid business transformation is the order of the day for organizations to keep up with the evolving work culture. Students learn to work in disruptive business environment and to upgrade organizational performance by ensuring organizational readiness and making them more resilient and agile. Through group discussions, job shadowing, integrated projects and case studies students can develop transformational business strategies.

EMBA 570 Cases in Business Analytics

Complex business problems can be effectively addressed through business analytics tools in a data driven organization. Students learn to identify, evaluate and assess business opportunities that create value for the organizations through predictive analytics, classification models, and factor analysis and decision support systems. Students solve business problems and learn to enhance organizational functioning through projects, simulations and case studies.

EMBA 575 Intervention Research Methods

Practically relevant solutions are needed to overcome contemporary business challenges. Intervention research has been suggested as a sound approach to achieve this aim. Students are introduced to the related theoretical underpinnings and how to become actively involved as solution providers to the organizations under study. Through lectures, class discussions, and faculty guidance, students become agents of change capable of formulating, implementing, and evaluating actions based on a systematic research approach.

EMBA 580 Design Thinking, Innovation, and Value Creation

Creative thinking is an effective method for solving complex business problems. Students get acquainted with systematic problem-solving techniques aimed at facilitating the development of creative and innovative products and services to satisfy customers’ needs. The learners understand how value is created. Besides project-based learning that helps students apply prototyping strategy in product development processes, group discussions, team presentations, and class tests are used to foster collaboration and aid in integrating the knowledge and experience of the participants.

EMBA 585 Enterprise Creation and Management

New business ventures are the backbone of modern economies. Students are provided with competencies required to create and manage enterprises of differing size and complexity. The course also gives them practical hands-on training on preparing business plans ready to be presented to venture capitalists and business angels. This is done through lectures, class discussion, case studies, and practical assignments.

EMBA 590 Business Consultancy Report

Executives and consultants are often required to lead and participate in the preparation of research-based reports that assess particular organizational problems and recommend solutions to overcome them. Equipped with knowledge and skills related to interventionist research methods, students act as change agents and write a research-based structured consultancy report expressing their views and recommendations.

Admission Requirements
Application Procedures

Entry to Amity University Dubai’s Executive Master of Business Administration Degree is selective and competitive and is granted to applicants who have significant and substantive professional experience for at least two years. In this line, applicants who have executive positions will be given priority in admission.

Regular admission is granted to applicants with a recognized Bachelor’s degree earned in a discipline appropriate for the EMBA program with a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale or its established equivalent from a University that is recognized by the MoHESR in the UAE, in addition to a minimum score of 1400 on the English language portion of the EmSAT examination, or its equivalent on other nationally or internationally-recognized tests that are approved by the CAA, such as TOEFL score of 550 (213 CBT, 79 iBT), or 6.0 IELTS academic. Students who have completed undergraduate education in an English-medium institution can be exempted from the English language requirement subject to satisfactory evidence being vetted by Admissions.

Conditional admissions can be granted to applicants with an EmSAT score of 1250 or its equivalent on another standardized test approved by the CAA, such as a TOEFL score of 530 (197 CBT, 71 iBT), or 5.5 IELTS Academic. In this context, students granted conditional admissions must achieve an EmSAT score of 1400 or equivalent, by the end of their first semester of study, but may take a maximum of six regular credit hours in the first semester of study, not including intensive English courses, and must achieve a minimum CGPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, or its established equivalent. Conditionally admitted applicants not fulfilling the English proficiency requirement by the end of their first semester of study are considered under probation and are given one extra semester to achieve the required score. Moreover conditional admissions can be granted to applicants with a recognized Bachelor’s degree and a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale or its established equivalent. In this case, conditionally admitted students may take a maximum of nine credit hours of regular courses during the period of conditional admission and must achieve a minimum CGPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale or be subject to academic probation. Conditional acceptance can also be granted to applicants with a recognized Bachelor’s degree and a minimum CGPA of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale or its established equivalent. In this case, conditionally admitted students must take a maximum of nine graduate-level credit hours as remedial preparation for the graduate program. These remedial courses are not for-credit within the degree program. The student must achieve a minimum CGPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, or its established equivalent in order to progress to the graduate program or be subject to academic probation. Currently, these remedial/bridging courses are set as follows:

ACCT 501 (3 CR) Survey of Accounting and Finance
QMET 502 (3 CR) Survey of Statistics for Decision Making
ISYS 503 (3 CR) Spreadsheets and Databases

Moreover, applicants with an undergraduate degree that is not in business, economics, or an allied subject, with a CGPA of 2.0 or above can be granted a conditional admission to the EMBA program subject to registering up to nine graduate-level bridging credit hours as preparation for the graduate program and successfully achieving a minimum CGPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, or its established equivalent in order to progress to the graduate program or be subject to academic probation. Nevertheless, an applicant with a science or engineering degree or with a degree that has information systems or/and statistics courses, may be exempted from QMET 502 and/or ISYS 503 subject to appropriate evidence being provided. In this context, official undergraduate transcripts should show these courses with a minimum achieved score of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale or its established equivalent. Bridging courses must be completed during the first year of enrollment in the EMBA program.

With the exception of conditional acceptances that were granted to applicants with a recognized Bachelor’s degree and a minimum CGPA of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale or its established equivalent, admitted students who are registered for bridging courses, at the discretion of the Dean of the Business School, may be allowed to register for credit-bearing regular EMBA courses.

Holders of graduate-level professional qualifications and Postgraduate Diplomas, Master’s Degree in other disciplines, may also be admitted and are encouraged to apply. Moreover, and although not a requirement, a GMAT or GRE test score that has been received within the past 3 years prior to applying to the EMBA can strengthen the student’s application. In addition, applicants should successfully pass an interview with an ad-hoc Committee from the Business School.

Complete the application form and submit it together with the below documents to admissions@amityuniversity.ae:

A jpeg of a recent passport photograph.
A copy of your passport,
For UAE residents, a copy of your Emirates ID and Visa page plus a copy of your sponsoring parent's Passport.

All our business degrees are accredited by the Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA)* of UAE’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR), licensed by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA).