Executive MBA

This program is ideal for:

• Working professionals and managers
• Business leaders and entrepreneurs
• Professionals looking to transition into AI-driven roles
• Individuals seeking to future-proof their careers with AI skills

No, a technical background is not required. The program is designed for non-technical and technical professionals, with a focus on business applications of AI, no-code tools, and strategic decision-making.

You will develop:

• AI-driven decision-making skills
• Understanding of machine learning and data analytics
• Knowledge of automation and no-code AI tools
• Strategic thinking for AI-led transformation
• Ability to apply AI in marketing, finance, HR, and operations

This program helps you:

• Stay ahead of industry disruption
• Transition into AI-enabled leadership roles
• Improve decision-making using data and AI
• Drive innovation and digital transformation in your organization

Key differentiators include:

• Strong focus on AI + Business integration
• Hands-on learning with real-world use cases
• Industry-relevant curriculum
• Capstone project for practical application
• Designed specifically for working professionals

• AI Automation & No-Code Tools
• Data-Driven AI for Decision Making
• Future of AI in Business
• AI Foundations for Business Leaders
• Capstone Project

The 17-month Executive MBA program from Dayananda Sagar University is centred around the working professional to reframe their thought about managing people and resources, assisting them to become a better manager and also transition careers.

Participants are not expected to have an in-depth understanding of any particular subject in management. You’ll hear experts from a variety of different disciplines talking about their best tips for you to grow into a great manager and understand management techniques in order to solve complex business problems.

There have been enormous strides from research in discovering how we manages most effectively. Finding a way to simply and effectively share these ideas with you has been a big undertaking, but we feel it’s well worth doing—you’ll see that many of these ideas, although simple, are incredibly powerful and in many ways will alter your views on work and life.

• The EMBA program is based on a strong general management foundation and a student may choose a functional specialization in their last trimester.
• The courses in this program are presented to you in different ways: lectures from our professors, PowerPoint presentations for content, readings and case studies from the best universities in the world, activities and assignments to test learning, and discussion forums to promote discussion and conversation.
• You’ll gain insight into complex areas that management draws from – accounting, engineering, statistics, law, psychology, economics, anthropology and many more.

Lectures

Class lectures are held on alternate weekends and our professors take students through complex business concepts, following an established program architecture and course outline. These lectures are also recorded and stored on the cloud to allow students to revisit them multiple times and the PowerPoint presentations and readings are shared on our learning management system (LMS) that all students have access to.

Activities/Assignments

Dayananda Sagar University has designed activities to help students understand their learning progress. These activities will give a better idea of ​​how to apply concepts that you learn in class to complex problems in the real world.

Discussion Forums

Discussion forums allow you to ask questions, share and learn with other participating students, and even help to help by sharing your own information and thoughts.

The capstone project is generally a solution-driven project where an industry problem is identified and the student researches, identifies the problem and possible solutions and presents a report even while drawing extensively from the learning offered by the program and its different courses.
The capstone project is an important component and offers an elegant completion to the management program. Students are assisted by a faculty guide who is invariably a subject matter expert.

In a world that is turning increasingly complex and uncertain, managing careers need special skills. This MBA program provides a career success fundamental, a framework where learners can recognize problems, solve them and make decisions.

Dayananda Sagar University Executive MBA program allows a student to collaborate and communicate, competencies that are critical in the present scenario. The programs strong general management base gives a student a stable managerial foundation and a platform to construct a further specialization.

The pedagogy exposes the student to business cases studies from the foremost national and international management schools like Harvard Business School, MIT- Sloan, INSEAD and the IIMs. Case study analysis is driven by the professor.

Each class has great diversity and the program is generally represented by students from a wide variety of organizations ranging from IT & ITES majors like INFOSYS, IBM, WIPRO, TCS and CISCO Systems to consulting firms like Ernst & Young, Accenture, Capgemini and the manufacturing industry represented by ABB, BOSCH, Buhler and Larsen & Toubro. We are increasingly seeing participation from organizations in the Supply Chain Management space like Cargill, DHL and Bluedart.

About thirty percent of the class is women and the average work experience for the entire class is 7.5 years making the learning experience a fantastic one.

We expect a student to complete the program in seventeen months with an outer limit of thirty-six months.

Class attendance is highly recommended and the student is expected to attend a minimum of 50% of class sessions. This is not a distance education initiative.

Since the Executive MBA program is specifically suited to the working professional, we do not directly assist a student in terms of placement. However, students are urged to actively network and scout for career opportunities. We are also open to mentoring students, on the students request and coaching them on career opportunities.

Personal branding is crucial to cultivating a successful career. Marketing yourself and your career as a brand is more than just about creative business cards or pretty fonts– it’s about how you present yourself to potential clients, customers, and anyone else imperative to your career. The program is extremely beneficial in this regard.