Cleveland Clinic-Weatherhead Executive MBA FAQ

Nope. This executive healthcare MBA degree program is open to individuals in any organization who have at least 10 years of professional healthcare experience.

The curriculum is delivered over five semesters in 21 months. The first cohort will begin in September 2015 and finish in April 2017.

Classes meet Thursday through Saturday, once a month, at various times of day. Classes are not held in the evenings. A 10-day International Study Experience is held during summer semester.

Classes are held at Case Western Reserve University’s George S. Dively building, located at 11240 Bellflower Rd. in University Circle, and at the Cleveland Clinic main campus.

Courses are led by Weatherhead faculty and by Cleveland Clinic faculty. Some courses are taught using the dyad faculty model, which combines an academic expert from Weatherhead and a healthcare professional from Cleveland Clinic.

For the Cleveland Clinic EMBA, there’s no GMAT or GRE requirement. However, if you do not have an undergraduate degree, you will be required to take the GMAT or GRE.

At its core, the Cleveland Clinic Way emphasizes patient care and patient experience. It aims to provide better—and cheaper—care through group practice, collaborative medicine, big data implementation and analysis, innovation through cooperative practices, empathy, body and mind wellness through healthcare rather than sickcare, and tailor-made care that treats a person rather than a disease.

In short, the Cleveland Clinic Way is in direct harmony with the principles of leadership for positive organizational change developed and taught by Weatherhead faculty.