UMKC - The Bloch School

The Bloch Executive MBA is recognized for its commitment to continuous improvement, student development, and program innovation. Milestones include:

• Recognition as No. 1 for career impact among U.S. public universities by the Financial Times.

• The first Executive MBA program in the nation to partner with The Washington Campus, more than seventeen years ago, for public policy residency.

• The first Executive MBA program to establish an innovation residency.

• A pioneer in the use of an on-staff, executive coach to enhance EMBA student learning.

• The only program in the nation with its own resident philosopher and an integrated approach to ethics embedded into 75% of the program's courses and 3 of its 4 immersion residencies.

In addition to program innovation, the Bloch Executive MBA benefits from the School's growing international reputation and strengths in key areas of distinction.

The School's excellence, for example, has been recognized in a number of ways:

• The School has received dual accreditation at the highest level by both AACSB International and NASPAA.

• The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has been ranked among the top 25 graduate entrepreneurship programs in the nation by Princeton Review.

• The Master of Public Affairs' Nonprofit Management concentration is ranked among top 25 in the country by U.S. News & World Report.

• Bloch is home to two of the world's top innovation scholars, as well as the founder of Harvard University's National Center for Educational Leadership: all three of these faculty members teach in the Bloch Executive MBA program.