Fully Employed MBA (FEMBA)

Fully Employed MBA

The "Fully Employed" MBA (FEMBA) is a regular twenty-three month accelerated program that meets on Saturdays. An intimate cohort of 25 to 30 follows a lock-step path that completes in less than 2 years. Classes are delivered over 10 week quarters. Students with at least 3 years work experience often prefer the comprehensive approach offered in the FEMBA program.

Special program services include all books, materials, guest speaker series, and program registration. A minimum of at least three years work experience is required. Because all or most students have ample work experience the program is designed to provide a comprehensive MBA. The average FEMBA student age is approximately 33. The FEMBA program admits students in the Fall quarter only. Our new FEMBA 9 cohort begins in early October of 2007.

Program Requirements

The minimum requirements for our program are:

• GPA requirement for graduate admissions is 2.75.
• Your GPA is determined by the last 60 semester units or last 90 quarter units of your undergraduate study.
• The university requirement for the TOEFL score is 550 paper-based, 213 CBT, or 79 IBT.
• The TOEFL is required for all applicants with a non-U.S. degree.
• The institutional TOEFL is not accepted.
• The average GMAT score for our students is 550.
• Must represent a good balance between the quantitative and verbal sections.
• The analytical writing score should be at or above a 4.0. The score is evaluated in comparison to the strength of the entire application.

The College of Business Administration is a teaching-learning community of scholars that academically and professionally prepares a diverse student body to excel in a dynamic global environment. We seek to become the College of Choice for business students in Southern California by providing high quality learning and research environment with a global perspective and contributing to regional economic development.

The College of Business Administration (CBA) is one of the seven colleges of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). As the largest single-campus of the California State University system, CSULB is a comprehensive, four-year institution that was established as the Los Angeles-Orange County State College in 1949 to serve the areas of Orange County and southeastern Los Angeles County.

Business studies at California State University, Long Beach began in 1949 with 24 business students and four faculty members, accounting for one-seventh of the campus population. Business administration was part of the Social Science Division from its inception until 1957, when the division was renamed Division of Business and Social Sciences. In 1958, the two academic areas split and Business Administration became a division in its own right, with Dr. S. Austen Reep as founding dean. By the mid-1960s, the business school had close to 3,800 business students, 29 full-time faculty members, and 13 part-time lecturers. Today, the College of Business Administration is home to nearly 5,000 business majors, including about 400 graduate students and 140 full-time-equivalent faculty and staff.