Participants' feedback
After suffering 15 months, students gave us their feedback about their experience at the Executive MBA student at HEC Lausanne and what they got out of the programme.
Objective reached?
Students had many motivations for doing the Executive MBA at HEC Lausanne. We can distinguish two types of objectives, the personal objectives and the professional ones.
For students of the last three graduated classes (2008, 2009 and 2010), it was important to:
• Improve their personal skills (gain confidence, communication skills…)
• Increase their Network / get more exposure
• Increase their salary
But they also had some professional objectives; here are the three most frequently cited:
• More knowledge about finance and businesses
• Career progression
• Broaden their horizon
Work and study?
Reconcile job and study can seem to be difficult for many of them, it was indeed not that easy! However, 90 % (72 out of 80) of students confirmed at last that having classes every other weekend was compatible with their professional life.
Return on investment?
When we asked students if it was a good investment of time and money 94% (72 out of 77) of the students say “Yes” or “Absolutely!”.
Students agreed to say by 90% (68 out of 75) that it was the ideal programme for them compared to other options they had.
We also found that the salary of our students increased by 8.7% in average during the programme. Based on the results indicated below, we are happy to say that the real salary increase was higher than expected, except for 2009 which as we know was very difficult. But this doesn’t mean that everyone move from a company to another since 80% (59 out of 74) of the students kept the same employer.
Doing an Executive MBA doesn’t mean for everyone that they will move to a higher function during the programme. However participants of our programme gain on acknowledgment form their boss and are always identified as high potentials. Indeed, 49% (36 out of 74) of our students kept the same title.
The Executive MBA does not only provide a good financial background but also imparts the vision of entrepreneurship. Out of 74 students, 26 thought of starting their own company and 5 had already done so.
