Why Choose Rockhurst?
The Helzberg School of Management is dedicated to developing leaders of competence and conscience. The Executive Fellows MBA is Kansas City's oldest and most prestigious executive MBA, designed to assist sponsoring firms in enhancing leadership and executive capability in their promising middle- and upper-level managers.

• Faculty use a wide variety of teaching approaches with emphasis on case studies, projects, simulations and team-based activities.
• Courses blend theory and application to ensure both a broad-based understanding of contemporary business, and the capacity to appreciate how technology, globalization and social change are shaping the future business environment.

The first co-educational business degree for working adults (1933).
• One of the first part-time MBAs (1976).
• The first executive MBA in Kansas City (1978).
• The school's new Center for Leadership and Ethics will engage Kansas City businesses, organizations and individuals through speaker series, workshops and consultation.
• A mentorship program linking MBA students with local business leaders. Interested in becoming a mentor?  Contact Beth Hazels at 816.501.4399.

Meeting the needs of working professionals
Rockhurst MBA students come from a variety of professional backgrounds with diverse personal goals. Some are improving professional skills to enhance chances for advancement; others are preparing for a complete career change. To accommodate the dual role of employee-student, MBA classes are offered in the early evenings (most classes begin at 6 p.m. and end at 8:40 p.m.)

Alumni Network: A Rockhurst MBA Opens the Door

• More than 1,800 Rockhurst MBA alumni live and work in the greater Kansas City area employed as CEOs, presidents, vice presidents and managers of local firms. More than 2,600 alumni are employed around the world.
• Rockhurst alumni are part of a nation-wide network of more than 1.5 million living graduates of 28 outstanding Jesuit colleges and universities.

The Rockhurst educational ethic
In keeping with the centuries-old Jesuit tradition of educating the whole person, Rockhurst encourages students to question, to probe and to think for themselves. Students advance their knowledge and broaden their perspective through a balanced perspective between theory and application.

As a Jesuit university, Rockhurst is part of a select group of institutions of higher education. For more than 450 years, the Jesuits have been leaders in education. Rockhurst has constantly challenged conventional thinking and has sought to bring students to an awareness that they not only have a responsibility for developing themselves but society as a whole. It is in this spirit that the 28 Jesuit Colleges in the U.S. and the 60 international educational centers set forth this challenge.

Specifically related to business, a strong case can be made that the corporate sector has a crucial role to play in contemporary society. Essentially, the purpose of the Jesuits is to develop leaders who have a positive impact on their organizations and on society.

This value-centered pursuit of learning enables students to consider not only their personal and career concerns but also to look forward to even more active citizenship in the community.