{"id":7502,"date":"2014-02-24T15:22:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/?page_id=7502"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:17:10","slug":"concover","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/concover\/","title":{"rendered":"UF OEM\/MBA Concurrent Degree Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #dc3d01; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular;\">Introduction:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you have a technical undergraduate degree and you are thinking about returning to school for a master&#8217;s, you may be wondering whether to get another technical degree or if you should get an MBA.\u00a0 The University of Florida has an innovative program that allows you to keep your job and complete both an engineering master&#8217;s and an MBA degree in less than three years.\u00a0 The UF Outreach Engineering Management (OEM) and MBA Programs have teamed up to provide working professionals with this exceptional opportunity to fully prepare for career advancement, establish and nurture invaluable networking contacts, and obtain comprehensive technical and managerial training, all without a career interruption and at an unparalleled value.\u00a0 Both the OEM and MBA Programs are structured as lockstep, cohort-style programs, so students go through the graduate school experience together, at exactly the same pace.\u00a0 You will benefit from in-depth recurring interaction with two sets of accomplished classmates and two sets of nationally recognized faculty, and you will develop relationships that you will treasure for a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #dc3d01; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular;\">Program Structure:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4 semesters of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\">OEM <\/a>(one-weekend-per-month format, with classes in Orlando)<br \/>\n4 semesters of <a href=\"https:\/\/warrington.ufl.edu\/graduate\/online-mba\/\">MBA<\/a> (via Internet MBA or Professional MBA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The concurrent degree program requires as few as 30 months\/56 credit hours.\u00a0 Both degrees are awarded at the end of nine (9) semesters, although the OEM degree can be awarded sooner, if desired.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a title=\"Concurrent OEM\/MBA Option\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/conc\/\">More details here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: If you have a technical undergraduate degree and you are thinking about returning to school for a master&#8217;s, you may be wondering whether to get another technical degree or if you should get an MBA.\u00a0 The University of Florida has an innovative program that allows you to keep your job and complete both an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16001,"href":"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7502\/revisions\/16001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/oemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}