The UCLA Accelerated Management Program (UCLA AMP) is an extensive general management program for working professionals offered by UCLA Anderson School of Management, one of the top global business schools. The one-year program is focused on covering management essentials for managers and executives who are looking to grow in their careers by improving management skills to drive outstanding results in their current organizations, while enhancing their professional profile for prospective employers.
The modular online format of the program provides great flexibility to your learning journey and allows you to pursue the program alongside a full-time career. The program design and delivery by the world-renowned UCLA faculty ensure that the program covers all the important aspects of management, as expected from a highly respected institution, consistently ranked among the best in the world.
PROGRAM BENEFITS
KEY BENEFITS
Upon completion of the program, in addition to becoming a UCLA AMP alumni, you will join the global UCLA Anderson Executive Education community.
You also receive the benefits listed below:*
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Attending UCLA AMP will:
UNIQUE UCLA ADVANTAGE
For over 100 years, UCLA has been a pioneer, persevering through impossibility, turning the future into the attainable. We doubt the critics, reject the status quo, and see opportunity in dissatisfaction. Our campus, faculty and, students are driven by optimism. It is in our DNA. It is not native; it is essential. It is what enables us to push forward and redefine what’s possible. It pervades our focus on education, research, and service and, in turn, opens limitless opportunities to every student. And it has fueled every accomplishment, allowing us to redefine what’s possible, time after time.
This can-do perspective has brought us 16 Nobel Prizes, 15 MacArthur Fellows, 11 National Medal of Science Winners, 3 Pulitzer Prize Winners, more NCAA titles than any university, and more Olympic medals than most nations. Our faculty and alumni helped create the Internet and pioneered reverse osmosis. And more than 140 companies have been created based on technology developed at UCLA.
UCLA RANKINGS
#1
Public University
(U.S. News & World Report, 2023)
#1
Course Design
(FT News, 2022)
#1
Open Enrollment Programs in US
(FT News, 2022)
#1
Best Valued School
(Princeton Review, 2017)
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
UCLA AMP is designed for high calibre professionals across industries, who have been entrusted with increasing responsibilities and are looking to further accelerate their career growth. Those interested in entrepreneurship will find the program provides a valuable toolkit to expand their ability to take their organizations to the next level of success.
Program is suitable for working professionals with:
- High-quality experience with significant responsibilities and a demonstrated career progression in a corporate or entrepreneurial environment.
- A minimum of 7 years of work experience.
- An undergraduate degree with a strong academic track record is preferred.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Experience in leading teams and managing projects/ products/ people, preferred but not required.
The program is designed for driven and ambitious professionals across industries and functional domains such as sales, marketing, engineering, finance, operations, technology, etc.
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PROGRAM EXPERIENCE
UCLA AMP has been designed to expose the participants to management and business leadership essentials, in an extensive general management curriculum, that is experiential in learning and applied in focus. The participants will form a community that is composed of highly driven individuals who want to become business leaders and are investing in their own growth and development. Everyone in this community is striving to reach new heights in their careers and support each other on this journey, supported by the UCLA Anderson School of Management Executive Education.
UCLA Anderson has been offering executive education programs since 1954. For over 60 years, these programs have always conformed to the highest standards of quality and are taught by some of the best faculty in the world. UCLA AMP promises the same elite experience to participants joining the program.
DISTINGUISHED FACULTY
Providing Thought Leadership in the Classroom and Workplace
The mainstay of UCLA Anderson’s high-quality management education programs is its esteemed, international faculty. Each year, UCLA Anderson faculty members publish papers in leading scholarly journals, receive recognition for research excellence, provide leadership in and beyond UCLA, and serve as inspirational teachers.
We like to characterize our faculty as fearless thinkers in the way they approach problems. They are so much more — they push the boundaries of their areas of study, while collaborating with complementary thinkers in order to achieve great impact.
Program faculty may include*:
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Associate Professor of Management and Organizations -
Professor and Faculty Director, Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making
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Assistant Professor of Strategy
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Assistant Professor of Marketing
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Adjunct Full Professor of Management and Organizations; Chair of UCLA Thailand Executive Committee
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Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
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Faculty Director of Strategic Management Research
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Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Associate Faculty Director at Morrison Center for Marketing and Data Analytics
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Associate Professor of Decisions, Operations and Technology Management
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Associate Professor of Marketing
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Professor of International Management
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Faculty Director, Fink Center for Finance and Investments
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Adjunct Professor of Management and Organizations
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Assistant Professor of Economics
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Professor Emeritus, Marketing
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Associate Professor of Marketing
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Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
CURRICULUM
The UCLA AMP curriculum design ensures that participants are immersed in the functional knowledge of management essentials, in a manner that exposes them to all aspects of running and managing a world-class business organization. They get a broad window onto the latest issues facing businesses and how these are being resolved in different industries and geographies. Participants are also expected to hone analytical problem-solving skills directly relevant to the most critical business issues.
Intense work, led by a world-class faculty and required by the extensive curriculum, challenges your potential and paves the way for you to maximize your capabilities. The focus of the program is your development into a strong management professional with relevant skills for your sector, industry, or functional area of interest, so that you can contribute actively to the overall growth of your organization.
Business Acumen: Management Foundations
- Introduction to Strategy and Organizations
- Introduction to Marketing and Sales
- Introduction to Management and Leadership
Strategy
- Strategy Formulation
- Strategy Implementation
- Corporate Strategy
- Competitive Strategy
- Competitive Advantage and Game Theory
Marketing
- Marketing Strategy
- Branding Strategy
- Going to Market: Global Considerations
Data and Analytics
- Analyzing and Interpreting Data for Effective Decisions
- Big Data: Science and Analytics
- Customer Analytics
Digital Transformation
- Design Thinking
- Digital Transformation
- Leading and Managing Disruption
- Innovation Mindset and Process
Personal Leadership
- Building Teams and Leading People
- Power and Influence (Managing Networks and Social Capital)
Global Leadership
- Essentials of Global Leadership
- Globalization and Organization
- Ethics of Global Business
People Leadership
- Communication and Negotiation for Driving Global Impact
- Team Effectiveness
Leading in Entrepreneurial Environment
- Strategic Decision-making
- Culture
- Change Management
- Leading Entrepreneurial Operations
- Managing People in Entrepreneurial Context
Digital Business
- New Business Models
- Digital Marketing and Advertising – Tools and Techniques
Managing Global Business
- Building and Managing a Global Enterprise
- Managing and Driving Global Growth
Entrepreneurship
- Lean Startup Approach
- Opportunity Recognition and Evaluation
- Business Planning and Risk Management
- Innovation and Phases of Business Growth
PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
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“The curriculum was so expansive and so in-depth! Not what I expected from an online program. And learning directly from the UCLA faculty was just the icing on the cake. I learned from the very best and after +400 hrs invested in learning I can say I would be willing to invest +1000 more.”
Abraham Vela Torres
Customer Project Office Manager  |
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“The flexibility of online sessions, live webinars with UCLA faculty in instructor-led sessions; a mix I thought would work best for me. The most amazing part for me was the live online sessions. It made me feel like I was actually in a classroom with the faculty. I’m very grateful for their mentorship.”
Caio Amorim
Senior Legal Counsel  |
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“The modules on leadership and entrepreneurship have really helped me. I am already successfully applying what I learned and the results are showing. I’m very grateful to the program. Thank you to the exceptional faculty and my peer group.”
Pablo Mancuso
Owner  |
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“The UCLA AMP course, in addition to theory, presented very interesting case studies, all of which were based on a range of knowledge and experience from one of the best-known American universities. The search for knowledge does not end here, but I have the feeling that an important step has been completed.”
Alexandre Rieger
Credit Analyst  |
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ADMISSIONS
UCLA AMP follows a rolling admission (first come, first served) process and participant applications are evaluated as soon as they are received. The step-by-step process is outlined below.
Please Note:
- Application fee is refunded only in the case an applicant is not offered an admission to the program.Â
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PROGRAM FEES
The program fee for the UCLA AMP is inclusive of all taxes. It covers teaching fees, usage of the learning platform, and all online learning materials. It does not cover any other expenses that are not expressly mentioned above.
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