As Navdeep Martin was weighing which MBA programs to apply to, her most important consideration was time. So Martin zeroed in on part-time and executive MBA programs near her home in Washington and eventually narrowed her choices to Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. The Virginia program she was considering was of the executive MBA, or EMBA, variety. The Charlottesville campus was 120 miles away, but she would be required to show up only one weekend a month. Also, much of the first-year course work could ...