In today’s world, universities and institutes are adopting new technologies to impart skills and knowledge to the executives such as live classes, webinars and virtual learning. Executive Education aims at developing executives who can encounter the emerging and unforeseen circumstances of the business. Universities offer two types of executive education like open enrollment and customized education which provides quality education to the executives. In last decade, it has been observed that number of candidates opting for executive education has been increased, which makes extremely important for institutes and universities to know what are the factors that influence candidates to opt for executive education. Hence, this study aims at determining the factors that influence the executives to opt for executive education. The study also aims at determining the most and least important factors.

Executive Education, Virtual Learning, Factor Analysis, Career Growth, Learning Opportunity.