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Meet
Challenges: The Euro*MBA
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Euro*MBA at a glance |
- Two-year
executive international MBA
- Four-day
introduction programme
- 10
e-learning courses (five courses a year, two months
per course)
- Six
residential weeks throughout Europe (three a year,
every four months)
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Approximately 1,800 hours of study
- Enrolment
every four months (January, May, September)
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Euro*MBA is a joint offering of the Euro*MBA consortium:
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- Open
University of the Netherlands,
- AE
Aix-en-Provence,
- AUDENCIA
Nantes.Ecole de Management
- Akademie
für Weiterbildung e.V.
- EuroStudyCentre
North-West Germany
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EADA Barcelona
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and
two partners: University College Dublin and University
of Jyväskylä.
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Meeting
challenges
Managers,
especially those pursuing international careers, face a number
of business challenges: working across cultures, working in
teams, managing long-distance relationships, etc. With the
Euro*MBA, participants can combine their job responsibilities
with a flexible educational programme that allows them to
meet current and future international challenges more effectively.
A
mixture of residential and e-learning
The two-year
Euro*MBA programme offers a mixture of e-learning and residential
weeks. Participants can work on the 10 e-learning courses
at their own pace. The residential weeks, in six European
cities, occur every four months. During these weeks, participants
visit businesses and governmental agencies, as well as studying
subjects specifically related to the region. This mixture
of residential and distance education allows participants
to combine flexible learning with real-world experience: the
best of both worlds.
A
varied curriculum
The Euro*MBA
features a wide range of e-learning courses: from international
management to innovation technology to European corporate
law. Practical experience is gained through regular group
assignments, business simulation game, change management project
and an individual master thesis. But nothing teaches like
the first-hand experience gained during residential weeks.
Experiences in cities like St. Petersburg, still reeling from
the effects of the 1998 economic crisis, Barcelona, where
the societal and political upheavals since World War II still
profoundly impact business today and Maastricht, the spiritual
home of the European Union.
A
multicultural approach
The multicultural
roots of the Euro*MBA run deep. Alumni and students hail from
Australia and Italy; Germany and Japan and numerous points
in between. They learn from working cross-culturally on group
projects and from lectures by professors representing a variety
of educational and cultural backgrounds-thereby gaining skills
and experiences to enhance their international career.
International
network
 Euro*MBA
alumni also profit from an international alumni network long
after they have completed the programme. For a continued broad
knowledge base and multicultural perspective that can give
them the inside track on international business issues.
The alumni association is very active. It's mission: to facilitate
and stimulate connections within the Euro*MBA environment
that enrich the personal and professional lives of its members.
Darlene Brown MBA, President of the Euro*MBA Alumni Association
about their activities in 2002-2003: 'Our main activities
for this year will be focused on our selected Topic of the
Year: entrepreneurship in a changing Europen Environment.
To elaborate the topic we organise a round table discussion
between economists, academics and politicians and start research
activities. The research activities concentrate on article
reading, analysis of business models and reviews amongst students
and alumni who started their own business. Furthermore, we
start working with career counsellors and we organise not
only a big alumni event but also regional activities in for
example Germany, France, The Netherlands and Spain. And of
course we organise the Alumni Event in one of the Residential
Weeks together with the Euro*MBA consortium. The Alumni Association
is a real international lively network.'
The
latest IT infrastructure
The Euro*MBA
is based on Lotus Notes Group Ware. This allows participants
to maintain effective communications and efficiently work
on group projects with co-participants around the world. The
infrastructure also lets participants receive on-line tutoring
and notification of programme initiatives, and gives them
access to a virtual library. This flexible IT-infrastructure
supports them as they study when and where they want.
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Euro*MBA
requirements
Applicants
to the programme should have at least:
- The
equivalent of a first higher education degree (BA)
- Three
years professional management experience
- Basic
knowledge of functional management areas
- Fluency
in spoken and written English
- Two
letters of recommendation.
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Resulting
degrees:
Euro*MBA
Diploma of five consortium partners
and
Diplôme
de Troisième Cycle de Management Avancé
Institut d'Administration des Entreprises IAE, Aix-Marseille
(France)
Class
overview
Male:
80%
Female: 20%
Nationalities represented: > 10
Average age: 35
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MBA
Curriculum
The
Euro*MBA programme consists of ten distance learning courses.
Courses last between 7- 8 weeks and run sequentially.
The topics
that are covered are listed below:
- Strategic
Management
- Change
Management
- International
Management
- Management
Accounting
- International
Financial Management
- International
Human Resource Management
- Technology
and Innovation Management
- International
Marketing
- Marketing
Planning Simulation
- European
Corporate Law
Price
Tuition
fee: 22.500 Euro for the two year programme
Travel
and accommodation costs for the residential weeks are not
included.
Application
fee: 125 Euro (reimbursable upon payment of tuition fee)
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