Executive Master of Business Administration – (MBA)

The part-time Executive MBA Programme has been run in Wielkopolska Business School since 1991. Over this period the MBA team has gained experience in running the Programme and has fully mastered the concept of this form of managerial staff development. Changes in the market environment and a diagnosis of the training needs of companies resulted in several modifications of the Programme. At present it is a two-year part time programme, designed for managers with at least three years of professional experience (average for our students is 10 years). The Programme fully follows the EQUAL standards concerning the MBA. Over 1060 managers and senior managers, mostly from international companies located in Poland, have completed the Programme.

The main aim of the Programme is to cover the most important areas of a modern company operations and to provide participants with managerial training, with particular emphasis laid on practical aspects in order to enhance the participants' entrepreneurial and leadership competences.

The mission of the Programme is to enable those who have appropriate business experience to systematise and deepen their knowledge in such a way that they can feel fully competent to act as managers in their organisations.

Thanks to interactive teaching and learning strategies and methods, participants are able to share their previous experience and develop new managerial skills relevant to the modern workplace.

The general aims of the Programme are:

* to get acquainted with theoretical concepts which help to solve contemporary business management problems,
* to be able to diagnose problems facing organisations and to implement effective problem-solving strategies,
* to develop social, learning and leadership competences through an effectively adopted attitude of a reflective practitioner and through ethical behaviour in business.

The following are the issues that will make this Programme distinctive:

* building of the added value on students’ experience and work-based assignments, practically oriented,
* team working on team projects,
* global awareness.

The Executive MBA Programme, which lasts two years (492 hours of teaching), covers 19 modules including three out of nine selected by students, a team consulting project (in the first year), a team international consulting project (in the second year), company study tours, international specilised workshops and a dissertation presented at the end of the second year.

The curriculum is covered by completing specific modules. Their order is established in the way that will gradually reduce gaps in the participants' knowledge of basic business-management issues in the first year of studies. The idea is to start with personal issues and then move through team and organisation management to the organisation environment. The second-year modules give a strategic, broader and deeper picture of company operations.
The Programme is a part-time mode. EMBA classes are held as four-day sessions, either from Sunday to Tuesday or from Thursday to Sunday, eight lessons per day. A maximum of two modules are taught simultaneously.

The Wielkopolska Business School Executive MBA Programme was primarily validated by The Nottingham Trent University. It is a one of the top MBA programmes in Poland. It had a very high position in national ranking list of MBA programmes (the second position in Gazeta Finansowa and the third in Wprost). It is accredited by FORUM (Polish accredation centre from Warsaw - member of EQUAL) and has gained a Master Class level (the highets possible) in the MBA programme 2010 FORMU rating.