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IMBA – International MBA – (MBA)
Warsaw University of Technology
WUT Business School
| Application Deadline: | 4th April 2012 (1st round) | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 9,400 - | ||
| Location: | Warsaw / Poland / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Warsaw University of Technology
The International MBA is a one-year, full-time programme (1000 hours) taught in English, divided into nine blocks of subjects. Lectures take place from Monday to Friday.
This programme is addressed to alumni of master or bachelor degree studies who are interested in the challenges of European economy and its requirements in the field of management.
Contents
Programme blocs
Personal Development Programme, Economics, Accounting, Marketing, Operations Management, Finance and Legal Aspects of Business Activity, Strategy, Management Control and Information Systems, Human Resources Management and Final Project.
BLOCK 1
Personal Development Programme
soft skills indispensable for effective managers are thoroughly practiced during WUTBS MBA programmes.
Our Personal Development Programme is divided into three parts:
“Open Yourself”, this part is mainly offered to prepare participants to team work and improve their presentation and communication skills.
“Discover Yourself”, where you will be able to get objective information on your personal strengths and areas for improvement. Included blocks: Negotiation Training, Savoir-vivre/Business Etiquette, Feedback session on Belbin assessment.
“Define Your Future Challenges”, where you will get the opportunity to redefine your future career objectives in a way that they fit best with your personal profile.
BLOCK 2
Economics
The course is divided into three sections, the first one dealing with the analysis of the firm in the market environment, the second with the macroeconomic environment and the third with the international environment. Through their involvement in the school, the course teachers have developed their teaching material in the light of Polish experience.
BLOCK 3
Accounting
Often referred to as "the language of business", accounting is a registration, measurement and communication discipline. The course concentrates on two areas of accounting: financial accounting and managerial (cost) accounting.
BLOCK 4
Marketing
The course is designed to give an introduction to strategic marketing covering the identification and definition of the market space in which competition takes place, selection and change of competitive actions over time, and adjustment of competitive action from segment to segment. Weight will be given to the evaluation and design of managerial processes in marketing concerned with diagnosing, planning and implementing change ahead of competition, as well as methods for forecasting patterns of reaction of the market-place and within the marketing organization.
BLOCK 5
Operations Management
The objectives of this course are to enable the student to understand how operations management cont´nbutes to the way a firm competes in the market place and achieves commercial results. Business operations are understood as the levels of activity connecting daily operations to business investments. Topics treated in the course are: production and project management, logistics, quality assurance and the economics of variety.
BLOCK 6
Finance and Legal Aspects of Business Activity
The course is an introduction to financial decision-making. The first part of the course is concerned mainly with making decisions on what assets to buy, and the second part is concerned with the ways to pay for the assets. Other subjects include equity portfolio management, mergers and acquisitions, international financial management, and financial institutions.
Legal Aspects of Business Activity
The subject encompasses the most important, from the point of view of the functionig of a market company basic legal aspects. Special attention is placed on issues connected with contracts and company law. The specific features of Polish law and of the law of the European Union are considered as well.
BLOCK 7
Strategy
Examining strategies through environment and industry analyses, the course builds on the concepts of value chains and business systems and explores potential generic strategies such as cost leadership and differentiation. At the corporate level the problems under review are: Does a company have to concentrate on one industry or manage a portfolio of diverse businesses? Should it operate regionally, nationally or internationally? Does it have to develop its activities alone or enter a strategic alliance? The element of the Strategy block is „Innovative Business Models” module presenting innovative perspectives for business development.
BLOCK 8
Management Control and Information Systems
The topics covered in this course are: cybernetic view of control systems, management control (from the functional and the value chain perspective), improvement of management control through information systems examining corporate and divisional reporting systems, changes in planning and forecasting systems, and the ability to perform ad hock analysis, as well as the significance of managerial behaviour in the design of management control systems.
BLOCK 9
Human Resources Management
In the course are presented and discussed models that help in designing formal structures and relevant management systems as well as help in choosing the approp´nate basis and degree of differentiation and the approp´nate mechanism of integration within the corporate culture. Issues such as human motivation, individual and group behaviour and negotiation will also be covered. Personal Development Programme. The element of the HRM block is „Leadership” module presenting the elements of leadership psychology.
BLOCK 10
Final Project. Final projects function as an expertise solving a manager's problem in a chosen company. They are conducted in groups of a few people. The choice of the subject and the company belong to the students. Upon some consultations with the project mentor, professor Alastair Nicholson and the drawing-up of the project, it is officially defended, which forms an opportunity to present a method of solving the problem and to discuss that with council members.
BONUS!
Consolidation Days (Learning by Action)
They are series of workshops where students get the opportunity to practice playing the following roles: project manager, business function manager, board member, CEO, agent of change, investor, and consultant.
The spirit of these sessions is based on the following characteristics:
Working under time pressure with limited information to get competitive result,
Integrative development of interpersonal skills,
Practical application of knowledge in a series of actions requiring quick managerial decisions.
Each session has both academic and practical relevance.
The results of exercises produced by participants are instantly evaluated by means of keypad rating system – it increases an element of challenge during the sessions.
These workshops are a unique initiative - no other business school offers this kind of events.
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Register Now!Requirements
Participants graduating from master-degree studies must have at least 2 years of professional experience prior to the beginning of the programme.
Applicants graduating from bachelor´s programmes are eligible if the candidate has at least 5 years of documented professional experience and has worked for at least two years outside of Poland within this period.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | 2 years |
Accreditation
In 2006, Executive MBA and International MBA programmes of the WUT Business School received EPAS accreditation awarded by the prestigious EFMD - European Foundation for Management Development which groups leading business schools across the world. It is a proof of the top and international quality of MBA programmes and WUT Business School.
The accreditation was awarded by prestigious EFMD- European Foundation for Management Development, which groups leading business schools across the world. It is a proof of the top and international quality of MBA programmes at WUT Business School. For our potential students and for employers this accreditation serves as a confirmation that our educational offer fulfils the standards of the global management educational market.
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