MBA in Business Administration

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Department

Department of Business and Public Administration & Department of Accounting and Finance

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At the UCYMBA Program, you will become part of a collaborative community of diverse backgrounds, excellent academic credentials, and promising leadership and entrepreneurial potential. Benefit from your active participation in class through critical thinking, constructive ideas, interactive discussions, and practical examples.

Your participation in our MBA Program (which is offered on either a full-time or part-time basis) will enhance your professional standing and provide you with all those business tools and techniques that are necessary for you to become an agile, market-oriented, and highly adaptive business executive, able to succeed in today’s rapidly changing, globalized, and competitive environment.

The MBA Program is characterized by innovativeness, practicality, and new learning methods, and provides a wide array of core and specialized courses in business administration. We particularly place emphasis on team work, case study analysis, hands-on applications, company on-site visits, and research-driven learning. The program is highly internationalized, aiming to connect students not only with local firms, but also with the wider international business community.

The UCYMBA Program holds the EPAS quality accreditation by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD); it also holds the highest evaluation score by the Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education (CY.Q.A.A.) In the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the University of Cyprus is placed among the top 301-400 universities globally in the area of business and economics; it ranks 30^th among universities in BRICS and emerging economies and 59^th among young universities globally (aged 50 years or under). The program is supported by world-recognized and experienced academic staff coming from top universities in North America and Europe. It is also housed in state-of-the-art building facilities at the University of Cyprus campus, with excellent classrooms and teaching equipment, offering an outstanding learning environment.

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Program

Full-Time MBA Program

The MBA Full-Time Program is a one-year Program geared towards individuals who are committed to developing their management skills and decision-making abilities in a fast-changing business environment. The duration of the Program is twelve months with classes beginning in September. The Program is completed within five terms. The duration of each term is two months.

In order to graduate, students must complete 90 European Credit Transfer System units - ECTS units. Courses of 3.5 or 4 ECTS units are completed within 28 contact-hours over a two-month period. The Program also offers a number of courses of 2 ECTS units that are completed within 14 contact-hours over a two-month period.

Courses equivalent to 57 ECTS units constitute the core curriculum, which introduces students to the fundamentals of the business disciplines. These courses enable students to improve their analytical thinking and decision-making skills and are offered during the first four terms.

Program participants must choose elective courses equivalent to 12 ECTS units from a list of courses which covers all fields of business administration. These courses provide students with the opportunity to customize their Program according to their professional needs and interests. The elective courses are offered during terms four and five.

The Applied Business Project (21 ECTS units) takes place during the last term, and enables students to apply the knowledge acquired during the Program to an organization. The Applied Business Project focuses on a real-life case within a corporate environment, and brings together teams of students with sponsor companies. The Applied Business Project reflects one of the central themes of the Program which is teamwork. The complexity of the business environment forces managers to seek the integration of knowledge through collaboration.

Full-Time MBA Program-Curriculum

Prep. Period

Introduction to Accounting

Term 1

Business Economics
Marketing Management
Leading and Managing Organizations
Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics

Term 2

Principles of Business Communications
Financial Accounting for Management Decisions
Business Statistics

Term 3

Financial Management
Managerial Accounting
Managing Operations
Entepreneurship

Term 4

Methods for Management Decisions
Strategic Management
Elective Courses
Managing Information Systems

Term 5

Capital Markets and Investments
Elective Courses
Applied Business Project

Part-Time MBA Program

This Program is designed to meet the needs of professionals who are currently working. The aim of the Program is to enable participants to become agents of change and implant new ideas into their organizations and the broader society.

The Program begins every September and is offered in English and Greek. The Part-Time MBA is a rigorous Part-Time Program whose duration is 2 years. The Program is completed within ten terms. The duration of each term is two months. In order to graduate, students must complete a total of 90 European Credit Transfer System units - ECTS units. Courses of 3.5 or 4 ECTS units are completed within 28 contact-hours over a two-month period. The Program also offers a number of courses of 2 ECTS units that are completed within 14 contact-hours over a two-month period.

During the first seven terms Program participants must complete a total of 57 ECTS units, which constitute the core curriculum. The core courses introduce students to the body of knowledge of the various business disciplines, and provide them with the opportunity to improve business critical thinking.

During terms eight through ten, Program participants must choose elective courses corresponding to 12 ECTS units from a list of courses which covers all fields of business administration. These courses provide students with the opportunity to customize their Program according to their own professional needs and personal development, and further develop their strategic thinking.

The last term of the Program is devoted to the development of the Applied Business Project (21 ECTS units). Participants of the Program are expected to tackle a business problem from the industry using the tools and knowledge acquired during the Program. The Applied Business Project is considered the epitome of the Program. It is through this project that students will demonstrate their abilities as agents of change, introduce novel ideas and lead their organizations in today’s dynamic business environment.

Curriculum for Part-Time MBA Program

Prep. Period