Euro*MBA

Not only you can study wherever, whenever you like, you also work together with fellow expatriates who understand where you come from. Furthermore, you increase your international job mobility and career with this MBA degree of six high quality partner European Business Schools and Universities, which has three international recognised accreditations: AMBA (British accreditation), AACSB (American accreditation) and Equis (European accreditation). The Euro*MBA programme was also ranked nr. 5 Distance Learning MBA worldwide by The Economist (2008).

Study wherever, whenever

Six residential weeks all over Europe alternate with ten distance learning modules in a period of 24 months. You can study the course modules wherever, whenever, being supported by internet and virtual team IT tools.

Diverse learning environment

Through maximum diversity, the Euro*MBA strives to expand your frame of reference in order to enable you to innovate, develop and contribute to your own business environment and community. An approach attractive to the broad mind set of expatriates.

How do we create diversity?

• A multicultural participant profile with a very diverse background (finance, IT, engineering, NGO’s, public sector ….) and on average 11 years of professional and international experience
• A truly international organisation (consortium of 6 European Business Schools and Universities) and management and academic staff (from each consortium member)
• Diverse teaching methodologies, comprising action learning, case studies, lecturing, company visits, on line modules, skills training, (virtual) team work …
• "Out of the box” experiences in the residential weeks, distance learning modules and multicultural teams

Multicultural team co-operation and network

In the residential weeks, teams work together on integrative assignments. In the course modules you are part of a multicultural virtual course team. Your virtual team changes every four months, ensuring you have built a solid international network of 60 – 80 participants by the time you graduate.

Graduates and participants together combine over 40 nationalities and represent a variety of executive levels in numerous industries and cultures. This international network and available knowledge provides incomparable value in the global environment.

The Euro*MBA at a glance

• Two-year executive international MBA
• Four-day introduction programme
• 10 on line courses (five courses a year, two months per course)
• Six residential weeks throughout Europe (three a year, every four months)
• Multicultural teamwork in each course and residential week
• Master Thesis project
• Approximately 1,830 hours of study
• Enrolment twice a year (January, September)
• MBA degree awarded by the six full partners

Class overview

• Expatriates: 31%
• Male: 75%
• Female: 25%
• Nationalities represented: > 20
• Average age: 37
• Average work experience: 11 years

Euro*MBA requirements

Applicants to the programme should have at least:

• The equivalent of a first higher education degree (BA)
• Five years professional (management) experience
• Basic knowledge of functional management areas
• Fluency in spoken and written English (for non-Anglophones TOEFL 250 or other proof of language skills, via interviews with our partner institutions, or university degrees in English Anglo-phones are exempt.)
• Two letters of recommendation
• A letter of motivation.

Euro*MBA Consortium

The Euro*MBA is a joint offering of the Euro*MBA consortium:

• AUDENCIA Nantes Ecole de Management France (EQUIS/efmd, AACSB, AMBA)
• EADA Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración, Barcelona Spain (EQUIS/efmd, AMBA)
• HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management (AACSB), Germany
• Kozminski University (EQUIS/efmd, AMBA), Warsaw, Poland
• Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, The Netherlands (AMBA, AACSB, EQUIS/efmd)
• Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille Institut d´Administration des Entreprises. Aix-en-Provence, France (EQUIS/efmd, AMBA)

and one associate partner:

• Open Universiteit Nederland

Resulting degree

Euro*MBA Diploma of the six consortium partners

MBA Curriculum

• A four day introduction programme, where you learn to deal with multicultural team management and prepare yourself for the master thesis process and work with IT tools for the individual as well as team and classroom virtual environment.
• The six residential weeks take place at our partner institutions and focus on the different regions of Europe. From the Netherlands to Spain, from Poland to France and Germany, our residential weeks cover a wide spectrum of topics on European business and culture as well as hot topics in management. Furthermore, company visits and leadership skills provide you with essential practical skills and insights need by today’s manager
• The ten courses (on line) ensure you develop a helicopter view needed for general management positions. You will follow courses in: Strategic Management, International Finance, Management Accounting, Change Management, Technology and Innovation Management, Managerial Economics, Human Resource Management, Marketing Management, International Management and Operations and Supply Chain Management.
• The residential weeks alternate with the courses: after a four month period with two courses of each 7-8 weeks, you attend a residential week. (during the summer period from May - August there is only one course)
• The Master Thesis Project enables you to offer your company first class consulting in an international or innovative area

Testimonials

"When I wanted to advance my career, I started looking for an executive MBA program which fostered an effective and challenging learning environment and allowed me to continue and work in far off places. At the time I was working in DR Congo and later moved to Afghanistan to manage a humanitarian organization; my next move will be to Colombia. Needless to say I wanted a highly accredited program which allowed me the flexibility to simultaneously pursue my international career. At first I was skeptical when the Euro*MBA claimed to provide this package. Two semesters and two residential weeks later, what has impressed me most are the students and the teaching methodology. The diversity and extensive experience of each individual truly enriches the learning process and the program is designed to draw upon the real life experience and management challenges of each individual. People from different cultures, languages, experiences and different ways of looking and solving problems along with modern teaching methodology of the Euro*MBA is the innovative approach I was searching for.”
Ramin Shahzamani (Iranian/Canadian)

"I am a United Nations Peace keeper from Rwanda. For international civil servants such as myself who need to keep up with new management trends, the Euro*MBA is the answer. The course caters just for everything you need to be a good manager, from Entrepreneurship to Finance to International Management, to name but a few. More recently, the world is concerned with CSR, and some of our organizations are keeping up the pace. However, only by joining hands with the corporate world, can we understand how to implement CSR successfully. The Euro*MBA is passionate about this subject and the tutors are incredibly well researched. From a more personal experience, I managed to succeed because of a number of factors. The way the course is organized around Residential Weeks in different European countries (which gives a unique flavor of internationalism), the interaction on a daily basis with classmates, the 24 hour availability of tutors to answer every query; and most important, the diversity and expertise that course mates represent. You learn a lot from engineers, bankers, pharmacists, marketing managers, journalists etc.
I am glad I joined the Euro*MBA. This is a course like no other. It is priceless. I will always recommend it to my colleagues in the UN System, NGOs, African corporate managers and those other organizations that strive to make the world a better place. Since most African companies have gone global, the Euro*MBA is one sure way to get informed of existing business ventures not only in Europe but also in the rest of the world."
Florence Karera (Rwandan)

"Two years ago I saw my career developing too predictably for my taste, and simply not offering me the opportunities that I desired. After some reflection, I then decided to undertake a promising yet challenging project: to pursue an MBA while continuing to work fulltime. The Euro*MBA seemed to be the answer to my needs: a programme which would allow me to learn new things and discover new people; a programme which would provide me with new insights on management in an international context. Two years later, I feel that it all happened very quickly. And I’m thankful for having taken this decision. The programme endowed me with a strong culture of business and a very solid basis for management. It gave me the chance to work face-to-face with people from many different professional backgrounds and to be able to compare and discuss our different management experiences. I will never forget one particular debate about how Chinese corporations are developing business in Africa. What made this debate so lively and fascinating was that with every intervention a different point of view was introduced, equally as convincing as the previous one. We all brought our experience and background: from a French hotelier working in Asia, to a Guinean oil engineer working in Congo and to a Rwandan HR manager working for the United Nations in Africa.
During this program we learned that our actions go beyond the simple world of work and move towards a global perspective, outside our everyday environment: government, society, nature, laws, etc. For me the key elements in order to succeed in this course are modesty, curiosity, hard work and the willingness to endanger ourselves through the confrontation of our points of views."
Philippe Stefanidis (French)

Price

Tuition fee: € 25.500 for the two year programme. Travel and accommodation costs for the residential weeks are not included.

Application fee: € 125 (reimbursable upon payment of tuition fee)

More information

Visit our website: www.euromba.org 
Request a brochure:

Contact the Euro*MBA central office for our brochure, a personal talk with staff and participants or an information session:

Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (AMBA, AACSB, EQUIS/efmd)
Contact: Diana Berdún Mingo
PO Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
Phone: + 31 43 3884619
Fax: +31 433884970

E.mail: or
Website: www.euromba.org 

Or contact the nearest consortium partner :

AUDENCIA Nantes School of Management (EQUIS/efmd, AACSB and AMBA)
Contact: Sylvie Chancelier
Phone: + 33 2 40373466
Fax: + 33 2 40373407
E-mail:

EADA, Escuela de alta Dirección y Administración Barcelona (EQUIS/efmd, AMBA)
Contact: Concha Mayo
Tel: + 34 9345 20 844
Fax: + 34 9332 37 317
E-mail:

HHL – Leizpig Graduate School of Management, Germany (AACSB) Kozminski
Contact: Franck Hoffmann
Tel: + 49 341 985 1709
Fax: + 49 341 985 1810
E-mail:

Kozminski University, Warsaw (EQUIS/efmd, AMBA)
Contact: Sylwia Halas-Dej M.Sc
Phone: + 48 22 519 2100
Fax: + 48 22 811 3068
E-mail:

Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille Institut d´Administration des Entreprises
Aix-en-Provence (EQUIS/efmd, AMBA)
Contact: Marion Moreau
Phone: + 33 4 42280855
Fax: + 33 4 42280800
E-mail: