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Master of Business Administration (MBA)

The MBA curriculum integrates quantitative management, technology awareness, enterprise decision-making and leadership.

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At a glance

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  • The MBA curriculum integrates quantitative management, technology awareness, enterprise decision-making and leadership.

  • The 2025 curriculum includes four directions: comprehensive management, technology entrepreneurship, technology finance and AI business applications.

Four MBA directions · 2025 curriculum

DirectionEmphasis
Comprehensive ManagementCross-functional management and strategy
Technology EntrepreneurshipManaging innovation and new ventures
Technology FinanceFinance for technological innovation
AI Business ApplicationsArtificial intelligence in business settings

The 2025 program sets a basic duration of 2.5 years for full-time students and 3 years for part-time students. Graduation requires at least 40 credits, including at least 34 coursework credits.

Management disciplines and professional education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) | Management disciplines and professional education

The 2025 MBA training plan links general management functions with technology, data and financial reasoning. Its four directions offer different ways to focus the same broad managerial education: cross-functional leadership, new technology ventures, innovation financing and artificial intelligence in business. The curriculum includes foundation courses, electives and assessed practice. Business simulation and applied projects help make decisions visible so that assumptions and outcomes can be discussed critically.

2025 MBA: specializations, credits and duration

The 2025 MBA plan identifies four directions: Comprehensive Management, Technology Entrepreneurship, Technology Finance and AI Business Applications. Its basic study duration is 2.5 years full-time or 3 years part-time.

Graduation requires at least 40 total credits, including at least 34 coursework credits. Six credits of compulsory practical components connect classroom study with professional practice and thesis-stage requirements.

Further study: Master of Business Administration (MBA)

The curriculum’s public courses include political theory, business ethics and business English. Its professional foundation spans managerial economics, accounting, financial management, marketing, organizational behavior and strategic management. Quantitative work appears in Data, Models and Decision-Making and in Corporate Decision Simulation, connecting analytic models to business choices.

Professional practice and industry learning form part of the required educational experience. Students should distinguish the program’s published 2025 training plan from admissions announcements for a specific intake, since these documents answer different questions: one defines learning requirements and the other defines the application process.

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