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  EXECUTIVE MBA - GENERAL INFORMATION

The Executive MBA is a two-year part-time postgraduate programme. The programme is designed to address the needs of professional managers. It aims to enhance their business skills. This programme is addressed to alumni of master or bachelor degree studies with professional experience documented.

Studying mode:	Two-year, part-time
Language of instruction:	English
Number of instruction hours:	c.a. 752 contact hours of instruction; course divided into blocks of subjects

Class hours:	Friday 6.00 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. (4 x 45 min) Saturday 09.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. (8 x 45 min) Sunday 09.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. (4 x 45 min)
At some weekends:	Saturday: 09.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. (8 x 45 min) Sunday: 09.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. (8 x 45 min) Learning sessions take place 2-3 times per month.

Programme blocks:

Personal Development Programme, Economics, Accounting, Organization and Human Resources Management, Finance, Operations Management, Management Control and Information Systems, Marketing, Strategy and International Management, Legal Aspects of Business Activity and Business Project. more>>

Location:	WUT BS building, Koszykowa 79, Warszawa.
Course start:	The first semester of the EMBA programme starts at the end of September; the second semester commences in mid February. The course runs to the end of July next academic year.

Didactic methods: Field studies:

Modern interactive methods of education are used in our School, such as case studies, discussion classes, computer simulations, management laboratory, management workshop, business projects or virtual discussion groups. Stress is placed on active student participation in learning. In every programme block lectures are given by professors from Partner Institutions. Polish experts from international corporations lead practical classes and conduct the fulfilment of tasks assigned to students. An important element of the Executive MBA programme is a final project and its implementation in companies. It allows students to use the knowledge they gained throughout the studies in practice. Field studies are organised during the fourth semester.  Usually students visit one of the Partner Schools.  In 2008, Executive MBA Students participated in an international Seminar in Bergen, organized by our Partner School, the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH). The Seminar "Entrepreneurship" was held by Prof. Tor Johannessen NHH from 14 to 19 May 2008. In May and June 2009 WUT Business School Executive MBA Students participated in two international seminars. The seminar in Bergen, organized by our Partner School, the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) was held by Prof. Tor Johannessen NHH. For the first time, MBA students visited also OXFORD Said Business School. The seminar was held by Prof. Alastair Nicholson. Entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, interantional trading with Africa and India and the economic crisis where the main topics of the seminars. On June 3-5, 2010, a seminar has been organized for the Executive MBA students in Oxford SAID Business School and London Business School. The topics covered during the seminar included: strategy and entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and innovation in marketing operations. Special attention was paid to the discussion of the influence that cultural backgrounds take on the business operations w different geographical areas. A discussion panel has been organized for the Oxford MBA students who came from China, India and Brazil where they had the opportunity to discuss the business operations organization from the point of view of their cultures. Photos gallery

Criteria of evaluation:

Student's classification is based on results of written examinations, fulfilled tasks and projects as well as on their activity during classes. Written examinations in subjects included in programme blocks take place at the end of a semester. Their results constitute at least 50% of the overall student's mark. The criteria employed for the evaluation are the same as those used by the Partner Schools in their own postgraduate programmes. This assures all interested parties that the holders of an MBA from the Warsaw University of Technology Business School are in possession of a postgraduate management qualification fully comparable in content and excellence with those of a similar duration given by the three Partner Schools. School's grading system equates to the A, B, C ratings and to the Polish bardzo dobry, dobry and dostateczny ratings.

Additional advantages:

Personal Development Programme Development of soft skills necessary for conducting effective business operations is strongly practiced throughout the programme. >>more In addition to standard learning activities, our School also organises meetings with famous persons from business and political circles from the Friday@Five courses. In that way we help our students to enter useful relations and to engage in key business problems in our country.