Master of Business Administration
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
DURATION
15 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
10 Jan 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2025
TUITION FEES
AED 110,000
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program is one of the critical links in fulfilling ADSM‘s mission to develop entrepreneurial managers who can enhance their existing managerial capacity and also to encourage the growth of entrepreneurial ventures in the UAE.
Aimed at prospective MBAs who demonstrate entrepreneurial behaviors, ADSM develops global leaders with a strong business foundation and an entrepreneurial mindset. The driven MBA team of faculty and staff members do this by combining a holistic integration of the traditional business disciplines and an approach to teaching the entrepreneurial thought process. As a result, the MBA graduates succeed in a broad spectrum of global organizations needing leaders with a relentless bias for action, an ability to create opportunities in a variety of contexts, and the entrepreneurial skill to drive results and run businesses at optimal heights.
ADSM has established program aims for its MBA program consistent with ADSM‘s mission as follows:
- Become recognized as the Gulf region‘s premier school for creating entrepreneurial managers.
- Train a local Emirati MBA workforce to run UAE organizations.
- Grow the number of entrepreneurial ventures in UAE.
- Develop a faculty known for its contributions to practice and to research.
Admissions
Curriculum
MBA Core Courses (All Required for Graduation)
- RES 6110 Research Methods for Business
- IEP 6210 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- MKT 6210 - Marketing
- MGT 6410 - Strategy
- LOB 6410 - Leadership and Organizational Behavior
- MGT 6430 - Digital Enterprise Management
- ACC 6330 - Financial and Managerial Accounting
- ECN 6310 - Managerial Economics
- OPS 6310 - Operations Management
MBA Signature Learning Experience (All Required for Graduation)
- SLE 8100 - Signature Learning Experience I
- SLE 8200 - Signature Learning Experience II
MBA Individual Consultancy Thesis (All Required for Graduation)
- MBA 8918 - Research-Based Consultancy Project I (Proposal)
- MBA 8919 - Research-Based Consultancy Project II (Final)
MBA Elective Courses (Two Required for Graduation)
- LAW 6410 - UAE Legal and Regulatory Framework
- QTM 6210 - Decision Analysis
- MGT 6440 - Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Management
- HRM 7200 - Human Resource Management
- ECN 6420 - International Economics
Program Outcome
- Critically analyse the opportunities in a variety of contexts using innovative approaches to create value for stakeholders and society
- Discover the ability to make decisions based on ethical values and social awareness
- Validate multiple theories and functional perspectives for the interpretation of comprehensive challenges to the business
- Evaluate appropriate research instruments to address domestic factors and drivers in the global context
- Combine relevant theoretical advances with functional business skills to construct timely and informed decisions
- Develop arguments considering teams and leadership skills to manage complex situations in organizations