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The Magellan MBA
- 14 month duration
- Foundation Period (September-October)
- First and Second Term: Core Courses (October-March)
- Third Term: Elective Courses (April-June)
- Integrative Term: Student Project or Internship + International Week (July-October)
Soft Skills Training: Personal Development Series in Detail
Personal Development (PD) series of 4 courses constitutes an integral part of The Magellan Programme. Team Management starts the series and its aim is to get the team off to a good start. Communication Techniques’ goal is to help students improve their communication and relationships, both at a personal and professional level. Team Management’s aims is to provide a platform for successful team building and team effectiveness. In Personal Development I the focus shifts from teams to the self and self-awareness; students learn the tools and techniques of self-assessment, coaching and development. Personal Development II draws from both courses and is dedicated to the issue of the relationships between the self and others. To sum up the personal development skills acquired and honed during the Programme, the series ends with Team Management II. Students gain a comprehensive picture of their progress in The Magellan Programme as individuals and members of teams.
STRUCTURE (Starting date: September 10th 2012)
FOUNDATION PERIOD
The five-week long foundation period aims at providing students who have different backgrounds and professional work experience with a common knowledge framework. This initial phase will cover basic financial accounting issues and will develop analytical and quantitative methods appropriate for managerial decisions. In addition, we will offer an overview of the basic general management areas and essential business communication techniques. During this period, students will also familiarise themselves with the case study approach used throughout the programme.
FIRST TERM
The first term (October-December) will feature the following core courses: Organisational Behaviour, Economics for Managers, Marketing, Finance I, International Business Economics, Business Ethics. At the same time, students will be introduced to intensive soft skills training that will involve personal development and team management, negotiation skills, career services activities (including mock interviews and career evenings), communication and leadership workshops and seminars with alumni and guests from the School’s extended network.
SECOND TERM
Starting in January, students will enter intensive training in the following additional core courses: Finance II, Human Resources Management, International Financial Statement Analysis, Logistics and Operations Management, Strategic Management, Information Systems for Managers, and Management Accounting and Control. The soft skills training initiated in the first term will include more advanced personal development and career development activities.
THIRD TERM
The third term is mostly devoted to elective courses with possible specializations in Organisational Development, Finance & Accounting, Operations, International Business and Marketing. Students will choose six elective courses to attend, and will also be required to attend four mandatory courses (subject to change in each year). In 2011/12 these were Change Management, Value-Based Management, Project Management and Marketing Simulation.
Four Mandatory Courses
/ Change Management
/Value-Based Management
/Project Management
/Marketing Simulation | Mandatory Soft Skills Training
/ Team management II
Please note that throughout October-June, the students must also participate in several
Career Services activities, workshops, seminars and other events. |
Six Elective Courses will be chosen from the following areas of specialization or concentration:*
International Business
/ Legal Aspects of International Business
/ Understanding New Asia: China
/ Understanding New Asia: India
/ Managing Non-Profit Organisations | Marketing
/ Marketing Communication Strategy
/ Relationship Marketing
/ Consumer Behaviour
/ Brand Management
/ Services Marketing | Organisational Development / Managing Small Businesses
/ Innovation and Creativity Management
/ Game Theory Applications to Management
/ Leadership / Business and Sustainability / Cohitec Entrepreneurship Programme | Finance & Accounting
/ Mergers and Corporate Restructuring
/ International Corporate Governance
/ Financial Risk Management
/ Financial Investments and Markets
/ Project Finance
/ International Financial Reporting Standards | Operations
/ Global Supply Chain Management
/ Service Operations Management
/ Technology Management
/ Total Quality Management
/ Purchasing Management
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* List above shows courses offered in recent editions. The list of elective courses may change, depending upon student interests and teaching resources. Magellan students choose their electives by the end of the first term.
INTEGRATIVE TERM The hands-on and market approach of The Magellan MBA is culminated with the final integrative term. The term runs from July to mid-October and includes a mandatory international week and a Final Project. Options available for the Final Project include an Internship or New Business Project.
THE INTERNATIONAL WEEK
The International Week provides students the opportunity to attend lectures and events at a top foreign business school, to gain a new perspective on business management, and international business practices from the local faculty. In recent editions, International Week was at schools such as IE Business School (Spain) and McCombs School of Business, at the University of Texas, Austin (U.S.). The Magellan MBA tuition fee includes all the costs of the International Week including travel and accommodation expenses.
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