MBA program
CURRICULUM
The curriculum for the MBA program has been created to meet the needs of junior and middle-managers.
Some 70 percent of the curriculum is designed to cover a broad range of functional areas in order to sharpen general managerial skills. The remaining 30 percent of the curriculum is designed to enhance each participant’s interpersonal skills in order to help them become effective managers and team players.
The MBA program is structured into weeklong courses, offering full flexibility to the partaker in regards to his professional and personal life. In fact the modular approach takes full advantage of the students work obligations and enables immediate application of acquired knowledge.
The MBA program courses are structured as intensive, however at the same time pleasurable interactions involving the lecturers and program students. Course format depends on the subject covered, and in general provide some or all of the following content:
• Delivery of immediately applicable business concepts
• Exploration of key issues and differing viewpoints
• Extraction and structuring of relevant experiences
• Teamwork assignments – distributed among groups of 5 to 6 individuals
• Establishment of support and commitment within newly formed networks
• Guest speakers
Unique ‘blended -learning’ formula ensures minimum absence from work since contact modules take place over nine separate weeks in several South-Eeast European locations.
THE PROGRAM’S STRUCTURE IS COMPATIBLE WITH FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT
• Modules: 560 contact hours
• Team Project
• Individual Project
• Final Presentation
Program price: € 12.000
WHY MBA?
Expert faculty
– our faculty are world renowned expert scholars, practitioners and teachers.
Network, work and socialize with peers
- Participants build valuable relationships for their company and their career
Address current work challenges
- by applying your learning directly in module assignments and via the in-depth project and solving real-life business challenges
Benefits to sponsor organizations
- learning while working. This means they apply their new learning in the workplace whilst bringing their professional experience into the classroom.
Participant value may increase significantly upon graduation*
* Research done by Moj Posao portal in 2009 suggests that MBA graduates increase their average salary by 60,2 % upon graduation.
All of the listed courses are based on a combination of lectures, group discussions, exercises and case study analysis – giving equal opportunity to the students to benefit from theory as well as from practical work.
The courses incorporated into the COTRUGLI MBA program are completely attuned with the principles driving the COTRUGLI Business School. The content of Cotrugli MBA courses is always set in a frame of social awareness and implements methodology which is both respectful and engaging at the same time. At Cotrugli we believe that true interaction employs not only the intellectual capacity and will of the program’s students, but also their concern and respect for the basic principles of humanity.
The future business executive has to fulfil multiple demands: he is expected to be a visionary, wise strategist, charismatic leader, fast decision maker, able to operate in extreme circumstances and simultaneously provide flexible, innovative, rigorous and fair management. In order to meet these high standards, executives need to continuously build their individual competencies. Investment into individual competencies provides both the executive and his organization with sustainable competitive advantage.
The Cotrugli MBA curriculum is designed to stimulate the development of these individual competencies with full respect of personal and social values, providing the students, their organizations, and the society with true return of their investment.
PARTICIPANTS
MBA attracts exceptional, ambitious, pioneering, innovative and socially conscious participants
• junior and middle managers from various industry sectors and reputable organizations all over SE Europe (including Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Romania etc.)
• they come from a wide range of industries, nationalities and business experiences
• minimum 3 year of relevant working experience (average work experience 5 years)
• the average age of 29 years
• fluent in English
