Business Administration (Distance Education, MBA)

The MBA (Distance Learning) program of the American College aims at providing a highly-competitive education in management issues that will ultimately equip future managers to solve complicated problems and implement creative concepts in their work environment, which will benefit their organization. The American College MBA will help you to develop a range of appropriate and valuable skills and competencies that will fully prepare you to be competitive in today’s dynamic global environment.

The MBA program aims at:

1.Preparing managers of high quality who will meet today’s complex and multidimensional work environment.

2.Developing the necessary skills for operating efficiently an organization.

3.Developing managers who will be able to integrate the concept and tools of management with the realities of their own business environment.

4.Fostering innovative entrepreneurs and creative business leaders with the vision and the skills to turn vision into reality.

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Upon successful completion of this program of study, its graduates will:

1. Demonstrate competency across business disciplines, specifically apply the essential elements of core business principles to analyze and evaluate problems and to construct and implement solutions in the business environment.
   
    
2. Demonstrate critical thinking, specifically employ appropriate analytical models and apply critical reasoning processes to evaluate evidence, select among alternatives, and generate creative options in furtherance of effective decision making.
   
    
3. Demonstrate teamwork and leadership skills, specifically function in a variety of work groups using appropriate leadership skills and styles and collaborate with a variety of other people using elements of effective team dynamics to effectively and appropriately structure team work.
   
    
4. Possess effective communication skills, specifically write business documents clearly, concisely, and analytically and speak in groups and in public clearly, concisely, and analytically, with appropriate use of visual aids.

The program requires a minimum of 90 ECTS credits as follows:

MBA Core Courses | 60 ECTS credits
 

MBA Elective Courses | 12 ECTS credits
 

Thesis | 18 ECTS credits

MBA Foundation Courses

ACC571 Accounting

CSC571 Business Computing

MTH571 Business Mathematics and Statistics

Students without a business degree or students who completed their business degree over seven years ago and do not have managerial experience are required to take the MBA Foundation Courses. MBA Foundation Courses are offered during the two weeks prior to the beginning of every semester/session.

MBA Core Courses

ACC671 Financial and Managerial Accounting (6)

ECO671 Managerial Economics (6)

FIN671 Financial Management (6)

MAR671 Marketing Management (6)

MGT671 Operations Management (6)

MGT672 Human Resource Management (6)

MGT673 Organizational Behavior (6)

MGT674 Quantitative Methods for Business (6)

MGT675 Strategic Management (6)

MGT676 Business Research (6)

MBA Electives Courses

FIN672 Multinational Business Finance (6)

FIN673 Investments (6)

MAR672 Consumer Behavior (6)

MAR673 Strategic Marketing (6)

MGT677 Business Ethics (6)

MGT678 Managing Corporate Change (6)

MGT679 Labor Relations (6)

MGT680 Leadership and Innovation (6)

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Discussion Forums	Milestone Reminders	Conventional MBA follows the same curricilum

Thesis

MGT681 Thesis (18)

Students are required to complete a MBA thesis and they are allocated a supervisor who provides guidance throughout the execution of the thesis. Supervisors act as a point of reference throughout the thesis period, advise on content aspects and generally give students feedback on their progress. All theses have a deadline for submission. When the thesis supervisor decides that the thesis has been completed, he/she organizes the oral presentation of the thesis. The thesis presentation which is compulsory takes place via a private web conference.

The number of credits each course is carrying is indicated in the parenthesis following the course title.

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