Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) Postgraduate Diploma (PDip)(Management)

Course details

Accreditation

The NUI Galway Executive MBA is AMBA accredited. AMBA accreditation is the global quality benchmark for MBA programmes. AMBA accreditation gives business schools international credibility and status. AMBA has accredited 200 MBA programmes in business schools in over 70 countries. The number of MBA qualifications available worldwide is now in the thousands, but only a small percentage of these have attained AMBA accreditation.

The Executive MBA (EMBA) is a Master of Business Administration course that offers you a general management programme designed to develop and enhance your business and management capabilities and prepares you for strategic leadership roles. The programme places an emphasis on strategic decision making and develops practical and professional skills for success in business environments. The Executive MBA:

• Develops managerial knowledge and skills that have immediate applicability;
• Provides an opportunity to meet like-minded, ambitious executives from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences;
• Challenges participants to think differently.

The NUI Galway MBA is accredited by AMBA—the global standard of excellence for MBA education.

Key facts

Entry requirements

Entry is open to graduates who have at least three years of relevant postgraduate administrative or business experience. Applications from non-graduates who have a minimum of five years' business or administrative experience may be considered for the PDip (Management), which is equivalent to the first year of the Executive MBA programme.

Course outline

Modules/coursework includes:

• Accounting for Managers
• Financial Management
• Management and Organisation
• Economics and the Business Environment
• Business Information Systems
• Human Resource Management
• Management and Organisation
• Economics and the Business Environment
• Business Information Systems
• Human Resource Management
• Enterprise Architecture Management
• Markets & Marketing
• Company-based Interdisciplinary Consultancy Study
• Service Marketing
• Leadership and Change
• Performance Management, Ethics and Governance

Elective modules, offered at NUI Galway or University of Limerick, may include*:

• International Study Visit
• Business Negotiations
• International Management
• Taxation
• Strategic Sales Management
• Technology Management
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Enterprise
• Corporate and Commercial Law
• Strategic Human Resource Development
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Strategic Marketing
• Irish Economic Policy
• Law and Policy Relating to Business Enterprise
• Information Systems Innovation
• Services Marketing.
• Corporate Financial Management

Electives offered are determined by the interest of students and availability of lecturing staff.

Requirements and assessment

Students will complete a range of different assessments including individual and group projects forming continuous assessment throughout the semester as well as end of term closed book examinations.