Become more than a great manager. Become a great leader.

The Asper MBA program gives you what you need to excel in business, community and life:

• Management skills and expertise that meet the challenges of today’s competitive global market
• A strong sense of ethical and social responsibility
• Perspectives that make you an exceptional problem solver, critical thinker and decision-maker
• The ability to present your vision clearly and effectively, and motivate others

The Asper MBA gives you more than an education. It gives you a life-changing experience.

As part of your leadership development, you take courses in:

• Executive Leadership. 9 credit hours of corporate leadership study and exploration
• Business Management Essentials. 39 credit hours of general management and business study
• Advanced Concentrations. 12 credit hours of elective study in a selected concentration

The program consists of a minimum of 60 credit hours (one credit is equivalent to 10 hours of in-class time). Courses are normally 1.5 or 3.0 credit hours in length, depending on the nature of the subject and depth of study required.

Courses are offered at least once a year and are scheduled to maximize convenience for you. Program entry occurs twice annually, in mid-August and January (although an 11-month program completion is not normally possible with a January commencement). The academic year is composed of three seasonal terms: fall term (August-December), winter term (January-March), and summer term (April-July).

You can complete the program in less than one year if you take it full-time. On a part-time basis, you have up to 6 years to complete your MBA. Three years is the average part-time program length.

If you recently completed university-level business or management courses in another 4-year university degree program, or have certain professional designations, you may qualify for up to 30 credit hours of exemptions, significantly reducing your program length and cost.

Executive Leadership

Business executives - chief executive, operating and financial officers, and presidents and senior vice-presidents – oversee an organization's decision-making and planning processes. Executives are responsible to business owners and key stakeholders for the daily and long-term success of an organization, and to society at large for conducting the organization's affairs in a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable manner.

Executives live in a high-stakes, fast-paced environment where decisions must be considered from a wide range of internal and external stakeholder perspectives. Executive positions demand not only superior management skills – planning, organizing, directing and monitoring – but also strong, decisive leadership: the ability and conviction to motivate and guide others towards goals that are often ambiguous, exhausting and risky to achieve, but worthy of pursuit.

The executive leadership component of our program comprises 9 credit hours of coursework, offered through a series of four modules and a course in Entrepreneurship and New Venture Formation:

• Leadership & Change
  Introduces the leadership series and the Asper MBA, with a three-day event on the meaning and importance of business leadership today.
• Executive Context
  Explores, from the executive perspective, the complex and changing reality of today's business world.
• Executive Responsibility
  Examines the concept of corporate governance, and the challenges and rewards of strong executive accountability and responsibility.
• Executive Leadership
  Explores what it means to be a business leader today, through a series of candid discussions with CEO and executive guest speakers.

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Business Management Essentials

The program includes 39 credit hours of mandatory core courses, plus one auxiliary preparatory math course. The core courses provide you with essential skills and understanding for business management by exposing you to a range of concepts central to managing effectively in any organization, regardless of your industry or position.

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Advanced Concentrations

Concentrations consist of four advanced business elective courses in a specific area. These courses allow you to tailor your studies to suit your career aspirations or needs.

Advanced concentrations include: Finance, Marketing, Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour, Supply Chain Management, General Management or Health Administration.

Concentrations are also available through partnerships with CMA Manitoba (Management Accounting) and the Masters in Public Administration (MPA) program at the University of Manitoba (Business Government Relations).

Students can also pursue an individual interdisciplinary concentration via graduate-level courses in a department outside the Asper School.

If you wish, you may pursue a double concentration by taking four electives in one area and four in another, for a program total of 72 credit hours.

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Concentration Information

Details on areas of concentration can be found on the Course Information page.