1 Year: An MBA Curriculum that Balances Career and Life
The SDA Bocconi Full-Time MBA is an ambitious undertaking: it requires diligence and motivation, but it also gives you a unique opportunity to improve personally and professionally.
You will be plunged into a very intensive period of full-time work that progresses in set stages. Core Courses and Electives sequentially occur between September and May, while a Path to Entrepreneurship takes place from January to May. Then students undertake their Summer Projects (internship or entrepreneurial activity). After the Summer, some of the participants go on exchange in top international business schools. Those who are back to campus undertake stock-taking activities in October and November, capitalizing on what they learned in the previous parts of the program and consolidating soft and other “horizontal” managerial skills.
The Full-Time MBA is a postgraduate and post-experience degree in general management, with a wide scope for specialization, guaranteed by the fact that electives are clustered in 4+1 concentrations among which students have to take choices coherently with their intended post-MBA career path.
The SDA Bocconi MBA's integrated curriculum:
MBA is demanding, sometimes stressful, but it is also sustainable, allowing a proper balance between career aspirations and personal life, as well as fostering awareness of the importance of what's beyond the boundary of firms. Lunch & Learn (L&L) Talks, Leadership Series Seminars and extra-curricular activities offer ample opportunities for life-long networking and friendship.
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The sequences of Core Courses take place in 5 Terms from September to March: Term 1 (September/October), Term 2 (October/November), Term 3 (November/December), Term 4 (January/February), Term 5 (February/March). This sequence represents the competence requirements of a global manager.
This is the period during which you can focus your path on specific managerial areas that best fit your preferences and abilities. Each year during the concentrations the MBA offers about 20 electives to choose from, to allow you to gain in-depth expertise on topics of major relevance in today's business world. The Electives are grouped into 4 Concentrations running in parallel groups of 2.
Students are required to take 2 Concentrations, one for each period, that is 10 courses across two periods.
In addition to the 4 functional concentrations, SDA Bocconi's Full-Time MBA program gives you the opportunity to further customize your curriculum through the field-based concentration in Luxury Business Management (LBM), held in collaboration with Gucci, LVMH and Valentino, three of the biggest players in the luxury sector all over the world. The active involvement of managers and professionals in the program guarantees an ideal interaction between theory and practice.
In this step you will fine-tune your skills by measuring yourself with active learning methods applied to specific areas such as:
Alongside the activities that make up its main structure, the SDA Bocconi Full-time MBA offers you other initiatives to support and enrich your overall preparation and give you an alternative look at some aspects of business, the economy, and our society.
You don’t have a sound economic and financial preparation? Don’t worry! Starting in January the school provides optional online pre-courses that include Introduction to Financial Accounting, Quantitative Methods, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. And if you want, you can also learn Italian and the main IT tools.
This is an initiative organized to expose our students to knowledge and experience from top leaders of international companies. A unique opportunity to learn from their hands-on experience and talk with them during the cocktail following the event.
Informal meetings between MBA students and influential experts during their lunch break to tackle the topics that emerge from news and current affairs, and that have a significant impact on the economic and managerial world.
The structure of the program is demanding and requires you to be fully committed, but in turn provides you with the necessary edge to learn and develop the right skills, tools, and command over processes.
SDA Bocconi organizes events and meetings throughout the year, both online and offline, where you can interact with the Director and other members of the MBA Community.
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