1 Year: A flexible MBA Curriculum that Balances Learning and Career
The SDA Bocconi Full-Time MBA is an ambitious undertaking: it requires drive and motivation, but it gives you a unique opportunity to improve personally and professionally.
You will be plunged into a very intensive period of full-time work that accommodates learning and practice in just one year. Core Courses and Concentrations sequentially occur in 9 intense months of class, between September and May. From June onwards, and for up to six months, you can flexibly choose among individual internship, entrepreneurial project or group business lab to practice what you learned. More alternatives for the Fall Term include staying on campus to test and consolidate your soft skills with business games, 360-degree cases and other final courses, or going on exchange to other top international business schools.
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.
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. Special Seminars, Leadership Series Seminars and Extra-Curricular Activities - an actual "Program beyond the Program" which offers students new perspective and ample opportunities for life-long networking and friendship.
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COMBINE LEARNING AND PRACTICE IN JUST ONE YEAR
After 9 months of class (PHASE 1), flexibly choose among individual internship/entrepreneurial project/group business lab, int’l exchange/on-campus skills trial (PHASE 2, inclusive of the experiential activities taking place in the Summer, the Fall term courses plus the graduation on December 2022)
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.
From June onwards, and for up to 6 months, you can put what you have learned in the classroom into practice and face real and challenging business problems by flexibly choosing among individual internships, entrepreneurial projects and MBA Group Business Projects.
Enhance your education with an experience abroad. The MBA gives you the opportunity to attend exchange programs at business schools in other countries within a prestigious international network.
* Outgoing students may be involved in the exchange program starting in August/September and ending in November/December.
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 from April 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.
Special Seminars tackle cutting-edge, impactful topics by informally meeting influential experts. On these occasions, external speakers as well as SDA Bocconi and Bocconi faculty members come for talks on topics of interest. MBA students can discuss current issues in a timely fashion and naturally develop a habit to promptly compare the concepts seen in class with real-life cases.
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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