Last Updated on December 7, 2023
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program is one of the critical links in fulfilling ADSM‘s mission to develop entrepreneurial managers who can enhance the existing managerial capacity and also to encourage the growth of entrepreneurial ventures in the UAE.
Aimed at prospective MBAs who demonstrate entrepreneurial behaviors, ADSM develops global leaders with a strong business foundation and an entrepreneurial mindset. The driven MBA team of faculty and staff members do this by combining a holistic integration of the traditional business disciplines and our approach to teaching the entrepreneurial thought process. As a result, the MBA graduates succeed in a broad spectrum of global organizations needing leaders with a relentless bias for action, an ability to create opportunities in a variety of context, and the entrepreneurial skill to drive results and run businesses at optimal heights.
ADSM has established program aims for its MBA program consistent with ADSM‘s mission as follows:
- Become recognized as the Gulf region‘s premier school for creating entrepreneurial managers.
- Train a local Emirati MBA workforce to run UAE organizations.
- Grow the number of entrepreneurial ventures in UAE.
- Develop a faculty known for its contributions to practice and to research.
Mode of Delivery
The MBA program is offered in a traditional face-to-face teaching mode. Each MBA core and elective courses of 2 credit hours will be delivered over a period of five weeks, with six hours of face-to-face delivery per week, for a total of 30 hours per course.
Each ‘Signature Learning Experience’ course consist of one credit hour. The course will be delivered over a period of ten weeks and includes three weeks of lectures of five hours each, and each ‘Thesis’ course will be delivered over a period of ten weeks.
Students will take two courses simultaneously where one is delivered on Friday and the other on Saturday. The Friday course will be scheduled from 3:30pm to 9:30pm and the one on Saturday from 9:30am to 3:30pm.
Number of Credits
The MBA program is composed of courses that provide students with specialized knowledge of Business Administration. The program consists of a total of 30 credit hours which includes 20 credit hours of core and 4 credits hours of elective courses, in addition to 6 Credit Hours thesis.
Program Learning Outcomes
There are six learning outcomes for the MBA program that each graduate is expected to achieve by the time of graduation from the program:
| PLO1 | Critically analyse the opportunities in a variety of contexts using innovative approaches to create value for stakeholders and society |
| PLO2 | Discover the ability to make decisions based on ethical values and social awareness |
| PLO3 | Validate multiple theories and functional perspectives for the interpretation of comprehensive challenges to the business |
| PLO4 | Evaluate appropriate research instruments to address domestic factors and drivers in the global context |
| PLO5 | Combine relevant theoretical advances with functional business skills to construct timely and informed decisions |
| PLO6 | Develop arguments considering teams and leadership skills to manage complex situations in organizations |
Program Structure
| MBA Core Courses (All Required for Graduation) | |
| RES 6110 | Research Methods for Business |
| IEP 6210 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
| MKT 6210 | Marketing |
| MGT 6410 | Strategy |
| LOB 6410 | Leadership and Organization Behavior |
| MGT 6430 | Digital Enterprise Management |
| ACC 6330 | Financial and Managerial Accounting |
| ECN 6310 | Managerial Economics |
| OPS 6310 | Operations Management |
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MBA Signature Learning Experience (All Required for Graduation) |
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| SLE 8100 | Signature Learning Experience I |
| SLE 8200 | Signature Learning Experience II |
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MBA Individual Consultancy Thesis (All Required for Graduation) |
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| MBA 8918 | Individual Consultancy Thesis I (Proposal) |
| MBA 8919 | Individual Consultancy Thesis II (Final) |
MBA elective courses are offered based on the academic schedule for the term in which they are offered and students’ preference.
| MBA Elective Courses (Two Required for Graduation) | |
| LAW 6410 | UAE Legal and Regulatory Framework |
| QTM 6210 | Decision Analysis |
| MGT 6440 | Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Management |
| HRM 7200 | Human Resources Management |
| ECN 6420 | International Economics |
