Business Administration (without Thesis)

About the Department

The objective of the program is to train professionals who are going to be problem-solvers and innovation leaders in their organizations. The program structure is designed based on a philosophy that is very similar to the top MBA programs around the world. The clientele for the MBA program predominantly comes from an engineering background. Therefore, the program is structured such that the required courses expose students to the functional areas of business administration and two electives allow students to develop some level of mastery in a specific area. Students are also required to prepare a Term Project that is supervised by a faculty member and provides the opportunity to the student to research a business problem of interest.

Goal & Objectives

1. Equipping students with all necessary skills, attitudes, and approaches to guide their decisions as business executives

2. Developing students’ abilities to handle today’s problems and prospects for business organizations functioning in a competitive world

3. Allowing students to develop their theoretical and practical skills and knowledge in one of the specialized areas

4. Enhancing intellectual development and student graduate maturity

5. Assisting the students to analyze, examine, investigate and compose the new knowledge and competencies they will acquire

6. Ensuring the highest possible penetration of each subject inquiry and exhaustion of conceptual academic as well as practical implications

7. Securing the necessary level of education for obtaining specialized knowledge and competencies and demonstrating mental independence

8. Offering insight into professional possibilities and modern organizations functioning in the context of today’s competitive world

9. Providing participating students with the skills necessary to guide both their short and long-term decisions.

10. Providing international management education to its participants that will enable them to become effective general managers anywhere in today’s globally competitive environment

11. Providing students with graduate level of business education focusing on both theories and research from a holistic business point of view

12. Providing students with the necessary skills, attitudes, and approaches to guide their decisions as business executives

13. Providing students the ability to handle today’s problems and prospects for business organizations functioning in a competitive world

Career Opportunities

The MBA Degree is specifically designed to build upon business people’s existing knowledge and add to their personal career development. The MBA is a tool for diversifying roles in a career for developing strategic leaders.

The MBA program of the University of Nicosia aims in ensuring that its students acquire the appropriate management knowledge necessary and an in-depth understanding of all major business areas. Through theory and practice, the University of Nicosia MBA wishes to assist students to develop into critical and intellectual individuals and the new business leaders of the future.

Graduates of the MBA program can be employed in all sectors of the economy and business, whether this be in the manufacturing sector, tourist, financial services and professional services sectors, non-profit organizations, education, trade, retail, etc.