The International Full-time MBA is a 12-month learning journey that will change you and change your future. You will get into the issues that really matter. You will learn, debate, discuss, exchange, persuade and bring it all together with enough international exposure to pursue your career in any sector, management role and location in the world.
Before you officially start your 12-month MBA journey, you have the chance to settle into your new environment. Build connections with your classmates, meet faculty and staff on campus, and expand your network by engaging with representatives from local organisations.
This introductory project course will help you connect with the vibrant community of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and your fellow MBA classmates. This course addresses the contemporary challenges of business and management in the 21st century while aligning with your personal ambitions for your MBA journey. You’ll explore how global issues you care about intersect with organizations in the Netherlands and collaborate with your classmates to create meaningful connections. Your journey will culminate in the development of a professional transition plan (the PIT plan), setting the stage for your MBA and beyond.
Part of the formal MBA introduction week, this one-day conference explores how businesses in the Netherlands are transforming to address 21st-century challenges. The conference connects prominent Dutch business organisations with RSM students, alumni, and faculty and give opportunities for learning and inspiration.
Embark on your MBA by building a platform for your learning journey and laying the foundations for impactful management in a world that is in transition: what should we expect of managers and leaders in relation to major social, technological and environmental challenges? How can we organise our operations for sustainable value? How to work with and manage diverse teams? How to read and use data?
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Learn the language of accounting and grapple with the core functions of marketing and strategy while growing your skills for reading the dynamics of the economic environment. Your experiential learning during this module will include a marketing simulation project.
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Dive deeper into two crucial aspects of business: How to evaluate the financial value of projects and investments? How to improve your decision-making with data and analytics? You will round off this module with a signature learning experience of our MBA: the Living Management Project.
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During intense four weeks, you are tested on your ability to integrate and apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired so far. You’ll work in teams to devise a solution to a real business problem within a real company and present your recommendations to the company’s executives. This consultancy project allows you to test and develop yourself on key MBA competencies:
Choose from a series of short masterclasses on current topics related to business in transition, ranging from AI to sustainability and integrate your insights in an assignment that builds on your prior work.
A week abroad, learning about key business issues in an international context of your choosing. This immersive learning experience exposes you to a different business environment and gives you the opportunity to explore new sectors and expand your network. You will select a destination from a pre-determined portfolio which you will share with the current Executive MBA cohort.
Focus your learning on obtaining advanced competencies in a specific business area.
You can choose to specialise in one of five subjects:
Every year we offer around 25 electives which allow you to further specialise in topics of your choice. The electives include current topics across five concentrations connected to the advanced courses. You can choose three electives, and you have the possibility to obtain a concentration when choosing two electives that relate to the advanced course.
Here is a selection of the courses that may be on offer:
* Please note: electives are subject to change
Strengthening your ability to be an impactful leader is integrated throughout the MBA learning experience. All your coursework, assignments, and projects allow you to improve different elements of your knowledge and capacity to tackle complex business issues. Effective leadership, however, is only partly about what you know; it is also about who you are and how you show up in the world. To learn more about yourself, your values and your impact on others, the MBA also offers you a specific Personal Leadership Development (PLD) course.
The PLD experience increases your self-awareness and enhances critical interpersonal skills that are key for your success in the MBA and as a leader beyond. PLD offers you a chance to become a better version of yourself that you can skillfully bring to the job of leading others.
Spend a term at one of the 40+ leading business schools in RSM’s network. Exchange options are offered for those who are selected. Selection is based on academic performance and engagement throughout the year. Exchanges take place from January to March, after the programme.
*** Exchange options are offered for those who are selected, at the end of the programme.