• Ensure that graduates are well-prepared and confident, equipped with the critical thinking and problem solving skills necessary to meet future managerial (and life related) challenges.
• Enable graduates to be adept at recognising business opportunities with an international dimension and to translate their visions into viable action plans, successful implementation and achievement of desired results.
• Enhance the skills of graduates to meet the needs of tomorrow’s executives and managers operating in international and multicultural environments.
• Enable students to meet both the academic requirements and the professional standards of the MBA, while adding an international dimension to the curriculum.

• A balance between theory and practice is present
• Faculty is representative of both the academic and corporate environments and strive to expose participants to leading-edge best practices and international benchmarks within the international business context.
• Strong commitment to the ‘individual focus, international vision’ ethos of AIS St Helens, ensuring that the study experience is enriching and rewarding
• High level of academic and service excellence in an environment that is both challenging and invigorating.
• Classes are kept small to ensure optimal lecture-student interaction
• Modular structure comprising 20 modules and a Research Project/Dissertation designed in an integrated and holistic fashion
• A strong research component; students undertake a full-fledged research project with individual supervisors and a dedicated research coordinator (includes a public defence of their research)
  

Participation of business and/or government sectors

The School of Graduate Studies has an Advisory Committee drawn from the corporate sector that is committed to ensuring the MBA meets the needs and expectations of the contemporary corporate and business environments.