University of Waikato
Waikato Management School
Hamilton

Waikato Executive (EMBA)*

Start dates:                               Length: PgDipMgmt + 14 months PT
Waikato International (IMBA)*

Start dates:                               Length: PgDipMgmt + 9 months FT

First offered: 1992

Fees: Includes texts     $31950

          & Study Tour

Objectives
  • The EMBA is designed to introduce practising managers to research at the frontiers of knowledge and to prepare them for positions at senior management level in organisations in NZ or overseas.
  • Provide a generalist qualification, with a strong practical focus aimed at building managerial and entrepreneurial competencies in global business, collaborative learning and technology literacy.
  • The IMBA is designed around the same set of competencies, with more emphasis on inter-cultural issues and international networks.

Particular strengths or unique aspects

  • Both programmes offer the opportunity to work in a real business venture alongside leading NZ innovators and entrepreneurs.
  • The EMBA also includes an eight-day overseas study tour.
  • Differentiated by both its learning philosophy and the extent of its application of practice into the learning experience.
  • Highly regarded by employers in NZ and parts of Asia.
  • Ranked 15th in Asia by Asiaweek in 2000.
  • Offers students a range of business experiences including consulting, start-ups, and due diligence.

Teaching method
  • Assessment designed to ensure appropriate academic rigour, testing understanding of the subject material and its application.
  • Learning activities are designed to challenge to engage with scholarship in the various fields of study and to apply the associated learning to the practical aspects of managerial work, equally weighted
  • Assessment models are outcome-based, driven by learning objectives in each paper, and include — for example — case analyses, reports, field studies, practicals, simulations, reflective essays, critical peer reviews and class participation

 

Participation of business and/or government sectors

  • strong relationships and networks with communities and businesses to ensure that programmes and qualifications are relevant and responsive to our participants' needs as well as their needs.
  • the University is also responsive to a range of social and economic goals which have been identified as priorities by Government.

In 2007
 
     
     
 

 

 

 

 
Number of faculty teaching    22 Classroom hours (approx)   516
Entering students                            30     Students enrolled    36
Graduating students    34 Total NZ Graduates   742


*The Waikato MBA programmes require successful completion of their Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies before admission to their MBA programmes; they are a stair-cased design.

Postgraduate Diploma in Mgmt Studies Classroom hours (approx): 216