University of Waikato
Waikato Management School

Corporate & Executive Education
Hamilton

Waikato MBA

Start date:  April                            
Length: 2 years part time

First offered: 1992

Fees: Includes texts     $36,500

          & Study Tour

 

Objectives
  • The Waikato MBA is designed to equip existing leaders with the skills necessary to lead strategically in the future.  
  •  It broadens functional and technical specialists’ business understanding, and adds best-practice management know-how to the entrepreneurs; practical knowledge.
  • The Waikato MBA emphasises: leadership and organisational transformation, sustainability, value creation, and international citizenship. 

 

Particular strengths or unique aspects

 

  • Our programmes are founded on leading-edge business research and are practical and relevant
  • The Waikato Management School is NZ’s No.1 research led business school
  • The Waikato MBA includes an international study tour of  8-10 days  
  • Differentiated by both its learning philosophy and the extent of its application of practice into the learning experience.
  • Triple Crown Accreditation – the Waikato Management School is accredited by AACSB International and EQUIS.  The MBA is accredited by AMBA.
  • Offers participants a range of business experience

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.
  • 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
  • Taught by senior Waikato Management School faculty and contracted professionals
  • Group work which provides the opportunity to work with others in your cohort with quite different management backgrounds

 

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 2009
 
     
     
 

 

 

 

 
Number of faculty teaching    25 Classroom hours (approx)   516
Entering students                            68     Students enrolled   97
Graduating students   52 Total NZ Graduates   826


* The Waikato MBA programmes require successful completion of both Part I and Part II of the MBA.   

Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies classroom hours (approx): 224

Accreditation              

AMBA (UK)                    accredited
EQUIS (Europe)             accredited
AACSB (USA)                 accredited