Our Master of Business Administration offers a hands-on approach to both business and community leadership, as part of a complex and evolving educational experience.
The CeIR MBA instills the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to pursue personal and professional goals, and excel in present day's diverse organizations. Its graduates are positioned to thrive in business, industry, government and nonprofit management. The combination of the international student body, instructors from top universities worldwide, and high quality education ensure an exceptional learning experience.
Students can gain new global insights and a new perspective in a fully online classroom that’s built on interaction with business professionals around the world. As one of the Zambia’s most international MBA programmes, students can expect to interact with highly-experienced business professionals and managers offering them access to an enviable global network. This type of interaction provides students with exposure to varying cultural perspectives and business views, equipping them with a real-world toolkit for approaching business challenges.
Our objectives for this programme
1. Become a leader equipped to play a role in shaping our society;
2. Understand how each domain responds to digitalization;
3. Enhance your entrepreneurial drive, passion and mindset;
4. Develop a global point of view, prepare to make an impact
Expected Outcomes for the Masters in Business Administration
Many careers are open to our graduates in Business Administration. Their language skills, international perspective and problem-solving mindset will allow them to cover qualified positions in multinational organizations and financial institutions. Our graduates should be able to achieve the top of the management hierarchy and become Officers, Chief Officers and Directors of the different business functions.
Why Choose Masters in Business Administration?
Our programme provides students with a high-level education in the business management field. The main subjects taught at the first year deepen and broaden students’ understanding of the business functions in big, complex and multinational companies. At the close of the first year, students can choose, among a vast array of elective courses, those that most meet their interests and abilities. The programme concludes with a compulsory internship and a final project. The project work should be strictly based on a deep-contact experience within an organization, providing again a new opportunity to all students to enhance their academic knowledge with field experience.
This course introduces a systemic approach to identifying, understanding and analysing macro, meso and micro issues, set within the global context, which have significant implications for the successful management of organisations and the people within them to produce appropriate detailed recommendations for organisational implementation. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of human behaviour in organisations and how to manage it effectively to enhance managerial performance.
This course will examine how effective operations management contributes to organisations. Students will look at how the operations functions in both public and private sector organisations can successfully integrate with other organisational features, and evaluate and differentiate key operational processes in both service and manufacturing sectors. Students will develop an understanding of innovation, creative and entrepreneurial approaches to improving and developing operations, and propose operational improvements in an operational context.
This course will help you develop your critical understanding of a range of topical issues associated with financial management. student will do this by reviewing and analysing the position and performance of organisations based on financial statements and stock market indicators (for listed companies) or key performance indicators (for not for profit organisations). students will also explore recent academic literature on financial management issues and learn to apply it in practice. students will engage with a broad range of issues such as financial reporting, accounting for management decision-making, and decision making that considers responsible capitalism and sustainability.
This course introduces the concept of marketing at both a strategic and tactical level and offers insights into fundamental marketing principles and practice. It then compares and contrasts traditional marketing practice with more contemporary marketing issues. Marketing identifies and tracks customer and consumer expectations and needs, then gears the organisation to meet those needs – it is an essential business skill for every organisation in both the private and not-for-profit sector.
This course considers ethical context, sustainability and the role of knowledge, and particularly tacit knowledge. Managers need to develop skills in dialogue and be able to reflect. Managers face major challenges in a globalised and rapidly changing business environment. In this course, you and your classmates will reflect on your previous management experience, aspects of the programme so far, and the cultural contexts you have experienced. This will provide a basis for learning from differences and developing leadership.
This course looks at how organisations use information systems to add value. students will learn how information systems have moved from day-to-day support activities to playing a critical role in the strategic direction of an organisation. This course emphasises the need to take a balanced perspective that includes business, technology and people's views, as well as the global view necessary in a modern international setting.
This course consists of taught sessions on business research methods and a set of activities to support you while you develop your project. The teaching programme helps you choose a business problem, a conceptual framework, a method of investigation and a way of collecting and analysing data. It will also teach students how to make policy recommendations and write a business management report.
This course is offers a unique combination of major contemporary theoretical and empirical developments. There is a substantial quantitative element in this module, and students will refresh their knowledge of maths and statistics knowledge. Students will work on a real-life case study and collect data from the Datastream and other sources.
This course aims to provide you with a solid grounding in the theory and practice of project management. You will focus on the technical and commercial knowledge and skills necessary to manage projects within time and budget constraints and to a desired quality.
This course provides an understanding of the main principles of programming language implementation, as well as first hand experience of the application of those principles. The course describes how compilers analyse source programmes, how they translate them to target programmes, and what tools are available to support these tasks. Topics covered include compiler structures; lexical analysis; syntax analysis; semantic analysis; intermediate representations of programmes; code generation; and optimisation.
This course is concerned with the issues and decisions that the entrepreneur must consider in successfully managing the growth and development of new SMEs. The course is designed to cover four broad and interrelated issues: a) the process of business growth of SMEs, b) barriers to business growth of SMEs; c) internal strategies for the growth of SMEs, and d) external strategies for the growth of SMEs. The course will draw on materials from the literature on entrepreneurship to provide a basis for a critical understanding of the concepts and strategies for entrepreneurial venture growth and development.
This course will address these questions by teaching students critical thinking and data analysis skills. After completing this subject students will understand the basic principles of sampling and experimental design, how the results of statistical analyses are reported, the statistical thinking behind common statistical procedures and will be able to carry out a range of standard statistical techniques.
What you need to apply for this course
We advise that candidates apply for the CeIR MBA as soon as possible – it can take longer than you think to get organised to start your MBA. We accept admissions throughout the year, so you can join the next available group of students when you are ready. The CeIR MBA is a generalist course that is offered online (executive) programme. Our specific MBA admissions criteria reflect the fact that students on the programmes often have different academic and business backgrounds.
Specific MBA admissions criteria
Committing to an MBA is an enormous, life-changing decision. We want your experience on the CeIR MBA to be challenging, enjoyable and rewarding, so making sure we select both the right students and the right mix of students is extremely important. We use a set of admissions criteria to determine if a student is ready to take on an MBA. The criteria help us to make sure that you can successfully complete the MBA, and that each cohort of students will work together successfully as a team.
How to Apply
All programs require submitting an online application with all supporting materials. Only applications received that are complete and paid, will be routed to the Office of the Business Graduate Studies (OBGS) for processing. All items listed above must be submitted electronically with the online application.
Do not mail any supporting materials to the office of the Business Graduate Studies. Documents submitted to CeIR will not be returned to the student.
1. Complete an Online Application
2. Application processing fee (Non-refundable)
3. Statement of Purpose
- Submit essay length of approximately 500 words.
- Explain why our program is the right fit for your academic/career goals.
- List research topic areas and the faculty with whom you would like to work.
- Describe any experience doing research and courses or projects that you have been involved with to show your preparation.
4. Transcripts
- Electronically submit a copy of the official transcript(s) from each previous undergraduate or graduate institution that you have attended via the online application under the "additional upload" section. All pages from one or more transcripts should be combined into a single .pdf document.
5. Three letters of recommendation
- Register your recommenders email for online submission when you apply.
- Submit references from academic faculty, including at least some in informatics and computing.
- If you have experience as a teaching assistant, a letter from your teaching supervisor attesting to your teaching could help your application for aid.
6. Resume or Curriculum Vitae
- Submit with your online application. Please make sure to include any awards or publications on your cv/resume.
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