Master of Business Administration

Management Theory + Business Cases, Challenges, and Skills

Focus on the foundations of Financial, Human Resource, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management; combine with courses from our contemporary Global, Digital, Sustainable, and Social Business clusters; choose additional courses from among shared electives; improve your business skills throughout the program; and bring it all together in a Business Plan or Business Project.

Everyone’s professional career is different, and we’ve always believed that your academic career can be too. You will be the one customizing your program based on your previous studies, current interests, and future ambitions. You will also attempt courses with students from other programs and concentrations through shared electives. Our program is modeled after our academic partner’s long-standing MBA program, through which it is also validated. We’ve made it our own and refined it for young metropolitan professionals such as yourself.

• 60-credit and professionally-oriented Master's program for Bachelor-qualified recent graduates and young professionals with or without work experience
• Private Master of Business Administration (UIBS), programmatically accredited by ACBSP & ECBE + Metropolitan Graduate Degree in Business Administration
• 9 to 12 months full-time, or 12 to 36 months part-time, with 8 starting dates per year
• English as the language of instruction at our campus in downtown Amsterdam

Starting dates

Our academic calendar is based on a quarter system with four 10-week quarters per year that consist of two 5-week terms each. We refer to these quarters as Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer, and to these terms simply as A and B. Our program’s flexible structure and modular design allow you to optimally plan your studies and choose from multiple starting dates in October, November, January, February, April, May, July, and August.

Dedicated to cross-cultural education with a global perspective, we help future managers achieve their full potential, with the right program and guidance every step of the way.

Flexible study programs

Our flexible study programs are based on the American model of higher education, allowing students to choose their courses based on program requirements, previous studies, current interests, and future ambitions.

Multiple starting dates

Students can choose between multiple starting dates in the fall, winter, spring, and summer of each academic year. Our modular course design and program structure allow for optimal further education planning.

Professionally experienced faculty

Academically qualified and professionally experienced professors link theory and practice by bringing contemporary case studies into the classroom, preparing students as the global leaders of the future.

Global study destinations

Students can spend one or more quarters abroad with UIBS. All partner campuses offer similar study programs and follow similar program structures so that students can experience an interruption-free education.