
Master of Business Administration
Introduction
The MBA Programme is an advanced business education which provides learning experience that incorporates functional areas in accounting, finance, marketing, and management to become effective managers and leaders of business organizations in a globally competitive and complex business environment.
Programme Educational Objectives
Professional competency
Practice effectively as management professionals by demonstrating competency in the key business functional areas and applying critical thinking, analysis and problem-solving skills to develop, implement, and evaluate solutions in complex business and economic problems requiring interdisciplinary and global perspectives;
High ethical standards
Promote high ethical standards and professionalism by evaluating the moral, social, and environmental implications of managerial decisions and understanding the relationship between business organizations and other societal institutions.
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes
Advanced knowledge
Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills in the practical and logical foundations of informatics and the business functional areas and their processes.
Critical understanding
Demonstrate critical knowledge and understanding of the different information systems in business organizations, their concepts, principles, frameworks, models, design and development tools, requirements, methodologies, and standards.
Advanced specialist skills
Use advanced and some specialist level skills to develop and design information systems and adapt suitable business applications for management decision making and in meeting business needs.
Formulating the best solutions
Use a range of approaches to critically analyze, evaluate, and synthesize data and information in formulating solutions to business problems and issues.
Best practices
Utilize specialist-level skills in dealing with complex business situations and problems through IT projects, research, and in benchmarking organizational best practices in improving and innovate business processes, operations, and organizational systems.
Information evaluation
Apply a range of approaches to critically analyze and evaluate information systems and applications and business models to identify, define, and interpret situations and implement relevant solutions.
Effective communication
Communicate clearly, effectively, and successfully with peers, colleagues, and specialists in conveying and presenting complex information, ideas, and projects with the use of appropriate tools, techniques, and technology.
Promote professional ethics
Operate and function effectively as an individual or member/leader of a team or organization with the value of recognizing the need for responsibility and engagement in life-long learning; and promote ethical and professional behavior in organizations and society.
Programme Specification
Degree Facts
- Graduate students will gain a wide range of high-order thinking skills and transferable skills relevant to business administration, employability and personal development.
- The duration of the programme is two (2) years.
- The medium of instruction in all courses is English.
- The number of credits required to graduate is 42 units.

Careers Opportunities
The graduates of the MBA programme can pursue a career as business development manager, business analyst/specialist, HR manager, bank and finance managers, financial advisers, risk and project managers, operations manager or managing their own business as entrepreneurs. In addition, the programme can lead graduates for postgraduate degrees in business and management such as PhD or DBA.
Fee Structure:
BHD 25.000 (non-refundable, payable one time)
BHD 50.000 (non-refundable, payable every term)
BHD 30.000 (non-refundable, payable per term)
BHD 90.125 PER CREDIT UNIT
BHD 750.000 (non-refundable and paid upon registration of the thesis course)
BHD 150.000 (non-refundable, payable one time)