Master of Business Administration | MBA
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Application until 31.07.2024: -5% Summer Special*
Application until 31.07.2024: -5% Summer Special**regular tuition fee minus 5%
"Elevate your personal and professional growth with our MBA in International Management, where you'll gain unparalleled leadership skills and cross-cultural competencies, setting you apart in the global business arena." Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kurt Matzler, Academic Director
The Master-Program MBA International Management is a two-year in-depth management training course with an international focus and practice-oriented learning for entrepreneurs, technicians, engineers, medical doctors and members of other professional groups who already perform management tasks or want to prepare themselves for management tasks. The curriculum developed by MCI | The Entrepreneurial School® allows internationalisation at renowned partner universities and is one of the most flexible continuing education programmes in the German-speaking world thanks to its modular structure.
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The Master-Program provides a general business administration and management education for (future) executives with an international focus.Participants acquire all the skills and knowledge necessary to operate in a complex and competitive environment, to identify opportunities and to translate them into goals and concrete tasks in their companies and teams and to implement them successfully. This internationally program is a mostly face-to-face attendance program that promotes the exchange and networking of participants with each other and with the lecturers. The contents are constantly transferred to the students' own professional practice and is deepened through project work, reviews and the scientifically based Final Thesis / Master Thesis.
The four-semester program is structured as follows:
Stage I: Professional SkillsDevelopment of skills and competences that go beyond specialist and technical knowledge.
Stage II: General Management General business administration and management training
Stage III: Internationalisation in Management Internationalisation at renowned partner universities
Stage VI: Management, Psychology & Leadership In this stage, the scientific examination of selected questions of economic and organizational psychology against a human scientific or systemic-constructivist background is deepened and the personal reflection of the participants own leadership role is placed at the centre.
Stage V: Development of the Master Thesis
Academically supervised Master ThesisScientific work & reflectionThesis defense before committee
Program Director
Mag. Susanne E. Herzog
MCI Head of Executive Education & Development
Academic Director
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kurt Matzler
Professor for Strategic Management at the University of Innsbruck / Tyrol
Mag. (FH) Martina Kohlberger, PhD
MCI Lector Department of Economics & Management, Innsbruck / Tyrol
Univ.-Prof. FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Franz Pegger
Lawyer and partner in the law firm Greiter, Pegger, Kofler & Partner, Innsbruck / Tyrol
FH-Prof. Mag. Hubert J. Siller
MCI Head of Department & Study Programmes Tourism & Leisure Management and Entrepreneurship & Tourism, Innsbruck / Tyrol
PD Dr. Jürgen Kaschube
Business Psychologist, Owner of a Management Consultancy, Salzburg / Austria
FH-Prof. Dr. Markus Kittler
MCI Lector Department of Management & Law, Innsbruck / Tyrol
FH-Prof. Dr. Siegfried Walch
MCI Head of Department & Study Programme Nonprofit, Social & Health Management, Innsbruck / Tyrol
Assoz. FH-Prof. Dr. Kristina Kleinlercher
MCI Lecture Department of Economics & Management, Innsbruck / Tyrol
PD FH-Prof. Dr. Bernd Ebersberger
Head of the Chair of Innovation Management, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart / Germany
Dr. Reinhold Bartl
Psychologist, independent Consultant, Coach and Speaker, Director of the Milton Erickson Institute Innsbruck / Tyrol
The Master-Program relies on a modular structure in five stages: The combination of Professional Skills, Certificate-Courses, Electives at renowned partner universities and a scientifically supervised Master Thesis leads to an academic degree at postgraduate level.
The contents and structure of the program are tailored to the specific expectations and needs of high-level executives and decision-makers. Intensive modules over the course of several days (typically Thursday or Friday to Saturday) alternate with application phases in which the newly gained knowledge can put into practice. The upshot is the final transfer of the acquired knowledge into one’s own professional practice taking place.
In order to ensure the transfer of learning and to enable students to develop relevant competencies, the MCI has defined cross-curricular learning goals. These goals and objectives describe, in detail, the knowledge and skills acquired by our graduates on completion of their studies at MCI.
Responsible Leadership
Inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, our graduates demonstrate a commitment to ecologically sustainable, economically responsible, and socially equitable decision-making.
Academic Rigor
Our graduates can apply relevant theories and appropriate scientific methods in their field of work.
In its organizational form as an online master study program, the MCI pursues a blended learning concept that combines synchronous and asynchronous online phases with regular attendance phases.
The target group of the Master-Program are entrepreneurs as well as managers and decision-makers who wish to qualify for higher management positions. Admission to the Master-Program requires at least five to eight years qualified professional experience. Due to the structure of its content, the program is suitable both for graduates of economics and for people with limited knowledge in business administration, such as engineers and doctors.
The program represents an interesting perspective for the following target groups:
In general, people with the following qualifications are admitted to the course
*Outstanding professional experience may make an application possible in exceptional cases.
The admission procedure provides for the following elements:
Online applicationThe application must be submitted in the form of a standardized online-application accompanied by the required documents (curriculum vitae, essay on medium-term career goals). An academic degree and minimum five to eight years of professional experience in a qualified position prior to commencement of the program (ideally, qualified professional activity during the Master program itself) are required.
Personal interviewThe interview gives applicants the opportunity to present themselves personally, to narrate their career history, to explain their motivation for applying to this program as well as to describe their medium-term professional goals.
InstanceAn admission committee reaches the final decision on the applicant’s admission to the Master program.
The focus of the Master-Program on business administration, management, leadership and leadership psychology qualifies graduates for senior management positions with team responsibility.
Graduates are offered opportunities in all sectors and companies that are oriented towards the market economy, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and medium-sized industrial companies. The concrete field of application correlates with the chosen specialization in the program.