Executive MBA in Supply Chain Management

Organisation:: ETH Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
City, Region, Country:: Zürich, Switzerland, Zurich area, www.mba-scm.org/
Typ:: Part-time
Certificate:: Master MBA
Duration:: 3 Semester/s

Master MBA, Executive MBA in Supply Chain Management - Das Studium

Master Programme Executive MBA in Supply Chain Management

This 18-month program starts in September every year. It combines broad education in general management and leadership with in-depth studies in international supply chain management. It consists of the following four blocks (sets of modules):

General Management

Global Economy

Supply Chain Management

Master Thesis

This program will teach the students the skills for:
Mastering Business Operations in the Global Economy.

The ETH Zurich cooperates with the Forum-SCM for the design of the curriculum, the selection of lecturers and the organization of study trips and company visits. The Forum-SCM is an association of globally focused companies in industry, trade, logistics and consulting services.

This program has EFMD/EPAS accreditation.

This program is for part-time study, so that students can continue to work in their organizations. Total duration is 18 months. During the first 12 months, lectures are held in Zurich (usually twice a month, from Thursday morning to Sunday afternoon) and study trips are made to Russia, the USA and Asia. The last six months are dedicated to the Master Thesis.

Prof. Dr. Stephan M. Wagner
Chair of Logistics management

Target audience

Students are typically members of middle or senior management in an industrial, trading, logistics or consulting company. It is their aim to acquire the necessary theoretical knowledge and practical skills enabling them

to successfully manage an international business;

to design global supply chain strategies for sustainable competitive advantage;

to cooperate effectively with business partners in multiple countries;

to improve market responsiveness and cost efficiency of complex supply chains.

Master MBA, Executive MBA in Supply Chain Management - Target audience

Emphases/Curriculum

A unique combination of general management studies plus in-depth focus on international supply chain management

Executive level instruction to prepare for future leadership roles

A fully English-medium program - in the global business language

Part-time attendance on-campus in Zurich enables executives to remain on the job for the duration of the 18-month program

Core lectures are on-campus in Zurich, Switzerland, complemented by onsite study modules in Russia, the USA, and Asia

Regular VIP speakers, usually European executives, provide dialogues on current topics in their industries

A thesis project requires that learnings be applied to an actual problem in the student’s own company

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University degree (Master, or Bachelor with excellent marks) Five years of work experience Management experience Proficient in business English Assessment interview with the admissions committee The number of students per class (year) is limited to 25. The ETH Zurich reserves the right to select students based on their academic, professional and personal merits. Tuition fee: CHF 65’000 (CHF 60’000) for early registration by end January Payment terms: In two installments; first installment of CHF 32’500 (CHF 27’500) in October; second installment of CHF 32’500 in the following April Included: Lecture sessions, course materials, examination fees, accommodation, half- board and local transportation in the USA and Asia Not included: All flights, transportation and accommodation in Europe

Languages
Language(s) of instruction:	English
Going abroad:	obligatory

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ETH Zurich.
The ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is one of the leading universities of the world in natural sciences, engineering, architecture and business economics. In the World University Rankings 2008, published by “U.S. News & World Report”, the ETH Zurich holds place 7 of all European universities and is the first non-British school. According to Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2009, the ETH Zurich is in position 20 of the top 200 world universities and ranks first on the European continent.

The ETH Zurich comprises almost 100 institutes and laboratories, more than 350 professorships and about 850 lecturers. More than 8,000 faculty and staff members work in teaching, research and administration, and 14,000 students are registered. Each year about 2,400 students and 800 doctoral candidates receive their degree from the ETH Zurich.

The Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC), an academic department of the ETH Zurich, offers this unique Executive MBA program, designed to confer leading-edge knowledge and skills for mastering business operations in the global economy. The D-MTEC is a member of the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development).

The Executive MBA faculty includes more than 20 professors and lecturers, not only from the ETH Zurich but also from other world-renowned universities and schools. They are among the leading academic teachers in their fields.

Among the Partner Universities are:

University of Washington (Seattle)

Tongji University (Shanghai)

Hosei University (Tokyo)

To assure practical relevance, the faculty includes lecturers from industry.

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Studying in Zürich, Switzerland

Each year about 1130 receive an ETH diploma and a further approx 600 complete a doctoral thesis. Current annual expenditure has exceeded one billion Swiss francs.

In its mission statement, the ETH Zurich commits itself to the following principles: to promote and maintain highest quality in teaching and research at a top international level; to support a universal and system-oriented approach; to preserve disciplinary and cultural diversity and academic freedom in teaching and research.

The facts speak for themselves: ETH Zurich has association with 21 Nobel Prize winners who, at the time of their awards, were engaged as professors at ETH Zurich, or had studied or researched there and who received the Nobel Prize in recognition of their individual performance.
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