Master in Business Administration

The ideal candidate of our MBA is a young graduate with at least 2/3 years of work experience.

We do not consider only your college performance and your professional skills, but also your vision and ambitions, your motivations and objectives.

The MBA is open to graduates of all disciplines. The perfect MBA class is based on diversity: we are looking for different educational and professional backgrounds, nationalities, culture and personal experiences and goals.

The MBA program is particularly suitable for people who want to enhance economic and managerial skills and aspire to improve their value in the job market or step up in their career path.

Our admission team usually organizes online interviews to understand your objectives and ambitions.

The MBA is a 12-month full time programme covering a full range of general management issues. It will run from January to December 2013 and it will involve two types of activities:

• 48 Credits: Lectures – to be held in Pisa. Some specific courses may be held in other host foreign institutions;

• 12 Credits: Project Work - The Master Thesis can be either a research project or a case study. It can also be developed through an opportunity of internship for some qualified students.

• Team-building and personal development (1 week)

• Introduction to management (1 week)

• Financial reporting and analysis (2 weeks)

• Marketing principles (1 week)

• Organizational behaviour and human capital (2 weeks)

• Corporate finance (2 weeks)

• Financial markets (1 week)

• Supply chain management (1 week)

• Cost management (1 week)

• Budgeting and management reporting (2 weeks)

• Marketing management (2 weeks)

• Auditing (1 week)

• Corporate governance (2 weeks)

• Strategy (2 weeks)

• Entrepreneurship & Family Business (2 weeks)

• Doing business in emerging economies (2 weeks)

• MASTER GAME - Entrepreneurship/Strategy/Innovation (January - June)

• Laurea breve

Esperienza Professionale: 1 - 3 anni

Criteri di valutazione delle candidature:

• Colloquio individuale motivazionale
• Test e/o colloquio di lingua
• Valutazione del cv

The selection process starts on 27th February 2012 and ends in October 2012.
The two-step selection process usually lasts 4 weeks after all documents are received. The first step is a pre-selection on the basis of the documents sent. If the Prospective Student is considered suitable, a second step is carried out with an interview with the Admission Committee.   These are the deadlines:
1. First deadline: 30th June
2. Second deadline: 30th September
3. Third (and last) deadline: 30th October
  Applications are examined on a rolling basis, the last deadline is October 30th 2012. Due to the high number of applications, applications received earlier have a greater chance to be admitted.

The tuition fee is EUR 8.000. Tuition fee includes: - all teaching materials; - the use of desktop PCs; - access to the University of Pisa Libraries; - access to the University of Pisa Canteen; - Italian courses for foreigners.

The tuition fee applied is the highest amount authorized  by regulations of the University of Pisa, whose non-profit policy is to encourage participation to its undergraduate and post-graduate programmes.
All applicants benefit from the University of Pisa’s student policy.

• Accesso internet e/o wifi
• Alloggio/Campus/Altra sistemazione
• Biblioteca
• Buoni pasto
• Corsi di lingua
• Facilitazioni partecipazione a convegni/workshop
• Laboratori
• Mensa

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