Aims
Excellence, flexibility, and relevance are the aims of the University of the South Pacific's MBA Programme. The Programme is intended for managers, practicing executives, administrators and other professionals. The main aim is to provide them with knowledge and skills to enhance their performance and to enable them to assume broader responsibility in the rapidly changing environment faced by business and government alike.
Structured along the lines of the best MBA programmes worldwide, the USP Programme is also unique in its special focus on the South Pacific business environment. It is highly flexible, permitting both full and part-time study. Along with access to an internationally recognized core of managerial knowledge, the USP Programme offers rich opportunities for students to pursue individual interests.
An Interactive Teaching Philosophy
Classes are interactive and oriented towards problem solving; there is little old-fashioned formal lecturing. Instead of academic subjects taught in isolation from each other, common in run-of-the-mill programmes, at USP, our MBA courses are designed to integrate knowledge to build managers' ability to do complex decision-making under stress. The courses are designed, in other words, to teach what practicing managers have to do.Extensive use of group projects enhances teamwork skills. MBA professors meet regularly to discuss subject coverage and approaches used, strengthening the integrated nature of the overall curriculum.
Each of the core and elective courses takes that international and strategic focus which characterizes the best MBA curricula today. Where relevant, e.g. in the Marketing and Finance courses, elements of economic theory are incorporated. Legal and public policy aspects of Marketing, Finance, Accounting, and Organisational Behaviour are tightly integrated into the core courses.
The South Pacific Business Environment course integrates economic, strategic, and public policy issues relevant to the international community which constitutes the USP membership |
Programme Objectives:
- to build solid foundation skills that will enable USP MBAs to keep acquiring sophisticated new knowledge after they complete the programme;
- to help managers deal with the complexities of doing business in multinational and global environment;
- to equip managers with knowledge, understanding and skills so that they can respond effectively and creatively to the business opportunities and constraints of the South Pacific;
- to help develop greater self-confidence in one's ability to make and to implement decisions.
