Management Enhancement

A range of specialisation and management enhancement opportunities allow you to customise your MBA and add areas of specialisation. This phase, which makes out approximately 10% of the USB MBA, consists of the following:

  • Electives: These include the USB electives (a list of about 30 topics from which to choose), USB-ED programmes and electives presented on the international study tour.
  • Field work: This includes consultation, internships and action learning projects.
  • International exchange opportunities: Students can complete part of their studies at the USB's overseas partner schools.
  • Research report: This phase also includes the finalisation of the research report.

Electives

In addition to the core subjects, students have to do three electives in their final year. The electives vary from year to year, depending on the subjects chosen by students and the availability of lecturers. The following electives have been offered recently:

  • Applied Change Leadership
  • Breakthrough Start-up Entrepreneurship
  • Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment
  • Business Forecasting
  • Business Strategy for China
  • Business Strategy in Emerging Market Economies
  • Coaching for Alignment
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Derivative Instruments
  • Doing Business in Africa
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Enterprise Risk Management
  • Environmental Finance
  • Global Business Strategy
  • Globalisation: Opportunities, Risks and Challenges
  • International Marketing
  • International Finance
  • Leading and Managing Customer Service Excellence
  • Logistics in the Supply Chain
  • Management Consulting
  • Managing Knowledge for Strategic Effectiveness
  • Marketing Metrics
  • Portfolio Management
  • Project Management
  • Strategic Retail Marketing
  • Strategic Social Media Marketing
  • Strategies for Non-profit Organisations and NGOs
  • Sustainable Enterprise
  • Wine Marketing

"Electives, international study tour, field work,
exchange studies, research report and more"

Research report

The research report builds on the Research Methodology module. Concurrent to the MBA programme, students will write a comprehensive research report of 60 - 120 pages on a business or management-related problem. The research report is usually finalised after completion of the lecture programme.

These reports are practice-oriented and may be based on the student’s working environment, thus benefiting the employer and student. Research approaches may include case studies, feasibility/business plans, marketing plans, strategic plans, econometric research, exploratory studies and studies based on surveys and/or interviews.

Further information

 PDF of comprehensive MBA brochure in English [Read / Download]
 PDF of comprehensive MBA brochure in English [Print]

 PDF of comprehensive MBA brochure in Afrikaans [Read / Download]
 PDF of comprehensive MBA brochure in Afrikaans [Print]

The USB reserves the right to modify the contents of subjects and to combine subject matter for better integration of learning areas. This is in the interest of continuous improvement of the curriculum.