Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Business School announces MBA Block Release Programme in Cape Town

Cape Town, 19 September 2013 – Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Business School announced this week that its MBA block release programme will be available in Cape Town from 2014.

Last night, the business school of NMMU, opened its Western Cape application and recruitment drive at the launch of the Cape Town MBA block release programme in Mouille Point. The event was attended by prospective MBA students, NMMU alumni and Cape Town-based private and public sector HR, training and skills development stakeholders.

The three-year part-time MBA programme will be presented on block release format next year from Port Elizabeth to the Bellville Business Park in Cape Town’s northern suburbs. This study option entails a mix of live video conferencing lecture sessions every second Saturday, visits by the school’s faculty at the Cape Town delivery point and trimester study visits to the school’s brand new R120 million training and education facility in Summerstrand, South Africa’s first “green built” business school.

While MBA programme study fees often exceed the R150 000 mark in the Western Cape, tuition fees for NMMU Business School’s MBA comes in at R96 000, offering prospective students a value- for- money and more affordable study option backed by local and international memberships, affiliations and accreditations.

Professor Kobus Jonker, Director of the Graduate School at NMMU Business School says: “Students can expect cutting-edge lectures in business management and leadership from acknowledged leaders in MBA teaching, supervision and support. The curriculum traverses management and business administration subjects such as leadership, international management, marketing, HR, economics, financial management, operations and research methodology.”

“NMMU Business School is a national and internationally respected education partner with proven academic quality, client service and research. We are embedded in global trends and discourse, but remain alive to the African emerging markets context.”

Last week, NMMU Business School became only the second business school on the African continent to be admitted as a member of the prestigious European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA).

Commenting on this, NMMU Business School Director Prof Steve Burgess said that the international recognition by EDAMBA is an important milestone for the dynamic school.

“EDAMBA helps participating schools improve doctoral education by promoting research cooperation among an exclusive network that includes some of the world’s most respected business schools, such as Cranfield, Insead, Aarhus, ESADE , Grenoble and Warwick, among others.

The school’s memberships, accreditations and affiliations include the Council on Higher Education (CHE), South African Business School Association (SABSA), African Association of Business Schools (AABS), Eduniversal and EDAMBA.

Recent surveys and rankings acknowledged NMMU Business School for the quality and standard of its curriculum and lecturers and for its best-value-for-money return on MBA study investment. On the international front, the NMMU MBA is ranked among the top 200 on the prestigious EDUNIVERSAL worldwide MBA rankings.