Program Schedule
Students are expected to complete the program in 24 months. The MBA for Professionals Bi-Weekly program runs on alternate weekends (both Saturday & Sunday) on the HKUST Clear Water Bay main campus and Shenzhen campus from 9:30am to 6:00pm. Around one third of the classes will take place in Shenzhen, while the rest of the courses will be conducted in Hong Kong.
How you will learn
Varied modes of teaching are employed across different courses, with the aim of helping you maximize your learning from interactive exercises and from your fellow students, faculty members and external guest speakers. Lectures comprise only 30% of the course content; the remainder is dedicated to discussions, simulations, case analyses, seminars, individual and group projects and class presentations. Be prepared for innovative and experiential modes of learning founded on real-life business cases in both an Asia and global business contexts. For all courses, the language of instruction is English.
Core & elective courses
The curriculum is made up of 45 credits. You will obtain about 60% of the credits from the core required courses, and the remaining 40% from elective classes. We provide over 70 elective courses for you to choose from based on your area of interest.
List of Required & Elective Courses
Residential Learning
To enhance the overall learning experience, we provide accomodation during the weekend of your studies on our Hong Kong Campus. You will be staying at the Conference Lodge, our newly built on-campus hospitatliy facility which is located just next to the Business School Building. This will not only make your weekend travels easier, but also facilitate relationship building with your classmates, who will no doubt become lifelong friends and valuable business partners.
Learn more about the Conference Lodge
Learen more about Local Student Allowance
Immersion Program
Your MBA journey begins with a thoughtfully designed orientation program comprised of accelerator courses, personal assessment workshops, leadership training and experiential learning – a self-discovery and transformational step that represents the unique culture of HKUST. Within just a short time, you will acquire sound business knowledge and become well-acquainted with your fellow classmates to ease your transition into the full program.
Introducing the four pillars of our Immersion Experience:
- Academic Tone Setting and Leveling
- Professional Development Preparation
- Camaraderie and Culture Building
- Program Administration and Policy Orientation
Foundation Cores
- Preparing to Lead
- Data Analysis
- Financial Accounting Foundations
- Global Macroeconomics
- Managerial Accounting Foundations
- Managerial Communication
- Managerial Microeconomics
Functional Cores
- Corporate Finance
- Information & Technology Management
- Management of Organizations
- Marketing Strategy & Policy
- Operations Management
Integrated Cores
- Doing Business in China
- Responsible Leadership & Ethics
- Strategic Management
- Time to Lead
Finance
- Strategic Finance and Value Creation
- Equity Investment Management
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Venture Capital and Private Equity
- Hedge Funds
- Big Data in Finance
and more …
Consulting & Strategic Management
- Management Consulting
- Business Modeling
- Enhancing Professional Skills
- Business Simulation and Strategic Decisions
- Technology Consulting
- Big Data Analytics
and more …
Marketing
- Brand Management
- Consumer Psychology: A CHINDIA Focus
- Applied Marketing Research for Managers
- Pricing and Revenue Management in Asia
- The Art of War and Eastern Wisdom in Business Competition
- Digital Marketing Strategy and Analytics
and more …
General Management
- Applied Strategic Thinking
- Effective Negotiations
- Building Effective Teams
- Applied Merger and Acquisition
- China's External Relations and their Economic Impact
- Irrational and Rational Thinking in Management
Entreprenuership
- Startup Financing and Operations
- Technology Entrepreneurship
- Venture Capital Perspective on Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Finance and Family Business
- Social Entrepreneurship & Venture Philanthropy
- Blue Ocean Strategy Innovation
Others
- FinTech – Shaping the Future Financial Landscape
- Sustainable Investing
- Southeast Asia’s Economies in Transition: Bubble, Crisis, and Renewal
- Realizing Value: Ensuring M&A Success in Asia
- Global Business Opportunities in Africa
- Deal Making in China and Asia
and more …
*The courses offered may vary each year due to market trends and professional expertise that the school engages with.
The learning experience at HKUST is unique. You may underestimate the workload for this part-time program at first, but you will find that you learn more than you expect, not only from the textbook or business cases, but also from the real-world learning shared by classmates and professors. You will have a very solid foundation to be a general manager after the core courses, and you will be able to apply your learning in your daily life immediately. Besides gaining hard-skills, I have also been inspired to adopt a new way of thinking by passionate and knowledgeable professors.
Shiyang Qiu Class of 2015 Premier Field Engineer,
Microsoft
