Executive Business Administration (EMBA) - 1 Year

The Executive Business Administration Master's Program is designed for professionals with managerial experience in the field of business who want to develop team management and interpersonal skills, form and refine a systems vision, master decision-making ways and supporting mechanisms, and develop into a global manager who thinks strategically, develops sustainable solutions needed to overcome organizational challenges and contributes to the viability of own organization.
The duration of the program is one year, and it includes subjects of at least 60 credits. The subjects include obligatory as well as elective components. If desired, the student can additionally choose from basic subjects, in which case an individual study plan will be created.
It is essential that the student is ready to carry out a project/practical task within each course, share it with the course management team, receive appropriate advice from them and submit a self-reflection and further development plan after completing the course.
Each course has a designated work team, which is responsible for the provision of materials to the individual needs of the student, practical advice for skill development and the planning of work and the process of assessment of course assignments. This team consists of experts and mentors with a clearly defined function in the program.
The lecturer of the course is the facilitator of the work team, who is the planner and implementer of theoretical and practical work, and each course has an expert and a mentor depending on the specifics of the blocks and stages within the course. The expert shares the best practices, challenges and mistakes with the students and is ready to give specific expert advice to the student during the project implementation stage.
The mentor is highly involved in the teaching process, as a result of appropriate training, he helps the student in his personal and professional development. For the practitioners involved in the program, who will play the role of a mentor, a coaching master class will be held at the beginning of each semester, where they will have the opportunity to once again deepen the modern psycho-technologies of potential discovery and development, the professional ethics and code of standards of the coach and mentor, and the design of action in the process and the elements necessary for growth. As a result of the mentioned master class, mentors will get to know in depth the format of mentor work, techniques and ethical norms associated with it; they will be able to adapt the latest methods to specific learning goals and help students in the process of personal and career development through the sharing of experience.

The duration of the master’s Program in Executive Business Administration is 1 academic years (2 semesters) and implies the accumulation of 60 ECTS, which equals to 1500 hours. Each credit (ECTS) equals to the learning activity of a student (student workload) of 25 hours and includes both – contact and independent hours. The distribution of credits among the different study components should be based on a realistic assessment of the study load of a student with average academic achievements that are required to achieve the learning outcomes and goals set for each component. When calculating the credit, the time determined for the additional exam (preparation, passing, evaluation) as well as the consultation time with the person implementing the component of the educational programme should not be taken into account. The full workload of an academic year includes 60 (ECTS). During the academic (spring and autumn) semester the student must cover on average 30 credits. Taking into account the features of the higher education programme and/or the student's individual curriculum, it is allowed for the student's study load to exceed 60 credits or be less than 60 credits during one academic year. It is not allowed for a student's study load to exceed 75 (ECTS) credits in one academic year. An academic week is a period of time over which the study load of a student with average academic achievement is distributed and includes a combination of activities to be performed during both contact and independent hours. A semester is a period of time that includes a combination of academic weeks, a period of conducting an exam/additional exam and evaluation of student’s learning outcomes. The program is regarded as completed, when the student accumulates at least 60 ECTS, which implies the fulfilment of the basic, elective and free components of the field determined under the program.

The Executive Business Administration program is designed for experienced professionals and managers who want to strengthen systems thinking, interpersonal leadership, conceptual management, and strategic decision-making.

Graduates can pursue managerial advancement across private and public organizations in roles such as general manager, development manager, process or product development manager, warehouse or operations manager, project manager, marketing manager, and sales manager.

Potential employers include the university's partner organizations, business companies, banks, public-sector bodies, educational institutions, and international companies.

Program offered within Georgian National University SEU's authorized higher-education framework. Applicants should verify the current program-level accreditation status and any profession-specific recognition with the university and relevant regulator.