Capetown University, Graduate School of Business

   
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International name: Capetown University, Graduate School of Business

Description

The Graduate School of Business at UCT offers an exciting suite of programmes to choose from depending on your personal needs and career development plans. Our MBA (full-time and modular), Executive MBA (modular), Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration (modular) and Associate in Management programme (modular), all provide a strong emphasis on personal development and growth, understanding business and leadership in emergent markets and the challenges of transforming organisations. 

The GSB approaches your development by drawing on the rich and diverse experience of our programme participants who come to study at our beautiful waterfront campus in Cape Town from many African countries such as Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Tanzania, Namibia, Zimbabwe and others countries as far as Korea as well as international students from Europe and North America.

CR Integration

The GSB is developing new streams of learning around communication, leadership, entrepreneurship and sustainable development. The School is the only business school in South Africa to make these streams an explicit part of its core curriculum. This enriches the learning experience, helping to ensure that students gain the broadest possible perspective of business.

Affiliations and Partnerships

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European Academy of Business in Society (EABiS), http://www.eabis.org

Address

Capetown University, Graduate School of Business
Breakwater Campus
Portswood Road
Green Point
South Africa

Programs and classes available at Capetown University, Graduate School of Business


Dedicated Research Centres

Centre for Leadership and Public Values
The Southern Africa-United States Centre for Leadership and Public Values is a bi-national partnership between the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Centre plays an important part in developing entrepreneurial talent, capacity, skills and support in both the Western Cape and the rest of South Africa. Numerous outreach programs have been developed to provide opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to interact with highly skilled and energetic MBA students, Business School faculty, business mentors and advisors.
Managing Infrastructure Reform & Regulation
The Management Programme in Infrastructure Reform & Regulation (MIR) strives to be a leading centre of excellence and expertise for Africa and other emerging and developing economies. Based at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, MIR aims at enhancing understanding and building capacity to manage reform and regulation of infrastructure sectors, in support of sustainable development.

Other Initiatives

Emerging Leaders Programme
The key elements of the programme are two focused and concentrated retreats and the relationship established between Fellows and their respective Coaches and Mentors. The retreats explore such themes as ethics and accountability in public life, strategies for personal renewal and African and other paradigms of leadership and their relevance for those working to transform their institutions and communities.
Civil Society Forum
Civil society leaders (including foundation executives) from South Africa and the United States annually come together to share insights on key issues facing the sector in South Africa.

People working for Capetown University, Graduate School of Business

Kurt April | aprilkur@gsb.uct.ac.za | +27 (82) 780 4668