MBA Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods
Alma Graduate School
Università di Bologna
The MBA Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods is a challenging, intensive 12-month full-time international program taught entirely in English.
This MBA Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods is designed to enhance management knowledge and skills together with competences specific to the sector. The program offers a unique opportunity to blend theory with experience and provides students a high quality mix of analytical, creative, and problem-solving skills required to succeed in the design, fashion, and luxury goods business world.
The curriculum of the MBA Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods is divided into two main parts: General Management (MBA core courses) and a Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods concentration, designed to provide an opportunity for specialization and in-depth focus on both traditional and cutting-edge issues in the design, fashion, and luxury goods world.
Alma Graduate School, together with leading companies and managers of the sector, will provide participants with a first-hand full immersion in the design, fashion, and luxury goods world. Open discussions and meetings with professionals from the sector will also give students an opportunity to discuss specific issues, and learn from actual testimonies and experiences of the real business world. Students will also achieve a considerable first-hand experience by participating in other curricular activities, such as: field trips, in-company day visits, wine and food tasting, and more.Other program features are: internships, career development activities, and Business English classes. Intensive Italian lessons are offered free of charge to international participants who wish to improve their language skills during their stay in Italy. Italian classes are scheduled in September, prior to the beginning of the MBA activities.
Internship and Career
Creating employability is one of the primary goals of the MBA Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods program. Therefore, interaction between theory and practice is an essential part of the curriculum: master lectures, testimonials, analysis of business cases, and in-company visits will take place throughout the year and will go side by side the core academic courses.
The program also includes a 500-hour internship scheduled in the last period of the program (June - September). The internship will take place at some of the leading companies of the design, fashion, and luxury goods sector of the region. The internship represents an opportunity for MBA participants to analyze real company problems, develop strategies, and elaborate action plans together with upper level managers.
Corporate contacts established during the year, together with the internship opportunity to prove their worth to potential employers and within a real working sector, will give MBA participants a considerable competitive edge over the ever present competition.
Alma's partners have been involved in our academic activities over the years in many different ways: participating in project workshops, master lectures, and testimonials, offering scholarships, hosting our student internships, or employing our alumni.Program Highlights
| Course Format | |
|---|---|
| Course level | postgraduate |
| Course modus | full time |
| Course type | taught |
| Course language | English |
| Course Major | |
| Specialisation | Business Administration |
| Sub-specialisation | General, design, fashion, luxury goods |
| Awards and Credits | |
| Degree awarded | yes |
| Award type | Master's degree |
| Degree 1 awarded | MBA |
| Location | Italy |
| Dual degrees | no |
| ECTS credits | 66 |
| Course Duration | |
| Years | 1.0 |
| Course Location | |
| Bologna | |
| Emilia-Romagna | |
| Italy | |
| Study Method | |
| Lectures | yes |
| Study blocks | n.a. |
| Case-study method | yes |
| Course Fee | |
| Local students | € 27000 |
| Funding | |
| Scholarships | numerous full and partial scholarships |
| Course Start | |
| Course start date(s) | September 2012 |
| October 2012 (MBA activities) | |
| September 2012 (Italian course – Icebreaking week) | |
| Accreditation | |
| Course Accreditation(s) | EFMD |
| ASFOR | |
| Entry Requirements | |
| IMPORTANT. Students possessing a degree obtained abroad must submit a recognition of their qualification for the purposes of admission to the program issued by the competent Italian Diplomatic Representation. | |
| GMAT | no |
| Language test | English proficiency |
| TOEFL | yes |
| Min. score | The TOEFL is required of all candidates whose native language is not English. The IELTS is acceptable as an alternative. Waivers may apply. There is no minimum TOEFL score required. |
| IELTS | n.a. |
| Min. score | The IELTS is acceptable as an alternative. There is no minimum TOEFL/IELTS score required. |
| Academic degree | yes |
| Undergraduate degree | |
| GPA | no |
| Work experience | yes |
| Years | 2 |
| 2+ years of qualified work experience | |
| Interview | yes |
| References | yes |
| Application Fee | |
| Application deadline(s) | April 2nd |
| July 2nd | |
Alma Graduate School
Università di Bologna
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