The document summarizes an MBA program offered by Vlerick Business School. The MBA program provides students with practical business skills through case studies, exercises, and interactions with faculty and other students. It is aimed at professionals with a minimum of three years work experience who want to boost their career into management. Graduates of the MBA program will be awarded a university degree and gain management skills to take on greater challenges and responsibilities.

1. Improve your strategic leadership
Master of Business
Administration
Give your future a boost with a Master of Business For whom?
Administration degree. It’s true, if you have an MBA, your
career is bound to follow an upward curve: from a specialist • You have a university degree.
to a high-level manager. Are you ready to make that leap? • You have a minimum of three years of work experience.
Through this programme, you will acquire the necessary • You passed the Vlerick entry test.
business skills to develop into a manager capable of
achieving success after success. Added value for you and your company
Worth knowing: if you complete an MBA programme, you • You will have the professional skills to take on a
will be awarded a degree at university level. management function within your company.
• You will give your career a boost. Now and later.
• You will be able to take on a difficult challenge, both
personally and intellectually.
• You will use management skills that you have thoroughly
refined and improved.
Higher level
" Even after 15 years of experience in a law firm, my
experience at Vlerick did provide me with great insight
into the way business operates. Because of this, I am now
in a somewhat better position to respond to the needs of
my business customers. Furthermore, I now have a better
understanding of the world, from an international and an
intellectual perspective. This programme has taken my
international focus to a higher level. “
Michael Verstraeten – Part-time MBA 2008, Lawyer

2. Programme design Meet your faculty
You will be amazed by our keenness for practice. Departing from well founded Your time is precious. The programme
theory, we illustrate it with practice-based examples, case studies and exercises. therefore features only the very best
In addition to the knowledge imparted by top-level faculty, you will learn a lecturers who draw from their rich
great deal from the other participants through interactive discussions and experience in their field of expertise.
brainstorming sessions. Their strong academic foundation allows
them to establish valid connections
You will be able to choose from a number of formats, thus creating a unique with practical applications. Both Vlerick
learning package most suited to your needs. faculty members and lecturers from other
business schools invite you to join them
on an international journey of discovery.
You can get acquainted with our entire
faculty in our comprehensive brochure on
this programme (www.vlerick.com/mba).
Full-time MBA Executive MBA MBa-FSI
Exploration of all
Exploration of all management functions necessary to manage and management functions
lead companies (operations, marketing, strategy, HR, ...), with an with special notice
objective
emphasis on management skills and the integration of the various throughout for the
management functions. financial service
industry.
Potential (non-executive)
directors of insurance
holdings, banks, pension
Target High-potential executives holding a Bachelor or Master degree and
funds, investment
group with a minimum of three years of professional experience.
companies and other
financial service
institutions.
Language English English
Two years
(Monday 7 pm - 18 months 18 months (6 residential
One year
format 10.30 pm (2 days a week, modules of two weeks
full-time
Tuesday 2.30 pm - three-weekly) each)
10.30 pm)
Belgium China
Ghent
venue Leuven Brussels Switzerland USA
Leuven
Canada Mexico
Fee & info www.vlerick.com/mba www.mba-fsi.com
admission Entry test Entry test

3. PRACTICAL INFO
Registration
Executive General Management MBA programmes
Register online at Register online at
www.vlerick.com/generalmanagement www.vlerick.com/mba
We want to be sure that you are choosing the Ready to join us?
programme that best suits your wishes and profile. The entry test is mandatory, but it
This is why we kindly ask you to fill out a motivation guarantees that all participants strive
form first. Please send it in; we will then contact you to for excellence.
conduct an interview by telephone or in person.
Your certificate Your degree
One good turn deserves another. You are an active You are entitled to an MBA degree if you
participant? Well, then, you are entitled to a certificate succeed for the examinations and your final
from Vlerick Business School. project.
Our team is here for you Our team is here for you
Sihame Ghaddab
Hannelore Waterschoot Recruitment & Admissions Manager
Group Product Manager MBA
T: + 32 9 210 97 30 T: + 32 9 210 98 28
hannelore.waterschoot@vlerick.com sihame.ghaddab@vlerick.com
Rian De Bruycker
Programme Advisor Financial benefits for you?
T: + 32 9 210 98 84
rian.debruycker@vlerick.com • Only for General Management programmes:
10% special reduction for paying members of
Vlerick Alumni.
• Only for MBA degrees: loans and grants
(www.vlerick.com/mba).
• SME portfolio: subsidies for Flemish SMEs.
• Vlerick Social Profit Grants for organisations active in
the social profit sector.
Find more info on www.vlerick.com/benefits
Vlerick Alumni
If you successfully complete a long-term
General Management Programme or an
MBA degree programme, you can join
the Vlerick Alumni Network, a worldwide
network of over 16,000 alumni in over 100
countries.