Executive MBA
For experienced leaders with at least 7 years of work experience.
- Courses are normally offered over 4-week modules.
- Most courses count for 3 credit hours each.
- Usually, you will take two 3-credit courses in each module.
- To graduate, you need to successfully complete a total of 72 credit-hours.
- The entire program covers 13-48 months.
- Executive MBA classes are normally scheduled on Friday evenings (18:00 to 21:30) and Saturdays (08:30 to 16:30). There may be occasional make-ups at other times.
Our Skills & Values Module is the beginning of your Sasin journey. These activities give you the opportunity to meet and bond with your classmates and be better prepared for the program. Activities usually include:
- Orientation: includes dinners with prominent CEOs and a hands-on sustainability workshop that focuses on practical applications of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in Southeast Asia and beyond. There is also an alumni panel to advise you on how to make the most of your opportunities at Sasin, and some top business leaders speaking about contemporary business issues.
- Get-Away Visit: with ice-breaking and group forming activities.
The first modules of your program focus primarily on the required courses. These prepare you for the more individually-tailored curriculum of subsequent modules, which will be driven by your desired choice of electives.
The required curriculum emphasizes the deepening and systematization of your management skills. It provides the foundation for your Executive MBA program.
To graduate from the Executive MBA program, you need to successfully complete a total of 72 credit-hours of courses. That’s usually 22 courses. Most courses are 3 credit-hours; one is longer at 9 credit-hours.
This includes the Skills & Values Module representing 9 credit-hours, 9 required courses representing 27 credit-hours, and 12 elective courses representing another 36 credit-hours.
Required courses are:
- Digital Transformation: Disruption, Transformation and New Business Models
- Economics for Decision Makers
- Entrepreneurial Management
- Financial Management
- Financial Reporting Systems
- Leadership in Organizations
- Management and Business Strategy
- Marketing for a Digital Age
- Statistical Models and Managerial Analysis
After completing the Skills & Values Module and initial 9 required courses, you will then complete 12 elective courses. Although electives vary from year to year, they usually include the following.
Accounting
- ACCT S31 Accounting Role in the Organization
- ACCT S32 Forensic Accounting
- FINC S48 Venture Capital Funding
- MGMT S62 Entrepreneurial Management
- MKTG S76 Marketing Analytics
- FINC S41 Corporate Finance
- FINC S42 Managerial Finance
- FINC S48 Venture Capital Funding
- FINC S53 Risk Management for Executives
- FINC S55 Growth through Acquisitions
- FINC S60 Investment Management
- FINC S63 Security Analysis
- FINC S64 Applied Finance in Fixed Income Markets
- FINC S78 Strategic Performance Management
- LAW S30 Business Law
- MORS S35 ROI in Human Capital
- MORS S38 Managing Human Capital in a Global Context
- MORS S452 Management of Organizational Change
- MORS S88 Leadership through Creativity and Innovation
- DECS S50 Decision Analysis
- DECS S51 Judgement and Managerial Decision Making
- MGMT S52 International Strategy and Management
- MGMT S55 Strategic IT Decision Making for Executives
- MGMT S62 Entrepreneurship and New Venture Formulation
- MGMT S64 Creating Business Value through Technology Management
- MGMT S66 Managing Demographic Shift
- MGMT S910 Strategic Crisis Management
- MGMT S93 Culturally Intelligent Leadership
- MECN S41 Industrial Structure and Strategy Formulation
- MECN S46 Pricing Decisions for Managers
- MECN S50 Macroeconomic Models for Management
- MECN S55 The World Economy
- OPNS S30 Operations and Supply Chain Management
- MKTG S465 Managing New Products and Services
- MKTG S50 Market Survey and Research Methodology
- MKTG S52 Consumption and Marketing Management
- MKTG S54 Communicating with Consumers
- MKTG S55 Marketing for a Digital Age
- MKTG S59 Services and Hospitality Marketing Management
- MKTG S64 Managing Brands and Brand Experience
- MKTG S79 Innovation for Future Fitness
- OPNS S50 Analytical
- OPNS S75 Managing Projects for Executives
After you’ve developed your core skill sets, your own interests will drive your learning.
Project-driven courses will allow you to focus on the areas, issues, and industries that directly concern you.
Your choice of project puts you in the driver’s seat. While most courses will require individual assignments, action learning involves frequent study groups and teamwork.
The Executive MBA includes two residential sessions. The first, towards the start of your program, is a weekend team building event held in Thailand.
The second, towards the end of your program, is a required, two-week International Residential at one of Sasin’s leading partner schools outside of Thailand, with selected digital-themed courses covering the latest developments in marketing, operations, finance, and leadership.
During the two-week International Residential, participants complete the equivalent of three Sasin courses, meet other international executives, and participate in site visits.
Through our collaboration with the University of Salzburg Business School (SMBS), Sasin EMBA students and alumni now have the opportunity to participate in a number of optional international modules.
The optional international modules currently include Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia, University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, Fudan University in China, York University and the University of Toronto in Canada.
While Sasin Executive MBA students who satisfactorily complete a module will earn 6 Sasin credits, Sasin alumni who satisfactorily complete a module will receive a certificate of participation issued by the host institution.
The participants pay the same tuition fee as other courses at Sasin; however, all other expenses such as travel and living expenses are the participants’ own responsibility.