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The Otago Advantage

As the business environment has become more globalised, advanced qualifications and the reputation of the education institutions that offer them have increased in importance. The University of Otago School of Business has all this to offer professionals, managers and executives.

Building capability

MBA students

Market research has shown that graduates from the School of Business' Executive Programmes are renowned for their high academic level and personal qualities including managerial competencies. Our programmes build capability among professionals in the workforce. Importance is placed on the individual's ability to work in teams, which aim to balance and complement individual strengths and weaknesses. Group work promotes the interdisciplinary approach and encourages mutual support and coaching from group members.

Personal Approach

Class sizes within the graduate programmes are limited to guarantee individual attention. This nurtures the personal development of the individual students and reflects our student-centred philosophy. The emphasis is on experiential learning, case analysis, simulations, discussions, debate and lectures.

Dynamic curriculum

The curriculum in all our programmes is dynamic and adaptive reflecting the depth of established research and the breadth of current business reality. Business case studies and examples are taken from around the world, as well as from New Zealand, and integrated into papers to assist learning and the attainment of practical business skills.

Truly international

Our programme suite is world-class and we remain the only New Zealand business school to receive international recognition. The Otago MBA was the first New Zealand MBA programme to rank in the Top MBA Programmes by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) - where we have remained - and The Financial Times (2001).

The School of Business is a member of several prestigious international education consortiums including Programme in International Management (PIM), the Pacific Asia Consortium for International Business Education and Research (PACIBER), the European Foundation of Management Development and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). These memberships offer our students better access to study and conduct research internationally and increase our mix of international and national teachers. And as an accredited member of the European Foundation of Management Development, the School of Business and its graduates have exclusive status internationally.