The SEPT MBA in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development is a program dedicated to conveying theoretical knowledge, application-oriented findings and practice-relevant experience with regard to the management, promotion and development of SMEs.
Structure & Tuition
Our MBA is a four-term course that comprises as follows:
First Semester (from October to February)
To be attended in Leipzig
- Development Economics
- Reading course on Economics
- Excursion to German companies and Institutions of development cooperation
- Business Model development
- Business plan
- Business simulation game
- Entrepreneurship management
- Presentation techniques
- Sustainable Development Goals and SMEs in the Global South
- Internationalization of SMEs
- Local and Regional Economic Development
- Innovation Technology
- Information Management in SMEs
- Sustainable Management
Second Semester (from April to July)
To be attended in Leipzig
- Strategic Innovation Management
- Quality Management
- Tools for Innovation Management
- Innovation Systems
- Marketing in SMEs
- International Marketing
- Market research
- Introduction to financial systems
- Financial instruments for SMEs
- Financial planning
- Leadership
- Knowledge management
- Competence development
- Organizational learning
- Research Methodology and Research design
- Data analysis and presentation
- Project management
- Minimum of 6 weeks
Third Semester (from October to February)
It can be carried out outside Germany
- Field research
Fourth Semester (from April to September)
To be attended in Leipzig
- Business Communication
- SEPT Colloquium
- Advanced data analysis
- Master thesis development
Note
* Elective modules
** Compulsory module
Formal training at the University is taught in Modules and assessed by either a written exam, an essay, an oral examination, or project reports.