University of Witwatersrand – Wits Business School (WBS)

MBA Master of Business Administration
The WBS MBA education programme has been a premier choice of students and employers for over 40 years.  This Masters in Business Administration is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), which recognises a mere 250 business schools worldwide, and is also recognised by the Council for Higher Education (CHE). WBS is the only business school in Africa to have been admitted to the Partnership in International Management (PIM), a student exchange programme for international study at over 54 leading business schools around the world.
The WBS MBA is designed to provide students with a competitive edge in the job market and to give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to even embark upon their own business ventures.
The education curriculum of this Masters in Business Administration contains courses such as international business, ethics, sustainability and corporate governance and leadership. Full time and part time class attendance is available.  A part-time Saturday MBA is available to allow part-time students more flexibility with their lectures.
A part of the reason one studies towards an MBA degree is to gain an international perspective on business and the WBS MBA programme addresses this need by providing an international study tour elective as well as having the most extensive Student Exchange Programme in Africa through a network of over fifty prestigious business schools in the world.
WBS MBA also offers a dedicated career management process for MBA graduates.  An exciting aspect of the WBS MBA is the annual Graduate Recruitment Programme, where employees are invited to present their company profiles and career opportunities to WBS students. 
To ensure its MBA remains relevant, rigorous and intellectually demanding, Wits Business School will enhance its Master of Business Administration by introducing challenge based learning to its curriculum next year.

MM of Entrepreneurship And New Venture Creation
The Masters of Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation at Wits Business School (WBS) in Johannesburg, South Africa is an education programme which provides students a solid foundation of entrepreneurship knowledge and also emphasises the entrepreneurial process as a way of building entrepreneurial skills.
WBS Masters of Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation utilizes real case material through which students acquire both practical and theoretical knowledge. The entrepreneurial process is navigated both practically and conceptually to provide an integrated approach to new venture creation. Students are able to rigorously analyse the potential of new business opportunities.
The education curriculum of this Masters of Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation allows students to explore ways to facilitate and sustain entrepreneurship in large firms. Students are required to begin with a thorough introduction to issues associated with corporate entrepreneurship at the firm level in a range of organisational contexts.

Masters of Management (MM) by Research
The Wits Business School Masters of Management (MM) by Research programme is aimed at students with an Honours degree who wish to further develop their graduate qualifications in a management-related field. The MM by Research is awarded on the basis of a supervised thesis.
The WBS Masters of Management (MM) by Research Programme Offers

Competitive selection process
Guided first-year methodology course and proposal drafting
Supervision available in a range of finance, management & work-related disciplines
Access to Wits University libraries
Rigorous examination process
A Masters degree awarded by Wits University
Internationally competitive fees
Expectation that students complete their degree in one year (full time) or two years (part time)

MM by Research focus areas of study

Business & Society
Decision Sciences
Entrepreneurship & the informal economy
Finance
HIV/AIDS in the workplace
Marketing
Organisational behaviour & diversity management

Study Executive Education Programmes at WBS
WBS Executive Education Programmes are designed to address a specific topic or unique business challenges and typically targeted at different levels of managers wanting to brush up or up skill in areas where they may be lacking and even to acquire new skills. 
WBS Executive Education offers a wide variety of attendance and certificate programmes ranging from five days to nine months courses, with an option for full time, part time and block release class attendance formats.
The Executive Education Programmes are typically for different levels of managers wanting up-skill and acquire new skills.  The courses range from Finance for non-Financial Mangers, the New Managers Programme (NMP), Project Management and the popular Management Advancement Programme (MAP), all the way to the prestigious International Executive Development Programme (IEDP) which is taught in partnership with London Business School.
WBS Executive Education Programmes courses have been tried and tested constantly with rankings in the global Financial Times Executive Education rankings and PMR.Africa rankings.
WBS has just been ranked number 55 in the world’s top 65 business schools for executive education in the 2012 Financial Times (FT.com) business school rankings. The school moved up one position from 2011 in the open programme provider section.
Wits Business School was also awarded joint silver place in the 2012 PMR.africa rankings – an annual national survey assessing academic institutions offering Executive Education short courses.  The award recognised WBS as a leader in academic institutions that offer Executive Education short courses in South Africa.
When it comes to customisation, in-company programmes, the Leadership Development Centre designs and customises a leadership development programme that is relevant and industry specific, based on best practice; thereby offering the client an excellent return on investment.

PhD in Business and Management
The PhD in Business and Management at Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa is aimed at graduate students who wish to develop their knowledge and understanding in a management-related field. The PhD is awarded on the basis of a thesis that constitutes a substantial contribution to the advancement of knowledge.
What the WBS PhD Programme Offers You

Competitive selection process
Guided first-year methodology education course and proposal drafting
Supervision available in a range of finance, management & work-related disciplines
Access to Wits University libraries
Presentation of ‘work in progress’ at Faculty & PhD Seminars
Rigorous examination process (national and international examiners)
A PhD awarded by Wits University
Internationally competitive fees
Expectation that students complete their degree in three years (full time) or five years (part time)

Focus areas of study for PhD programme

Business & Society
Decision Sciences
Entrepreneurship & the informal economy
Finance
HIV/AIDS in the workplace
Marketing
Organisational behaviour & diversity management

Postgraduate Diploma in Management
The Postgraduate Diploma in Management at the University of Witwatersrand – Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa is offered in three different versions:
1. A one-year full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Management programme in the field of Business Administration for graduates who wish to follow a career in management. This course takes a generalised approach ensuring that students have an in-depth knowledge of all the functional areas of management.
2. A one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Management full-time programme in the field of Human Resources for those who wish to follow careers in human resource management, industrial relations or training and development. Students are also introduced to all the functional areas of management.
3. A two-year part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Management programme in the field of Business Administration is offered to graduates who are currently employed in a full-time capacity but realise the value of in-depth management education to enhance their career prospects. The average age of the class is 27 years with class members being employed in a wide range of job functions.
Postgraduate Diploma in Management Lecturers
Lecturers for the Postgraduate Diploma in Management are known for their outstanding teaching abilities and business, organisational and research experience. This, and the fact that admission is highly selective, ensure that exceptionally high standards are maintained to bring students a unique course and an educational experience which equips them for the future: a future which is in the students hands.

Master in Finance and Investment (MFI)
Finance is the lynchpin of taught-skills necessary for both navigating enterprises successfully, and ensuring stable economic activity nationally and globally. It is composed of several important facets and thus requires its practitioners to acquire a dedicated, focused and comprehensive set of training, to be appropriately qualified. The Master of Management in Finance & Investment (Master in Finance & Investment) at Wits Business School (WBS) in Johannesburg, South Africa is designed to fill this training need.
In fact, a specialization in graduate Finance is a hallmark of most renowned Business Schools globally. The reasons for this phenomenon are: (1) Finance is an indispensable unifying knowledge-area for success in both enterprise and the macro-economy. (2) Finance experts require a program-based training to garner the necessary breadth and depth of knowledge for its effective understanding and application.
Importantly, the WBS’ Master in Finance & Investment education programme design is motivated by the special need for Finance in the Emerging market context. Gone are the days when Finance was most relevant in the developed market context, due to the fact that financial innovations emanated from this environment, with international finance transactions being essentially an “intra-developed markets” affair. With globalization, emerging markets have become inexorably connected to the dynamism of financial markets and their breathtaking paced innovations. The contagion of the Sub-prime mortgage market (developed markets) originated global financial crisis makes the case for why emerging markets must acquire the requisite capacity needed to understand the workings of financial markets, how to leverage their opportunities, and how to anticipate and mitigate their systemic threats.
The Master in Finance & Investment stands on three necessary pillars of Finance – quantitative/macro-environment foundation knowledge, firm grasp of the workings of financial markets and their evolutionary nature, and solid understanding of corporate finance and governance. This finance and investment programme is for high intelligence and motivated individuals with relevant undergraduate degrees (in e.g., business, economics, engineering, mathematics, statistics and law) who seek to pursue careers in specific areas of finance either as practitioners or researchers. The Master in Finance & Investment requires a set of core education courses, track-oriented courses, and a programme thesis; with a 12-month, full-time completion period. Being a block-release based programme, the duration is designed to equally accommodate students who are working and needing to tool-up quickly for career advancement in the finance field.
The teaching staff within this Master in Finance & Investment is populated by top-rate Finance academics from both WBS and partnering reputed international graduate programmes, and practitioners with rich finance industry experience.