A Rare Twelve Month MBA Program is Available at Laurier Waterloo Campus

Wilfrid Laurier University, with its main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, offers MBA degrees with eleven potential areas of specialization. Laurier University has multiple campuses in Canada and even one campus located in Chongqing, China. Brantford, Kitchener and Toronto are also locations of Laurier University campuses. Laurier University’s MBA program is one of the Top Ten in Canada on the Compass Research Reputation Index. Selected by Human Resource leaders across Canada, this means personnel directors have a high degree of confidence in the abilities and training of Laurier University MBA graduates.

The main Laurier campus has six different MBA programs in which students can choose to enroll. Four are for full time students. One is for part time students. One of the full time programs is a twelve-month MBA program, one of only a few offered in Canada. A second program is a twelve-month International MBA degree. The third is an MBA degree program with a Co-op component. The fourth is an innovative MBA in Entrepreneurship program. Laurier’s part time MBA program is for evening students. All of these MBA programs utilize an Integrated Core Study (ICS) program that includes Strategic, Operation and Financial Management, Marketing, Economics, Organizational Behavior, Business Analytics and Accounting.

The School of Business and Economics at Laurier Waterloo is successful in preparing their students for productive and successful careers as leaders in the world of business. One of the reasons is their ICS’s components of the Company Project, the Country Project and the case competition. The Company Project requires students to determine whether to recommend holding, buying or selling stock in a particular company after doing a complete financial and strategic analysis of it. The Country Project considers the opportunities that might be available for a particular Canadian company to operate in the market internationally. Teams conclude by competing in with case recommendations they develop for a particular authentic company’s executives about a real business issue they face.

Canada has been the third most popular global destination for MBA studies for more than a decade now. Because of the international nature of MBA studies in general and the student population at Laurier Waterloo in particular, the Integrated Core Study program divides its graduate students into teams for each term. These teams are selected to be diverse, with different skill sets and a variety of backgrounds in order to enhance students’ analytical skills and international outlooks. In evaluations, students report that they chose to attend Laurier Waterloo for their MBA degree because of the reputation of the school’s innovative teaching approach.

Students who enroll in any of the MBA programs at Laurier Waterloo may choose specialization in the following options: accounting; innovation and entrepreneurship; marketing; financial, strategic, operational, organizational, international business, or supply chain management; innovation and human resources; and management in golf and resort industry. Combined with the ICS program, MBA students at Laurier gain a solid business education. Much report they are thrilled to be able to achieve their MBA in one year instead of two and proceed to their career right away with all the tools they need for success in their field of business.

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Lawrence Miller is the author of this article.