Full Time MBA

The MSM full-time MBA is a one-year program conducted at the MSM campus in Maastricht.  You will have full day classes, consisting of interactive lectures, individual and group assignments, work visits and guest lectures.

To allow you to customise your MBA around your specific study needs and career perspectives a number of business-related and industry-focused expertise tracks . 

Joining the full-time MBA programme means that you can enjoy all benefits of studying full-time at the MSM campus in Maastricht. Besides the regular classes and activities we offer you, a special optional  Career and Personal Development Track (CPDT)  to help you achieve your goals, an  Innovation Week  and many extracurricular activities.

On graduation, you will receive an MBA degree that is accredited by the NVAO and thus fully recognized as a Dutch degree. This means that if you are an international student, that you may be eligible for  an orientation year permit  to allow you to stay in the Netherlands for 1 year in order to search for a job as a highly skilled migrant.

Joining the full-time MBA class will challenge you to develop your management skills in a diverse, international and multicultural environment. The more than two dozen nationalities represented in a typical class of the full-time, residential format of the MBA creates a stimulating learning environment inside and outside the classroom.

Benefit from immediate results

Our MBA takes a practice-oriented approach, focusing on putting your newly gained knowledge and skills into your daily professional and personal life. Immediately from the first course you can apply what you have learned during the interactive lectures, practice-based assignments, work visits and guest lectures (on-campus MBA programs). You round off your MBA degree with a final project, either an academic research paper, a business plan or a business consultancy project. This will offer you the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills directly to real business problems or issues which companies are facing today.

Customise your MBA

The MBA is generalist management programme, but at MSM you can also challenge yourself by choosing from  different expertise tracks   to fully align your MBA with your career ambitions or  to develop yourself in a completely new area.

Develop your hard and soft skills to manage effectively and responsibly

Pursuing an MBA is more than just theory, it is also about developing your Soft Skills (sometimes referred to as ‘Complex Skills’). Throughout the MSM MBA programme you will be challenged to develop skills in the area of intercultural communication, team leadership and collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, self-awareness, resilience and time management. Moreover, with MSM’s MBA you will not only get the knowledge, tools and skills to manage effectively, but you will also gain a deeper understanding of how to manage responsibly. MSM subscribes to high ethical standards in business and strongly promotes corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development. We subscribe to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).

Join our diverse and global network

You will share your MBA experience with fellow students coming from different countries around the world and having different cultural and professional backgrounds. You will learn from experienced professors coming from and teaching around the globe. This not only adds to your learning experience but will help to significantly grow your international network. As one of the oldest and most international business schools in the Netherlands, MSM has built a huge worldwide network of students, alumni and partners – an interesting network to tap into and to be part of.

Scholarship opportunities can be combined up to 40% of the full tuition fee.

• For the Dean's Development Fund, please select your country (on the programme page, tab scholarships) to see the actual price of the programme (full tuition fee-/-DDF scholarship)
• Academic Excellence Scholarship
• Women Ambassador Scholarship
• Alumni Lifelong learning
• Public Services / NGO scholarship
• SDG Change-maker scholarship
• Entrepreneurship / Family Business scholarship
• Orange Tulip Scholarship (for selected countries)
• Fair discount