Messages
Message from the Dean and Head of School
Welcome to the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) Graduate School of Business & Leadership (GSB & L) where we educate and develop future business leaders. Our vision is to be the premier School of African Business Scholarship and Leadership development. To this end, we are partners to organisations for long life business and executive education.
Our academics are chosen from the best available and come from diverse backgrounds. Similarly, our student body represents over five countries, with different academic backgrounds and work experience.
All of our Masters and Executive education programmes offer a world of opportunities as they give our students the competence they need to compete both at home and abroad. Hence, our students are educated to understand and manage global diversity, business challenges and opportunities. Thus, there is no better place to prepare for all these than in our part-time and block-release MBA and Masters in Leadership.
Our motto is to ‘educate managers and business leaders who make a difference in the world through our educational programmes, ideas produced and disseminated by our academic experts, and through our industry partners’.
The School is a member of the South African Business schools Association (SABSA), and a founder member of the Association of BRICS Business Schools (ABBS). The BRICS membership has opened opportunities for international exchange of students and academics. Besides, we are among the top 1000 best business schools in the world, having achieved 3 Palmes in the Eduniversal International rankings of business schools.
At GSB & L, we create a learning environment that empowers and nurtures our graduates to address business challenges and opportunities. We achieve this through individual and group (Team) work, real business case studies, professional seminars, role plays, public lectures, breakfast talks by business practitioners, taught leader seminars and by debate on current business issues.
I invite you to join our business school for value creation through an interesting and exciting learning experience.
Prof. S O Migiro