MBA Overview
GIBS MBA
Curate your MBA journey either with a focus on General Management, Entrepreneurship, Consulting, Manufacturing, Digital, Healthcare or Climate Leadership.
The GIBS MBA will ensure that you gain a comprehensive understanding of key business concepts. Fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making through case studies, simulations, and real-world projects, it provides extensive networking opportunities, allowing graduates to connect with peers, alumni, and industry professionals. Featuring a global module travel experience with seven focus streams and over 90 electives, the GIBS MBA offers the widest range of opportunities in Africa.
This programme is an excellent choice for those who want to advance in their career, improve their leadership skills, and gain a deeper understanding of business practices. In obtaining the GIBS MBA, you will gain a powerful framework for making decisions throughout your career. It is ideal for mid-career professionals who aspire to transition into higher management roles, as well as entrepreneurs seeking to scale their ventures or executives who want to refine their strategic acumen. This programme is particularly well-suited for experts in specific functional areas of business who wish to move into leadership roles that demand general management knowledge to lead a division or an entire organisation.
GIBS holds the globally renowned Triple Crown status - AMBA (UK), AACSB (USA), EQUIS (EUR) and Regional Accreditation (AABS).
Why choose to do your MBA at GIBS?
GIBS is an internationally-accredited business school based in Johannesburg, South Africa’s economic hub. With a purpose built campus, interactive relationships with South African business and highly qualified local and international faculty who work closely with business, the GIBS MBA affords you the opportunity to engage in exceptional learning processes. Through a potent mix of classroom lectures, case studies, business simulations, company visits and syndicate group projects (working/learning groups within a class context), as well as relevant exposure to the best practices of South African and global leadership, the GIBS MBA gives you a competitive edge in the short-term application of relevant knowledge, which has long-term strategic value for your career.
At GIBS, we believe that who is in the room with you is as important as what is being taught. The GIBS MBA candidates are screened very carefully to ascertain what they can bring to the classroom in terms of experience and insight. The majority of your learning happens from your fellow students in the classroom and we make sure each class comprises a diverse range of experience and is representative of the diversity present in South Africa. Networks built during and after your two years on campus will prove to be invaluable on a personal and professional level. Interaction with your fellow students and, more specifically, your syndicate group is priceless.
At GIBS we are firmly committed to the face-to-face tuition model for all of our MBA programmes. With the right preparation, it is this interaction between faculty, business leaders and students that makes the GIBS MBA so impactful.
Our MBA curriculum creates an opportunity for students to become well-rounded and effective managers by exploring the dimensions of strategy, the business environment, functional areas of business and decision-making techniques. At the same time, students will gain a fuller understanding of the foundations for leadership and for business, business integration and global management.
Consistently rated as one of the top business schools in South Africa by the prestigious Financial Times.