Post-Experience Master of Management

Learning goals

Master of Management students will be effective leaders equipped with the skills and aptitudes needed to adapt to the business challenges and opportunities for the future growth of corporate and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), industries, sectors, regions and societies.

Master of Management students can expect to develop knowledge and skills in:

• Business concepts and approaches relevant to the dynamics of globalization—economic, technological, social, and other forces;
• Organizational stability and change ; leading experiences in private, public-private, NGOs, and hybrid organizations;
• Intercultural understanding, values, teams, collaboration, negotiation, and co-construction;
• Ethics, communication, leadership and entrepreneurial competencies;
• Techniques of business management and understanding modes of business: management techniques for 21st-century organizations participating in global markets; standards, cultures, reporting practices, and intangible assets:
  • Managerial thinking through a combination of quantitative skills, qualitative reasoning, ethical reasoning and management techniques.

As a Master of Management graduate, you will be an effective leader equipped with the knowledge, skills and aptitudes needed to adapt to the challenges and opportunities for the future growth of organizations.

Knowledge

• Key techniques in financial analysis (e.g., discounted cash flow, net present value);
• Key legal frameworks and practices in human resource management and organizational performance (e.g., recruitment, compensation strategies);
• Key indicators of development (e.g., human development index, Kearney Global Cities index);
• Important factors affecting business ethics (e.g., corporate social responsibility, sustainability, board governance);
• Important theories and concepts related to change management;
• Concepts relevant to critical analysis (e.g., argument fallacies, rigor in argument construction, attention and synthesis of extant literature);
• Concepts related to leadership and communication—individual, collective, rhetoric and persuasion.

Skills

• Conduct structured market research—audience research, product research;
• Understand differences of social and for-profit marketing processes;
• Identify accounting practices  (e.g., accrual accounting, generally accepted accounting principles);
• Identify legal strategies and forms to carry out particular organizational goals (e.g.; incorporation, charitable status, intellectual property strategies, outsourcing, contracting);
• Understand important roles of various organizational forms (e.g., private public partnerships, systems of innovation, inter-institutional forms);
• Analyze organizational cases (e.g., triple bottom line accounting, stakeholders analysis, situation ethics);
• Ability to constructively critique original business research and secondary readings-opinions related to business;
• Determine and apply leadership and communication concepts to organizational case studies.

Aptitudes

• Conducting market research processes for organizations in “mixed” or complex value industries;
• Complex accounting decisions within novel industrial spheres (e.g., virtual firms, software service organizations);
• Ability to develop a range of short and long-term HR policies and practices;
• Strengths and weaknesses of organizational forms for novel oarganizational settings;
• Ability to evaluate and build organizational practices;
• Capability of acting and deciding within multiple contexts;
• Ability to carry out novel analysis using primary and secondary data;
• Ability to find diverse and competing positions, to synthesize and to build upon and contribute new and sound positions to management thinking;
• Ability to emulate and evaluate leadership and communication strategies to simulated and live business settings.

Where our graduates can go

The Master of Management (MM) program aims to prepare graduates to lead and manage organizations.

Graduates of the MM program excel across diverse industries, taking on leadership roles in global corporations, innovative startups, and influential nonprofit organizations. They drive change as executives, entrepreneurs, and strategic consultants worldwide.

Retain your valuable employee while supporting their professional development and growth.

This part-time, largely online-delivery program allows you to keep and work with a valuable employee, while supporting their professional growth.

Your employee’s participation in a program cohort composed of complementary fellow-learners provides your organization with access to fresh sources of insight into widely-shared management problems, brought home by your employee.

Our program’s capstone project encourages your employee to apply existing and new skills and aptitudes to a new problem in a new team. Upon return your employee will have a new view of possibilities for your organization—all at no risk to your organization as our program offers a fertile experimental environment to explore the future.

Maintain your professional obligations as you study and learn part-time with online group discussions, lectures and independent study. Meet in person with your cohort and educators in an immersive learning experience during two-week-long summer intensives.

Part-time online studies for the Master of Management are delivered September through June, over 25 months. A typical week of online learning requires a commitment of approximately 10–15 hours divided between instructional time, independent study, online group discussion and coursework. With your peers and educators, you engage in a collaborative educational process where teaching-learning relationships are grounded in care, respect, tolerance and trust.

In-person, full-time intensives are a vital part of the post-experience Master of Management program. They take place for two weeks in July, over three consecutive summers, in different parts of the world.

Your studies formally begin with your first intensive at the UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna, B.C., with preparatory readings provided in June. The following intensives typically take place in other locations, with at least one occurring outside of Canada. The second intensive takes place midway through the program, and the final intensive brings your cohort together to wrap up the program and share reflections and learnings.

Days and evenings during the intensives are devoted to learning in a supportive environment, in which you build effective and lasting relationships with your cohort, and with UBC and international faculty and staff. In-person instruction and discussions are blended with opportunities to engage with enterprises and other organizations.

A focal point of the program is the Applied Project course, which brings together your learning and your work/life experiences to address a focus area from a management perspective. Working independently, you conduct an inquiry: identify the issue by drawing on relevant academic and practical knowledge and experience; apply rigorous research methods; and communicate your findings and recommendations.
You have opportunities to discuss your ideas with peers and educators over a significant period of study. You also receive ongoing one-on-one support and feedback from an academic advisor throughout your Applied Project.

Reflection sessions cut across the program. They provide you with opportunities to engage with your cohort and educators in ongoing discussions about a range of concerns—from exploring connections across courses to relating your thinking to your own experiences, and contributing to collective sense-making about what and how you are learning. As you work together to explore the meaning and implications of managing, leading and organizing, you are challenged to deepen your understanding and awareness of the skills, network, and confidence to lead and innovate in a dynamic global business environment. Discussions take place in person most days during the summer intensives, and regularly online throughout the whole program.

Step 1 – Pre-application

Email your curriculum vitae, unofficial copies of your academic transcripts, and your answers to the Application Questions (pdf) to the Program Office. You may submit your documents as PDF or Word files. Once your pre-application materials have been received, you will be contacted.  Successful prospects will be invited to an interview – in person or via telephone or Skype.

Following a successful interview, you will be invited to apply. You will be asked to provide your personal information, contact information for three references (preview the questions for referees in our forms section), and submit your application fee.

Immediately following the submission of your formal application, please ensure you arrange for necessary official documentation* to be sent to the Academic Programs Office promptly (this includes all academic transcripts as well as English Proficiency or other exam scores, as required).

^*All documentation becomes the property of the Faculty and will not be returned.

Academic and English proficiency documents

Academic transcripts

Please arrange to have your official transcripts sent directly to Academic Programs Office as early as possible. Official transcripts are required from all universities or colleges that you have attended.

• Official documents must be received in envelopes that have been sealed and endorsed by the issuing institution.
• UBC graduates need not submit official transcripts (unless you have attended another institution since).
• Okanagan University College graduates who completed their degree prior to the school being renamed to UBC must submit an official transcript (requests are made to Okanagan College).
• English language translations of transcripts and degree certificates (if required) must accompany official transcripts issued in a language other than English. These documents must be sealed and endorsed by the issuing institution to be considered official. If your university is unable to provide translated official records in English, you must arrange to have the translation completed by following these steps:
  1. Make a copy of a separate transcript or certificate for translation (do not open the official sealed copy intended for the Faculty);
  2. Provide a translator with the copied item(s) for translation and request a complete, word-for-word, literal English translation, endorsed with the translator’s numbered seal;
  3. Ask the translator to place the original language transcript or certificate, the copy of the transcript or certificate, and the literal English translations into an envelope, and have him or her seal and endorse the envelope with their numbered stamp.
• Submit this sealed envelope to Academic Programs Office (do not open).

Code/institutional identifiers for English language tests (if required)

The following table lists the codes to be used in order for official test results to be issued directly to UBC’s Okanagan campus, as well as timing considerations.

DYNAMIC CITY

UBC’s Okanagan campus borders the dynamic city of Kelowna, a hub of economic development with a population of about 150,000 people—the fourth fastest growing population in Canada. In fact, the Okanagan Valley is rated one of the best communities in Canada to grow your business.

More than 160 buses travel daily from campus to key locations such as Kelowna’s cultural district and thriving downtown waterfront. The campus is two minutes from the Kelowna International Airport, one of the top 10 busiest airports in Canada.

UBC Okanagan is situated within the First Nations territory of the Okanagan Nation, whose spirit of stewardship for the land is reflected in the university’s respect for sustainability.

NATURAL BEAUTY

A diverse natural region with sandy beaches, beautiful farms, vineyards and orchards, and snow-capped mountains, the Okanagan Valley features sweeping stretches of lakeside and endless mountain trails for biking and hiking.

Check out this 360-degree video: Kelowna From Above

CAMPUS HOUSING

Full-time UBC Okanagan students can live in residence, which offers modern living with easy access to academic and personal support. Residences are surrounded by hiking and biking trails, plus panoramic views of the campus and valley.

• Student Residence
• Important Housing Dates

OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING

• Living Off Campus Resources
• Kelowna Off Campus Student Housing Facebook group*

* UBC does not verify or endorse information shared on this third-party website, which is offered here as a public resource only.

Clubs: Make friends with similar interests, stay informed, and organize or participate in academic and recreational events in the Management Students Association.

Events: Various orientations help graduate students to explore, discover and learn about the Faculty, UBC Okanagan, and living in the Okanagan Valley.

Stay active: Take advantage of the many opportunities to get involved and play—from workout space in the new Hangar Fitness and Wellness Centre and our 1,561 square-metre gymnasium, to athletic courts, intramurals, fitness classes and nationally ranked varsity athletics. Have a ball in Sports and Recreation.

Relax: The Graduate Collegium is a gathering place where grad students can hang out, eat lunch, spend time with their fellow students, and attend or host special events. The lounge-style room is open seven days and week and is outfitted with comfortable furniture, kitchen facilities, and individual and group-work spaces.

CAREER SERVICES

Map out your future and prepare to hit the ground running with resources and services provided by the Advising & Involvement Centre.

Tell your story with resumé and cover-letter strategies, and search Work Study jobs for experience relevant to your degree and career goals. You can also book an appointment to meet one-on-one with our career advisor.

ALUMNI UBC

alumni UBC is a member-driven association that offers a variety of lifetime programming and communications to enrich the lives of UBC graduates.

‘Your Next Step’ is a program offering webinars, speaker series and professional development sessions. It is designed to provide advice, tips and resources in areas of career development to graduates for life after university.

Realize the promise of a global community with shared ambition for a better world and an exceptional UBC.