Post-Experience Master of Management

As a Master of Management student, advance your understanding and knowledge of managing and leading, and identify opportunities for current and future work. Learn and inquire independently and collaboratively, engage in thought-provoking critique, and strengthen the practical and intellectual skills needed to address complex management challenges.

Develop dynamic capabilities to:

• Rethink and shape socio-economic activity, and influence organizations, businesses, enterprises, sectors and communities, and where they will go next.
• Conduct academic inquiry by using rigorous research methods.
• Address complex management issues through ethical and analytical thinking.
• Deepen intercultural understanding and strengthen your communication competencies.
• Make connections between the latest research and real-world issues, and contribute to re-imagining management practice.
• Take your understanding of leadership and your work practices to another level.

Globally recognized for its excellence in teaching and research, UBC prepares graduates to excel in the fast changing and demanding current environment.

As an employer, you will:

• Retain your valuable employee while supporting their professional development and growth through top-quality education and unique teaching approaches.
• Gain access to fresh sources of insight into today’s pressing management problems.
• Invest in your employee’s long-term success and build in-house talent without risking your organization’s stability, by virtue of the part-time, largely online-delivery program.
• Tap into an international network of peers and scholars sharing innovative ways of thinking, one that remains even after your employee’s graduation from the post-experience Master of Management.

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.

Online studies

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.

Intensives

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.

Applied project

A focal point of the program is the Applied Project course, which brings together your learning and your work/life experiences to address a socio-economic issue of concern to you 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.

Co-curricular reflection

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 impacts and consequences of social and economic activity. Discussions take place in person most days during the summer intensives, and regularly online throughout the whole program.

The post-experience Master of Management is a highly interactive program that provides you with a diverse set of principles, strategies and practices from key areas of management.

It comprises 11 courses, delivered through part-time online studies and three intensives. The courses are interwoven throughout the 25-month program, supporting you in developing your own integrated and holistic approach to management and its challenges. You receive both structured guidance and independent learning opportunities to build confidence and self-determination in developing your own practice.

MGMT 534 Regional Development and Globalization
Explore managing and leading businesses and organizations in globally connected regions. Examine historical and contemporary instances of socio‐ economic development, and consider future directions and possibilities. Study organizations, institutions, communities and public policy. [2 Credits]

MGMT 535 Approaches to Learning and Practical Research
Acquire skills to learn independently and collaboratively for continuous application in the MM program and life-long. Focus on navigating and sorting information, evaluating sources, and building knowledge. Explore methods for research that embody rigour, reason, and evidence, and that balance sense and sensibility. [1.5 Credits]

MGMT 536 Enterprise and Innovation
Explore enterprise commonalities and differences collaboratively, likewise regional, national, and global networking, and other forms of interaction. Deepen knowledge of, and apply, core management subjects such as accounting, finance, marketing, people management, information technology and strategy. [9 Credits]

MGMT 537 Leading and Citizenship
Study professional and citizenship obligations within and between organizations, institutions and communities—regionally, nationally, and globally. Reflect collaboratively and individually to challenge diverse orientations to the social responsibilities of organizations. [3 Credits]

MGMT 538 Communicating
Explore and implement various approaches to oral, written, and other forms of communication. [1.5 Credits]

MGMT 539 Ethics
Study methods of ethical analysis and apply them in analyzing and developing action plans that ensure ethical practice. [1.5 Credits]

MGMT 540 Systems
Explore impact and implications of systems on management issues and study the managing of systems for maximum effectiveness in regional contexts. [1.5 Credits]

MGMT 541 Practical Research Methods
Building on the foundations laid in Approaches to Learning and Research, develop skills in research with particular emphasis on the area of activity on which the participant wishes to focus. [1.5 Credits]

MGMT 542 Career Development
Develop and curate a portfolio of work through the Master of Management to support and develop future careers. [1.5 Credits]

MGMT 543 Managing Change
Consolidate and integrate material, concepts, and ideas studied in earlier courses. Focus on the importance of people when managing change, including their roles, adaptive capacity, and conflict management. [3 Credits]

MGMT 544 Applied Project
Apply what has been learned through the Master of Management program to provide thought leadership and innovative capacity to one or more organizations to help them make progress on an issue they face. [6 Credits]

Invitations for formal applications for the July 2024 cohort will be sent following a successful pre-application

Step 1 – Pre-application

Email your curriculum vitae, and unofficial copies of your academic transcripts to the Program Office. Once your pre-application materials have been received, you will be contacted via email. Successful prospects will be invited to an interview to be conducted in person, via telephone or video conference.

Step 2 – Formal application

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.

Step 3 – Official documentation

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

^*All documentation becomes the property of SE-Change and will not be returned.

Academic and English proficiency documents

Academic transcripts

Please arrange to have your official transcripts sent directly to SE-Change 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 SE-Change);
  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 SE-Change (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.