While the CEMS MIM is aimed at recent graduates and early-career professionals seeking a global launchpad, the MBA is designed for those ready to build leadership, strategic judgement, and decision-making capability in uncertain and complex environments.

In one full-time intensive year, this programme shows you the sharper contours of strategy and leadership, within and beyond Africa. Courses such as Business and Leadership in Global Contexts and Managing Complex Environments will unmask the different kinds of ambiguity and constraint that define much of the world beyond developed economies.

Then there’s the Research Report, which sets you up for a different kind of intricacy: data. By reviewing relevant scholarly and practitioner literature as well as generating and analysing data to provide practical business recommendations, this helps students become managers and leaders who are discerning readers and users of various forms of data, analysis, and research.

Combine everything and it’s easy to understand the programme’s list of accolades:

“The MBA taught us how to think and how to figure out the best way to be of value to the world.”

Tsitsi Hatendi-Matika, MBA Class of 2012

“The approach of bringing in diverse views from all over the world to co-create our future, puts the UCT GSB ahead.”

Isabelle Qwebu, MBA Class of 2000