Executive MBA
Dublin, Ireland
MBA
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Jul 2026*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 27,100 **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for Non-EU applicants | for EU applicants is 31st July 2026
** per annum
Key Summary
The world of business is changing fast. DCU’s Executive MBA has evolved to meet these changes – giving you what it takes to lead and succeed. Developed by our award-winning Business School, our MBA gives you the edge in key areas like Leadership, Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability. Our Executive MBA has now been redesigned in close collaboration with Industry leaders to meet the demands of the future world of work. Our EMBA graduates are confident business leaders, with the skills and tools to achieve success in any context.
The DCU Executive MBA is a 2 year part time programme, delivered in a blended format with approximately two thirds of lectures taking place face to face at DCU. Lectures are held on Thursdays from 2pm to 9pm during each of the four 12 week semesters, with typically 3 additional Saturday sessions per semester.
Note: Non-EU applicants who require a study visa for the purposes of studying at DCU are not eligible to apply for this part-time programme as study visas are only granted for full time programmes. To check if you require a study visa, please visit the Irish Immigration website.
Why DCU's Executive MBA?
Since its inception over 30 years ago, the DCU Executive MBA has evolved through repeated reviews of the curriculum – most recently in 2023 – to align the content of our programme with the ever-changing needs of executives. While the content and delivery of the programme have been continually updated, the philosophy that makes this programme unique has remained consistent over time.
Our MBA experience challenges both participants to achieve both personal and professional growth, and to build durable skills and mindsets that will sustain them in their personal and professional lives long after graduation.
- Personal Growth: Enhanced self-awareness and personal agility – values, ethics and career in the context of life goals and journey to date
- Professional Knowledge: How understanding of subjects such as economics, finance, technology, HR, data analytics, and accounting can be applied in an integrated way to solve complex workplace problems
- Durable Skills: Interpersonal communication, teamwork, change management, negotiation, conflict management, building and maintaining positive relationships, networking
- Mindsets: Leadership, strategic, sustainable, global, growth, digital, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, innovative, entrepreneurial
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<li class="MsoNormal"><strong>Ranked in the top 2% of universities worldwide</strong> (QS World University Rankings)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong>Ranked among the world's top 350 universities</strong> (Times Higher Education World University Rankings). Business and Economics (201-250), Arts and Humanities (201-250), Research Environment (301)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong>Ireland’s highest-ranked young university, placed 59th globally</strong> (Times Higher Education Young University Rankings).</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong>Ranked 1st in Ireland for Graduate Employment Rate</strong> (and 23rd Globally) by QS World University Rankings</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong>96% of DCU graduates are in employment or further studies</strong> within 6 months of graduation</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong>Voted no. 1 worldwide for Career Development</strong> by Global Student Satisfaction Awards</li>
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At DCU Business School, we believe that the MBA should be about much more than just acquiring some useful extra tools for the management toolkit. It should also be a transformative experience at the personal level. Our value proposition is that our MBA is an educational experience that is both professionally and personally transformative, aimed at developing business leaders with the ambition and enterprise to help create a better, more sustainable world and featuring leading edge thinking with tangible application.
Graduates of our programme talk about how they have grown in confidence, how their own self-awareness as leaders has deepened, and how their perspective on business management has been raised to a more strategic level.
Our graduates tell us that these ‘personal growth’ effects of the MBA become very apparent back in their workplaces, in terms of the issues to which they are invited to contribute, the roles they are asked to take on, and in how they are perceived as future leaders.