ESAMI and Swiss School of Management (SSM) are jointly bringing a 3-year internationally accredited Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program to Eastern and Southern Africa. The program is based on blended learning and students can join the program anytime. Coursework will be done using SSM’s e-learning platform with ESAMI and SSM campuses available as study centers. Four-day online workshops and frequent webinars on selected topics will be offered during the program. Candidates enrolled in 2020 will receive a partial scholarship.

The evening Master of Procurement and Supply Chain Management is specifically designed for managers from the public, private sectors, NGO, and civil society. Such executives will have full-time job responsibilities and cannot afford to attend an advanced management education on a full-time basis.

This course aims to meet the growing needs of African public and private sector enterprises in the area of project management. Investors and managers are becoming more concerned with the use of scarce and often difficult to mobilize financial resources. Meanwhile, there has been an increase in the demand for and management of quality public and private sector investments.

The program is structured in such a way to combine on-site learning activities with off-site activities. The intensive on-site learning activities are preceded by preparatory reading and related exercises for submission to the school. There is also post-session follow-up work involving activities like problem-solving assignments, paper writing based on field research, and independent reading.

The evening MBA program is specifically designed for managers from the public, NGO, and private sectors. Such executives will have full-time job responsibilities and cannot afford to attend an advanced management education on a full time basis.

Human Resource Management is an important activity for the present and future competitiveness of organizations. The link between human resources and the performance/productivity of organizations cannot be overemphasized. MBA in human resource management is an appropriate training program that will ensure that human resources practices within organizations are moving with the current approaches of positioning organizations well ahead of competitors.

Transport and Infrastructure have been identified as important prerequisites to enhancing social and economic development. ESAMI is aware that without a critical mass of trained staff in the transport sector, its operational performance will remain poor, hence the introduction of MBA-TELM.

The programme is designed to progressively lead the students through a comprehensive course of study with specialization in customs management. This is achieved by way of a detailed analy sis of the underlying principles and practices of customs management within the broader context of public sector management.