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An Innovative and Affordable mba - MQF Level:  7

 
MBA Program overview

The fully accredited MBA course (MQF/EQF Level: 7) is designed for leaders who have a passion for innovation, a desire to make a profound difference, and a relentless drive for success. If you possess any of these three characteristics, this course will propel you like nothing you have ever experienced. Within a proven executive development framework, the curriculum design offers an unrivaled strategic focus on your growth as an integrated individual from a multiple intelligences perspective. Designed by globally renowned experts in various business fields, the course enables you to integrate your professional responsibilities with a powerful learning experience with measurable success in many areas of interest, like emotional intelligence and innovativeness.

Program highlights include:

Transcontinental Institution of Higher Education takes its graduates well beyond mere thought leaders. Graduates will have the courage and wisdom to make systemic impacts with great success in various parts of the world. The unparalleled holistic academic learning model focuses on developing the learner as a whole, not just an individual developing analytical skills under an out-of-date educational model of disconnected modules. As a learner with us, you will experience conscious development of complex skills and intelligences such as emotional intelligence and innovativeness over the duration of the course.

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INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

The combination of the TI's unforgettable educational model and the integrative course design enables learners to develop the following learning outcomes:

  • Significantly increased self-confidence and self-efficacy
  • Lead organizations and communities toward success through the creation of systemic processes
  • Empower others in an organization to lead
  • Assess the global competitive environment and create effective strategic choices
  • Develop learning creation spirals within an organization
  • Strategically lead all functional areas of business including management, operations, human resources, finance, sales and marketing, and technology.
  • Analyse critically business case studies, while developing strategic and practical recommendations
  • Create new theories that are culturally sensitive to a given environment
  • Develop effective communication skills to engage and empower a diverse audience

Hours total of learning: Accredited MBA 

Contact hours: 487.50

Supervised practice hours: 208 

Self-Study Hours: 1774.50

Assessment Hours: 105

Target Audience for the MBA

The typical learner is between the ages of 30-65, being fully employed at the managerial or higher level. Our learners have a thirst for knowledge and real-world experiences that enhances their skills for the current business environment. 

Language and location of Instruction

Currently, the language of instruction will be done in English. The address where the programmes will be delivered is Corinthia St George's Bay, St Georges Bay, St Julians STJ 3301, Malta

MBA Core Modules -Brief Description

MBA600: Business Research (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module covers both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. It also introduces the complex world of research in social science using systems thinking, along with multiple intelligences.
MBA601: Technological Influences on Finance and Innovation (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module provides learners with an understanding of the integration among finance, banking, innovation and technology.  Learners explore how current firms are leveraging technologies to create and sustain organizational successes. The module challenges learners to develop systemic insight on the interconnectedness of organizational functions with a specific focus on finance, innovation and technology; The module also introduces the role of technology as one of the systemic integration elements for the course. It illustrates the importance of integration among various fields in order to stay ahead in a competitive environment.
MBA602: Leading and Managing Effective Teams (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module focuses on the most recent theories and concepts to assess and develop empowering teams within a global environment. The module also provides a strategic assessment between leadership and management actions that drive effective teams, while introducing emotional intelligence as one of the systemic integration elements for the course.
MBA603: Project Management and Organizational Learning (ECTS Credit: 6)
This module examines the organization, planning, and controlling of projects and provides practical knowledge on managing project scope, schedule, and resources. The module exposes learners to global project management and how multinational organizations utilize it to lower costs, speed up new product roll-outs, and enhance customer satisfaction.  The module also introduces organizational knowledge management systems along with learning processes.
MBA604: Corporate Strategy Formulation (ECTS Credit: 6)
This module provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges associated with disruptive technological advances in an increasingly globalized business environment. The module allows learners to better understand how to navigate internal and external complexities while utilizing a systemic approach to creating and executing strategic initiatives. Learners are provided a variety of relevant models and frameworks in order to manage organizational strategies in an international marketplace while seeking to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage.
MBA605: Integrative Corporate Finance and Governance (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module integrates the traditional tools of corporate finance with an eye towards governance implications of management actions.  Addressing the subject in a comparative and interdisciplinary manner, the module also explores the nature of the corporation, the basic theory of the firm, and the internal and external architecture of corporate governance.
MBA606: Global Business Forces: Macroeconomics and Microeconomics (ECTS Credit: 6)
This module provides learners the theoretical framework to forecast potential global macroeconomic and microeconomic case studies. The theoretical framework includes monetary and interest policies of central banks, tax policies, and exchange rate policies. The module elaborates on different policy perspectives of different economists and schools of economic thought. Topics also include demand and cost estimation, production decisions, pricing, analysis of competitive market structures, and antitrust issues.
MBA607: Global Marketing and Diversity (ECTS Credit: 6)
This module prepares learners to appreciate the dynamics of cross-cultural diversity and to make informed managerial decisions in an increasingly globalized business environment. The module content demonstrates how the generic principles of marketing could be applied to diverse global marketplaces. The module has an interdisciplinary approach and offers critical cross-national and cross-functional perspectives.
MBA608: Solution-Based Decision Making (ECTS Credit: 6)
This module provides a review and analysis of theories and models in decision-making. Rather than taking a conventional problem-based approach, the module focuses on the ideal solution that is systemic in nature. The module challenges learners to view the entire system at work, rather than as separate parts of the system.
MBA609: Ethical Foundations and Corporate Social Responsibility (ECTS Credit: 6)
This module focuses on the core values that drive ethical decisions, which consider the broader environment along with honoring self. While literature on leadership and ethics is abundant, the focus on aligning one’s core values and a systemic consideration is the focus of this module. Along with developing complex thought processes, organizational practices for corporate social responsibility is examined. 

Program Specialization

Our fully accredited MBA includes three specializations:

  • Strategic Finance: Designed for aspiring leaders in the finance and/or strategy field, this unique specialization combines the technical skills of finance with strategic thinking. The program enables you to balance the human dimension that’s often forgotten in most organizations and financial aspects when making strategic choices.
  • Systemic Leadership: Designed for the those who wish to realize their leadership potentials, this powerful specialization helps build the key skills of a transformational leader who can lead any organization with great efficiency. Some of the key developments in this specialization is process design, strategic thought, and emotional intelligence. The program enables you to walk into any organization, regardless of managerial hierarchies, and begin to lead with great influential power.
  • Entrepreneurship: Designed for aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs looking to start a new venture or further develop a small/medium enterprise, this specialization incorporates systems thinking and key management and leadership skills crucial for sustained success. The program will help you design the most innovative learning organization that can run without you constantly having to work in the business, providing an abundance of free time in addition to increased profits.

Each specialization is geared towards gaining mastery of these subjects in addition to building one’s core skills and enhancing one’s self-confidence and emotional intelligence to make the wisest choices within a complex business environment.
 
Our fully accredited MBA programs go far beyond the contents of any other graduate business program. Within Transcontinental Institute, we see learners as the great potential they possess, empowering them to transform their intelligences through integration. At the end of the program, you will graduate with the ability to massively innovate with the courage and wisdom to proactively apply these innovations in the global business community.

Specialization: Strategic Finance

FIN630: Balancing Financial Risk (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module focuses on managing various components of business risk using case studies and real-world assessments. The module addresses how to control for market and credit risks. Learners examine in-depth management of assets and liabilities in combination with other risks that stem from using financial instruments such as financial derivatives. Reputational risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, and ultimately risk of default also are  analyzed.
FIN631: Financial Analysis (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module explores financial concepts used in financial statement reporting, financial analysis, and investments. Topics include creating and understanding a financial statement, appreciating financial disclosure issues, developing a budget, and evaluating cash-flow projections. The module provides insight into financial reports and analysis of the financial position and the operating results of business organizations, including several techniques.
FIN702: Financial Systems and Proactive Controls in Financial Management (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module provides learners with the knowledge, insight, and analytical skills related to how an international corporation designs and implements systems to plan, implement, control, and manage firm financial performance across the globe. As the final module within the course, the module takes a systemic overview of business that drives globalization while beginning to focus learners on their capstone project.

Specialization: Inclusive Leadership 

LDR610: Becoming an Inclusive Leader (ECTS Credit: 6)
This module is designed to offer an in-depth understanding of the unconscious bias that drives thought processes and leadership decisions with a focus on diversity and inclusion. The module focuses on the application of relevant leadership theories within unique cultural contexts so that the diversity of ideas is honoured by systemic processes, rather than people’s behaviours, creating authentic engagement. With special focus on transformational and inclusive leadership, the module offers the ability for learners to drive systemic inclusive leadership in every context (public/private, profit/not for profit, and family) regardless of size/spread/geography.
LRD611: Inclusive Approach to Innovation (ECTS Credit: 6)
The specialization module provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of the strategic development process exposing learners to the numerous steps, processes, components, and diverse issues that need to be considered in order to gain and sustain a competitive advantage in the global marketplace. The module challenges learners to synthesize the diversity of ideas that provides holistic perspectives as a starting point to strategic design. Learners will also learn to implement a systemic approach to innovation under an inclusive climate that drives performance within their diverse workplace.
LDR700: Building an Emotionally Intelligent Workforce (ECTS Credit: 6)
This specialization module provides learners with the integration of the people and systems in business. Especially in a post-pandemic workplace, emotional intelligent systems can foster a much-needed sense of belonging and inclusivity. Starting at the individual level, the module focuses on a conscious development process for emotional intelligence as leaders. Using the past experiences of emotional intelligence throughout the module, learners learn to move emotional intelligence from the individual to the organizational level. As the final module within the module within the specialization, the module creates a systemic map of an inclusive organization from a systemic perspective while celebrating individual achievements in diversity and inclusion within the learner’s organization.

Specialization: Entrepreneurship

ENT620: Systemic Thought in Entrepreneurship (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module focuses on innovation as the necessary driver of success for any organization. Innovation from creativity can be a systematic discipline that exists in all forms of organizations. With the focus on creating systemic processes that burst with innovation, the module balances the role of individual entrepreneurship and organizational innovation. 
ENT621: Managing Small Enterprises (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module introduces learners to the concept of entrepreneurship in business management. The focus is to provide learners with the knowledge and skill to maximize opportunities to grow their business through innovation. The module includes lessons on operational management, marketing, supply chain, competitive advantage, financial accounting, and personal development within the context of a small business environment.
ENT701: Competitive Advantage—Creating Learning Systems in Entrepreneurial Management (ECTS Credit: 6)
The module weaves learning from the core modules into a systemic perspective of achieving competitive advantage in entrepreneurship.  The module explores both established and emerging approaches in marketplace approaches to achieve competitive advantage for small and medium-sized enterprises within a cultural context. Learners design a proactive learning system within a small and mid-size enterprise.

 

RES700: Capstone research thesis (ECTS Credit: 25)

The capstone research project is the final module of study in the MBA programme. It is a culmination of all that was learned within the programme focused on a specific topic. This project further extends the real world application papers in previous modules and motivates learners to overcome a major challenge within an existing business or create a new entrepreneurial venture. The project combines the rigors of academic research with practical application. Learners will produce a capstone thesis and defend the project in front of an academic review board.

MBA Final Module - Capstone research thesis 

RES700: Capstone research thesis (ECTS Credit: 25)

The capstone research project is the final module of study in the MBA programme. It is a culmination of all that was learned within the programme focused on a specific topic. This project further extends the real-world application papers in previous modules and motivates learners to overcome a major challenge within an existing business or create a new entrepreneurial venture. The project combines the rigors of academic research with practical application. Learners will produce a capstone thesis and defend the project in front of an academic review board.

Teaching, Learning, And Assessment Procedures

Our student-centered approach is unlike any other you have ever experienced. This education is designed to develop the full person, not just the academic aspect.

Student-centered Teaching

Our teaching approach applies principles within constructivism and educational psychology:

  • Face-to-face modality: Each faculty will have a classroom observation by a supervisor/peer annually to ensure the student-centered approach is being applied within the classroom.
  • Online modality: Each faculty with more than three students will have an online classroom audit by a supervisor/peer annually to ensure the student-centered approach is being applied within the online environment.

 Learning & Assessment Procedures

Intended learning outcomes for the course and modules are assessed using various methods, including, but not limited to, the assessment of papers, discussions, presentations, and examinations. For each module, the learning and assessment will include discussion forums, in-class participation (for face-to-face only), essays and papers, and a module project. More importantly, you will be involved in solving the challenges you face within your organization while going through the program.

Structure for the mba Programme

The MBA program (MQF/EQF Level:  7 with 103 ECTS credits) offers tremendous flexibility for the busy working executive. The program takes place over a period of approximately 21 months, with 13 Residencies (one for each module), plus the Oral Defense of a Master Capstone Project and Graduation Ceremony, held at the various campuses across the world. The first 10 modules are conducted during the first year of the course. The final three specialization modules are offered during the second year plus approximately four months are allotted for the completion of a Master Capstone Project. Each residency includes a  four-day day long weekend  (Thursday through Sunday). These residencies are highly intensive face-to-face learning experiences occurring within the classroom setting. Learners will have readings and preparation before each residency as well as post-residency assignments including, but not limited to, term papers, teamwork projects, and application projects. During each term, the first module will have its residency on the 4th week of the term, while the second module will have its residency during the 7th week of the term. The purpose of grouping two modules into a term is to build integration of understanding among module subjects.

Using a groundbreaking curriculum design, Transcontinental Institution of Higher Education integrates systems thinking, emotional intelligence, and technology throughout the course unlike any other program in the world. All modules are taught by global experts with renowned recognition and practical experience. Each module extends well beyond traditional theories in addressing the many challenges facing today’s business environment within a local and global context.

Year 1

Term 1
  • Systemic Research in Business
  • Leading and Managing Effective Teams
Term 2
  • Technological Influences on Finance and Innovation
  • Integrative Corporate Finance and Governance
Term 3
  • Project Management and Organizational Learning
  • Corporate Strategy Formulation
Term 4
  • Global Business Forces: Macroeconomics and Microeconomics
  • Global Marketing and Diversity
Term 5
  • Solution-Based Decision Making
  • Ethical Foundations and Corporate Social Responsibility

Year 2

Term 6
  • Specialization course #1
  • Specialization course #2
Term 7
  • Specialization course #3
  • Capstone Research Design
Term 8
  • Capstone Research and Writing
Term 9
  • Capstone Project Oral Defense and Graduation Ceremony

Grading system

Our learners’ performance in the assessment of all units within the modules, including the thesis/dissertation, is recorded as a percentage score and grade as
indicated in the table below. 

Grade

Numerical Equivalent

A

90.00 - 100.00

A

80.00 - 89.00

B

75.00 - 79.00

B

70.00 - 74.00

C

65.00 - 69.00

C

55.00 - 64.00

D

50.00 - 54.00

F*

0.00 - 49.00

I

Incomplete

W

Withdrawn
* The minimum pass mark for the capstone thesis is 70%.

Pass rates

As a new program, we do not have any data to present. With our unique learner-centered approach to developing the full individual, we expect the pass rate to be well above 90%.

Further Learning Opportunities

Additional educational programs are always available to individuals and organizations. Our customized approach is tailored to develop the unique needs of those involved, regardless of the topic. Some of the most recent programs include inclusive leadership, ESG strategy, remote management, and leadership. You can reach out to our Learner Engagement Advisor at admin@transcontinental.edu.mt

Possible Career Pathways of Our Graduates

Graduates of Transcontinental Institution of Higher Education will have a unique path to executive management. They will have strategic insights into ESG strategy, organizational development, and innovation like no one else.

Admission Process

Prospective TI students apply by submitting a completed TI Application Form. A completed application also includes each of the items listed below, submitted to TI:
  1. Bachelor’s Degree Transcript
    • A relevant MQF/EQF L6 degree at second class, OR
    • A MQF/EQF L6 degree plus a portfolio evidencing relevant work experience for at least 3 years, OR
    • A MQF/EQF L5 full qualification AND portfolio evidencing professional and/or executive level work experience for at least 5 years
  2. Portfolio evidencing professional and/or executive level work experience for at least 4 years with 2 years of managerial work experience
  3. Three (3) Work References
  4. Personal Essay – including personal passions, values, and vision
Once an application is considered complete and the applicant is considered qualified, the prospective learner will be sent an acceptance letter delivered via email, along with an invitation for an individual meeting with one of TI's learner achievement advisors. This meeting, designed to ensure the applicant has made an informed decision, will be scheduled as a one-hour discussion using viable technology such as Zoom.
 
For third-country nationals, here's the link to Identity Malta's VISA requirements.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria

Entry requirements for the mba course are as follows:
  1. Bachelor degree from an accredited institution (MQF/EQF L6 degree)
    • A relevant MQF/EQF L6 degree at second class, OR
    • A MQF/EQF L6 degree plus a portfolio evidencing relevant work experience for at least 3 years, OR
    • A MQF/EQF L5 full qualification, AND a portfolio evidencing professional and/or executive level work experience for at least 5 years
    • A GPA of 3.0 or higher
  2. Minimum 2 years of managerial work experience and 4 years of professional and/or executive work experience
  3. Ability to comprehensively communicate in English including writing and analytical skills to ensure that the prospective candidate can fully and meaningfully participate in course work (assessed through their Personal Essay)
  4. Established credible references
  5. Alignment between TI values and prospective learner values
 

The next Intake

Our ongoing enrollment is not limited by an academic calendar. Our learner-centered focus is reflected in the ongoing intake. The next intake will depend on a sufficient number of learners to start the program. If your organization has a need, let's begin the dialogue to determine when is the best time to start the program.

Your Program Investment

The fully accredited MBA program (MQF/EQF Level:  7 with 103 ECTS credits) investment is €19400 (distance learning format) and takes approximately 14 months to complete. Optional residence courses are available with additional fees, depending on location. Scholarships and country-level pricing are available, inquire soon before these funds are depleted

Single Payment (Online format, with immense flexibility) € 19400
      Monthly payment option for 14 months (online format) € 1395
Single Payment (face-to-face format, may vary depending on location) € 25400

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