Program Overview

Master Program

Executive MBA

Executive MBA (Zagreb, Croatia)

Next Intakes – October 2025 (OPEN)

The Executive MBA takes place in Zagreb, Croatia in collaboration with Deloitte. As a leading multinational professional services network, often called one of the “Big Four” accounting organizations, Deloitte brings unparalleled expertise and prestige to our program.

The MBA focuses on 3 key areas that deal with Executive aspects:

• LEADING DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
• EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
• TECHNOLOGY AND PEOPLE

Some of the topics include: The continued rise of AI, Feeding a culture transformation , Keeping up with the data eruption, Robots, Increased value for human skills, Automation drives new skill shifts, Ethics challenges for leaders and businesses.

These topics will be the heart of the MBA program and will be presented through 12 core courses and 13 executive elective courses (complete list of taught courses can be found here MBA Program Curriculum)by leading experts from Deloitte or other business partners.

Specializations

• Global and International Management
• Human Resource Management
• Global Finance & Banking
• Marketing

Specialization is dependent on the selected elective courses

Overview

• 12 to 16 Months
• 24 to 34 Extended Weekend Lectures
• 12 Core Courses + 13 Elective Courses (student must choose 2-4 elective courses for the program)
• 24 Contact Hours per Course
• Lectures are held on Fridays/Saturdays
• min. 60 ECTS Credits
• Taught in English

Specialization is dependent on the selected elective courses (at least 2)

There are 13 elective courses to select from for the specialization that deal with following topics*:

• Private Equity and venture capital
• Trading
• Company valuation and M&A
• Digital Gatekeepers
• I as a Leader
• Risk Management
• AI for Managers
• Business Intelligence
• Cross-Cultural Management
• Customer Data Driven Marketing
• Strategic Marketing
• Business English
• ESG

• final list of available seminars is subject to change

Our Executive MBA (EMBA) program is designed to educate experienced working executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders and provide them with the latest knowledge on executive leadership level.

You will enjoy top-class business administration management training.

Overall, the Executive MBA brings the following aspects to your career development:

• Strengthen your business and leadership skills as you learn to think more strategically and analytically
• Act more decisively and lead more persuasively
• Build lasting relationships and a powerful network of business professionals
• Provide practical orientation to management theory
• Get a holistic and strategic understanding of business
• Implement innovative and creative thinking
• Discover latest business and industry trends
• Acquire a collaborative mindset

Tuition Fees

• On campus Executive MBA: 7.500 EUR
• Blended Executive MBA: 7.000 EUR

The price is the total price you pay for 12 core courses + 13 elective courses.
There are no other hidden costs.

We offer various scholarship opportunities. We invite you to carefully check which one can apply to you.

Admissions

• At least 5 years of professional experience
• Undergraduate degree (Bachelor) from a recognized university or equivalent
• Minimum of two years‘ work experience
• Grade transcripts
• Your CV or resume
• ID or passport copy
• One photo

Cancellation fee (Zagreb campus)
If a student is forced to cancel the program due to a visa denial, all payments and deposits will be refunded, subject to a cancellation fee of 1,500 EUR, which will be retained by SSBM Geneva.

Students will need to present an official document issued by authorities demonstrating the visa denial.

Curriculum

The Executive MBA curriculum is composed of 12 core topics + 13 elective courses that you can attend. Student must choose 2-4 elective courses for the program. We organize elective courses in collaboration with Deloitte and different industry partners on specific topics relevant to global business and management challenges.

Full list of 12 core and 13 elective courses can be found here: MBA Program Curriculum

To access the detailed study program outline, please click on this LINK.

* final list of available seminars is subject to change