EBS Top Distance Learning MBA

Edinburgh Business School (EBS) (the Graduate School of Business of Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) is one of the world's leading business schools, offering top quality distance learning programs such as MBA, MSc and DBA. Courses are available in Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic. It has students from over 40% of Fortune 500 companies.

Heriot-Watt University is accredited by the Royal Charter and approved by the United States Department of Education. It is ranked 22nd in the Guardian University Guide 2010.

The EBS Master of Business Administration (MBA) program consists of seven core courses and two electives. Core courses include Accounting, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour, Project Management, and Strategic Planning. After completing three courses (at least 1 core course), you are eligible for a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration, and after six courses for a Postgraduate Diploma.

Students may pursue an MBA with Specialism in Strategic Planning, Marketing, Human Resource Management or Finance. The MBA programme was listed as the second largest in the world, after the for-profit University of Phoenix (USA), in a March 2009 survey by the Financial Times of 42 top distance learning and online MBA.

The MBA was listed as the world’s most popular online MBA (FT, 15 March 2010).

EBS MBA is the only foreign MBA accredited by the Australian government. Heriot-Watt University (trading as Edinburgh Business School) is accredited by the Director-General of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training (NSWDET) to issue higher education degrees which are recognised within the Australian Qualifications Framework.

EBS also offers MSc degree in four different areas of business: Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management and Strategic Planning.

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