GUST offers an MBA degree designed to meet your professional needs and goals. The MBA program at GUST is designed for risk-taking, challenging, and intelligently experienced people. People who seek to develop and grow in their career and bring out the confident leader within them. The MBA program has been developed to ensure that it meets the highest international standards with a local market flavor. The major learning outcomes of our MBA emphasize leadership, ethical standards, teamwork, and critical thinking. The curriculum will teach you how to use analytical outlines and tackle complex problems, which will help you progress in your career to earn your next promotion. Throughout the program's duration, you will experience being treated professionally with interest and responsiveness- by an approachable and collaborative faculty focused solely on developing your business and leadership skills. Our MBA program, which holds international accreditation, is specifically designed to meet the decision maker's strategic needs. It is worth mentioning that our program is the only MBA in Kuwait that provides concentration on five different areas: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, and on seven different tracks: Accounting-Auditing, Finance-Corporate Finance, Finance-Banking, Finance-Financial Technology (FinTech), Management-Entrepreneurship, Management-Supply Chain Analytics, Management-Human Resources.
Dr. Taher Ali
Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dear MBA Students,
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) and to our distinguished Master of Business Administration (MBA) program.
You have taken the first step by choosing to pursue your MBA at GUST. You will surely strengthen your ability to lead in an increasingly dynamic and interconnected world. There is no shortage of ambitious and professional personnel who are committed to your continued learning and excellence.
We believe that graduate education extends beyond the classroom. It is a transformative experience that challenges you to think critically and collaborate effectively to develop solutions to real-world problems. This exposure to rigorous academic courses and diverse perspectives will provide you with the skills and confidence necessary to excel in leadership roles across industries and sectors.
As you embark on this journey, I encourage you to fully embrace the opportunities that lie ahead. Challenge yourself. The knowledge you acquire, the relationships you build, and the perspectives you gain will continue to serve you long after graduation.
Welcome to GUST, and welcome to the next chapter of your professional life.
Dr. Yasean Tahat
Dean of College of Business Administration
In the GUST MBA program, emerging business leaders can build on their professional experience, advance their careers and further leverage their successful contribution to their firms both qualitatively and quantitatively. Program participants gain the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the challenges of greater work responsibilities.
The mission of the program is to nurture competent entrepreneurial managers, responsible business professionals, skilled leaders, team players and ethical decision makers. Being a leading private institution committed to the utilization of state-of-the- art technology, GUST realizes the importance of the graduate studies and is dedicating itself to offering a quality MBA Program that is flexible, innovative and allows a degree of specialization that enables students to go to further graduate studies in top universities.
We are committed to offering the students more choices, key connections, and a future they define. Whatever it takes to keep them current and on top of the business world, we are committed to providing.
Individual effort, teamwork, formal presentations, exposure to guest lecturers and networking are hallmarks of the GUST MBA. GUST's committed faculty, world class academic infrastructure, and national and international, industrial and academic links provide a rare opportunity and atmosphere for learning.
It is our pleasure to help our students’ transition into graduate studies and make it as comfortable and enjoyable as possible, regardless of their background.
Objectives
- Train future leaders through integrated and researched methods of teaching.
- Provide a pioneering and knowledgeable environment.
- Focus on leadership and management in a high-tech, international marketplace.
- Enable students to reach their optimal academic and professional potential.
Overview
Start sooner
- Begin your MBA in September or January
Finish faster
- Earn your MBA in as few as 24 months
Balance work and studies
- Each course once a week 5:00-8:00 p.m..
Accreditations
GUST’s College of Business Administration joined less than five percent of the world’s business programs to achieve the AACSB-International accreditation in 2014. GUST is the first private university in Kuwait to receive this esteemed recognition by AACSB, an institution that has been devoted to the advancement of management education for over 95 years. AACSB represents the highest achievement for all business schools.
