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Full time MBA program:

International MBA Curriculum Design

The NOSPA International MBA curriculum provides grounding in the following basic management topics: Financial and Cost Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Law, Operations Management, Marketing, Business Statistics, Human Resources, Business Communication, Corporate Strategy and ASEAN Economics. The first year objective is to provide a solid foundation in business education. This allows the best students to specialize in certain business fields during the second year of the program, at NOSPA or overseas.

Credit requirement
The NOSPA International MBA course requires 45 hours of classroom study to achieve the equivalent of 3 credits. The minimum requirement for the NOSPA International MBA degree is 51 semester credits. Students are required to complete at least 45 credits of the MBA regular courses and 6 credits for the MBA project.

To qualify for the degree of Master of Business and Administration, a student must:

Satisfactorily complete the 45 minimum credits requirement by following courses approved by the MBA
Achieve a final cumulative grade point average (GPA) of not less than 2.75
Achieve a grade of excellent, very good, good or fair for the MBA project oral presentation

Credit distributed in each semester

	Courses	Hour	Credit
1^st SEMESTER (1 Sept - 1 Feb)	Maths and Statistics for manager	45	3
	Business Law	45	3
	Marketing Strategy	45	3
	Managerial Accounting	45	3
	International Business	45	3
	Laos and ASEAN Economy	45	3
		270	18
2^nd SEMESTER (15 Feb-15 June)	Managerial Economics	45	3
	Operation Management	45	3
	Corporate Finance	45	3
	Business Communication	45	3
	Strategic Brand Management	45	3
	Organization Behavior and Leadership	45	3
		270	18
3^rd SEMESTER (1 Sept - 1 Feb)	Internet Marketing	45	3
	Human Resource Management	45	3
	Competitive Management	45	3
	Tourism Marketing	45	3
	Service Marketing	45	3
	International Trade and Finance or Management control	45	3
		270	18
4^th SEMESTER (15 Feb-15 June)	Simulation Game	45	3
	Internship
	MBA Project		6
		45	9
	Total Courses	855	6363

MBA Project
The MBA internship provides the students with an opportunity to learn by “doing” in a business environment; thus, consolidating the assimilation of business knowledge acquired during the program. The internship lasts at least three months and is good experience for future employment after the MBA.

The MBA project is designed for students to learn by thinking. At the end of the program the student must write a report and make an oral presentation about a business problem relevant to the Lao economy. The project will focus on problem solving in organizational contexts.

Semester and Break Periods (Tentative)
In a regular semester students will have 15 weeks of actual teaching including an examination, which is usually set upon completion of 45 hours tuition; allowing students ample preparation time for the exam. The long and short breaks are 12 and 3 weeks respectively.

September Semester: Starts in 1^st week of September and ends in January
February Semester: Starts in 3^rd week of February and ends in second week of June
Long break: Starts in the third week of June and ends in the first week of September
Short Break (3 weeks): 1 week in December and 2 weeks in February

Tution Fee per year: US $ 400

International MBA Program