Master's Degree in Socio-environmental Business Administration
Valle de Bravo, Mexico
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
30 Nov 2023
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Oct 2023
TUITION FEES
MXN 309,600 *
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
* not including graduation fees
Introduction
Create a sustainable future through entrepreneurship
A unique option to develop economically sound organizations that generate tangible social and environmental benefits, under processes that regenerate relationships between people and with the environment.
The Master of Socio-Environmental Business Administration (Green MBA) is an interdisciplinary program based on learning through projects, cutting-edge socio-environmental knowledge in the business area, and systemic strategic thinking.
Purpose
Integrate sustainability as a strategic guide for businesses and organizations, through participatory processes with key stakeholders.
From the UMA we help you find accommodation in Valle de Bravo during face-to-face workshops
One of the biggest attractions that our students find when coming to UMA is getting to know Valle de Bravo; a place that allows you to connect with nature and with a vibrant community in socio-environmental matters.
The day to day in Valle de Bravo offers peace and tranquility, as well as a rich social offer, public events, and the practice of sports such as paragliding, sailing, skiing, mountain biking or climbing.
Ideal Students
Who is our Master's degree aimed at?
We look for interdisciplinary groups, so the Master's Degree is aimed at professionals with different profiles and work areas, for example:
Entrepreneurship:
Design or promote businesses and socio-environmental initiatives with innovative frameworks and processes.
Executive direction and coordination:
Develop tools to integrate intrapreneurship solutions and projects that increase the social and environmental impact of your organization.
Consultancy:
Complement your tools with globally advanced socio-environmental models and practices to strengthen your ability to advise organizations.
Career Opportunities
Upon finishing the Master's degree you will be able to:
- Implement a sustainability strategy in a new or existing business.
- Address and carry out new business models based on sustainability and socio-environmental impact.
- Develop strategies for the economic viability of projects.
- Land ideas into a comprehensive, well-founded, and engaging business plan.
- Develop economically sound organizations with tangible and measurable social and environmental impact.
- Understand natural and cultural systems as the basis for business and project development.
- Design and direct co-design and collective intelligence processes to launch disruptive and innovative initiatives.
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
At UMA we offer two types of scholarships:
We seek to support people with high potential for change agency who are interested in studying the Master's degree, but who are in an economic situation that does not allow them to pay the full tuition fee. We have a limited number of scholarships and these are distributed to those who need it most and best meet the criteria specified below.
Within our admission application you will find a section where you can apply for the scholarship you need (see Admission Process tab), you must indicate the type and percentage of scholarship you are looking for. If you are interested in a scholarship, keep in mind that you can get a higher percentage if you submit your application in the first round of registration.
a) Partial scholarships: Scholarships of 10% to 20% of the cost of the Master's Degree, not including degree costs.
b) Exchange scholarships: Scholarships from 25% to 40% of the cost of the Master's degree, not including degree costs. These scholarships are given in exchange of time to support activities of the Master's coordination or the UMA community. You can choose between different support activities, and they can be done from anywhere and at flexible hours.
Discount for full Master's payment: 15%.
Applies if you pay for the entire master's degree in advance.
Discount for advance payment of one year: 10%.
Applies if you pay a full year in advance.
Discount for early payment of a semester: 5%.
Applies if you pay for a full semester in advance.
If you receive a scholarship, any of these discounts are applied to the amount payable after taking into account the percentage of scholarship awarded.
Admissions
Curriculum
The Curriculum of the Master of Socio-Environmental Business Administration was co-designed by an interdisciplinary group of specialists and change agents with extensive experience and vision, resulting in an integrated curricular design that evolves each semester according to the experience.
The Study Plan is made up of four semesters, taking place in two years in blended mode. The program consists of 76 credits that are taken in 402 face-to-face hours with a teacher and 814 non-face-to-face or independent hours, to complete a total of 1,216 hours.
The Master's degree is focused on a process of semester projects, through which the knowledge and tools acquired in the seminars are applied, professional development is explored, and vocation is investigated. Each student develops their own process according to their possibilities, questions and context. In the last year of the Master's degree, a final project is designed and implemented, which constitutes the degree work.
A) Axes and Curriculum Lines
The Curriculum is organized into three curricular axes: the specialized content axis, the change agency axis and the projects axis. These three axes reflect the UMA's educational proposal for the development of professionals (specialized axis), in order to participate in the transformation towards sustainability (change agency axis), through learning by doing (project axis).
specialized axis
This axis is disciplinary, so it is taken only by students of the Master's Degree in Socio-Environmental Business Administration . Its purpose is to acquire the tools and capabilities necessary to successfully develop a business project from a socio-environmental perspective.
Curricular lines:
• Strategic Planning : The essential foundations of planning and developing strategies for the implementation of intra-ventures in established organizations and business models for the design or scaling of companies are evaluated and analyzed. Taking as reference advanced theoretical and practical ideas about impact or fourth sector companies and the role of the socio-environmental entrepreneur or intrapreneur.
Facilities
Rankings
The awards received recognize us as one of the best educational innovations in Latin America