MBA program is designed with an academic and practical rigor to ensure that students acquire key managerial knowledge, attitude and skills to meet the challenges of the present business scenario in an appropriate social and ethical manner. The program bridges and integrates regional, cultural, and domestic business practices with the global business ethos, so as to carve future managers for local and global businesses.

PROGRAM RATIONALE
The focus of Gulf Region and UAE in specific on non-oil sectors for developing its economy is a commendable strategy. Hence, there has been rapid growth in the contribution to GDP from areas like manufacturing, food, retail, real estate, automobile, airlines, ports, hospitality, medical, educational, financial and other service sectors to name a few. The efforts of government of UAE resulted in the placement of many of its educated manpower in different positions in government, semi government, and private organizations during the ?boom? period wherein the participation of the workforce has increased substantially. This young Arab population along with the first and second generation expats groomed in the region is soon to become the managerial workforce at various organizations and hence need to be given a strong base in management knowledge and skills. SUC MBA is pursuing the ambition and goal to serve and educate the manpower of the Gulf region through well-structured academic MBA program that focuses on knowledge as well as skill and attitude to groom the future managerial professionals of the region.

MBA GOALS

• Develop professional managerial skills in problem solving and decision making
• Instill leadership skills and professional attitude
• Develop ethical managerial orientation to conduct business in a socially responsible manner
• Develop acumen towards formulating, implementing and evaluating business strategies

MBA OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to:

• Comprehend theories, tools and techniques in business management.
• Develop leadership skills and competencies for effective management of organizations.
• Formulate, analyze and evaluate business strategies.
• Evaluate ethical business practices and its implications on business.
• Synthesize theories and practices for solving managerial issues.

MBA CURRICULUM
SUC has developed well planned MBA curriculum which significantly prepares a student to shoulder the responsibility of managing business organizations in optimizing their vision. It equips the student with the knowledge, skills, and values that nurtures intellectual maturity and helps to probe into the depths of knowledge. It enables student to specialize in skills that are unique and have a sense of creative independence in implementation of strategies.

The MBA program is carefully planned to fulfill the mission and purposes of SUC as well as its goals and objectives. It is adequately equipped with best practices of teaching methodologies and is flexible to adapt and adopt changes in training the students in the field of management sciences to enable them to effectively make management decisions for the growth of business.

The practical orientation enables the student to integrate theory with the best practices of the industry so as to effectively and efficiently conduct the operations in an organization. The student is thus enabled to accomplish the outcomes as anticipated in the program and transfer them to the professional areas. SUC ensures that each student enrolled in the course receives a Course Delivery Package (CDP) on the first day of the class that includes the following Syllabus:

• Credit hours
• Pre Requisites
• Course description
• Learning outcomes
• Course contents
• Academic strategies
• Course policies
• Class Schedule
• Mode of Assessment
• Information on core text
• Additional reading materials
• Online learning resources

SUC uses regular evaluation of all courses; instructional pedagogy, feedback and results obtained from the various assessments effectively through a well-developed Institutional Effectiveness System to revise the curriculum in order to ensure quality and excellence in both curriculum and instructional pedagogy.

	CREDITS
Core Courses	27
Major Courses	9
Total Requirements	36