168 hours, 28 ECTS
Module Objective:

To master the hard management skills necessary to lead any company or organization.

The courses:

1. Strategy and corporate governance:

The strategic process will be reviewed: external analysis, internal analysis, SWOT matrix, strategic scenarios, decision making, implementation issues and the role of the major players in the strategic decision making process.

2.Accounting and introduction to financial analysis

Understanding financial statements and how to prepare them, you will be confronted with key financial analysis tools and planning/control systems.

3.Corporate finance

The course mainly deals with valuation and capital budgeting as well as financing analysis and decisions. It covers issues such as: (1) cash flows generated by a project (2) timing of cash flows and (3) risk of project. Back to fundamental concepts and exposure to practical cases.

4. Marketing management

Using case studies, this course will make you aware of the importance of marketing, understand the contemporary approach and culture of marketing in business and non-profit organizations and provide you with key marketing concepts and basic tools, especially the strategic ones.

5. Human resources management

HRM can make a difference by adding value to an organization! The course covers topics such as motivation and satisfaction key drivers, job analysis and job description, recruitment and selection processes, training and development programs and appraisal; compensation systems.

6. Management of business systems

Business strategies lead to nowhere if they are not implemented through efficient systems including organization process flows, supply chains and IT architecture. You will examine this issue from a transversal point of view, understanding how crucial it is to bring consistency in the system while, at the same time managing conflicting objectives (costs vs. quality and service levels,…)

Business case

At the end of the 6 management fundamentals courses, you will have to choose one of the subjects, find a company and solve a business case. You will make critical review of the business situation and recommend a solution based on an analytical approach of the tools and techniques learned in the   fundamental courses. You will be closely coached to use the suitable analysis and decisions making methods.

72 hours, 16 ECTS

Module Objective :

To master the relations between Business and its environment in a long term and worldwide view.

The courses:

1. Global economic and geopolitical issues

Focus on the major geopolitical forces shaping the world and the relationship between Asia and the Western world. Specific attention is brought to the situation of Vietnam as a new player in the international business environment (WTO, …).

2. Law, society, corporate governance and social responsibility

You will develop a critical outlook on interaction between business and law with a focus on corporate governance and labour regulations. The responsibilities of business towards its environment (citizens, nature, public opinion) will be the last subject of the course.

3. Managing the future

Project yourself into the future ! You will be forced to imagine how business will be run in the coming years, taking into account major trends as the technology revolution, sustainable development, social conduct and globalization. Creativity will be at the hub in terms of skill acquisition here…

4. International business law

How to safely run a business in an international environment, considering legal issues, using arbitration courts (very much used in Vietnam); special attention to antitrust laws, competition and international transactions.

135 hours + a comprehensive field project, 30 ECTS

Module Objective:

To develop your capability, as manager with a leader ambition, to integrate the interactions dimensions of the management

The courses:

1. Business & financial planning

Used in the context of starting ventures or existing businesses, the business plan is a key tool used for management. You will learn how to build a full business plan and go deeper into the financial part of it since it is the translation of all recommendations in quantitative forecasts used by decision makers to make their final opinion.

2. Business Game

This special session of 2 full days, give you the opportunity to manage virtually, in team, a company competing with 4 other companies in the same industry. The serious Game is an education tool learning rapidly how the different components of a company interact (in success or failure). Also a good lesson of teamwork.  

3. Management & organization

Exploring traditional and new models of business organization, the course will cover the impact of environment and technology on the various types of organizational structures. Linked to organizational structures, the role of culture will then be examined in order to understand the consequences in terms of functioning and decision making. 

4. Management of innovation

This is a course on the strategic management of innovation and Intellectual Property Rights. Its purpose is to explore the innovation phenomenon and to understand the managerial and organizational challenges presented by the management of innovation. Crucial in our times!

5. Strategic business intelligence

Starting from an analysis of how strategic management decision making should use proper information, the course covers issues such as information sourcing, business intelligence systems and trade-offs between cost, quality and relevance of collected data. You will «learn by doing», working on practical cases covering strategic decision making in a number of areas (marketing, corporate strategy, etc…)

6. Project management

This discipline is about planning and organizing the operations as well as securing and managing the resources needed to successfully complete a project. Starting with the basics (process approach, information and management issues), the course will develop process approaches (piloting, support and operational processes) and offer a cartography of project management processes.

7. International Business Field Project (IBFP)

You will realize and present a real consulting project in team for a company with a real problem to solve. This problem will be related to any management discipline but will have some international content or occur in an international company. 

The project will take place on a 3 to 4 months period, free from classes or any other academic work. Your group will be placed under guidance from specially trained coaches following a strict coaching procedure.. At the end of the process, you will deliver a written report and an oral presentation to the client company.

For those willing to get a major in Finance/Control or Marketing/Strategy, the IBFP will also offer the opportunity to get the needed credits if they choose a project in one of these disciplines.

54 hours + a lot of practice + the Final Master’s Presentation, 10 ECTS

Module Objective:

Soft skills are now a key part of any MBA program as people  ability to handle the soft skills side of business is crucial to successful business conduct. Increasingly, companies just assessing their current staff and future recruits on their knowledge but also on a whole bunch of soft skill competencies including how well they relate and communicate to others.

The courses:

1. People leadership and team empowerment

Focusing on group behaviors and personal (self) understanding, you will become aware of your own leadership style, better understand other’s behaviors and get to know available tools offered to managers to cope with all this. You will be confronted with leadership and power and influence issues looking more deeply at interpersonal relationships, group dynamics, conflict resolutions, charisma, etc.

2. Personal communication, business argumentation and negotiation

You will learn how to use the adequate tools to better convince other parties, inside or outside your own organization. Focus will be on verbal and non verbal communication, clarity and deep meaning of message as well as talents to persuade. Some will also be used to introduce basics of cooperative negotiation techniques.

3. Career management and personal branding

The main reason for following an MBA program is to get immediate and long term return on time and money spent. This workshop will help you maximize your own ROI! (Return on investment).  Career management is not only about negotiating your next position in your company: it’s about monitoring your career journey in order to cope with personal, family and, of course, financial and personal goals.  You will write your own personal strategy and create your « personal brand », based on a clear positioning statement and extensively using social networking.

4. The final Master’s Presentation (“grand oral”)

The final test intended to convince a jury that the title of Master of Business Administration can be rightly awarded. The jury will evaluate if you are able to solve a business problem under stress and time constraint using concepts and tools taught in the program and if you can explain how you grew your competencies and personality through the MBA experience.

– 01 application form

– 01 So yeu li lich, certified and sealed by your local residential authorities or the employer (apply for Vietnamese only)

– 02 notarized copies of University degree

– 01 degree verification certificate (apply for international bachelor degree)

– 01 English certificate (don’t apply for candidates obtained Bachelor degree in English or international bachelor degree taught in English)

– 01 medical certificate issued not more than 6 months up to the date application form

– 01 copy of Identity card/Passport

– 04 photos (3*4cm)

– Notarized copies of other degree/certificate (if any)

– 01 copy of working year certificate (optional)

First step: Please click here to fill the online application form. 

Second step: Please submit all document required at our office before entrance test.

Address: 1st floor, room 101, Open University, 35-37 Ho Hao Hon, district 1, HCMC

Note: Should you prefer paper application, please contact our team

Application fees: 1.000.000 VND (non-refundable)

Written test: except for those who submit the GMAT certificate from 450 points

Interview: A personal interview with the admission jury (Academic Director & professors from Solvay and HCMC OU)

1.Complete and submit the application form with all necessary documents;

2.Only candidate accepted after application screening are eligible to run for the scholarship

3.If the candidate requests for the scholarship, she/he will have to have the scholarship interview with the jury and do the written test

4.Announcement of the top 3 with the highest score who is accepted for the scholarship (The overall score for admission assessment is the sum of application, written test and admission interview)

Thanks to the candidate application file, the interviews and the admission test, the jury will evaluation the candidate to select an outstanding & merit profile:

– The candidate presentation skill and interaction
– His/her English competence
– The motivation
– Traits and manner for leadership (confidence, innovative mind-set, positive thinking, motivating through presentation, gestures…)
– The quality of the success case, the involvement of the candidate, the hardness, the decision making etc.
– Extent of understanding about the economic situations, and management.

– The scholarship is calculated in accordance to the tuition applicable to the deadlines
– Scholarship is not convertible to cash and not transferable;
– Scholarship will not be granted to candidates who are sponsored by the company regardless the amount;
– The Jury board reserves the right to decide the total number of scholarship or types of scholarship granted based on the selection results and based on the total number of applications

Option to give some value to your application:

1. Letter of recommendation signed by the company, in which they comment about your seniority and performance

2. Letter of recommendation from a Solvay alumni that recommend you to the program