Master of Science in Quality and Business Excellence
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
DURATION
15 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 Apr 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Apr 2025
TUITION FEES
AED 110,000
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The Master of Science in Quality and Business Excellence (MSQBE) provides skills necessary for today’s dynamic business environment. The MSQBE program provides students with in-depth understanding of international quality frameworks, issues in business excellence, the various quality award frameworks, and their practical applications in the workplace. Graduates will be able to implement practical approaches and techniques of quality and business excellence to address market needs in Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates and abroad.
This program supports the pillars of the Abu Dhabi 2030 Vision, especially those directed at the promotion of a large empowered private sector, and a sustainable knowledge-based economy. The degree provides the underpinning knowledge to students wishing to follow a career in the fields of quality and business excellence.
Admissions
Curriculum
MSQBE Core Courses (All Required for Graduation)
- Research Methods
- Quality Management Systems and Approaches
- Quality Improvement Tools and Techniques
- Operations & Supply Chain Management
- Total Quality Management and Business Excellence
- Strategic Change Management
MSQBE Thesis Courses (All Required for Graduation)
- MSQBE Individual Consultancy Thesis I (Proposal)
- MSQBE Individual Consultancy Thesis II (Final)
MSQBE Elective Courses (Two Required for Graduation)
- Managing Organization Performance
- Japanese Quality Improvement Approaches and Structures
- Creative Problem Solving for Conflict Management
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Program Outcome
- Demonstrate an advanced comprehensive knowledge about the impact of quality and business excellence initiatives on business outcomes.
- Implement quality and business excellence theories, processes, structures, systems, and strategies in a variety of business contexts.
- Critically analyze the purpose and functions of quality management and achievement of business excellence.
- Evaluate and select appropriate research instruments and problem-solving techniques to conduct research in quality and business excellence.
- Apply leadership skills to achieve quality and business excellence outcomes.
- Formulate solutions for complex quality and business excellence problems and communicate decisions to relevant stakeholders.
Program Tuition Fee
Program delivery
The MSQBE program is offered in a traditional face-to-face teaching mode. Courses will be delivered over a 10-week period (6 weeks in summer) on weekdays from 4:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Each 3-credit course will consist of 45 contact hours of lectures and
other learning activities. Assessments are conducted outside the contact hours. Each ‘Thesis’ course will be delivered over a
period of ten weeks.