The Part-time Executive MBA at MIP Politecnico di Milano, starting in July 2022, will have reached its 18th edition, and is also designed for those who come from outside Milan, thanks to the innovative format that provides face-to-face lessons on a monthly basis in short weekends (Friday and Saturday).

• No overlap with work
• 100% of classes via streaming
• Networking & Company Visits
• Career Development Programme
• Voucher for your Continuous Learning
• Leadership Experiential Path

Each core course includes the viewing of multimedia clips and face-to-face lessons on one weekend a month. In addition, to ensure an Executive MBA that is consistent with the need for flexibility inherent in the lives of all managers and entrepreneurs, it is possible to follow up all the lessons via streaming, thus avoiding an unexpected business trip preventing your participation in monthly lectures. In addition, for those who also miss the streaming, all lessons are recorded and the recordings made available.

To guarantee the students support and to maintain interaction between one weekend of lessons and the next, a content tutor, a member of the MIP Faculty, is available to moderate a discussion forum, to answer any queries, to enter into the themes of the course in greater depth and to discuss current issues relating to the course subject matter.

For an overview of the scheduling please visit the Italian page.

The objective of the Executive MBA programme is to lay the foundations of knowledge concerning the most important methodologies, techniques and tools for company management and to encourage the development of participants’ personal learning, innovation and leadership skills.
The programme is divided into 5 distinct teaching areas. Core courses in General Management, the Leadership Experiential Path, Career Development Programme, Electives and International Experience and the Business Transformation Project.

Learning is guaranteed through a combination of multiple tools: digital learning, face-to-face lessons, opportunities to exchange views with faculty members and your peers, plus individual and group assignments.

This is a new structure, designed to provide participants with a holistic view of the organisation and its processes with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, divided into 4 Pillars and preceded by the PRE-PROGRAMME for strengthening and aligning participants’ basic skills.

All company roles and functions need an ever more extensive range of transferable soft skills, which provide a real feature of differentiation when increasing one’s powers of leadership and for facing the future with the correct level of adaptability.

To respond to this need, the Leadership Experiential Path has been built up and radically redesigned to create a personal soft skills development programme which will strengthen students’ decision-making capacities and leadership skills, working on personal training for the entire duration of the Master programme.

The goal of the Leadership Experiential Path is to develop the key capabilities that leaders need to undertake their role successfully. This is a programme that provides courses in Organisational Behaviour, Outdoor Training, Virtual Team Learning, and Practising Leadership opportunities, with the goal of learning and applying innovative  leadership concepts thanks to the involvement of our Faculty and top managers.

At the end of the EMBA comes the Business Transformation Project, an innovation or entrepreneurial project supervised and led by a tutor from the MIP Politecnico di Milano Faculty and the services and network of the POLIHUB, the Innovation District & Startup Accelerator of the Politecnico di Milano, ranked as one of the top 3 incubators in the world.
The EMBA Project work is an excellent opportunity to realise consultancy projects in your company or to develop a new business idea with the support of the MIP Faculty .
Each year, EMBA students establish over 30 startups with the Business Transformation Project.

Another new feature being introduced in 2019 is the possibility of customising the duration of the Business Transformation Project. There are two alternative points at which the project can be discussed (in March or June).

9 Career Workshops and 10 experiential LABs per year to strengthen career skills, useful for the responsible and sustainable management of your professional development. For example: Self-Awareness & Career Strategy Design, Job search strategies, Personal branding canvas, Managing Emotions in careers, Critical Thinking, Getting ready for job interviews, etc.

7 one-to-one meetings, customized and realized in order to define the professional goal and consequently create a related action plan to achieve this goal.

8 networking events per year, which offer students the opportunity to get to know and get in touch with companies and executive search companies, in order to enrich the network and share experiences and best practices. Furthermore, thanks to the collaboration with leading Head Hunting companies, EMBA participants will be able to meet consultants specialized in recruiting and career development. They will also have the unique opportunity of an individual meeting with a highly qualified Head Hunter. Students have access to international web portals, which allow them to enrich their network by further strengthening their career skills.

Participants on the Part-time EMBA course are a diverse group in terms of studies, work experience, sector of origin and corporate role: this allow the professionals to experience a stimulating environment and to establish interesting new work-related and social relationships.

Participation in the Executive MBA at MIP Politecnico di Milano is subject to a careful selection process. One of the strengths of this Master programme is the variety of backgrounds of the participants and therefore, considerable weight is given to the candidates’ professional employment history. We recommend that you have a good knowledge of the English language (some lessons are in English, as is part of the educational material, and seminars are also held by foreign managers and professionals).

Admission to the Master may take place only after getting through a rigorous selection process, which closely evaluates the documentation sent, the student’s professional profile, the written test and the motivational interview.  The outcome of the selection process, which is based on the allocation of a score for each of these elements, may be positive or negative.

1. Application for admission is made online via www.applyformasters.net by selecting the Executive MBA Master programme in either the Evening, Part-time or Flex format.
2. Individual motivational interview
3. Written test
4. Written communication of the results of the selection process
5. Confirmation of the candidate’s participation

The final decision with respect to the admission of a candidate is entirely at the discretion of the Admissions Committee.

English knowledge, although not mandatory, is highly recommended as some Elective courses, didactic materials and managerial testimonials may be in English.

• Curriculum vitae or resume
• Photocopy of identity document
• If the company intends to provide financial support, application by the sponsoring company
• Any letters of presentation
• Degree certificate or self-certification (non-graduate applications are evaluated on request by the EMBA directorate)
• University Transcipt
• Passport photo
• Copy of proof of payment of the €150 application fee (this amount can be paid online on the application platform itself, via Flywire* or through a regular bank transfer).

*You can easily pay your tuition and fees online via Flywire, our preferred payment partner. Flywire provides a secure global payment network that simplifies paying your fees from your home country and countries around the world. Payment options can include bank transfers, credit cards, e-wallets and more, typically in your home currency for most countries.

International candidates with Italian residency and Italian candidates can also access student loans to cover the tuition fee and other expenses.
MIP collaborates with banks such as Banca Sella, Banca Intesa San Paolo, Unicredit and BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas.

In particular, for more information about the agreement with BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas, please click here.

For more information, please write to infoemba@mip.polimi.it.