On October 5, the launching event of the second phase of the Executive MBA programme of the University of Sheffield International Faculty CITY College took place in Yerevan which was attended by the RA Minister of Finance Vardan Aramyan. The Minister congratulated the students on the opportunity to take part in this programme in their motherland and noted that this course would contribute to the growth of their competitiveness, development of capacities, skills and knowledge and would also promote the progress of our country. The Minister also mentioned that in order to ensure the welfare of the society, first of all, the competitiveness of an individual is important.
Dr. Leslie Szamosi, Academic Director of the University of Sheffield Executive MBA programme in Yerevan also made a welcome speech.
The University of Sheffield is the 82nd in the world and the 26th in Europe. It belongs to the 1% of the best universities in the world. The University of Sheffield offers through its International Faculty City College a unique educational opportunity for today's executives and business professionals in Armenia: the MBA degree of the University of Sheffield, as well as the prestigious Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the AMBA certificate. The programme’s international character is deemed as one of the most important and valuable attributes of the Executive MBA. The programme runs simultaneously in 7 different countries: Thessaloniki (Greece), Sofia (Bulgaria), Bucharest (Romania), Belgrade (Serbia), Kiev (Ukraine), Tbilisi (Georgia) and Yerevan (Armenia). Every year top managers from approximately 20 different countries of South-East and Eastern Europe are admitted to the programme.
