The Highest Academic Standards

ALBA Graduate Business School attains academic excellence through the careful design and constant updating of curriculum that meets the needs of contemporary management, through the high standards used for the selection of its students, as well as through the composition of a faculty distinguished in terms of both the teaching and research records of its members.

Global Scope

The official language of the Program is English, and the examples, problems and case studies our students encounter are drawn both from the Greek and international practice. Thus, ALBA graduates are fully prepared to advance both in the Greek and the international working environment.

Skill Enhancement

The program has a hands-on orientation that enables students to enhance a variety of critical managerial skills -such as communication, negotiation, team-building and leadership- that complement and round off the theoretical knowledge students acquire.

Work Load

The average work load required by each students is over 60 hours a week. Upon completion of their studies, ALBA students are therefore ready to cope with high work requirements, both qualitative and quantitative.

Assimilation of New Knowledge

The variety and extent of the subject matters the students have to assimilate during their 12-month studies normally correspond to 2-year postgraduate university programs. Therefore, by the end of their studies ALBA students have been trained to learn fast.

Prompt Use of New Knowledge

In the course of the program, students are constantly asked to carry out projects based on the cognitive knowledge they have acquired only a few days earlier. Thus, they learn not only to learn fast, but also to make prompt and effective use of new knowledge.

Team Work

Of each student's 60-hour weekly work load, only 20 hours are spent in class with professors. The rest is devoted to team work on case studies and/or projects. In the last months of their training, students are divided in groups of four-to-five persons. Each team is assigned a real field-consulting project in a Greek company. Thus students develop all the necessary skills to collectively handle real problems.