Flexible MBA
A flexible program. Full-time and Part-time options. Choose your pace.
Full-time MBA
- Full-time MBA students take two courses (or more) every 4-week module.
- You can take your required courses in the daytime (normally scheduled on weekdays from 9:00-12.30 and 13.00 – 16:30).
- Take your electives in the daytime or evening.
- Complete in 12 – 48 months.
- Courses are normally offered over 4-week modules.
- To graduate, you need to successfully complete a total of 66 credit hours.
Part-time MBA
- Part-time MBA students take one course every 4-week module.
- You can take your required courses on weekday evenings (18:00 – 21:30 | 2-3 days/week).
- Take your electives in the daytime or evening.
- Complete the program in 24 – 48 months.
- Evening classes have a meal break: light meals are included.
- To graduate, you need to successfully complete a total of 66 credit hours.
The Flexible MBA Program consists of 66 credit hours. Most courses are 3-credit hours, a few are 1.5 credit hours. A 3-credit hour course normally involves 30 classroom hours.
The program’s 66 credit hours include:
- 9 credits of Skills & Values Module
- 27 credits of required courses (covering Statistical Methods for Management Decisions; Economics for Decision Makers; Marketing for a Digital Age; Leadership in Organizations; Accounting for Decision Making; Business Strategy; Entrepreneurial Management; Financial Management; Digital Transformation: Emerging Technologies & Strategies)
- at least one 6-credit Action Learning Lab
- at least 24 credits of elective courses
Skills & Values Module
Our Skills & Values Module is the beginning of your Sasin journey. These initial activities give you the opportunity to meet and bond with your classmates and be better prepared for the program. Activities usually include:- Orientation: includes dinners with prominent CEOs and a hands-on sustainability workshop that focuses on practical applications of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in Southeast Asia and beyond. There is also an alumni panel to advise you on how to make the most of your opportunities at Sasin, and some top business leaders speaking about contemporary business issues,
- Get-Away Visit: with ice-breaking and group forming activities,
- Short preparatory courses to make sure you’re up to speed in the basics of Math, Statistics, and Accounting.
Required Courses
The first modules of your program focus primarily on the required courses. These prepare you for the more individually-tailored curriculum of subsequent modules, which will be driven by your desired choice of electives. The core curriculum emphasizes the deepening and systematization of your management skills and provides the foundation for your Flexible MBA program. You must complete the following required courses before advancing to subsequent modules. After completing these required courses, you may also change your rate of progress by deciding to take one course per module (often called part-time) or two courses per module (often called full-time). Or you may choose to ask permission to further accelerate to turbo and take more than two courses per module. Requests to change your rate of progress should be made to the Office of the Registrar at registrar@sasin.edu. Required courses are:- Accounting for Decision Making
- Business Strategy
- Digital Transformation: Emerging Technologies & Strategies
- Economics for Decision Makers
- Entrepreneurial Management
- Financial Management
- Leadership in Organizations
- Marketing for a Digital Age
- Statistical Methods for Management Decisions
Electives and More
After completing your initial 9 required courses, you will then complete the Action Learning Lab, and 8 elective courses. As you plan the rest of your program, you have four broad options:- follow a general program of study,
- pursue one or two areas of specialization (concentration). You may concentrate in Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Management and Strategy, or Data Analytics (see below),
- enroll in one of the international dual-degree programs,
- take part in one of our many exchange programs.
MBA Concentrations & Electives
In their second year, many students choose to concentrate on one or two specific areas. Concentrations are shown on student transcripts. Each concentration comprises 1 or 2 foundation course(s) and 3 additional elective courses. Each course can be counted towards more than one concentration. At present, concentrations include: Data Analytics, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Finance, Management & Strategy, Marketing.- Foundation (required): DA D20 Digital Transformation: Disruption, Transformation, and New Business Models; or MGMT D52 Global Strategy: How to Win and Lose Big in the Digital Ecosystems of China/Asia
- 3 electives chosen from:
- DA D10 Intro to Data Analytics
- DA D11 Intro to Machine Learning for Data Analysis
- DA D12 Data Science and Visualization for Business
- DA D13 Simulation for Complex Business Problems
- DA D14 Applied Modeling for Management Decisions
- DA D15 Marketing Analytics
- DA D16 Introduction to Financial Analytics
- MECN D56 Ecosystem Orchestration Analytics
- or other data analytics courses taken at Sasin or at Sasin’s partner schools during our International Student Exchange Programs, with the written approval of the Office of the Registrar.
- Foundation (required): MGMT D60 Entrepreneurial Management
- 3 electives chosen from:
- AL D31 Action Learning: New Ventures Lab-Consulting
- AL D32 Action Learning: New Ventures Lab-Formulation
- FINC D48 Venture Capital Funding
- LAW D30 Business Law
- MECN D46 Pricing Strategies
- MGMT D55 IT for General Managers
- MGMT D62 Entrepreneurship and New Venture Formulation
- MGMT D67 Family Business: Managing Growth and Succession
- MGMT D70 Negotiations
- MGMT D73 Global Initiatives in Management
- MGMT D77 Managing Family Business in the Digital Era
- MGMT D78 Global Perspectives on Family Business & Entrepreneurship
- OPN D75 Project Management
- or other entrepreneurship or family business courses taken at Sasin or at Sasin’s partner schools during our International Student Exchange Programs, with the written approval of the Office of the Registrar.
- Foundation (required): FINC D30 Financial Management
- 3 electives chosen from:
- FINC D41 Corporate Finance
- FINC D42 Financial Decisions
- FINC D44 Value Creating Financial Planning & Strategies
- FINC D45 Corporate Governance and Value Creation
- FINC D48 Venture Capital Funding
- FINC D53 Risk Management for Financial Businesses
- FINC D55 Mergers and Acquisitions
- FINC D60 Investments
- FINC D81 Special Topic in Finance
- DA D16 Introduction to Financial Analytics
- or other finance courses taken at Sasin or at Sasin’s partner schools during our International Student Exchange Programs, with the written approval of the Office of the Registrar
- Foundation (required): MGMT D31 Business Strategy
- 3 electives chosen from :
- AL D10 Action Learning: Global Management Consulting Lab
- AL D20 Action Learning: Sustainability Lab
- DA D14 Applied Modeling for Management Decisions
- DECS D51 Judgement and Managerial Decision Making
- IR D40 Strategic HRM of the Future Workforce/Workplace
- MECN D50 The Age of Disruptions: Impact on Business Environments
- MECN D55 International Trade and Investment
- MECN D56 Ecosystem Orchestration Analytics
- MGMT D52 Global Strategy: How to Win and Lose Big in the Digital Ecosystems of China/Asia
- MGMT D64 Business Environment and Emerging Technologies
- MGMT D70 Negotiations
- MGMT D79 Innovation for Future Fitness
- MGMT D83 Emerging Market Strategy
- MGMT D84 Becoming A Mindful Leader
- MGMT D93 Culturally Smart Management for Global Business
- MGMT D98 Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- MORS D31 Social Innovation in Practice
- MORS D32 Unlocking your organization and its potential
- MORS D38 Managing Human Capital in a Global Context
- OPNS D75 Project Management
- or other strategic management courses taken at Sasin or at Sasin’s partner schools during our International Student Exchange Programs, with the written approval of the Office of the Registrar.
- Foundation (required): MKTG D30 Marketing for a Digital Age
- 3 electives chosen from:
- DA D15 Marketing Analytics
- MECN D46 Pricing Strategies
- MKTG D50 Research Methods in Marketing
- MKTG D52 Consumption and Marketing
- MKTG D54 Advertising and Integrated Communications
- MKTG D59 Services and Hospitality Marketing
- MKTG D64 Brand Management
- MKTG D68 Multicultural Marketing
- or other marketing courses taken at Sasin or at Sasin’s partner schools during our International Student Exchange Programs, with the written approval of the Office of the Registrar.
All MBA students must take at least one Action Learning Lab. We offer several types of Action Learning Labs. You choose the type that best fits your interests. You can take more than one if you wish.
Initially, the Action Lab requirement will be satisfied by successfully completing any of the following:
- Sasin-MIT Action Learning Lab: If you want to go into consulting or work on practical projects in a specific industry, you might choose this as your Action Learning Lab.
- Sasin-China Lab: Work with MBA students from the Fudan School of Management or Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM) on real client projects.
- Sustainability Lab: If you are interested in sustainability management you will want to choose this as your Action Learning Lab and work on real sustainability problems, with real businesses.
- New Ventures Lab: If you are interested in creating your own start-up, you may wish to take the New Ventures Lab
It’s practical, hands-on, teamwork!
All Action Learning requirements will involve some common elements, designed to reinforce Transformative Action Learning. All Action Learning Labs will involve:- students working in teams,
- to solve real-world business problems. These practical problems might come from existing business (in the case of GIM for example), or from problems students themselves identify and choose to solve (in the case of start-up business plans for example).
- mentored by a resource team of faculty, usually assisted by specialized professionals (who will often be Sasin alumni).
- Over a sustained period
- Action Learning Labs will normally span several modules. The regular four-week module will usually not give sufficient time for an Action Learning Lab.
Sasin offers many experiences beyond the classroom. In addition to international opportunities, these include:
- taking part in local, regional and global startup competitions (e.g. SCBFLC)
- helping organize Sasin’s own Bangkok Business Challenge (Asia’s longest-running global startup competition)
- attending presentations by noted speakers and renowned global leaders
- participating in Sasin’s ever-changing array of clubs, sports, and networking activities.
If you choose not to go on exchange, you may wish to participate in Sasin’s Internships in Management Program.
When you’ve successfully completed your first 9 required courses on the Flexible MBA program, if you don’t choose to take advantage of one of Sasin’s international opportunities, you may wish to participate in the Sasin Internship in Management Program.
Internships provide intensive on-the-job training and hands-on experience with well-known organizations for about two months to help develop your managerial skills and applied knowledge of the real business world.
Internships usually begin in early March, but candidates should ask about available positions in October of the preceding year.
For further information, please visit Career Services (6th floor, Sasa Patasala Building) or contact careers@sasin.edu. In the past, Sasin students have completed internships at a range of different companies, including:
- Accenture
- Bangkok Bank Public Co., Ltd.
- Berli Jucker Public Co., Ltd.
- Bank of Ayudhya Public Co., Ltd.
- Citibank, N.A.
- Citicorp Securities Thailand Ltd.
- Colgate-Palmolive (Thailand) Ltd.
- Deutsche Bank AG
- EFFEM Food (Thailand)
- Exxon Mobil Corporation
- Export-Import Bank of Thailand
- Frito-Lay Thailand Co., Ltd.
- GE Capital (Thailand) Ltd.
- Hewitt Associates (Thailand) Ltd.
- Hewlett Packard (Thailand) Ltd.
- HSBC
- IBM Global Business Service
- Internet Thailand Public Co., Ltd.
- Johnson & Johnson Co., Ltd.
- Kasikornbank Public Co., Ltd.
- KGI Securities
- Kimberly-Clark Thailand Ltd.
- KPMG
- L’Oréal Thailand
- Ogilvy One Worldwide Co., Ltd.
- P & G Manufacturing Thailand
- Phatra Securities
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Proctor & Gamble Asia Pte Ltd.
- SCB Securities Co., Ltd.
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Shell Company of Thailand Ltd.
- Siam Cement Public Co., Ltd.
- Siam Commercial Bank Public Co., Ltd.
- Standard Chartered Bank (Thai) Public Co., Ltd.
- Thai Chamber of Commerce
- The Stock Exchange of Thailand
- Toyota Motor Thailand Co., Ltd.
- Trans-Link Express (Bangkok) Co., Ltd.
- True Corporation
- Unilever Thai Holdings Ltd.
- United Overseas Bank (Thai) Public Co., Ltd.