Executive MBA
Top 50 in the World
24th best MBA in Europe
#1 MBA in Portugal
Why choose our Executive MBA
Our Executive MBA is among the best 50 MBAs in the world according to the FT ranking*. It is a 20-month part-time MBA with a rigorous academic component from two top European business schools, Católica-Lisbon and Nova SBE, provided in collaboration with MIT Sloan. The program offers a holistic approach to management education and has an action-learning focus, which will enable you to foster a successful career advancement with minimal disruption of your professional and personal life. (*Financial Times Executive MBA ranking 2024)
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Action Learning
Business Project
You will be able to apply the skills and concepts learned throughout the MBA in a real business project by delivering a strategic recommendation. International expansion, new products/services launch, turnarounds and start up deployments are the kind of challenges that you and your team will tackle.
Business Simulation
As part of the Board of Directors of a B2C global corporation, you will compete in a fierce global market simulation to develop a GTM strategy, decide on equity and capital structures while ensuring effective use of resources and social responsibility policies.
Leadership Stream
You will expand your leadership competencies with a range of tools and resources that will encourage you to embrace agile ways of working, rethinking your role and your teams and unleashing a collective creative capacity to navigate the growing complexity of business and society.
In a structured journey, essential connected topics will be addressed, including power and social networks, resiliency and adaptability, feedback and self-awareness, stress management, time management and personal productivity, among others.
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MIT Immersion
As a student of the Lisbon MBA Executive, you will have a rigorous 1-week immersion experience at MIT Sloan, in Boston, built on the MIT motto of “mens et manus”(mind and hand) combining classes developed from cutting-edge research with company visits to further develop a business vision in a global and entrepreneurial environment.
2024-26 Class Profile
38
Average age
15
Average years of work experience
26%
International Students
23%
Female Students
Admissions, Fees and Funding
Career Impact
Find your Purpose. Keep Growing. Make an Impact.
The commitment of the Career Management Center is to partner with students to succeed in achieving a meaningful and life-long career fulfillment by supporting them in defining a career strategy and an action plan customized to their personal journey.
Exchange Programs
Customize your MBA with Elective Courses
At the last stage of the MBA journey, students can choose to follow the specialization tracks of The Lisbon MBA elective courses in Finance, Strategy & Marketing, and Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship, to tailor their learning path to the interests and career goals relevant to their desired industry or functional role.
Get to know a different culture, expand your ability to work in a diverse environment, and enlarge your professional network.
The Lisbon MBA Executive with an international focus provides a multicultural learning environment. Apart from the unique opportunity to go through an intensive immersion at MIT Sloan in Boston (US), ranked 6th best MBA (FT Global MBA ranking 2024), students can expand their horizons and connections with the exchange program, by choosing to do an elective course in one of our partner MBAs around the world (Esade in Spain, St Gallen University in Switzerland, Mcquarie University in Australia, Capetown University in South Africa and Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil).
Additionally, students have the unique option to dive into one of the most dynamic business regions in the world (Southeast Asia), by enrolling in 5-day “Study Mission Singapore”, with our partner, St. Gallen University and its Institute of Management in Asia. During this week, students explore the region’s business dynamics and focus on identifying and understanding the challenges of operating in Asia, developing specific market strategies, and identifying business opportunities.
What our students say about the Executive MBA
Gema Brea
SPAIN
Lorraine Coelho
BRAZIL
Alexandre Gomes
PORTUGAL
Carlos Ribeiro Ferreira
PORTUGAL
Adam C Dick
USA
Vasco Conceição
PORTUGAL
Joana Moreira
PORTUGAL/UK
Carolina Manfrinato
BRAZIL
