The world in your classroom
The International Full-time MBA is built on diversity. Diversity of thought, of experience, of culture, of background, of perspective. Our students come from all over the world. From a myriad of industry backgrounds. From a vast diversity of roles and functions. Each person brings his or her unique perspective, outlook and experience to a rich and challenging interchange that will upturn your preconceptions and broaden your thinking.
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The International Full-time MBA is a 12-month learning journey that will change you and change your future. You will get into the issues that really matter. You will learn, debate, discuss, exchange, persuade and bring it all together with enough international exposure to pursue your career in any sector, management role and location in the world.
Before you officially start your 12-month MBA journey, you have the chance to settle into your new environment. Build connections with your classmates, meet faculty and staff on campus, and expand your network by engaging with representatives from local organisations.
Managing for Positive Change: The PIT Project
This introductory project course will help you connect with the vibrant community of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and your fellow MBA classmates. This course addresses the contemporary challenges of business and management in the 21st century while aligning with your personal ambitions for your MBA journey. You’ll explore how global issues you care about intersect with organizations in the Netherlands and collaborate with your classmates to create meaningful connections. Your journey will culminate in the development of a professional transition plan (the PIT plan), setting the stage for your MBA and beyond.
RSM Transforming Business Conference
Part of the formal MBA introduction week, this one-day conference explores how businesses in the Netherlands are transforming to address 21st-century challenges. The conference connects prominent Dutch business organisations with RSM students, alumni, and faculty and give opportunities for learning and inspiration.
Embark on your MBA by building a platform for your learning journey and laying the foundations for impactful management in a world that is in transition: what should we expect of managers and leaders in relation to major social, technological and environmental challenges? How can we organise our operations for sustainable value? How to work with and manage diverse teams? How to read and use data?
Subjects include:
- Personal leadership development
- Managing for positive change: the PIT project
- Organisational behaviour
- Quantitative platform of business
- Business of sustainability
- Operations management
Learn the language of accounting and grapple with the core functions of marketing and strategy while growing your skills for reading the dynamics of the economic environment. Your experiential learning during this module will include a marketing simulation project.
Subjects include:
- Accounting
- Marketing management
- Strategic management
- Economic environment of business
- Marktstrat simulation project
Dive deeper into two crucial aspects of business: How to evaluate the financial value of projects and investments? How to improve your decision-making with data and analytics? You will round off this module with a signature learning experience of our MBA: the Living Management Project.
Subjects include:
- Corporate finance
- Management science
- Living Management Project
Living Management Project
During intense four weeks, you are tested on your ability to integrate and apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired so far. You’ll work in teams to devise a solution to a real business problem within a real company and present your recommendations to the company’s executives. This consultancy project allows you to test and develop yourself on key MBA competencies:
- act in the face of complexity and uncertainty
- make decisions with incomplete information
- execute projects under time pressure
- collaboration in diverse teams
- communicate and present in front of executives
RSM Summer School
Choose from a series of short masterclasses on current topics related to business in transition, ranging from AI to sustainability and integrate your insights in an assignment that builds on your prior work.
Study trip
A week abroad, learning about key business issues in an international context of your choosing. This immersive learning experience exposes you to a different business environment and gives you the opportunity to explore new sectors and expand your network. You will select a destination from a pre-determined portfolio which you will share with the current Executive MBA cohort.
Advanced courses
Focus your learning on obtaining advanced competencies in a specific business area.
You can choose to specialise in one of five subjects:
- Advanced finance
- Advanced strategy
- Advanced marketing
- Advanced supply chain management
- Advanced sustainability
Electives*
Every year we offer around 25 electives which allow you to further specialise in topics of your choice. The electives include current topics across five concentrations connected to the advanced courses. You can choose three electives, and you have the possibility to obtain a concentration when choosing two electives that relate to the advanced course.
Here is a selection of the courses that may be on offer:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Business negotiations
- Communicating sustainability
- New marketing strategy for the digital age
* Please note: electives are subject to change
Strengthening your ability to be an impactful leader is integrated throughout the MBA learning experience. All your coursework, assignments, and projects allow you to improve different elements of your knowledge and capacity to tackle complex business issues. Effective leadership, however, is only partly about what you know; it is also about who you are and how you show up in the world. To learn more about yourself, your values and your impact on others, the MBA also offers you a specific Personal Leadership Development (PLD) course.
The PLD experience increases your self-awareness and enhances critical interpersonal skills that are key for your success in the MBA and as a leader beyond. PLD offers you a chance to become a better version of yourself that you can skillfully bring to the job of leading others.
Spend a term at one of the 40+ leading business schools in RSM’s network. Exchange options are offered for those who are selected. Selection is based on academic performance and engagement throughout the year. Exchanges take place from January to March, after the programme.
*** Exchange options are offered for those who are selected, at the end of the programme.
Personalised Support & Exclusive Opportunities
At RSM, your career success is our priority. The RSM Career Centre provides tailored guidance and exclusive recruitment opportunities to help you land your next career move. As an MBA student, you’ll gain access to top employers, career coaching, and hands-on projects designed to boost your professional growth. With an average of eight years of work experience and a diverse class of professionals from all over the world, you’ll be part of a global talent pool that recruiters seek out for leadership roles. Whether you're looking for a career switch, industry transition, or international opportunities, our Career Centre is here to support you every step of the way.
MBA Recruitment Events
Network with top employers and explore career opportunities through our MBA Recruitment Events. These events connect you with hiring managers and business leaders from various industries. You’ll have the chance to:
- Meet recruiters from top companies through presentations, Q&A sessions, and networking chats
- Learn about exclusive job openings and company cultures
- Participate in speed interviews for one-on-one discussions with potential employers
The Living Management Project: Real Consulting Experience
Each year, companies turn to RSM MBA students for fresh, strategic solutions to real-world business challenges—and you’ll be at the heart of it. The Living Management Project is an intensive, five-week consulting experience where you’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team to solve a complex business issue for a real company. Guided by faculty, you’ll apply your newly acquired MBA skills, tackle uncertainty, and work under tight deadlines—just like in the world of consulting.
Through this hands-on experience, you will:
- Solve real business challenges for corporate partners
- Enhance your consulting and problem-solving skills in a high-stakes environment
- Gain exposure to different industries and functions, potentially opening doors for internships and career shifts
- Present strategic recommendations to company executives and faculty
This project is more than just an academic exercise—it’s a stepping stone to real-world impact and future career opportunities.
Discover how RSM MBA students provide companies with actionable consulting solutions. Read more here.
Internships & Company Projects
Looking for hands-on industry experience to collaborate with businesses on strategic projects, apply your MBA knowledge, and gain valuable insights into your target industry? While internships are not guaranteed, you’ll have the chance to explore opportunities that align with your career goals.
Through these experiences, you can:
- Work on a high-impact project with a company of your choice
- Gain industry-specific experience to support your career transition
- Build your professional network with industry leaders
What kind of leader will you be?
Leadership is comprehensively integrated across the entire MBA learning experience. We call this Personal Leadership Development (PLD). Every class, every assignment and every project is informed by a leadership development component: a challenge to apply theoretical concepts to real-world scenarios. To make decisions based on what you know and what is in front of you. To think like a real business leader.
The Personal Leadership Development programme will help you build your leadership competencies via dialogue and interchange with inspirational peers and leaders from a broad diversity of backgrounds and cultures.
Leading knowledge
Our faculty and professional coaches have their fingers on the newest insights and best practices from all over the world. You will have access to all of it through the PLD programme.
Leading in action
Apply your managerial savvy through active lessons – such as in-class exercises, simulations, group work, peer reviews and mentoring opportunities.
Leading solutions
Put your critical thinking to the test. For four weeks, you will work in teams to solve a real-world business problem for a real firm, and present your solution to executives.
So much more than a classroom
The MBA classes are important of course – and ours rank among the top international business schools globally. But standing out in the competitive world of business takes more. You have to step out of your comfort zone and into the world around you. Students come to us from all over the world and from a vast spectrum of industries, sectors and roles. In class, in project work, on campus, on treks – the rich exchange of ideas and approach will push your boundaries and broaden your mindset exponentially.
Study Tours
Our study tours are immersive learning experiences that expose you to the complexities of global business. Previous international study tours and topics included:
Lisbon
Social impact through innovation
London
Financing of companies over their lifecycles
Dubai
Energy transition
Shanghai
Doing business in China: innovation and entrepreneurship
Athens
Turning Ideas into Startups
Washington DC
Business and politics
San Francisco
Leading during change and crisis
Costa Rica
Sustainable Business in a (Striving) Sustainable Society
Toronto
Digital disruption of financial services and artificial intelligence
Barcelona
Digital Technologies in Operations Management
Frankfurt
Modern Corporate Finance in theory and practice
Prague
Management Consulting
Reykjavik
Green Economy and Sustainability
Tallinn
Digital Ecosystems: strategies for innovation
Reims
The power of the collective: an immersion in champagne
The Craft of Management
Taking your MBA at RSM exposes you to the biggest, most relevant ideas shaping modern, global business and challenges you to dive deep into the theories, the problems and the technical issues that, as a future decision-maker, you will have to navigate. But becoming an impactful manager is not just about mastering the granularity of today’s challenges within specific problem domains. Modern management is also a craft that requires you to be able to step back, critically assess the big picture (using the different tools acquired during your MBA) see the risks and the opportunities ahead and join the dots that connect them.
Running across your MBA journey at RSM is an integrative programme that empowers you to re-evaluate each of your core subjects as a function of the whole and critically reflect on how the different pieces fit together and where you will need to apply your own personal touch in order to create holistic and sustainable value.
The Craft of Management is the red thread during your MBA. Each session invites you to question what you learn in the broader context of today's management challenges and responsibilities. You will be challenged again to reflect on why you are pursuing an MBA, what you hope to achieve and what kind of impact you aim to have after the MBA.
You will explore:
- The taken-for-granted assumptions (including your own) that are associated with conventional management thinking
- The important and complex roles that organisations and their leadership have in propagating current systems of management—for better or worse
- The need to be an open and engaged force for positive impact as a future manager
International Exchange
As part of the programme you can opt for an international exchange. Spend a term at one of the 40+ leading business schools in RSM’s network. Exchange options are offered for those who are selected. Selection is based on academic performance and engagement throughout the year. Exchanges take place from January to March, after the programme.
Events and Networking
Take full advantage of the unmistakable energy on our campus. Dive into events and networking opportunities hosted by the MBA Student Association and MBA Career Centre.
Dutch-style
The Netherlands is a true melting pot of cultures, making it a perfect place to come for your studies and its universities are consistently ranked in the top universities in the world! In Holland you will gain a unique global perspective while benefiting from world-class education that provides good value for money and excellent career opportunities. With a wide range of English taught programmes, you can study with ease in one of the safest and happiest countries in the world.
There is so much more to business school than courses, case studies and exams. At RSM we believe that quality of life is just as important to your personal growth and professional development as your formal education.
With a diverse campus community, you will have access to an energetic, enriching life beyond the classroom. Capitalise on activities and networking opportunities hosted by the Student Association and student clubs.
When you are not studying, enjoy exploring your new environment. From restaurants and museums to music and nightlife, there is always something to do and see in Rotterdam and the Netherlands. Cultural liberalism, tolerance and a curiosity about the world: in the Netherlands, these qualities are rooted in our history, our culture and our societal DNA.
Best of all, the Netherlands is often ranked as one of the happiest countries in the world. You can find out why when you’re here.
Diverse and vibrant Rotterdam – the gateway to Europe
Welcome to Rotterdam, the gateway to Europe. International city with a distinct character, energetic, always in motion, eyes on the future. Dynamic port city, where a vibrant mix of more than 170 nationalities and many cultures, subcultures and communities make for a diverse, inclusive and open urban culture. It’s no wonder that more and more international companies and expats settle and build their future in Rotterdam.
On campus activities
There’s a lot to do on campus. Grab a coffee at the Erasmus Food Plaza, or attend an event at the theatre or Café in de Smitse. The on-campus sports centre offers fitness, dance, spinning, squash, and tennis among many other classes. And you can attend scientific, social and cultural programmes offered on campus by Studium Generale.
RSM: on a mission for positive change
At RSM, we believe that sustainability is not just a responsibility—it’s a necessity for future business leaders. Our International Full-time MBA is designed to equip you with the skills and mindset to drive positive change, ensuring that you understand the impact of business decisions on people, organisations, society, and the planet.
Our vision is clear: to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy through world-class management education. This aligns with Erasmus University’s mission to create positive social impact and is embedded in our approach to developing leaders for the sustainable, digital economy.
Through this MBA programme, you’ll gain practical tools and strategies to navigate global economic, social, and environmental challenges. You’ll learn how to integrate sustainability into business decision-making, ensuring that you graduate ready to lead with purpose and responsibility in an evolving global landscape.
Big thinkers. Industry experts. Exceptional scholars.
RSM offers a distinct intellectual culture based on the values of being critical, creative, caring and collaborative, and we are committed to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for our mission.
We believe that leadership can be taught through a combination of intellectual and practical challenges – like those encountered when working in diverse teams – that can foster creative new approaches in business. And we encourage a flexible, broad and sometimes iconoclastic mindset in business practice and research – from the perspective of being a force for positive change in the world at an individual and organisational level.
Research and education by our world-class researchers and academics are among the best in the world, perfected at the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). Our think-tank is ranked as one of the top 10 research institutes in Europe.
At RSM, we are proud to claim:
