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Graduate School of Business Administration(IMBA)

Top-notch online MBA program in Korea

The IMBA is korea’s highest quality and first fully online MBA degree program. This program is designed for students who are unable to participate in a program using a traditional format. The IMBA’s “I” stands for Innovative, International, and Initiative.

On and offline blended learning system: Online/mobile class on weekdays & offline class on weekends for full-time employees.
100% taught by SKK Business School Full-time Faculty: All courses are taught by full-time faculty members at SKK Business School who are equipped with research expertise.
Collaboration with Multicampus: Learning support by Multicampus’s education development technology which is the top ranked cyber educational institution in Korea.

The purpose of business school is to contribute to the development of the national economy by providing today’s industrialized society with business leaders who has visions and core business capability to apply those visions to practical business. Therefore, the development of business school goes hand in hand with the growth of a nation’s industry and society.

Likewise, the history of SKKU School of Business Administration has begun with the growh in the Korean economy’s demand for business leaders and has developed so far through SKKU’s active efforts to produce competent business leaders.

Business education in SKKU has developed through three stages

In the first stage,

stage, had its Graduate School and the graduate course at School of Business in charge of business education, with the former providing full-time courses focused on the theoretical, academic side of business and the latter providing evening courses for professionals, centering on retraining.

In the second stage,

SKKU established SKKU Graduate School of Business, a full-time Amercian-style business school conferring MBA degrees to foster professional talents centering on practical business.

In the third stage,

SKKU founded the IMBA program which overcomes the constraints of time and space via the Internet and thereby complements the limitations of off-line programs.

In addition to the prestige SKKU school of Business has established and high expectations from the society for the growth potential of SKKU supported by Samsung, will provide an important turning point in life for everybody who aspires to be a world-class business leader.

Despite many strengths including excellent curricula, SKKU school of Business and Graduate Shool of Business had many constraints of off-line education, such as time and space constraints, and therefore could not fully meet the increasing demand for retraining and self-development from modern professionals in many fields. In that context, SKKU established the IMBA program in December 2002. with the accreditation by the Ministry of Education, as an alternative for the off-line courses that can respond to the fast-changing business world and can enable students to be part of a world-class MBA program whenever and wherever through the Internet.

Vision & Mission

Asia's best online MBA program with an international reputation

Department in Detail

Why Choose Us?

- You are encouraged to join IMBA if:

You have a professional career experience and aspire to be a 21C global business leader in the future, You aim at becoming a competent expert in a certain field in the 21st century,You plan to earn an MBA degree after majoring in a non-business field, such as science and technology

- Educational goals and directions of IMBA

The IMBA program fosters world-class professional business leaders who can thrive in the highly competitive global business environment with their creative perspectives, in-depth knowledge and integrating capability.
In other words, our goal is to nurture talents who can play the role as a competent leader or member of an organization, as the ever-changing business environment requires. We also enhance our student’s ability to effectively communicate with business people from the English-speaking world.

- Three educational goals of IMBA

- The major characteristics of SKKU IMBA

1. Korea’s first on-line MBA course

SKKU IMBA was the first in its kind when it was accredited by the Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development in December 2002.

2. The leader of 21C business education, Sungkyunkwan University

SKKU established what is now Korea’s best School of Business with 40 years of history(evening course). SKKU has led business education in Korea ever since, founding SKKU Graduate School of Business in1997 (the first American-style MBA course in the nation). Now, SKKU is opening a new page in 21st century’s MBA education history in Korea with the on-line IMBA program.

3. Collaboration with Multicampus, the finest cyber-education specialist in Korea

Korea’s leading e-learning firm Credu brings its knowhow of content development and course operation to the program.

Winner of Prime Minister Award in the 2002 Korea e-learning Awards
Winner of Silver Prize in Content and Grand Prize in Solutions in the 1st e-learning Competition
Designated as ‘A’Class Excellent Content for the Ministry of Labor’s training subsidy program for the first time in Korea

4. Diverse and innovative scholarship to support excellent students

A substantial part of IMBA’s budget goes to scholarships, which is awarded to new students with distinguished career, language skills, etc, students with outstanding grades, students with contribution to the program, ethnic Koreans form overseas, international students, and many more.

5. Courses centered on problem-solving

Rather than focusing on theory, we enable and motivate students to learn better by letting them solve problems and organize what they learned into modules, bassed on the goal based scenario system.

6. Support for development of communication skills

To address potential weakness of on-line education, we support students in having study groups, gathering special lectures and other events. We also facilitate communications between students in the same regions or with similar specialities, as well as supporting the on-line student asscociation.

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