The Aalto MBA program is built around the four core business areas: strategy, leadership, finance, and business operations. The program will provide you with new perspectives and strengthen your business and leadership skills. You can dive deeper into finance, entrepreneurship, or global business by choosing one as your area of specialization. The flexible program structure allows you to work full-time during your MBA studies. The flexible program structure allows you to work full-time during your MBA studies. The learning process enables you to immediately apply your newly gained knowledge in your work, and the modular structure allows you to tailor the content to your specific interests and learning targets. You can add flexibility, e.g., by having a three-year study plan or taking some modules in advance.

The Aalto MBA program modules are prepared and presented by world-class faculty from Aalto University and renowned business schools around the world. In addition to their academic qualifications, our instructors are both excellent teachers and have significant business experience in various organizations. Presentations and assignments encourage participants to link the academic input of the latest business and management theories with their professional experience in organizations and to reflect upon their own views and practices.

The Aalto MBA is designed to maximize interaction and participation. You will have modules in your own cohort (of approximately 35–40 highly motivated participants) delivered onsite in Helsinki. The program highlights the Nordic leadership style, which emphasizes trust, equality, responsibility, and togetherness, striving to create a culture in which individuals and teams thrive through mutual respect, transparency, and shared responsibility.

The teaching approach focuses on the integration of theory and practice and takes into account differences in learning styles and preferences. A variety of teaching methods facilitate learning, including lectures, cases, presentations, group discussions and projects, simulations, and encounters with business leaders. Activities draw upon the wide international experience of participants, who represent different industries, functions, and backgrounds. Each module includes assignments designed to help participants immediately apply the learnings in their own work and organization.

Aalto MBA is the most international MBA program in Finland. Each module is taught by a world-class faculty from Aalto University or one of the world’s leading business schools. Serving as great resources and mentors, our faculty has a wide range of experience in both academia and business. International cases and study groups are inspiring and interactive, allowing participants to share their expertise and find ways to apply learning in their own context. Elective study tours abroad and voluntary exchange programs contribute to developing cross-cultural competence.

The Aalto MBA is first and foremost built on and driven by the impact it has – on our participants, their organizations, the academic community, and society at large. You and your organization will benefit from our goal-oriented and comprehensive learning experience with proven impact. Aalto University professors with multidisciplinary approaches, humane teaching styles, and conversational teaching methodologies ensure that content is discussed, learned, and applied.

We help nurture and develop our participants’ knowledge and skills, foster self-confidence, and build individual learning paths that lead to meaningful careers. In the highly international and diverse group of experienced participants, a prestigious peer network and life-long friendships are born. Participants offer a platform to exchange ideas and insights, fostering an environment of openness, curiosity, and mutual respect.