Research results summary about the MBA programmes learning outcomes and effectiveness.

1. CREATING EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS SINCE 1984 1

3. Staffabout 2 600 over 16 000 fulltimestudents, in total 40000 students

4. 7 faculties: - Humanities - Information Technology - Education - Sport and Health Sciences - Mathematics and Science - Business and Economics - Social Sciences

6. University´s MBA programme for executives and tailored management educationprogrammes for organizations

7. Fulltimeuniversityteam + widenetworks

9. Ca. 250 students at the moment, among the biggest in Finland

10. Individualtutoring and coaching

13. 69% answered (34 MBAs)

14. Respondent profile: 88% on age scale 36-55 years

15. Structure of the research:Framing the big picture and main learning achievement with open question Evaluation of learning results and working capacity as a professional manager Programme concept and strategic strenghts Alumni and partnership perspectives

16. Result highlights and key issues: Big picture Open question: ”When you think back your MBA studies, which things made it especially meaningfull for you?” Open question analysis, mentions of most significant things combined (number of mentions) Networks and learning in interaction, exchange of ideas and views (16) Gaining new knowledge and frameworks, theory (8) Implementation to work and organizational development (8) Personalized learning ( tailoring, modular structure) (3) Conclusions From results: Networking and learning in internation is the most important thing when graduates evaluate their MBA experience! For development: Modular Avance concept is an excellent starting point to develop this even further (methods during seminar days, ICT-tools etc)

17. Result highlights and key issues: Development of learning skills In total 19 questionsfrom 3 perspectives: Professional networkdevelopmentduring MBA studies Development of learningskillsduring MBA studies Development of self-knowledge and self-managementduring MBA studies Resulthighlights: Networking: Importance of effectivenetworkingduring MBA studieswasgraded on average 4.2 (scale 1-5) 88% formedfriendlyrelationsduringMBA-studies 68% producedideasabout business relationswithotherstudentsduring MBA studies Learningskills: Importance of developinglearningskillsduring MBA studieswasgraded on average 4.1 (scale 1-5) Mostsignificantdevelopmentwasevaluated in literature and motivation to read business books: 3,8 (question: ”my desire to read business bookshasincreased” Scale 1-5, 1= not at all, 5=very much) Self-Management: Selfawarenessincreased the most (3,9 on scale 1-5)

18. Functionality and value of differentlearningmethods in MBA studies 3,9 4,2 4,1 4,6 4 Coursemodules and seminars Literature Finalthesis (Doer´sapproach) Finalthesis (Researchersapproah) Tutoring Resulthighlights and keyissues: Methods of the programme Results and observationsfrom 1-5 scaling: MBA finalthesis as researchprojectgot the top grade, majority of studentswhocompletedthesis in thiswaygraded 5!

20. Programmes strategicpositioningseems to fitcustomerneedsverywell

22. Contact information Pasi Aaltola Programmes Manager, MBA Director AVANCE Advanced Management Education Centre Continuing Education Centre University of Jyväskylä pasi.aaltola@cec.jyu.fi mobile: +35840 5134682 Street address: Matarankatu 6 Postal Address: P.O. box 35 FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä Finland