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Planning to prioritise your career in 2025? This event is perfect for anyone considering a Business Masters or MBA

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By Megan Burns
29th Jan 2025
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Planning to prioritise your career in 2025? This event is perfect for anyone considering a Business Masters or MBA

If you think your career could benefit from further study, the UCD Smurfit School Masters and MBA Open Evening is a chance to speak to faculty, students and the admissions team, tour the campus and learn more about each programme.

Many of us like to start off the new year with some goals, and a common one is a desire to push our career forward. Whether you want to move upwards within your field or venture into a different kind of career, further study can be a huge benefit, but it can be hard to know if a Business Masters or MBA is the right choice for you.

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is known internationally for its postgraduate business programmes. Accredited for more than 20 years, UCD Smurfit School is one of an elite group of schools worldwide to hold the “triple crown” of accreditation from three centres of business and academic excellence, EQUIS (Europe), AACSB (US) and AMBA (UK). 

For over two decades, academic programmes at UCD Smurfit School consistently rank among the world’s best, and it has one of the world’s leading business school alumni communities with over 90,000 professionals around the globe in over 40 international chapters. 

The UCD Smurfit School Masters and MBA Open Evening is a great option for those looking to find out more about these programmes. The event showcases the school’s wide range of Business Masters and their MBA programmes, giving attendees the opportunity to speak one on one with faculty, students, and the admissions team, tour the campus, and get a taste of the programmes with presentations and taste lectures. 

The on-campus open evening on February 5 welcomes both business and non-business graduates to learn more about the programmes on offer. 

Register to attend

Date:  Wednesday February 5, 2025

Time: Masters 4pm – 6.30pm; MBA:  7pm – 8.30pm (followed by networking reception)

Location: UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

The UCD Smurfit School MBAs are particularly sought after, and the dedicated MBA session from 7.00-8.30pm will include an overview of the Smurfit MBA programmes, a taste lecture delivered by MBA Academic Director Associate Professor Ciaran Heavey. You will also have the opportunity to meet with the MBA Programme and Admissions Teams.

To attend the open evening, you can register here

IMAGE MBA Scholarship

IMAGE is delighted to once again partner with UCD Smurfit School in offering one MBA Scholarship to a female candidate to cover up to 100% tuition fees (valued up to €37,910) for a choice of the full-time MBA, or Executive part-time MBA, commencing August 2025. You can read about our current scholar, Lucy Chadwick, here.

The scholarship is open to all successful female applicants for the MBA who are resident in Ireland. The closing date for applications is April 30, 2025.

To find out more and apply, click here.

The UCD Smurfit School MBA is designed for highly ambitious professionals who want to advance or change their careers and enhance their professional prospects. Students benefit from an outstanding and challenging academic curriculum delivered by world-renowned faculty within an intimate classroom setting. MBA applicants can undertake either the 1 year full-time MBA programme or the 2 year part-time Executive MBA. Full details available here

To find out more about UCD Smurfit School programmes and apply, go to smurfitschool.ie.