 Hi, my name is Phillip Hendry. I am from South Africa and I'm currently studying a master in business administration at Saxon in Davinter. So the master is a master in business administration or rather an MBA and what the MBA allows you to do is to develop into an organizational leader, implement and execute organizational strategy as well as understand the different functional areas of management. Some of the subjects that we take are financial management, strategic business and decision making, creative problem solving and consultancy, integrated operations management, as well as our final business project or thesis. So the reason that I chose this master is because I wanted to further mark career in my education. So I'm a marketer by trade and I really wanted to take that step in my career and really advance it and in down the line in the future really move from maybe a marketing director role into managing director role and I think that's definitely something that the MBA can help you achieve. The reason why I chose Saxon specifically is because I believe it's a great daily for money MBA at a very high level and standard. There's also no pre-master required and what's awesome is that you get a degree from the University of Greenwich so you also get a British degree. The guidance from Saxon is also extremely helpful. For me it comes in three forms. Firstly the lecturers, secondly the management team and thirdly the international office. So firstly if we look at the lecturers, the lecturers at Saxon are always extremely helpful, well qualified and they're really able to answer any questions that you might have. One thing that I really got out of the course or that was beneficial for me is that the lecturers have a good mix of theory based as well as practical based application. So you always learn a core theory and then beyond that how do you actually apply that theory in the real world. The management team of Saxon you also have a course coordinator, someone that you can always go to kind of like your mom in the course, someone that you can always contact if you have any problems. There's also student progression meetings. So if you have problems with adjusting to life in the Netherlands or your grades haven't been as high and you're struggling with something in the course there's always someone that you can go to and help you with. If you look at the international office you're always going to have questions regarding your visa or perhaps your student housing so it's very beneficial to have someone that you could go to and that can get your questions answered immediately. I definitely believe you can apply what you've learned immediately in the course. One of the beauties of the master or the MBA course is that we're such a diverse group of people not only culturally but also what we bring to the table. You know you have people that are entrepreneurial based, they're working in their own family businesses, you have people from agriculture, marketing, sales, human resources even blockchain. So I think everyone's going to get something different and out of the course and something that they can apply practically at the end of the day. Myself being a marketer, one thing that really helped me is developing an organisational strategy and business decision making and I think if you look at courses like the leadership course as well as the finance course that's definitely something that anyone can apply no matter what role or function that you find yourself in. Having the understanding of finance is something that a lot of people really struggle with as clearly myself and definitely being able to be an organisational leader is extremely helpful. I definitely think you can achieve a lot with this master. For me firstly the thing that I believe I can achieve is career growth. It's not only getting better jobs, better job prospects but also once you get into an organisation having that ability to understand organisational strategy, having that ability to be an organisational leader within your own team is definitely that's something that's going to help you get into greater consideration for job promotion. One amazing thing as all that I've been able to achieve is work with different cultures. You know we have people from Africa, Europe, Asia all over the world and that's definitely something that's a great learning to be in a group with different types of cultures and understand how they work and they think and I think if you're going to come into a large multicultural multinational organisation that's definitely something that can help you achieve a lot more. Thank you for watching. I wish you all the best of luck with your choice of study. I hope that you choose Saxion. If you have any further information or questions please refer to saxion.nl forward slash masters and take care all the best. Welcome. My name is Bas Janssen and I'm the course director for the master of arts in management and for the master in business administration at Saxion University of Applied Sciences. Really good you're watching. Our master programme is offered in two modes. It's offered in one year full time and two years part time. The programme itself is developed around developing skills and knowledge that are relevant for those of you that want to develop in business and become a future manager and that evolves around some of the key challenges for corporate organisations such as innovation, sustainability and the use of smart technology. Moreover we focus on analytical skills and develop a critical perspective towards business developments as well as developing your personal skills and personal development in leadership and business. In addition it's good to be said that we have a theoretical master programme which is fully accredited. On the other hand we try to make use as much as possible of those practical cases that will help you to develop a critical perspective and to help you to also define which theories are current relevant in today's business and also in tomorrow's business. Another important aspect is that we develop your practical skills by making use of cases that are relevant to the industry and business which will allow us to help you to become a future proof manager. What does make our master programme so unique? Well maybe first of all it's good to be said that we have a team of lecturers which is really from practice and has a lot of practical experience and brings that knowledge to our classrooms. Furthermore our colleagues are really trained to provide you with as much as possible individual attention and also our small-scale approach will help you to feel at home at Saxio. Another important aspect is the fact that we offer an international classroom in which you are allowed to also take advantage of the various experiences of your fellow students. The last important aspect which makes our programme so unique is that we offer this programme in collaboration with the University of Greenwich which means that you will receive an internationally recognised academic MA or MBA degree upon graduation. What about the guidance that is being offered to you during this programme? Well we could basically say that it's two types. We offer you personal guidance and we offer you professional guidance. Professional guidance by our lecturers in modules or as a tutor during your thesis stage and personal guidance by our course coordinators that can help you with any issues that arise during the course of this one-year master. To whom is this programme basically catered? Well we have our MA and MBA programme. Our MA programme is catered to those that want to make a quick development in the business world for those that have recently graduated from their bachelor's degree and now want to make progress in business. The MBA programme is more of an executive programme which means that there is a prerequirement of work experience for those that want to start the MBA programme. This prerequirement makes sure that you have the relevant knowledge in store and that will help you to make your steps in your current career. For students in the MA it's most likely that they want to step in at a higher level in an organisation or maybe develop the skills and also the managerial skills on a personal level that will allow them to become a better manager or a better entrepreneur. Important to say that almost all economic programmes at a bachelor level or business programmes at a bachelor level will allow you to be accepted to these two master programmes. So then the big question what after you have graduated from your master's degree? It's important to say that we see that our graduates our alumni make their developments either in their current business or they start a new business. Developments in their current business would mean that they can take on bigger tasks, bigger responsibilities and take on a management position within these organisations either in marketing, human resources or maybe finance. It's basically catered to the broader scope of business. We also see that some of our students end up taking the root of entrepreneurship and innovation as a start-up. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this clip and hope that you can make the right decision for your future studies.