Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM)
CIIM is a leading business school located in Southeast Europe. It was founded in 1990 with a mission to elevate the leadership and management to the highest professional level in the private and public sectors. CIIM is a highly specialised school, concentrating exclusively on advanced studies in business related subjects. CIIM has proudly earned an international reputation as a centre of excellence in business education and research.
Students, business leaders and Academics from around the globe have been drawn to CIIM’s dynamic business environment. CIIM offers an innovative and very successful Master in Business Administration (MBA) and a uniquely designed Master in Public Sector Management Programme (MPSM). In addition CIIM offers specialised Master (MSc) programmes in several areas: Shipping Management, Human Resource and Organizational Behaviour, Marketing Management, Education Leadership and Management, Finance and Banking, Health Care Management, and Real Estate Management. CIIM programmes combine a creative fusion of the best of European and American business education.
CIIM admits a select group of students from around the world; more than 55% of CIIM students are international students. With a modular course structure, laser-sharp focus and innovative learning methods, CIIM’s Masters programmes are both intensive and time-efficient. The flexible, modular structure and the design of the courses to be self-contained enable students to join the school at any time of the year and complete their studies within one year.
The CIIM programmes are amazingly diverse in terms of faculty, curriculum and student body. The curriculum is cutting-edge and thoroughly international offering the student a wide choice from among several electives and areas of concentration beyond the general core curriculum. The faculty is drawn from 25 leading business schools from 12 different countries, such as Harvard, MIT, Wharton, NYU, Columbia, London Business School, Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, London School of Economics, ΙNSEAD, Cranfield, HEC and ΕSSEC. The CIIM MBA is built on three pillars: Common Core Courses, Specialised Electives and a Final Thesis.
Courses offered are worth 2 credits (14 hours of classes), 3 credits (21 hours of classes) or 5 credits (35 hours of classes). Most courses are designed to be self-contained and have no prerequisites. In some cases, however, candidates may need to strengthen skills in mathematics, statistics, economics and finance, or accounting. A number of advanced courses may only be attended by students that have completed at least 50% of the programme coursework.
To graduate, students must obtain 85 credits, by attending 595 hours of classes, plus 20 credits by completing a final project work - with options ranging from a business plan to a major in-company project, usually directed at a problem, or a new business opportunity within their assigned company. CIIM is a non-profit institution that operates on a cost-recovery basis. Since providing “world-class business education at affordable cost” is central to CIIM’s mission, CIIM has made every effort to minimize tuition costs .Thus, tuition fees are only 14,500 Euro for the MBA and MPSM programmes.
Ranking
Report Ed Educational magazine India: World ranking 77, rank in Europe 21
Accreditation
AMBA
