Join the world’s first Master of Business Administration program 100% focused on accelerating your social venture.

1. For Professionals only: Roxbourg.MBA from Roxbourg Institute of Social Entrepreneurship (RISE), La Sarraz, Switzerland is a professional higher education program for Architects, Athletes, Teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Humanitarians, and Founders who want to address social, gender or environmental inequity with concrete projects in established organizations or new ventures.

2. Eligibility Criteria: You are ready to accelerate your social venture that is registered with the local authorities or your project is recognized by your organization. You already possess a Master’s or Doctorate degree or equivalent work experience. And you agree with the Roxbourg Policy.

3. Rolling Admissions: You can apply throughout the year. You will go through several rounds of interviews where you will be requested to share the details of your social venture or your project. You will need a good internet connection. You need to be sure that you can join the jam sessions on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

4. Fees & Scholarships: Roxbourg is on a mission to make quality higher education affordable for everyone who wants to build a better world. The tuition fee starts at 4,800 Swiss Francs. You can pay in monthly installments and up to 100% scholarships are available via the Humanitarian.MBA Program for everyone facing financial hardship.

5. Learning Method: You will join a Study Group where you will participate in Roxbourg Jam Sessions focused on broadening your understanding of sustainable innovation by leveraging the Roxbourg Library and Google Scholar. The goal of the study group is to support each other to get good done. You will be required to develop your venture plan using the PADV Method. PADV stands for Purpose, Ambition, Deals & Venture Plan.

6. Graduation Requirements: You can pitch your venture plan to the Roxbourg Jury after you have attended at least 42 jam sessions and your Study Group is comfortable with the details of your Venture Plan. In order to graduate with a Roxbourg.MBA you need to score at least 80% and a score of more than 90% is required to win the Roxbourg Gold Medal. Please see Roxbourg MBA+DBA to learn more about the graduation requirements of the professional doctorate program.

7. Certification: Roxbourg.MBA and Roxbourg MBA+DBA graduates receive the highly specialized Master of Business Administration and Doctorate of Business Administration degrees from the Roxbourg Institute of Social Entrepreneurship (RISE), La Sarraz, Switzerland which is designed for the toughest people on the planet addressing the biggest challenges facing local communities.

8. Accreditation: All Roxbourg.MBA and Roxbourg MBA+DBA graduates are eligible to get accredited as Roxbourg Fellows. The accreditation process is managed by the Swiss Professional MBA Accreditation Program, which is part of the Roxbourg HYPR Accelerator, an EdTech accelerator designed to hyper accelerate the adoption of Professional Higher Education (PHE) standards.

9. Graduation Ceremony: Roxbourg.MBA and Roxbourg MBA+DBA graduates receive the invitation to the graduation ceremony at the GoodFestival. GoodFestival is the world's biggest celebration of sustainable innovation thanks to the City of Lausanne, State of Vaud and support from 100+ organizations. GoodFestival is a multi-event series taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland since 2016.

10. Good100 Medal: Roxbourg Fellows and Graduates are eligible for the Good100 Medal / Label. The Good100 Medal is the highest peer recognition award for all Roxbourg and GoodFestival community members. The Roxbourg Jury evaluates every member based on their contribution to their community and advancing the boundaries of sustainable innovation through consistent application of wisdom and compassion.

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