MBA Program in London, Ontario

Ivey Business School at University of Western Ontario:
Located on Richmond Street North in London City, south-west of Ontario, Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario is recognized for excellence both in Canada and worldwide for its full-time, One-year MBA program. Ivey is uniquely defined by our outstanding track record for developing leaders and accelerating career success. Our MBA program is not simply a set of courses, but an action-oriented learning experience designed to accelerate your success in the real world.

1-Year Ivey MBA Degree Program:
Ivey’s state-of-the-art curriculum is designed to prepare you for career success. With the input of top recruiters, business leaders, and alumni we are constantly innovating the program to ensure you are prepared to meet the needs and challenges of today`s business world. You will work with real cases. Dissect complex business issues. Make decisions. Become a confident leader who can navigate the challenges of today’s ever-changing market.

Our curriculum starts with the business essentials – the core fundamentals that every leader needs. Next, career-focused electives are introduced to ensure that you have the skills necessary to succeed in your selected career path, increasing your confidence and making you more marketable to your future employers.

Our MBA Program features the Ivey case method of learning. Think of it as a flight simulator for real business issues, a way of teaching you how to think rather than just what to think. In one year, you will graduate with a decision-making framework that becomes ingrained. Continuous exposure to hundreds of cases teaches you how to operate and solve problems as a business leader.

Recommended course sets include advanced Ivey MBA electives in:

- Finance:
Many of those who choose Ivey for Finance are already accomplished in this field, and are now searching for a more senior title and responsibilities. As an Ivey MBA, you will join them and a powerful network of over 200 influential alumni who lead Canada’s Top Seven Financial Institutions, holding Vice President or higher positions.

- Corporate Strategy & Leadership:
Because we teach using the Ivey case-method, your everyday way of learning actually mimics the real-life role of a Consultant. From dissecting and analyzing a problem from all angles, to making recommendations, getting buy-in on decisions, presenting solutions and implementing - you will spend 365 days using this Consulting framework.

In addition to the preparation you receive through Ivey's case-study method, you also have the opportunity to take a set of specially designed electives that will help you develop the tactical knowledge you need to be successful in the Consulting field. All of Ivey's elective sets are designed from a career-focused perspective, giving you the confidence and expertise to perform as a leader in the career path you choose.

- Entrepreneurship:
Ivey students interested in Entrepreneurship are MBA students with a passion for running high growth companies. With the support of Ivey's Pierre Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship, we offer you the opportunity to earn a Cross-Enterprise Leadership™ MBA and receive a Certificate in Entrepreneurship. The Certificate in Entrepreneurship includes completion of a set of career-focused elective courses, and real-world experiences that will best position them to begin their entrepreneurial journey.

- Marketing:
To prepare for a career in Marketing, Ivey ensures that you learn the basic fundamentals from Marketing courses in the core curriculum, but also ensures that you learn to think more laterally about the effects of that role across an organization. In any Marketing role, you also have to learn the responsibilities of profit/loss, human capital, sales, and negotiations - our Cross-Enterprise approach to learning gives you an understating of how the Marketing function is affected by other issues and departments across an organization, preparing you to be a leader who has a deeper understanding of how the company's bottom-line is affected by the decisions you make.

- International Management:
Ivey's MBA curriculum has been built to ensure that students have an understanding of global business issues. The focus on international learning and experience is integrated into the every day way-of-life at Ivey: from the diversity of classmates who bring an international perspective, to the international trip options, to the cases used in class every day. 

- Health Sector:
The objective of the MBA Health Sector stream is to train leaders who possess the capabilities and business skills to lead, shape, and change the health care system in Canada and globally. Worldwide, the health sector is one of the largest and most rapidly growing segments of the economy. In 2008, health care costs in Canada, and most other developed countries, were approximately 10% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In the United States, health care costs were a staggering 15% of the country's GDP.

- Ivey MBA / Juris Doctor (JD) Combined Degree:
The combined JD/MBA is designed for students who foresee a career in those areas where business and law interact. The Program is jointly administered by the Faculty of Law and the Richard Ivey School of Business and allows students to complete both the JD and MBA degrees in three academic years, as opposed to four years if taken separately.