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Part IV · No. 10

The degree certifies academic competence. Any office, mandate or ordination is a separate act.

Business & Administration·Level 7 · Second Cycle·Church Degree · suffix C

MBA.C.

Master of Business Administration — Church Degree

Advanced management qualification for business, Church administration, nonprofit organisations, and social entrepreneurship.

CHEQF Level7
Qualification typeSecond cycle, professional
Admission requirementsA Level 6 degree; the programme may require management experience.
Normative volume90–120 EAC.

Content · Outcomes

Content is what is taught. Outcomes are what is verified.

What the programme must contain

  1. strategy
  2. finance and managerial accounting
  3. organizational leadership
  4. operations and project management
  5. governance and risk
  6. fundraising/nonprofit finance
  7. ethics and ecclesiastical context
  8. applied analytics

What the graduate must demonstrate

  1. makes complex, evidence-informed management decisions
  2. develops strategy, budgets, and performance indicators
  3. manages people, projects, and organisational change
  4. understands governance, fiduciary duties, and the risks of nonprofit/Church organisations
  5. defends management decisions before stakeholders.

Final · Progression

Final capstone work and dissertations may not be transferred from elsewhere.

How the programme closes

A strategic consulting project, organisational transformation project, or applied thesis.

Where it leads

Access to DBA.C. and other Level 8 professional doctoral programmes.

Status

Black is what the degree certifies. This is what it does not.

No CHEQF academic degree, by itself, confers a right to ordination, ministry in a particular jurisdiction, or appointment to ecclesiastical office. Such decisions are made by the competent Church authority.

“This is an ecclesiastical academic qualification awarded within the Church system of higher education. It is not represented as a state-awarded or state-accredited academic degree unless such recognition has been separately granted by the competent authority of the relevant jurisdiction.”

Recommended status statement on every diploma, Article 17

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