Graduate School
Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program aims to develop capable and socially responsible managers for modern Philippine enterprises. It addresses principally the professional development needs of working students pursuing their studies on a partial academic load basis. Recognizing that these students are simultaneously influenced by factors or inputs emanating from their main preoccupation, namely their work or business, the program specifically aims to obrain maximum synergy from the formal MBA course work and the on-the-job learning that its students experience in their work.
Functional Areas
An MBA student may choose to major in any of the following functional areas:
- Business Management
- Finance
- Human Resource Management
- Information Technology
- Management Science
- Marketing
- Business and Governance
- Business Law
- Agribusiness
- International Business
- Culture and Arts Management
- Entrepereneurship
- Property Management
- Sports and Recreation Management
To major in functional area, the student has to take four(4) electives.
Admission Policies
Applicants to the MBA program must have:
- a bachelor's degree from a government recognized institution
- satisfactory admission test scores
- satisfactory interview results; and
- three (3) years of relevant work experience
Admission Procedures
- Pay a non-refundable entrance fee of P600 in order to secure an application form from De La Salle-Canlubang Admission's Office or GSB Admission's Office located at 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila.
- One week before your scheduled exam, please submit the following requirements:
- 4 pcs. passport-size pictures
- 2 Transcript of Records with Special Order
- For Filipinos, original copy
- For foreigners, authenticated by the Philippine Consulate
- 2 letters of recommendation/character reference (not good moral character certificate)
- Certified True Copy of Birth Certificate
- Submit the filled-out application form with your requirements and secure an examination permit. Take your entrance examination on the day (usually a Saturday) and in the room assigned to you.
- For inquiry on result of examination call up the GSP Office 10 days after you have taken it.
- Those who passed the exam are qualified for interview. Please check your interview schedule.
Note: Applicants can take the entrance exam at any of the GSB campuses. Students may take their classes at any of one or more campuses.
MBA Curriculum
| Pre-MBA Courses | Units |
| (Exemption is possible by validating exam | |
| Business Communication | 3 |
| Management Principles & Dynamics | 3 |
| Information Management | 3 |
| - IT Workshops/Validating (non-credit course) | |
| Financial Accounting | 3 |
| Managerial Statistics | 3 |
| Business Economics | 3 |
| Business Law | 3 |
| Total | 21 |
| Core Courses | |
| Ethics, Family Life, and Work-Life Balance | 3 |
| Organizational Behavior and Process | 3 |
| Management Science | 3 |
| Marketing Management | 3 |
| Financial Management | 3 |
| Production/Operations Management | 3 |
| Total | 21 |
| Written Comprehensive Exams | |
| Electives | 9 |
| Integrating Course | |
| Re-inventing Business with Digital Technology | 3 |
| Strategic Management | 3 |
| 6 | |
| Total MBA Units: 36 | |
| Oral Comprehensive Exam (OCE) or Thesis | |
| (Thesis is in lieu of nine units of electives excluding Pre-MBA courses) | |
Contact Information
| Please address all letters of recommendation to: DEAN PHILIP E. JUICO Graduate School of Business De La Salle University Professional Schools |
| De La Salle University Professional Schools Graduate School of Business http://www.psi.dlsu.edu.ph/gsb The MBA Program is the same program offered in the Ortigas, Taft, and RCBC Campuses. Contact Details: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
8:00 am - 12:00 nn |