伦敦政经学院创新"MBA"

The London School of Economics is combining what it believes is the best of the traditional masters degree with the best of an MBA by launching a 21-month masters in management programme for those with little or no work experience.

The LSE – the London School of Economics and Political Science, to give it its full title – already runs a successful one-year programme for students with an undergraduate degree in business or related subjects. The extended degree will be a conversion degree for those who studied arts or sciences at undergraduate level and would like to develop business and management knowledge before entering the workplace.

The new programme will put the LSE into direct competition with many of the top continental European business schools, such as HEC and Essec in Paris, which offer highly ranked two-year masters programmes. It will also continue to build LSE's reputation as a provider of masters-level programmes in management.

Last year the school's department of management introduced two one-year masters programmes, one in management and economics and the second in management, organisations and governance. Both were heavily over-subscribed. Indeed, the latter had 600 applicants for a proposed 20 places. The LSE ultimately enrolled 774 students on the course.

“What this tells me is that the LSE brand stretches to management quite effectively,” says Saul Estrin, head of the LSE's management department and a former deputy dean at the London Business School.

While the new 21-month masters in management programme will cover the basic theories of management, it will also include a company internship between the first and second years.

“The degree has been designed very closely with recruiters,” says Dina Dommett, department of management project director.

Participants will also be able to take part in their second year in the Community of European Management Schools' exchange programme, which takes students from Europe's top universities and enables them to study in other countries and in some of Europe's top companies, such as L'Oréal, Siemens and UBS, which are Cems partners.

The masters in management programme will begin in September, as will a second new management programme, the 12-month MSc in public management and governance.

Both will be housed in the LSE management department's new building in central London.

伦敦政治经济学院(LSE)择传统硕士学位与MBA之精华，将其合二为一，针对工作经验很少或根本没有工作经验的学员，推出一种为期21个月的管理学硕士课程。

此前，伦敦政经学院已经成功推出一种一年制课程，目标学员是商科或相关学科的大学本科毕业生。对于那些本科专业为文理科、希望在工作前增长一些商业与管理知识的人来说，这种进修学位是一个转型式的学位。

这项新课程将令伦敦政经学院与很多欧洲大陆顶级商学院形成直接竞争，如巴黎高等商学院(HEC)和巴黎高等经济商业学院(Essec)，这两所商学院的两年制硕士课程排名极其靠前。同时，新课程也会继续加强伦敦政经学院在提供管理学硕士课程方面享有的声誉。

去年，这家商学院的管理学系引入了两种一年制硕士课程，第一种是管理与经济学，第二种是管理、组织与治理。这两种课程全都供不应求。事实上，第二种课程拟招学员20名，但申请者达到600人。伦敦政经学院的这个课程最终招收了774名学员。

伦敦政经学院管理学系主任、伦敦商学院(London Business School)前任副院长萨尔•埃斯特林(Saul Estrin)指出：“这说明伦敦政经学院的品牌非常有效地延伸到了管理学领域。”

这门为期21个月的新设管理学硕士课程，除了包括管理学的基本理论外，还包括第一年和第二年之间的一段公司实习。

管理学系项目主管迪娜•多梅特(Dina Dommett)表示：“这个学位是与招聘人员密切合作设计的。”

学员在第二学年还可以参加欧洲管理学院协会(Community of European Management Schools)的交换课程——从欧洲顶尖大学选拔学生，让他们到其它国家或欧洲一些最好的公司学习，如欧莱雅(L'Oréal)、西门子(Siemens)和瑞银集团(UBS)，这些公司都是欧洲管理学员协会的合作机构。

管理硕士课程将于今年9月开课。另一门新设的管理学课程——为期12个月的公共管理与治理科学硕士(MSc)——届时也会开课。

两种课程的授课地点都在伦敦政经学院管理系位于伦敦市中心的新教学楼。