Master of Business Administration (Financial Services)

and each other for a specified period of time, similar in duration to that spent in class by full-timeMBA students.The part-time MBA (FS) program is delivered using a blended learning model of combining distanceand classroom instruction. Dalhousie MBA courses are offered via online distance education usinguniversity texts supplemented with teaching notes and on-line correspondence. The format of eachcourse is a four month distance portion concluding with a three to five day intensive classroomsessions (which includes a three-hour exam) held in a major centre where demand warrants. There isno guarantee that sessions will be held in a particular location and participants may be required totravel to attend these sessions. (If this is the case, students are responsible for their own transportationand accommodation.)The program concludes with a capstone course, Strategic Leadership and Change. The course may betaken only after completion of all other course requirements and is only offered during the summersession at Dalhousie University in Halifax.This “blended learning model program” gives students the same MBA degree from the Faculty ofGraduate Studies at Dalhousie University as students who are enrolled in the full-time, residentialprogram. As is the case with the full-time program, enrolment is not a guarantee of success. Studentsmust meet a rigorous standard of performance and will not be passed in any individual course wherethey do not meet this standard.The Dalhousie courses are comparable to the required core courses in the full-time MBA program anduse University texts supplemented with teaching notes prepared by Dalhousie professors or qualifiedpersonnel from other Canadian universities. To graduate from the MBA (Financial Services) Program,students must successfully complete all required courses outlined in the specific stream noted. Thisdegree has full and equal status with all other Masters-level degrees approved and granted byDalhousie University.The School of Business programs (including the MBA- Financial Services) is AACSB International(Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accredited.9