GLOBAL MBA AI AND MANUFACTURING

THE PROGRAM

The Global MBA AI and Manufacturing trains top-level professionals with strong skills in process integration, robotics, data analytics and digital transformation.

The made in Italy know-how of leader companies, partners of BBS, is the core of an exciting training program that will provide technical preparation, managerial skills and strategic, financial and communication knowledge.

The research for professionals with technical and managerial skills to work in Artificial Intelligence has grown more than any other. The new Global MBA AI and Manufacturing is a 12-month full-time program, taught in English.

The Global MBA AI and Manufacturing trains top-level professionals with strong skills in process integration, robotics, data analytics and digital transformation. Experts who are able to manage the new and fast-changing industrial markets through a mix of academic and managerial skills.

During the first term, class activities will focus on general management, while starting from the second term, participants will participate in track-specific courses (e.g., Business Transformation, Distributed Innovation Systems, Managing Humans and Robots), analyzing real cases and working on a capstone project.

The program is complete when students complete a 500-hour internship. The internship will help students improve their problem-solving skills, apply their newly developed knowledge as well as give them the opportunity to face actual situations that arise within the business world.

Bologna Business School offers both full and partial scholarships for participants of the MBA. All applicants are eligible to apply regardless of their nationality. Scholarships are merit-based (both academic as well as professional merit).

key facts

Format

Full-time

Language

English

Start

September 2025

Location

Bologna (Italy)

CFU/ECTS

60

Duration

12 months

Career Development

The goal of the Career Service, coordinated by Andrea Zani (Head of Career Service), with the support of Alessandro Bonfiglioli (Executive Career Development Advisor), is to provide the tools and resources to gain access to the labor market and find an internship. The aim is also to support the businesses of our territory, and not limited to it, to select talents to employ; talents from all over the world, who come to Bologna to immerse themselves in the culture and the excellence of Made in Italy.

The Career Service Team supports the students in their journey made of learning and professional development, through a series of seminars, with the aim of providing the necessary tools and resources to gain access to leadership positions in the labor market. Furthermore, thanks to professional career counselors and a process to identify one’s own “Strengths” (Point Positive Assessment) developed in collaboration with Essentic, students are supported by way of a customized service to establish a professional development plan, which will help them achieve their goals in their search for an internship.

National and international companies support the Global MBA for different activities that concern the design of the courses, company visits, guest lectures, project works, besides hosting students for the final internship. Indeed, to this end, over the years the Bologna Business School has established a large network of and a sound partnership with the most important Italian and European companies thanks to a customized approach, one that is based on the needs of each individual business.

The companies that worked with us in 2023/2024 are:

ACETAIA GIUSTI AGF88 AMAZON ARES DESIGN ARTEMEST ARTHUR D.LITTLE AUTOMOBILI LAMBORGHINI BAKER HUGHES BCG BIONDI SANTI BIP CONSULTING BREMBO BUCCI INDUSTRIES CARBON CREDIT CONSULTING CARPIGIANI DALLARA DUCATI ENEL ENERGY INTELLIGENCE EUNOIC FAAC GROUP FABBRI 1905 FELSINEO FERRARI FERRETTI GROUP FUTURE FOOD INSTITUTE GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI GLAM GRANAROLO GROUP GRUPPO MONTENEGRO HIBO KERING LIU JO LORO PIANA LUXOTTICA MAX MARA FASHION GROUP MONDAINI PARTNERS MYTHERESA PAGANI AUTOMOBILI PININFARINA PINKO RES4AFRICA RONCUCCI AND PARTNERS SCM GROUP SCS CONSULTING SORGENIA SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL THE ARMIN BAR VIDENDUM VINITALY INTERNATIONAL WAMI