AGSB Brand
The Ateneo Graduate School of Business exists to empower ethical and transformative leaders who drive innovation, champion social responsibility, and create meaningful impact in their industries and communities.
Guided by our Jesuit tradition of excellence and integrity, we aim to shape individuals into wellrounded professionals who balance success with service, fostering a future where business becomes a force for good in the world.
Our Students and Graduates
Our students are workplace-based, practitioner adult learners who are well on their way to managerial careers and wish to take advanced studies to equip them with the concepts, theoretical models, skills, principles, and values needed by today’s managers and leaders. We seek to produce professionals, who can manage and lead in a changing environment, with fundamental skills steeped in unwavering principles and values.
AGSB strives to produce graduates who have competences that the world rewards and who embody the Ateneo educational philosophy:
Our Competence
Faculty. Our faculty members are workplace-based and experience-driven management practitioners occupying senior executive positions in their respective organizations or entrepreneurs managing their own businesses.
Programs and Course Offerings. A student in AGSB can choose from a portfolio of two programs – Master in Business Administration or Master in Entrepreneurship - each with different tracks, selecting the program and track that suits their learning and career needs and that they qualify for. Relevance. AGSB adopts the principle of designing from context, not from content. As the world has changed, so has the role of business changed, and thus the role of the business school and AGSB. To ensure relevance in the changing business and educational environment, AGSB consulted leaders from industry and the academe. External and internal stakeholders were engaged in strategy conversations, leading to the renewed Vision, Mission, and Values statement and a Strategic Plan, calling for transformative strategies in brand, product, quality, academics, and organization. Anchoring the strategies is an internal quality assurance system, to track progress toward the objectives.
Value Proposition of Curriculum. Management fundamentals form the base. The three cornerstones of the new curriculum are Responsible Business, Digital Business, and Leadership and skills for the 4th Industrial Revolution. At the heart of the value proposition is Jesuit education, updated for a changed world. Together they represent a clear differentiation with other MBA programs.
Outcome-Based Education. As outlined in the AGSB Strategic Plan, the curriculum is built on the principle of Outcome-Based Education (OBE). As defined by the William G. Spady, “father of OBE,” in his book, Outcome-Based Education: Critical Issues and Answers: “Outcome-Based Education means clearly focusing and organizing everything in an educational system around what is essential for all students to be able to do successfully at the end of their learning experiences. This means starting with a clear picture of what is important for students to be able to do, then organizing curriculum, instruction, and assessments to make sure this learning ultimately happens.” (Spady, 1994).
In AGSB, OBE starts from the picture of the AGSB MBA Graduate. The program, the track, and all courses then align towards forming this graduate.
Workplace-based & Experience-driven Pedagogy. Theory and practice come together naturally at the AGSB. Theories and principles are enlivened by being situated in the concrete management experiences of the teachers. At the same time, the work experience of the students are made more meaningful when contextualized within management theories and principles.
The AGSB uses the adult learner methodology of facilitative learning, in which both students and faculty are simultaneously teachers and students who leverage their practical experiences in an interactive manner. Through this methodology, the theories and concepts learned can be immediately applied, improved, and enhanced in a real business setting. To complete this process, practical insights and knowledge of practitioners can then be brought into the classroom for enhanced learning.
Technology-Enabled Learning. AGSB invests in technology resources that enable learning. Classrooms are set up for hybrid-flexible learning modes. The learning management system is based on an adaptive design, with 24-7 availability and accessibility on various types of devices. Agreements with technology providers at the University level ensure vigilance in applicability, robustness, and data security.
MBA Tracks
The MBA Degree Program was designed to cater to the different profiles of its students and their learning needs – with four Tracks differentiated through the following:
There are four Tracks of the Master in Business Administration degree:
