With this new master's program the BUHCM and the FHNW respond to an ever growing and urgent demand for more skills and knowledge relating to IT: how to react to ever faster changes in tech-nology, how to understand about the complex linkage between local and international business and IT.

Why an Executive MBA in Business Information Systems

In today's global environment, businesses must work across geographical boundaries in real time. Therefore, any and all business activities must be supported by information technology (IT). Doing business today means managing effectively and efficiently what has been recognized as the most valuable company asset: Data!

The Executive Master of Business Administration in Business Information Systems is a unique program in Vietnam and Switzerland, offered by the Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City (BUHCM / www.bu.edu.vn) together with the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW http://www.en.fhnw.ch/business)
With this new master's program the BUHCM and the FHNW respond to an ever growing and urgent demand for more skills and knowledge relating to IT.

Why have the Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City and the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland decided to offer this joint program?

• We have already successfully developed the program Executive Master of Finance and Banking (initiated in 2006)
• The University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland has solid experience in defining and implementing curricula for Master Programs

For whom has this Master been designed?
The graduates of this master's program will be able to understand, elaborate and manage appropriate and profitable ICT-solutions enabling a secured, dynamic and mature growth for their enterprises.

• ICT professionals who need to understand the business context in which they operate. After attending this program, they will better understand the business problems that they have to cope with. They will know how to better organize the IT resources in order to improve and demonstrate their delivered value to business.
• Business managers who want to better understand the connection between the processes they are responsible for and the services that IT can deliver. After attending this program, they will understand what can and should be expected of the IT services within their companies, and how to use these IT services to enhance business profitability.
• Anyone with the requested prerequisites, who wishes to better understand the steadily growing importance of the IT within business and who wishes to prepare themselves for new professional challenges.