By Adeola Ogunlade
Zurich Elite Business School, ZEBS, has restated its commitment toward providing flexibility, low cost, career growth focus, a robust scholarship programme, mentoring, an opportunity for overseas studies and scholarship for youths in Africa.
In a statement by The Founder/ President, ZEBS, Professor Adonis-Emmanouil Fragkakis, and Director, Africa ZEBS, Dr. Akanimo Odon, said that the tailor-made MBA is “An African Entrepreneurship Programme that supports investment into the best student and graduate innovative ideas and projects with an enterprise incubation support provided.
They said “there is an opportunity to get seed capital to start the venture and an international business partnership programme powered by an international alumni and business partners network. There is also a work-based research projects that emphasises employability and providing solutions to societal problems”.
The duo noted that currently, more than half of the over 420 million young people in Africa are either unemployed or vulnerably employed (African Development Bank, 2018) and whether this is due to lack of practical industry skills, limited university support systems, or weak government policies, not having conversations with industry players makes it even worse.
They affirms that Africa’s rapidly increasing youth population is projected to be over 830 million by 2050 (UNDP, 2017), with an average age of youth population estimated to be 25 years of age by 2046, making up nearly half of the population of many African countries in the next three to five decades.
He pointed out that the business school provide you as an African talent who can’t afford the common high MBA tuition fee, access to the ultimate business educational models regardless of your wealth, ethnic origin, race and education status at extremely low tuition fee $58’000 $2’500 also payable in installments
The statement noted that COVID has impacted on economies and led to job losses further exacerbating the crises in the professional employment space.
“COVID has made clear the fragile nature of several African economies and revealed the problem of over-dependence on natural resources i.e. minerals, oil and gas requiring a shift to a knowledge/digital economy in the new global era”, they said..
They described most International Online MBAs are expensive and not affordable by the middle-class. Most International Online MBAs are rigid and not customised or lack case studies and content that are representative of the African market.
They stressed the the business school provides quick completion time compared to most other International Online MBAs – less than one year
The unique ZEBS African Entrepreneurship Fellowship is a first of its kind training dedicated to our very best students and designed to help African entrepreneurs to maximize their chances of success through mentorship, provide access to industry experts and seed capital.