The University of Sheffield is one of the oldest British Universities. It is a leading research university constantly ranked within the world’s top universities (24th in Europe, 69th in the world – QS world university rankings). The University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College, is one of the six faculties within the University of Sheffield and the only one operating overseas. Bridging the UK with the South East and Eastern Europe, the International Faculty offers to students the unique opportunity to study for a top class British degree of the University of Sheffield in their region.

With its main campus located in Thessaloniki, Greece, the International Faculty consists of four academic departments - the Business Administration & Economics Department, the Psychology Department, the Computer Science Department and the English Studies Department - and offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in English in the disciplines of Business Studies, Psychology, Computer Science and English Studies, including the Executive MBA – a programme specifically designed for managers’ executive training. Today, apart from Thessaloniki, the Faculty also offers the University’s programmes in a number of other locations across South East and Eastern Europe, namely Sofia (Bulgaria), Belgrade (Serbia), Bucharest (Romania) and Kyiv (Ukraine) and is continuously expanding, dedicated to its outreach mission.

The University of Sheffield Executive MBA

The Executive MBA (EMBA) is an innovative programme designed for today’s managers and business professionals who need to improve their skills and knowledge for professional, career and personal advancement. Taught by top class faculty and experts the MBA presents participants with invaluable international exposure, unique learning experience and valuable networking opportunities. Participants enrich their experiences and share best practice with people from other cultures, countries and industries. Every year high level managers from leading companies of South-East and Eastern Europe are admitted to the programme and share best practice with people from other cultures, countries and industries. Executives need not give up their positions or interrupt their careers in order to participate in the course as the programme runs on weekends (1 weekend per month).

The Executive MBA programme is available in the following five specialized areas (tracks):
- MBA in General Management
- MBA in Marketing
- MBA in Finance
- MBA in Logistics
- MBA in Healthcare Management
- MBA in Human Resource Management

Accreditation/recognition
The Executive MBA is accredited by the Association of MBAs, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).