Welcome Message from the Coordinator
Welcome to the Master of Business Administration in Corporate Governance programme at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA). We are delighted to have you join a community where you will gain the knowledge, skills, and judgement to govern modern organisations with integrity and accountability.
Over two years, you will build a highly specialised set of board-level leadership skills — corporate governance theory, corporate secretarial practice, company law, internal audit and controls, business valuation, and compliance — combined with the broader MBA foundations of strategy, finance, and ethics. The programme is taught through close engagement with industry, including the Institute of Directors (IOD) Ghana, and prepares you to assume senior managerial and board-level positions. We look forward to supporting you on this journey.
Programme Philosophy
The programme is designed to prepare students to assume high managerial positions in large organisations and ensure that those organisations are accountable to their stakeholders — setting processes that affect how the organisation is operated, regulated, and controlled with good ethical standards, best practices, and relevant laws. Students develop strategic management, formulation, implementation, and evaluation skills alongside the value of good corporate governance and boardroom skills. The uniqueness of the programme lies in its practical emphasis without compromising academic rigour.
Programme Objectives
- Equip students with the essential knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to dispense the functions of governance in an organisation.
- Build the capacity of students to apply knowledge, skills, and competencies acquired to advise management units and boards on best governance practices.
- Develop students’ analytical skills to use appropriate problem-solving techniques to address issues confronting governance structures.
- Equip students with an understanding of the drivers of corporate governance to foster effective stakeholder relations.
- Equip students with competencies to develop effective modalities of compliance within the legal and regulatory frameworks of their operations.
- Develop students’ capacity to demonstrate effective and efficient internal and external communications and dissemination of information to and from the Board.
- Evaluate the various external pressures that impinge on the corporate governance of corporate entities for effective decision-making and performance.
Programme Learning Outcomes
- Apply the essential knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to dispense the functions of governance in an organisation.
- Utilise the capacity built to advise management units and boards on best governance practices.
- Exercise the acquired analytical skills and problem-solving techniques to address issues confronting governance structures.
- Employ appropriate judgement to foster effective stakeholder relations based on the drivers of effective corporate governance.
- Develop and marshal their organisations on effective modalities of compliance within the legal and regulatory frameworks of their operations.
- Apply effective and efficient internal and external communications and dissemination of information to and from the Board.
- Manage the various external pressures that impinge on the corporate governance of corporate entities for effective decision-making and performance.
Programme Structure
Year One
First Semester Courses | Second Semester Courses |
1. MCPC601 Marketing Management — 3 2. MCPC603 Organisational Behaviour and Management — 3 3. MCPC605 Management Information Systems — 3 4. MCPC607 Statistics for Business Decisions — 3 5. MCPC609 Legal Aspects of Business — 3 | 1. MCPC602 Business Finance — 3 2. MCPC604 Economics for Managers — 3 3. MCPC606 Accounting for Managers — 3 4. MCPC616 Research Methods — 3 5. MBCG622 Corporate Governance: Theories & Issues — 3 |
Year Two
First Semester Courses | Second Semester Courses |
1. MBCG603 Internal Audit and Controls — 3 2. MCPC611 Business Leadership & Ethics — 3 3. MCPC613 Strategic Management — 3 4. MBCG627 Corporate Secretarial Practices — 3 Electives (Choose One) MBCG605 Project Management — 3 MBCG607 International Corporate Governance & Accountability — 3 | 1. MBCG604 Corporate Financial Analysis & Business Valuation — 3 2. MBCG616 Company and Partnership Law — 3 3. MBCG628 Company Compliance and Administration — 3 4. MCPC610 Practitioners’ Forum — 3 5. MPGL620 Project Work — 6 Electives (Choose One) MBCG624 Business Sustainability — 3 MBCG626 Boardroom Dynamics — 3 |
Programme Coordinator’s Profile
Programme Coordinator: Nana Owusua Aboagye-Darko
Contact the Coordinator via email: [email protected]
Contact the Coordinator via phone: 0248393745
