Vlerick: A top choice for healthcare professionals when they choose their MBA
Top reasons that healthcare, pharma and life sciences professionals choose Vlerick
Every year, healthcare, pharmaceutical and life sciences professionals from around the world join our Full-time MBA, Executive MBA, European Executive MBA and Online Executive MBA programmes.
They know that Vlerick has an outstanding reputation for research into healthcare management – coordinated by our Healthcare Management Centre and Minoz Research Centre on Hospital Operations Management. And they know that each year, we bring together a Europe-wide community of healthcare professionals at our annual Healthcare Conference.
And they know that with entrepreneurship running through our veins, we provide a springboard for health and pharma tech start-ups and not-for-profits.
When you combine this with our hands-on, highly personalised careers support, exposure to world-leading organisations and guidance from leading faculty, you can see why so many professionals take their next leap at Vlerick.
These are the top reasons that healthcare, pharma and life sciences professionals choose Vlerick.
1. To go beyond technical specialism
The career path for many professionals in healthcare, pharma and life sciences is one of ever-narrower specialisation. But this can also reduce opportunities to move into management roles, shift gears to become an entrepreneur – or change career entirely. An MBA gives healthcare professionals an ideal way to gain the complementary skillsets, insights, perspectives and networks they need to change track.
2. To develop as a strategic leader
It’s not unusual for highly specialised professionals to be promoted because they’re great at what they do. But this doesn’t necessarily mean they have the skillsets to inspire collaboration, innovation and change.
Leadership is core to all MBA learning at Vlerick. Which means specialists from all sectors – including healthcare, pharma and life sciences – gain the approaches and techniques they need to get teams to work productively together.
3. To become an entrepreneur
Vlerick lives and breathes entrepreneurship. Our hands-on teaching promotes entrepreneurship and digital transformation within corporations – as well as providing expert support to MBA participants with ambitions to set up new enterprises. We’re active in key European entrepreneur ecosystems – and we provide seed funding for promising ideas and start-ups. No wonder, then, that an entrepreneurial fire lights inside so many of our MBA participants.
4. To gain perspectives from diverse sectors
When you’ve spent your entire career in one sector, it can be eye-opening to work alongside professionals with different experiences and approaches. So at Vlerick, we hand-pick MBA participants to form groups with complementary skills and backgrounds. The great value of bringing different professionals together is that it sparks fresh thinking – and greater understanding of how colleagues in different fields view the world.
5. To develop a broad, career-enhancing network
Vlerick is a triple-accredited business school, the top business school in Belgium – and it consistently ranks amongst the best schools in the world. Which means we attract some of the very best MBA participants. And these are the people who become part of your network for the rest of your career. In addition, you’ll become part of the 25,500-strong Vlerick Alumni network – which can give you access to events, clubs and support for years to come.
Ready to take your next leap?
If you want to find out how an MBA at Vlerick can drive your career to new heights, book a call. We can’t wait to hear about everything you want to achieve.
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Inge Thienpont
Customer Relationship Manager – European, Executive and Online MBA