As professionals have expressed it, the mining industry is in demand for a postgraduate engineering education able to interact with the industry and to stimulate executive professionals to be an active participants and update their skills as a part of the mining industry.

The Master in Mining and mineral resources is intended primarily for mining and non-mining engineers, managers, executives, scientists, and mining engineers whom whish to bring their knowledge of the profession up-to-date.  The offering takes advantage of online tools and technology to provide students with well -rounded knowledge of mining technology and its applications.

The Executive MBA program is exclusively for senior managers, high executives and government members in the mineral and energy sector interested in:

•  Update the knowledge in the different areas of mining and energy, making emphasis in the role of trade, development and sustaining the world.

• Enhance abilities of executives and their organizations through mining courses in finance, trade, environment, planning and corporations management.

• Debate current and relevant management strategies, regulatory environments and financial drivers in the mining industry.

• To equip industry professionals with an understanding of current developments and future trained in mining and minerals, and facilitating their empowerment to remain integrally involve in global issues.

• To elevate and enhance local education standards by filling current training gaps accelerating the career development of current and aspiring senior managers through hands-on case study exercises relevant to contemporary management of resource of industry firms.

• To lead and encourage participating countries in the institutional capacity building process and to become a Global Centre of Educational Excellence for addressing mining and minerals related concerns in their respective regions.

• To debate key areas and challenges facing large multinationals, state-owned companies, medium-sized, local players, consultants, contractors, recyclers, workers and labor unions, and national governments.

The WTU Executive EMBA in Mining Mineral Resources and Sustainable Development is designed to accelerate performance of executive officers, managers, in mining mineral companies. The program offers education in areas related to the environment, minerals, materials, and petroleum refining.

WTU is one of a few universities in the world to offer an EMBA in mining and minerals management, WTU’s programs are unique in the way they incorporate both micro, macro-issues of trade and environment (such as trade finance and trade management) and relevant and timely macro-issues affecting world trade institutions and global trade environment.

Globalization and consolidation in the mining industry it is being dominated by a small number of very large companies seeking to lever assets and knowledge to create wealth. WTU as an important education provider to the mining industry offering solutions in a sector that needs to understand global drivers and respond to them.

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