About the School of Management

The School of Management (Vysoká škola manažmentu, or VSM) was established by law of the National Council of the Slovak Republic on December 1, 1999 as the first private school in Slovakia. It is accredited by the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic at the undergraduate, graduate levels for programs in business administration. On top of the Slovak accredited programs, VSM with City University of Seattle offer the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs, and its diplomas are accredited in the USA by Northwest Commission on Schools and Universities NWCCU. School of Management and City University of Seattle have compatible programs for the bachelor and magister programs in English and the students can benefit from joint or double degree options Bc./BSBA and Mgr./MBA. The faculty have rich, practical experience and use pedagogical methods guaranteeing high levels of expertise in their fields of business administration, along with their personal responsibility for students' education, creativity and communication. Well–established, up-to-date and progressively designed VSM and City University of Seattle curricula have prepared over eight thousand graduates for successful careers at different levels of management, including positions in top management in the USA, Europe and Asia. School of Management successfully cooperates and develops professional relationships with schools in foreign countries, currently in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Finland, Austria and many others.

Mission and Philosophy

VSM is a private not-for-profit institution of higher education. Its mission is to change lives for good by offering high quality and relevant lifelong education to anyone with the desire to learn. The mission is based on these philosophical principles:

• Education is a lifelong process and must be relevant to the student's aspirations;
• Education should be affordable and offered, as much as possible, at the student's convenience; and
• Opportunity to learn should be open to anyone with the desire to achieve. 

Program Offerings

• Bachelor in Business Administration (full-time, part-time or online format)
• Magister in Business Administration (full-time, part-time or online format)
• Double degree program Magister/MBA (full-time or part-time format)