Being a business school, EBS offers, inter alia, professional development opportunities for managers. EBS Executive Education (formerly EBS Executive Training Centre) has been operating since 2001 and its management training and programmes, based on academic knowledge and practical experience, are aimed at the development of business and institutional leaders. EBS Executive Education has also introduced executive coaching and the popularity of coaching programmes is booming.
At EBS Open University, anyone interested in self-development can choose between around a couple of hundred courses of varying length. And last, but not least – EBS was the first university in Estonia to start offering microdegrees in 2020. The courses offered by the Open University were then known as Master’s level nanodegrees and consisted of 15-credit elective modules focusing on a specific area: for example, green economy and digital transformation, management, management, data governance, communication and marketing, finance and accounting.
In 2023, nanodegrees were renamed microdegrees so as to use the same terminology as other universities. From the same year, bachelor microdegrees providing 12–18 credits are also available. One thing is for sure – microdegrees have a strong foothold in the education market because, with the subjects they cover, they can respond to the ever-changing needs of the labour market.
