This open event is ideal for anyone striving to take their career to the next level in 2026

If one of your goals for this year is to prioritise growth and learning in your career, it’s great to take the first steps towards this as soon as you can. Perhaps you want to set yourself up for success, and push for more responsibilities in your chosen field, or perhaps you want to branch out into something new. A Business Masters or MBA can be a great choice to develop both professionally and personally.

If you’d like to find out more about these kinds of programmes, the UCD Smurfit School Masters and MBA Open Evening is a must. On Wednesday, February 4, the event will showcase the school’s range of Business Masters and MBA programmes. 

The event will provide the opportunity to speak to faculty, current students, and the admissions team to get a full picture of the experience at the school, as well as taking a tour of the campus, and attending programme presentations to get a taste of what to expect. 

The dedicated MBA session will include an overview of the Smurfit MBA programmes, a taste lecture delivered by MBA Academic Director Assoc. Prof Ciaran Heavey. You will also have the opportunity to meet with the MBA programme and admissions teams.

The UCD Smurfit School MBA is designed for highly ambitious professionals who want to advance or change their careers and enhance their professional prospects. Students benefit from an outstanding and challenging academic curriculum delivered by world-renowned faculty within an intimate classroom setting. UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is known internationally for its postgraduate business programmes. Accredited for more than 20 years, UCD Smurfit School is one of an elite group of schools worldwide to hold the “triple crown” of accreditation from three centres of business and academic excellence, EQUIS (Europe), AACSB (US) and AMBA (UK). 

For over two decades, academic programmes at UCD Smurfit School consistently rank among the world’s best, and it has one of the world’s leading business school alumni communities with over 90,000 professionals around the globe in over 40 international chapters. 

MBA applicants can undertake either the one year full-time MBA programme or the two year part-time Executive MBA. Full details available here.

Register to attend 

• Date: Wednesday February 4, 2026
• Time: Masters – 3.30pm – 6pm
• Time: MBA – 6.30pm – 8pm
• Location: UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Blackrock, Co Dublin

To attend the open evening, you can register here.

IMAGE MBA Scholarship

IMAGE is delighted to once again partner with UCD Smurfit School in offering one MBA Scholarship to a female candidate to cover up to 100% tuition fees (valued up to €38,860) for a choice of the Full-Time MBA, or Executive part-time MBA, commencing August 2026. You can read about our current scholar, Heather Cronin, here.

The scholarship is open to all successful female applicants for the MBA who are resident in Ireland. The closing date for applications is April 30, 2026.

To find out more and apply, click here.

To find out more about UCD Smurfit School programmes and apply, go to smurfitschool.ie.