Master of Small and Medium Enterprise Management
The MSMEM programme equips aspiring and established entrepreneurs with the practical skills, strategic insight and tools needed to confidently start, manage and grow successful small and medium-sized businesses.
Programme Overview
Scale your venture. Command your market.
Secure your legacy.
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) constitute 99% of all businesses in the Caribbean. In a hyper-competitive, globalised marketplace, these enterprises cannot survive on passion alone; they require leaders with cross-disciplinary expertise, entrepreneurial agility, and rigorous strategic foresight.
The Master of Small and Medium Enterprise Management (MSMEM) at Lok Jack GSB is an elite, practical programme specifically engineered for founders, next-generation family business successors, and growth-oriented SME executives. Designed to address the disruptive demands of the modern digital economy, this programme provides the exact analytical frameworks, financial metrics, and operational tools required to successfully launch, scale, and future-proof an enterprise.
Delivered via our flexible evening and Saturday format, the MSMEM enables you to treat your own business as a living laboratory, applying strategic interventions to your operations in real time.
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Programme Objective
Core Competencies You Will Develop
The MSMEM curriculum bridges the gap between raw entrepreneurial drive and structured corporate execution. Throughout the programme, you will master how to:
- Drive Strategic Scaling: Transition an enterprise from survival mode to sustainable, scalable growth by optimizing supply chains, expanding market reach, and identifying international commercial opportunities.
- Manage Multidisciplinary Operations: Master the core business pillars—from entrepreneurial finance and corporate governance to modern digital marketing—enabling you to lead seamlessly across varied business functions.
- Navigate Intergenerational Succession: Acquire the governance and psychological frameworks needed to smoothly manage family business transitions, protect wealth, and prepare qualified corporate successors.
- Innovate and Pivot: Cultivate an agile, entrepreneurially trained workforce capable of designing customer-centric solutions within highly complex, unpredictable market landscapes.
What Makes Us Unique
- Academic Quality
Our commitment to excellence ensures your business education carries immense regional and international prestige. Our academic standards are fully aligned with The University of the West Indies (The UWI) and the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT). Backed by world-class quality assurance frameworks, our curriculum undergoes constant evolution to remain highly responsive to changing market dynamics.
- Teaching and Learning Philosophy
We believe entrepreneurship cannot be mastered from the sidelines. Our teaching philosophy merges rigorous management theory with hands-on, pragmatic execution. By collaborating with a diverse cohort of fellow founders and business leaders, you will refine your perspective and stress-test strategic concepts.
The capstone of your studies—the Capstone Project—gives you the unique opportunity to diagnose a critical challenge within your own enterprise or a live organization, transforming you into a powerful agent of structural change.
About The Arthur Lok Jack Global School Of Business
As the premier business school in the Caribbean, The UWI-Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business shapes the executives who define the future of international commerce. We offer a comprehensive suite of globally benchmarked postgraduate degrees, executive short courses, professional certificates, and bespoke corporate consulting services.
Rooted in Trinidad & Tobago with a deeply global outlook, our institutional focus centres on four (4) core pillars: Leadership, Transformation, Entrepreneurship, and Impact. We provide the world-class resources, regional insights, and international exposure you need to drive the progress you want to see—in your life, your organisation, and the wider world.
Faculty
Dr. Nneka Joseph
Industrial & Organisational Psychology
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Admissions Requirements
MSMEM Entry Requirement options
Who should attend
- Business Owners
- Individuals interested in starting a business
- Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs
- General Managers of Small and Medium Enterprises
Get Started Today!
Our Admissions Office is located at Max Richards Drive, Uriah Butler Highway North West, Mount Hope.
- (868) 299–0218 ext 2000
- (868) 662-1411
- admissions@lokjackgsb.edu.tt
To learn more about programme pricing or our affordable payment plans speak to an academic advisor today.
