The varied benefits that firms can reap by giving MBA sponsorship to MBA students are innumerable. Here we will outline just some of these advantages. Each year, employers give MBA sponsorship to approximately two thirds of part-time MBA students and a small number of full-time MBA students.

This MBA Sponsorship can come in different forms: either full or partial payment of the MBA program tuition or it may be in the form of payment in kind, for example study time allowance.

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• An MBA Sponsorship will provide employers/managers with the tools of strategic analysis, thereby increasing the capacity within the organization to have a long term perspective on specific MBA students.
  
  
• Since all the MBA courses use illustrative examples from all sectors of the economy, the MBA Sponsorship can supply the employees/manager, and the whole organization in turn, with the broadest base of knowledge.
  
• MBA Sponsorship will provide students with the opportunity to become a part of an international alumni network, fostering valuable contacts for the future.
  
  
• The MBA program is made up of a syllabus of learning materials  that contain established theories and concepts and also the latest international cross-sector research; these will all, eventually, be fed back into the company.
  
  
• Part of the MBA program includes the requirement for students to present a dissertation. These dissertations can take a variety of forms including a business- style report or business plan. MBA Sponsorship can often mean that the company sponsoring will have full rights to such a dissertation which may be implemented, undoubtedly causing the company to save sums that commissioning experts would cost, often exceeding the total cost of sponsoring the whole MBA study program.
  
• MBA Sponsorship of students may have a direct impact on the organization when students carry out their work based on the sponsor's realm of expertise as part of the optional courses offered in the MBA program.