Global MBA

Prospects
The Oxford Brookes MBA can boost your career prospects by giving you:

• confidence to operate across all areas of business
• enhanced capabilities to lead, think and act strategically
• insight into your leadership style and your strengths and limitations
• the ability to apply knowledge to your own organisation and many other situations
• understanding of other areas of the organisation
• knowledge and expertise to meet the challenges of senior management
• skills to continue developing and learning
• help with launching your career, and an alumni network for life.

Employability
The Oxford Brookes MBA can benefit your employer by:

• enhancing your capabilities across a range of areas, eg. marketing, strategic thinking, innovation and change, and people management
• improving your powers of analysis with the ability to operate at a strategic level and contribute beyond your functional specialism
• providing a cost-effective management development programme
• allowing the flexibility to study without regular absence from the workplace
• presenting the opportunity to gain value for your organisation through your dissertation or consultancy project.

This may help you to make a case to your employer for support with funding for the MBA programme.
Your MBA journey
The programme will also:

• support you through executive coaching or mentoring, to improve your employability and develop new skills (Full-time and Executive modes only)
• give you an understanding of the foundations of management and of different functional perspectives
• provide you with a framework for the analysis of organisational activity and the application of learning
• develop your understanding of the strategic and integrative nature of business and management
• prepare you to take a holistic view of the organisation and its environment
• extend your leadership capabilities
• broaden or deepen your knowledge through the electives and your dissertation or consultancy project
• challenge you by participating in intensive international events where you are exposed to the issues facing businesses in different markets.

The Global MBA, delivered through distance learning, enables you to maintain your career and to study at times which fit in with your personal and work demands. As you progress through the Global MBA you can apply the latest management thinking directly to your workplace.
The distance learning mode of delivery on the Global MBA does not compromise the quality of your MBA experience. We bring the University to you, and provide you with a virtual learning environment that is both challenging and supportive. Tutors facilitate structured online debates on business issues, in groups of around 25 involving students from all over the world. This global classroom enables international experiences to be shared and networks to develop; it provides both companionship and support, features that are often missing on distance learning MBA programmes.
The Global MBA has two intakes each year, in January and July, and can be completed in 30 months. Examinations can be taken at more than 200 examination centres worldwide and special centres can be established if required.
Oxford Brookes University offers you three ways to achieve your MBA - your degree certificate will state 'Oxford Brookes MBA'. The Business School is renowned for excellence in teaching and learning, influencing our approach to supporting learners and working creatively. Our Global MBA programme is unique in the way that it is delivered, ensuring that you remain engaged with your tutors and tutor group, providing opportunities for interaction with professionals and managers across the globe.

The Global MBA programme begins with online induction to ensure that you get to know other students and your tutors, familiarise yourself with the online Virtual Campus and Virtual Library, understand the programme requirements and expectations, and how you prefer to learn, and the implications of this for your studies. We recognise that students come from a variety of educational and professional backgrounds and a range of additional materials are available to help you, for example, preparing for examinations, the use of theories and concepts in management education and analysing case studies.
For each module on the programme you are allocated a tutor and a tutor group, which will include students from around the world. In addition, you are linked to geographical study groups, which engage more informally, to support and challenge each other and many of these groups continue beyond the MBA.
You can also contact your tutor at any time using the mailbox on the Virtual Campus or by telephone. The Global MBA Programme Director and Course Manager are here to discuss issues that may be impacting on your studies and the MBA Programme Administrators help with any administrative issues.