Part Time Executive MBA

Over a period of two years, you'll attend intensive seminars in Edinburgh, held between Thursdays and Sundays, where you will meet teaching staff and your fellow students. You will have the opportunity to enhance your learning through shared ideas and experiences.
All on-campus teaching in Edinburgh is delivered in the English language.
When you come to Edinburgh, you'll soon realise what a beautiful place it is. Here on our campus at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Business School offers a relaxed, attractive environment for students - to learn, to socialise.
There are seven core courses in the MBA programme. You then take two elective courses, chosen from a list of more than 30. Each course requires approximately 200 hours of study. Some electives are available as taught courses; others can be taken through distance learning.
In the part-time Master of Business Administration, you spend most of the year studying from your own home, then you come together with your fellow students for a number of four-day intensive seminars and two-day revision sessions.
Cohorts of executives from major corporations have attended the highly regarded part-time 'consortium' programme that forms the model for our Executive MBA programme. These include: Agilent Technologies, Dawson International, Ernst & Young (Italy), Hewlett-Packard, Lloyds TSB, Pearson Education, the NHS, Scottish Widows and Scottish Power.
After completing three courses, you are eligible for a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration, and after six courses for a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration. The certificate and diploma awards are formal recognition of your progress; they can also be used as exit awards. Specialist awards are available at MBA level depending on your choice of courses.

• Core courses
  • Accounting
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Marketing
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Project Management
  • Strategic Planning
• Elective courses
  • Alliances and Partnerships
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Consumer Behaviour
  • Corporate Governance
  • Credit Risk Management
  • Derivatives
  • Developing Effective Managers and Leaders
  • Employee Relations
  • Employee Resourcing
  • Financial Risk Management
  • Human Resource Development
  • Human Resource Management
  • Influence
  • International Marketing
  • Leadership
  • Making Strategies Work
  • Managing People in Changing Contexts
  • Managing People in Global Markets
  • Managing Personal Competence (estimated release date: early 2010)
  • Marketing Channels
  • Marketing Communications
  • Marketing Research
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Negotiation
  • Performance Management
  • Practical History of Financial Markets
  • Principles of Retailing
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Research Methods for Business and Management
  • Sales Force Management
  • Services Marketing
  • Strategic Negotiation
  • Strategic Risk Management