Part Time MBA Football Industries

The MBA Football Industries programme offers a comprehensive and high level education to managers who are interested in opening up new career opportunities or supporting their development in football and associated industries. This programme provides students with a good grounding in the modern football business, encourages them to understand theoretical debates around its functioning, and to analyse critically processes and forces within it.
The MBA Football Industries was the first MBA qualification in the world to focus upon the rapidly expanding world wide interest in the professionalisation, business, and marketing of football. The programme combines professional development in the field of the football industries with a critical awareness of the issues involved in football management, marketing, and administration.
The Key features of the programme include, first, a comprehensive programme of guest lectures from key practitioners in areas of the management of the football industries, including the professional associations, football clubs, financial analysts and the media and, second, the opportunity to undertake placement based dissertation research in an organisation operating in the football industries.
There are three principal objectives to the programme:

• To introduce students to the modern football business, encourage them to understand theoretical debates around its functioning, and critically analyse processes and forces within it.
• To introduce students to generic management study, and encourage them to apply industry and business concepts to modern football.
• To offer vocational training to students who wish to enter the football industry and peripheral industries, and to develop the skills and attributes required to successfully enter the industry.

By the end of the programme students should have developed:

• A good understanding of core management theory
• A good understanding of past and current trends in the football business
• An enhanced ability to work individually and in small groups to research and propose solutions for problems
• An enhanced ability to write analytically yet concisely
  

Semester 1 Core Modules

• Managing Resources
• Managing the Environment
• Managing People
• International Business of Football

Semester 2 Core Modules

• Managing Change
• Football and the Law
• Football and Finance
• Dissertation

Plus 6 elective modules of your choice including Football and the Media, Management Game and Football Marketing & Sponsorship
Many MBA Football Industries graduates now work in commercial and marketing roles in football clubs, associations, and specialist sports marketing firms. Other career opportunities lie in consultancy, media companies, agencies, corporate communications, human resources management, and freelance work. Entry qualifications and fees are the same as for the full-time MBA (although fees will be payable on a module by module pro rata basis based on the full-time MBA fees for the given year). Candidates undertaking the MBA part-time will have freedom to structure their own programme within the full-time timetable across the two years within the following parameters:
- Candidates must complete a minimum of 50 credits during the first year of study.
- Candidates must complete a minimum of two Core Management Modules in their first year.
- Candidates must have completed Managing Resources in order to take Football Finance.
- Unless otherwise exempted, candidates should complete the Research Methods module in Year 1.
Part-time candidates therefore have a certain amount of control over when they complete modules enabling them to work around work-commitments. They also have more time to complete their dissertation and attend any placements. Candidates must complete the 10 MBA modules over the 2 years, which are taught in 4 12-week semesters running roughly from October-December and February-May each year during weekdays. Usually modules run 9am-5pm one day a week for 5 consecutive weeks. Over the 2 years it is estimated that the average student should aim to dedicate between 1 and 2 full days a week for the MBA (although this will be more intense during the semesters and less outside these periods).