Business Administration Master of
Postgraduate
In Stoke-On-Trent
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Stoke-on-trent
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Duration
1 Year
Are you ambitious and do you have an entrepreneurial flair with the appetite to both learn and contribute? Our MBA is aimed at those from all backgrounds and disciplines seeking career advancement into management and leadership.
The Staffordshire MBA is designed for ambitious individuals who want to excel and fulfil their true potential in private, public or the third sector. The programme is built on a unique design based on the core competencies which organisational leaders, senior managers and entrepreneurs depend upon:
Strategic Agility
Organisational Agility
Customer Focus
Drive for Results
Career Ambition
Our MBA is delivered by an excellent team of academics and practitioners who have been selected because of their relevant industry experience and research expertise in order to add direct value to the delivery of their modules. This team will facilitate the MBA candidates’ journey through our problem and practice-based approach, where theory will directly inform practice.
The MBA is flexible and allows you to tailor your course of study, where you can choose up to three option modules from a wide variety of business related topics. The choice will be yours - to suit your individual career path. A placement opportunity will also be available.
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About this course
Minimum 2.1 equivalent degree
IELTS 6.5 with a minimum 6.0 in all categories e.g. Speaking, Writing, Reading and Listening
At least 1 year post graduation industrial experience
Demonstration of key entry level competencies
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Subjects
- Leadership
- Teaching
- Team Training
- Business and Administration
- Business Administration
Course programme
Based around core management and leadership topics, the MBA is flexible and allows you to tailor your course of study, where you can choose up to three option modules from a wide variety of business related topics.
Module overview
Teaching block 1:
Managing People and Organisations (15 credits)
Strategic Marketing Management (15 credits)
Risk Management (15 credits)
Performing in Organisations (15 credits)
Teaching block 2:
Leadership and Strategic Management (15 credits)
Option (15 credits)
Option (15 credits)
Option (15 credits)
List of options:
Applied Psychology in Business
Business Law
Change Leadership
Contemporary Challenges in Human Resource Management
Cross Cultural and International Human Resource Management
Entrepreneurship
Financial Concepts and Practice
International Business
Operations/Supply Chain Management
Marketing Innovations
Project Management
Teaching block 3 (Summer):
Project (60 credits) Focusing on an actual organisational challenge with a focus on identifying solutions supported by secondary and primary research findings.
You can study full time over 1 year or part time over 3 years but either way be prepared for a challenge - the pace will be fast. Our MBA is based on problem, practice based learning where real and live business issues are discussed and evaluated. Whilst some of these issues form part of the core teaching, many will be drawn from your own experiences in business and those of your fellow colleagues. In this way we seek to prepare you for more onerous management and leadership challenges in whatever comes next in your career.
You will be guided and supported by academics and practitioners who are engaged in leading edge research or who have significant industrial experience in management and leadership roles.
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Business Administration Master of