Business Administration MBA

Students will develop a knowledge and understanding of management and business through modules in accounting and finance, strategy, organisational behaviour and leadership, decision-making and analytics, marketing, and operations. Several modules also explore how business is impacted by technology and another module explores the challenges and opportunities facing companies in China. Optional modules focus on finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, and human resources.

Students undertake modules to the value of 210 credits.

The programme consists of seven core modules (105 credits), three optional modules (45 credits), and a business research project (60 credits).

The following seven core modules are required:

• Accounting and Finance
• Decision-making and Analytics
• Economics and Business in China
• Marketing
• Organisational Behaviour and Leadership
• Operations
• Strategy

Each core module is taught in two complementary parts that both relate to the overarching module theme.

Students choose 60 credits of optional modules drawn from the following:

• Contemporary Issues in International Finance
• Consumer Behaviour and Digital Marketing
• Cross-cultural Management and Negotiation
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe
• Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Global Context

Each optional module is taught in two complementary parts, both relating to the overarching module theme.

The optional module Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe is taught at the UCL Canary Wharf campus in London over three weeks in the summer.

All students undertake a business research project that culminates in a dissertation or business plan of a maximum of 12,000 words (60 credits). The research project should investigate a management or business issue and can be undertaken with a company.

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, and project work. Assessment is through open-book and unseen written examinations, individual and group coursework including presentations, reports, and essays, class participation, and the business research project.