Executive MBA
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I had great lecturers who have provided excellent subject matter on their specialist areas. They have also successfully facilitated amusing discussions within the lectures using the experiences and knowledge of the cohort.
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I cannot speak highly enough of the facilities and staff the Business School has to offer. The quality of the service is truly fantastic, and one you would expect only from a leading establishment such as Leeds University Business School.
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This MBA offers a wide variety of modules across the full range of business subjects. A particularly unique and inspiring part of the course is the 3 ‘challenges’ that take place over the first 18 months. These are done in different groups and provide you with the opportunity to put the theory into practice.
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MBA
In Leeds
Description
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Type
MBA
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Location
Leeds
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Start date
Different dates available
The Leeds Executive MBA will inspire and challenge you to achieve your full potential. The skills and knowledge you gain, coupled with the experience of working alongside a diverse range of personalities and professional backgrounds, shapes your own management perspective and learning, benefitting both you and your business.
A set of core modules will give you a foundation in aspects of business such as human resource management, corporate finance and international business. You’ll also choose from optional modules to suit your own interests and career plans such as ethics, sustainability or global marketing. Once you’ve gained these new skills you’ll test them in a safe environment through live challenges setting up new ventures, taking on consultancy work and even experiencing the boardroom.
Taught by experienced practitioners and world-leading researchers in intensive teaching blocks, this programme will stretch your abilities and challenge how you think and act in business.
Academic excellence
You’ll benefit from the expertise and support of several major research centres. The School boasts the UK’s premier research centre in international business, the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL) led by Professor Peter Buckley OBE and our Global and Strategic Marketing Research Centre is led by one of the UK’s foremost professors of marketing, Professor Costas Katsikeas.
Given Leeds’ position as a financial services hub, it’s not surprising that our academics working through our International Institute for Banking and Financial Services, and the Credit Management Research Centre, are among the most respected in the UK. As organisations and the nature of work change in an ultracompetitive marketplace, specialists from our Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change work with employers and staff to develop effective working practices.
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About this course
Entry requirements
A bachelor degree with a 2.1 (hons) or an acceptable professional qualification.
A minimum of three years' postgraduate work experience is required before you apply. This should include appropriate management experience and show some career progression.
If you don't have a formal academic or professional qualification, we will consider your application based on your management experience.
International qualifications
We accept a range of international equivalent qualifications.
English language requirements.
IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any component...
Reviews
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I had great lecturers who have provided excellent subject matter on their specialist areas. They have also successfully facilitated amusing discussions within the lectures using the experiences and knowledge of the cohort.
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I cannot speak highly enough of the facilities and staff the Business School has to offer. The quality of the service is truly fantastic, and one you would expect only from a leading establishment such as Leeds University Business School.
← | →
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This MBA offers a wide variety of modules across the full range of business subjects. A particularly unique and inspiring part of the course is the 3 ‘challenges’ that take place over the first 18 months. These are done in different groups and provide you with the opportunity to put the theory into practice.
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Course rating
Recommended
Centre rating
Jo Wardle
Nishant Nishant
Sarah Lund
This centre's achievements
All courses are up to date
The average rating is higher than 3.7
More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months
This centre has featured on Emagister for 14 years
Subjects
- Induction
- Staff
- Executive
- Financial Services
- Accounting
- Teaching
- Ethics
- Economics
- Innovation
- Marketing
- International
- Global
- Finance
- Financial
- International Business
- International Business Management
- Financial Training
- Professor Training
- Business Ethics
Course programme
The course begins with an online pre-induction programme and the on-site induction takes place in October. This is an opportunity to meet the MBA team, academic staff and brush up on study skills. During the induction you are introduced to the Leading Change module, which runs alongside your core and option modules throughout the programme.
To complement and enhance your studies you will undertake three live challenges that allow you to test your new skills and knowledge in a safe environment. You’ll develop a business plan for a new business, take on consultancy work for an external organisation and simulate a board room situation.
The course culminates with either your MBA Project, where you’ll undertake independent research – you could even focus on a topic of direct relevance to your own organisation - or your choice of two optional modules. You also have the opportunity to take part in an optional international study tour.
Course structureThese are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.
Modules Year 1
There are five compulsory modules in Year One.
Compulsory modules- Accounting and Finance 15 credits
- Operations and Information Management 15 credits
- Management in Action 30 credits
- Marketing 15 credits
- Strategic Management 15 credits
In Year Two you’ll take four compulsory modules, as well as studying 30 credits of optional modules.
Compulsory modules- People and Behaviour in Organizations 15 credits
- Economics of Strategy 15 credits
- International Business Management 15 credits
- Strategic HRM & Talent Management 15 credits
- Business Project 30 credits
- Business Ethics 15 credits
- Management of Projects 15 credits
- Creating Value Through Innovation 15 credits
- Management Consulting 15 credits
- Management Decision Making 15 credits
- Systems Thinking and Consulting Practice 15 credits
For more information on typical modules, read Executive MBA in the course catalogue
Learning and teachingThe Leeds Executive MBA is flexible enough so you can fit it in around your work, whilst giving you time away from the office to fully focus on your studies. It’s delivered in intensive three day blocks Thursday to Saturday, every six weeks with a few modules delivered over four days, Thursday to Sunday. Most teaching takes place at our executive conference facility, Weetwood Hall.
AssessmentThe majority of assessment is by work-based assignments, allowing you to develop a more strategic understanding of your organisation by focusing your work on a specific management problem or issue.
Executive MBA