Full Time Master of Business Administration

MBA

In Southampton

£ 16,500 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    MBA

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Duration

    1 Year

The Southampton MBA will challenge you to look at business issues from different perspectives in order to find the best solutions. You will learn from real business problems and share experiences with the diverse cohort that makes up this programme. Throughout your time at Southampton, you will be encouraged to consolidate and reflect on your learning. Suitable for: The full-time programme is for those who have at least three years post-qualification work experience. It attracts students from all parts of the world as well as the UK, and therefore provides opportunities to learn about and work with different business cultures.The average age of the full-time stream is about 30.

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Location

Start date

Southampton (Hampshire)
University Of Southampton Highfield, SO17 1BJ

Start date

On request

About this course

1st or 2nd class honours degree from a UK university in an appropriate subject. Equivalent overseas/ professional qualification in an appropriate subject also welcomed. Relevant levels of work experience.

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Course programme

The University of Southampton MBA will give you the tools, knowledge and confidence to challenge conventional thinking and succeed in today's fast-moving business world by standing out, not blending in.
We are one of the UK's top research-led universities, committed to high quality teaching and the advancement of knowledge.
Taught in our new Executive Education Centre, our MBA meets the global standard of the Association of MBAs (AMBA), through a broad curriculum aimed at developing your business skills in all areas. Key management theories and concepts are taught by inspirational academic staff who also carry out cutting-edge research in their specialist fields.
Whether on our full-time or part-time programme, the Southampton MBA will challenge you to look at business issues from different perspectives in order to find the best solutions. You will learn from real business problems and share experiences with the diverse cohort that makes up this programme. Throughout your time at Southampton, you will be encouraged to consolidate and reflect on your learning.
Studying for the Southampton MBA will also give you the chance to meet and network with other future business leaders from around the world. You will make friends and contacts for life.
Originally established in 1988, our AMBA accredited MBA is continually updated to reflect the changing nature of the business world. Maintaining AMBA's high global standard, our objective is to ensure the programme remains relevant and challenging for students and businesses.
Our MBA was significantly revised and restructured in 2008 after a year-long consultation exercise involving students, alumni, employers and teaching staff.
The Southampton MBA is a flexible programme, which enables you to study either full or part-time.
Our MBA will develop your business skills. Its integrative structure will give you the opportunity to consolidate and apply your learning from across the programme to address business issues from new perspectives.
The MBA programme will provide you with:
  • a rigorous and challenging scheme of study in order to enhance your effectiveness as a manager
  • a broad appreciation and understanding of the principles, concepts, terminology, purpose and practice of management in contemporary organisations
  • an awareness of the opportunities afforded, and the constraints imposed, by the environment in which organisations and their managers operate
  • practical research skills based upon relevant research methods and analytical techniques
  • the facility to analyse complex organisational and managerial issues and to propose well-argued recommendations for dealing with such situations
  • the ability to identify and combine different functional areas and theories to maximum effect when addressing real business issues
  • the opportunity to continually reflect on and put into context your newly acquired knowledge from across the programme
  • opportunities to develop key skills including teamwork, leadership, planning, communication, self-management, problem solving, decision making, negotiation and numeracy
  • an opportunity to build long-lasting business networks
  • a learning environment which is stimulating, challenging and informed by cutting-edge theory

The Southampton MBA is a programme of four parts. Part 1 comprises nine core modules. Part 2 involves the choice of two optional modules. Part 3 is an integrative section that involves four inter-related elements and a substantial amount of group work, giving you the opportunity to pull together and apply theories from parts 1 and 2. Upon successful completion of the first three parts you progress to Part 4, which takes the form of a dissertation. The full-time MBA is designed for graduates who have at least three years, but probably more, of relevant work experience since graduation and who now wish to pursue a challenging programme of study to develop their managerial potential.

MBA classes are dedicated to the active role of participants in the learning experience. The Southampton MBA attracts participants who are international and diverse in their origins and type of experience. Our aim is to challenge all of our MBA particpants to think clearly and critically about the practice and theory of management. The age of participants typically ranges from 25 - 35 and their first degree subjects include science, engineering and humanities as well as business studies.
On the MBA, you must expect to work with ideas and concepts that are complex and that need real intellectual effort to master fully. In return you will receive an education that prepares you for a career as a skilled and reflective manager. Our MBA is neither a crash course in business buzz-words nor a catalogue of quick fix solutions. Your personal learning is enhanced by putting theoretical concepts into the context of your own experience.

The Southampton MBA welcomes participants that are looking for a challenge; are keen to question and debate ideas with other bright and similarily motivated managers; and seek an all round management education and development exercise.
Programme Structure
Full time study on the MBA follows a schedule in which formal instruction takes place on 3 or 4 days per week.The rest of the week is used for group work and individual study.A assessment occurs throughout the course with formal examinations in January. In accordance with AMBA requirements, participants should expect at least 500 hours of formal contact with our academic staff. Satisfactory performance in the course assessements results in permission to continue to work between July and September to prepare and submit an MBA dissertation.


The MBA is divided into 4 parts:
1.Core units
Key Management Skills and the Effective Leader
Organisations in Global Context
Contemporary Marketing
Quality and Operations Management
Accounting: Measutring and Managing Performance
Corporate Finance
Strategy
Managing People for Performance
Decision Modelling and Analysis
2. Optional Units - choose two
Logistics Management
Supply Management
Project Management
Other modules available from our MSc programmes, featuring risk; entrepreneurship and consultancy

Specialist Group of Options
  • Higher Education Management
3. Application of Management Skills for Business Impact
A feature of our MBA is the opportunity to use the core elements previously studied in the context of a leader's role. This element of the course highlights creativity; innovation decision analysis; change; and strategic decision making - all skills sought by employers.
4. Dissertation

Additional information

Payment options: For students joining the MBA programme in the 2009/10 academic year, the School is offering a number of bursaries in the form of reductions in the course fees. The value of the bursaries will be £3000 for UK/EU students and £2000 for international students. To be eligible for the award of a bursary, the student must be financing their study from their own resources and not in receipt of any other form of sponsorship. Criteria for the award of bursaries will be excellence in previous academic achievements, work experience and the anticipated impact of the MBA on your future career.

Full Time Master of Business Administration

£ 16,500 + VAT