Higher Education Management MBA

This programme will give you insights into new areas of management, enabling you to effect a change of career orientation and to become part of a senior higher education management network.

All students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of four core modules (90 credits) and either four optional modules (60 credits) and a report (30 credits), or two optional modules (30 credits) and a dissertation (60 credits).

• Higher Education Institutions as Organisations: Their Strategic Management
• The Management of Teaching and Research in Higher Education
• The Management of Financial Resources in Higher Education (Part 1)
• The Management of Financial Resources in Higher Education (Part 2)

• An Independent Study in Higher Education Management
• Institutional Governance in Higher Education
• Internationalisation in Higher Education
• Managing the Physical University: Space and Place in Higher Education
• Managing People in Higher Education Institutions
• Managing Knowledge Exchange and Engagement in Higher Education
• Managing the Student Experience
• Marketing in Higher Education

All students submit either a 10,000-word report on successful completion of a consultancy project in a Higher Education Institution, or a 20,000-word dissertation on a topic relevant to the programme.

Teaching methods include lectures, tutor and student-led seminars and discussions, critical engagement and discussion of relevant literature and syndicate group work. Assessment is by presentations, essays, the successful completion of a consultancy project in an HEI, or a dissertation on a topic relevant to the programme.