Master of Business Administration MBA

Our range of core modules offer you the opportunity to strengthen your management fundamentals, develop your global perspective and integrate your learning.

You can customise your MBA by choosing from nine elective modules. This gives you the opportunity to align your learning experience with your career objectives.

You will take six compulsory modules in Semester 1.

• Accounting and Finance. Module Leader: Dr Aly Salama
• Organisations and People Management. Module Leader: Dr Frank Worthington
• Strategic Management. Module Leader: Dr Tom McGovern
• Strategic Marketing. Module leader: Professor Fred Lemke
• Transitions in the Global Economy. Module Leader: Professor Steve Hughes

Select one module to suit your interests from the following.

• Operations and Supply Chain Management. Module Leader: Dr Adrian Small
• Project and Programme Management. Module Leader: Dr Karen Elliott
• Strategic Human Resource Management. Module Leader: Professor Steve Procter

At the end of Semester 1 you take part in our Business Awareness Experience. It allows you to practise and consolidate your understanding of core business skills in a week-long series of intensive sessions. You will work in project teams to apply your learning and experience to explore and develop solutions to challenges encountered in a variety of industries and organisations.

• Corporate Social Responsibility. Module Leader: Dr Peter Edward
• Entrepreneurship. Module Leader: Dr Robert Newbery

In Semester 2 select one module from each group to suit your interests.

• Finance and Investment. Module Leader: Dr Thanos Verousis
• International Marketing. Module Leader: Mr Robert Bing
• Leading Organisational Change. Module Leader: Dr Oliver Mallett

• Digital Business. Module Leader: Rebecca Casey
• Emerging Economies: Challenges and Opportunities. Module Leader: Professor Steve Hughes
• Managing for Innovation. Module Leader: Professor Jonathan Sapsed

The Career Enhancement Experience takes place during Semester 2. It is delivered by a former senior Human Resource Director and a range of human resource and learning and development practitioners. This experience, which will include one-to-one feedback, exposes you to the sorts of activities used in large corporate recruitment, preparing you for the recruitment processes used by major employers.

In Semester 3 you will complete two compulsory modules.

• Individual Project. Module Leader: Professor Alan McKinlay
• Management Consultancy Project. Module Leader: Juli Campey

You will also complete two year-long modules.

• Business in Action. Module Leader: Dr Lesley Pender
• Personal and Professional Transformation. Module Leader: Sarah Carnegie

Modules change annually to take account of:

• changing staff expertise
• developments in the discipline
• the requirements of external bodies and partners
• student feedback