MBA M B A (Leadership Practice)

Postgraduate

In Edinburgh

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Edinburgh (Scotland)

  • Duration

    4 Quarters

Course introduction: Are you a recently-qualified ambitious graduate who has acquired experience in areas such as the voluntary sector, family businesses or held leadership positions in associations such as student unions, sports clubs or societies? If so, then this innovative MBA programme is for you. It recognises the rise of young entrepreneurs and demand from graduates to acquire higher-order managerial skills to develop their careers quickly.

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Location

Start date

Edinburgh (Midlothian/Edinburghshire)
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Craiglockhart Campus, EH14 1DJ

Start date

On request

About this course

An Honours degree at 2:2 or above. Comparable alternative qualifications or professional qualifications, and experience may also be considered at the discretion of the Programme Leader. If English is not your first language, it is usually required that you sit an English language test in order to gain entry onto our postgraduate programmes.This course requires the standard IELTS 6.0 with no individual component score of less than 5.5 or equivalent.  Our entry requirements indicate the minimum qualifications with which we normally accept students....

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Subjects

  • Leadership
  • Skills and Training

Course programme

The MBA (Leadership Practice) programme is designed to develop you as a manager and leader of the future through supporting you in analysing environments, formulating strategy, taking decisions and leading change programmes. The course incorporates a placement to help you develop practical experience and insight as well as build valuable links between theory and practice and enhance your overall employability. Through this placement, you’ll formulate a project plan with the aim of introducing a new approach or strategy into a public, private or voluntary sector organisation. The programme covers the full range of MBA skills as well as additional action learning and critical reflection skills – essential for the modern manager. You'll acquire creative problem solving, critical reasoning and strategic thinking skills, and apply these to your learning about global economic principles, strategic business issues, organisational management and the realities of the competitive marketplace. You'll utilise and augment your written and verbal communication techniques, giving you the confidence to present your ideas and strategies to the business world. You’ll learn through a combination of lectures, tutorials, workshops, group discussions and other interactive learning experiences. Classroom-based learning is complemented by attendance and participation at a residential weekend, and enhanced by masterclasses with guest speakers from various business sectors, keeping you in touch with contemporary business solutions. You'll be enrolled as an Affiliate member of the CMI. On graduation you’ll join our MBA Alumni community, giving you access to future masterclasses and networking. Subjects include Building High Performance Organisations Management and Organisational Change Marketing within the Global Economy Leading Strategic Decision-Making Reflection on Practice Action Learning in Organisations MBA Project Study modules mentioned above are indicative only. Some changes may occur between now and the time that you study. You can view a list of all current modules in our module catalogue.

Additional information

The Executive MBA (Leadership Practice) will provide you with the opportunity to realise your full career potential. You’ll be in demand as employers worldwide seek graduates with a recognised portfolio who are able to deliver solutions in complex organisational settings. In recent years, students have come to our MBA with first degrees from many different disciplines, and have gone on to build careers in a range of industries in the public, private and voluntary/ not-for-profit sectors.

MBA M B A (Leadership Practice)

Price on request