MBA Program

If you are a graduate and already have some experience of working in Business and Management, there is the opportunity to join the very successful MBA full-time programme.

It also offers you the chance to study business in an internationally diverse community of students. One of the main reasons why students complete a MBA is to open new career opportunities.

MBA Options:

• General MBA
• MBA Finance
• MBA International business
• MBA Marketing

Why choose the MBA?

The MBA degree has progressively become the flagship management qualification with an international ‘currency’ and instant recognition.

A majority of employers view the degree as a passport to strategic decision-making positions and an integral developmental tool for management education and development.

The BCU suite of MBA programmes is designed to match the needs and requirements of industry and commerce with the aspirations of managers of the future.

In the future, managers will need to be perceptive, thoughtful and flexible to manage their internal and external environments. They will need to be pro-active, versatile and have the knowledge and skills to explore new markets and opportunities.

Managers will need to provide practical, workable solutions to a range of complex problems. The solutions will require innovative, flexible approaches supported by general and specialist knowledge that is sensitised to international and multi-cultural environments.

The complexity of operations will fuel the need for generalists as well as specialists having knowledge of particular functions, for example, Finance, International Business, and Marketing.

The BCU MBA encourages innovation, achievement, intellectual rigour and excellence and is relevant to the needs of both public and private sector organisations. Our MBA caters for the needs and aspirations of students working in small enterprises, the public sector, financial institutions and international businesses.

The programme aims to provide learners with:

• An introduction to the study of business and management
• A progressively higher level of understanding and critical awareness of the main issues in strategic management
• A global holistic perspective of management and business administration
• A range of intellectual skills and management competencies required for effective management practice
• The opportunity to link the programme of general management studies with study to an advanced level of a specialist pathway which complements and broadens understanding of business and management
• For those whose first language is not English, the opportunity to develop higher levels of proficiency in the international business language of English
• A means to progress to doctoral study in the UK.

Structure of the MBA program:

The course is run over four terms, the first three consisting of 12 weeks each and the fourth lasting for 8 weeks. Exit points are available at the PG Certificate and PG Diploma stages.

Dissertation:

The dissertation is a major piece or work, completed in Term 4, which demonstrates the student’s ability to qualify for the award of MBA. The study must have a business focus and be appropriate to the student’s pathway.

It is one element of your degree where you have the freedom to select what to study or investigate in your chosen pathway. Because of this, it can be one of the most valuable learning experiences you could ever go through.

Most students, for instance, have used the dissertation not only to develop a detailed study of a topic that interests them, but also to learn about themselves and to produce a dissertation which fully demonstrates their intellectual and personal capabilities.

A subsidiary benefit of the dissertation is that it provides tangible evidence of your abilities and can be shown to prospective employers to lend further support to your job application.

MBA Career Enhancement & Planning:

As part of our student centred approach, BCU Business School has developed an ‘MBA Career Enhancement & Planning’ programme (MBA CEP).

The aim of activities is to offer and provide careers related guidance and support to MBA postgraduate students which is:

• Positive, constructive and helpful
• Practical
• Realistic/appropriate for early 21st century employment markets
• Impartial and client centred

This activity is designed around the specific needs of individual students and their career aspirations. This includes, for example:

• class presentation/discussion sessions on career planning, personal development and related subjects such as writing an effective CV
• confidential, individual consultation and counselling
• mock interview practice with individual feedback job search in the UK and abroad

The service is available in the final two terms (April-September) and aims to increase support and add value to the student.

- At least two years of full-time work experience

- an English language qualification for anyone who studied at undergraduate level outside the UK:

minimum PBT TOEFL score - 575
or
minimum CBT TOEFL score - 232
or 
a minimum IELTS score of 6.5
or
a minimum of 6 in all bands of IELTS