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Study Details: 30 months
A distinctive qualification which is intellectually-challenging, insightful and grounded in improving practice in the workplace.
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a part-time, 30-month programme that will help you respond to complex organisational issues at a senior management level. The programme supports you in examining strategic responses to organisational issues to create value and pragmatic solutions within your organisation. It develops you to become a confident, competent, forward-thinking senior leader who can identify and critically analyse data, prospects, and balance strategic thinking with excellent operational focus.
The central underpinning themes of the programme are transformation; both individual and organisational. It is intellectually challenging, insightful, and focused on improving practice in the workplace across all areas of management, leadership, and functions of a business. In consultation with employees, the curriculum has been developed to cover a broad range of business disciplines, including strategy, leadership, systems, innovation and finance, that prepares and enables you to take a strategic perspective in senior leadership.
Who is it for?
This programme is suitable for middle and senior managers, from any sector looking to better support their organisation’s strategic direction. We are dedicated to supporting mature, professional students and preparing you for work in the challenging and rewarding arena of senior leadership.
Benefits
An important element of the programme is the opportunity it provides to apply your learning to organisational situations. The fact that learning is applied, rather than being purely theoretical, is crucial to empower you to contribute to, and impact your organisation.
Modules have therefore been developed in consultation with businesses, who identified the following training themes.
In addition, learners’ digital skills will be developed and enhanced to increase impact within these themes and the programme. As such, the curriculum aligns to emerging social and business approaches to maximise the impact you can make individually, organisationally, and societally.
You will need:
a minimum 2:2 honours degree
or
significant industry experience
plus
two references
two or more years’ management experience
to attend an interview
to demonstrate your ability to benefit from and contribute to the programme
Additional Information
IELTS 6.5 (Min. 6.0 in each component)
Pearson PTE Academic 64 (minimum 61 in each component for UKVI purposes)
Credits may be awarded for learning already undertaken in the University or elsewhere for which you have received qualifications or certificates. You may also submit a claim for recognition of unaccredited prior learning (RP(E)L). This may be for work you have accomplished in a professional, paid or voluntary capacity. This has to be submitted via an RPL form with supporting evidence. You will also be liable to pay an administration fee and charge per credit. All RP(E)L claims must be applied for at the point of admission and cannot be considered at a later stage.
If you have any specific queries, please contact busadmissions@ljmu.ac.uk
For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more
There are many ways to fund postgraduate study for home and international students. From loans to International Scholarships and subject-specific funding, you’ll find all of the information you need on our specialist postgraduate funding pages.
Please be aware that the UK’s departure from the EU may affect your tuition fees. Learn more about your fee status and which tuition fees are relevant to you.
LJMU has an excellent record with 96% (HESA 2018) of our postgraduates in work or further study six months after graduation. Our applied learning techniques and strong industry connections ensure our students are fully prepared for the workplace on graduation and understand how to apply their knowledge in a real world context.
You will see a marked improvement on your day-to-day performance, confidence and learning in the workplace, as well as improvements in your ability to demonstrate new skills learnt during the course of your studies. By combining experience with new management thinking developed over the lifetime of the MBA, you will see improvements in decision making, contributions to idea generation and business improvement.It is expected that MBA graduates will have an improved career trajectory and be able to move more quickly and with confidence up the career ladder. Importantly, many MBA graduates have used the confidence and skills they have developed on the programme to achieve their aspirations and move across sectors and industry boundaries.
For module information for this course please visit https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduates/mba
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