Executive MBA
Nottingham University Business School offers a top-quality Executive MBA with an excellent reputation. To study the Executive MBA programme you should typically have at least five years of management experience; the average is more than ten.
What the Executive MBA offers
Exceptional flexibility; modules are completed in self-contained, one-week blocks. The programme can be completed within two to four years with the option to vary the number of modules taken each year to suit your lifestyle, work and personal commitments. Modules are normally delivered in January, April, July, and September.
Who can do it
Individual applicants, applicants sponsored by companies, companies or organisations that want to develop a customised programme through a formal partnership with the Business School.
What the Programme aims to develop
- Conceptual and analytical competence to plan and manage growth
- Understanding of the dynamics of organisations
- Ability to work with others to achieve successful change
- General management perspective on the functions of a business
- Sound up- to-date knowledge of business operations
- Practical skills to manage a business
Companies whose employees have participated
- Bank of England
- British Telecom plc
- The Boots Company plc
- Capital One
- Experian
- Ford Motor Company
- Frankfurt Airport
- Marconi
- MK International Ltd
- NatWest Bank
- Rolls Royce
- Bakkavor Foods
- Aggregate Industries
- TSYS Europe
- Maher Ltd
- Kuehne & Nagel Drinks
- Rexam
- Selex Communications
- Nottinghamshire Police
- Sun Microsystems
- BPB British Gypsum
- ADT Fire & Security
- DHL
- Games Workshop
- British American Tobacco
- Wincanton Plc
What our course members say
You will study seven core modules:
- Finance and Accounting
- Business Economics
- Managing People
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Strategic Management
- Sustainable Decisions and Organisations
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Specialist Areas
For those wishing to focus on a particular area, we offer specialist programmes where you can study three specialist core modules, two electives and complete a management project relative to the specialism. Specialist areas include:
Corporate Social Responsibility
The MBA Corporate Social Responsibility was the first MBA of its kind in Britain, the focus of which is on socially responsible business. This unique programme, offered in conjunction with the School's International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR), combines advanced teaching and learning in management with state of the art thinking in corporate social responsibility. This combination allows progressive learning at the leading edge of knowledge in the general discipline of management studies and socially responsible business. Specialist modules include:
Entrepreneurship
The MBA Entrepreneurship aims to combine an advanced teaching and learning programme in management with state of the art thinking on Entrepreneurship. The MBA Entrepreneurship not only enables you to develop a career in business and management, but also enables you to engage in a study of entrepreneurial individuals and organisations (including private, public and social enterprises), focusing on the interaction between entrepreneurship, management practice and the external environment and develop many of the skills associated with successful entrepreneurship, skills which are increasingly recognised as useful in any domain. Specialist core modules include:
Healthcare
The MBA Executive - Healthcare is designed for those employed in the healthcare organisations in private, public or not-for-profit sectors. As well as studying the fundamental management disciplines, you will specialise by studying the following modules:
- Commissioning and Service Redesign
- Ethics, Governance and Risk
- Public Services Management and Policy
Course Member Testimonials
Dr Kathy Teahon
