The Nottingham full-time MBA
Our intensive, one-year MBA will help you understand key theoretical concepts, adapt and use your skills in a practical business environment, and stand out in the competitive job market.
This intensive experience will immerse you in group-based learning, and extensive personal problem-solving and reflection.
Working within learning teams you will debate advanced business challenges, tackle complex business cases, and develop innovative approaches to creating value within a business.
You can flex your studies to explore a general programme or collect electives leading to a specialist pathway in Finance Leadership, Healthcare Leadership, Innovation Leadership, or Technology Leadership.
We will enable you to develop your capabilities in:
- leadership
- strategic approaches
- critical thinking
- international perspectives
- inclusivity
- ethical perspectives
- external focus / internal action
- innovation
International study tours
The international MBA study tour allows you to develop an expansive view of the global business landscape through a mixture of field visits to organisations in the destination country. Destinations include the USA, China and Malaysia where one location will be chosen in each year for the international tour. The tour gives you the opportunity to reflect on the application of theory to practical business management issues.
These study tours provide opportunities to take advantage of our unique campuses in China and Malaysia.
The MBA enabled me to use academic knowledge and approaches to explore strategic insights of any business.
Connect with business
Throughout your MBA, you will encounter and engage with senior business figures, practitioners and internationally renowned academics. They will challenge your approach and understanding of contemporary strategic business challenges.
You will take modules that will put you at the head of a management team, allowing you to develop innovative solutions to problems and crises that may threaten the operation and reputation of a business.
For example, you will learn to manage a press conference with journalists and present strategic solutions to a board drawn from senior directors of major organisations.
Dr Niamh O’Sullivan talks about the MBA Sustainable Decisions and Organisations module.
Business Practice week
The Business Practice week is an integral part of the MBA and provides valuable opportunities to visit a selection of international, national, small medium enterprise and a consulting community project with local not for profit community projects in association with Business in the Community.
It also introduces students to current business strategies, practices and challenges businesses face and provides a platform to enhance students understanding of the dimensions of business in the areas of Strategic Management, Operations Management, Managing People, Marketing, Business Economics Finance and consulting.
(Study tours are offered at an additional cost to students.)
Business Practice week was by far one of my favourite parts of the fall semester. I loved the exposure to different industries. Being able to further my education and learn while helping the community - there is no better feeling.
Companies and organisations we have worked with include:
- Barclays
- Bloomberg
- Business in the community
- Citi Bank
- Co-operative
- Experian
- JCB
- Jaguar Land Rover
- Mondelez International
- River Island
- Royal Asset Management
- Standard & Poors Global Ratings
Business challenges
You will also have the opportunity to enhance your learning through interactions with business competitions and university research centres and develop your innovation and entrepreneurship skills through engagement with the Ingenuity Lab.
All our MBA graduates become members of the Business School alumni association and have access to a network of 19,000 graduates from all over the world.
Career progression
Our recent graduates have developed careers in fields such as:
- management consulting
- finance and accounting
- human resources
- marketing and sales
- information technology
- operations and logistics
Some MBA graduates return to their previous employer in a more senior role.
What business roles do our graduates work in?
Our graduates are likely to be employed in leadership or strategic positions where they bring contemporary insight to an organisation establishing principled, well researched modes of operation or ventures.
Studying an MBA at Nottingham University Business School has provided me with an excellent foundation for my future in sustainable business leadership.
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