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Business Administration at University of Bedfordshire - UCAS

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2024 - 20252025 - 2026
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Course summary

This full-time MBA is a flagship management qualification designed for early-career professionals, fostering rapid career advancement. It enhances leadership and strategic management skills, and offers insight into contemporary business dynamics. This postgraduate programme aims to elevate your capabilities in applying cutting-edge knowledge to organisational growth amidst global competition. Core units cover areas including professional advancement, resource management and global strategy, preparing you for impactful leadership roles. Facilities and specialist equipment

  • State-of-the-art data lab, equipped with top-tier business analytics software and platforms including Vensim simulation software, allowing hands-on learning and exploration
  • A range of learning resources, such as the Harvard Business Review and Oracle OPERA, to support you on your learning journey
Industry links We work closely with local and regional businesses and integrate these relationships into hands-on projects within specific units. Student experience Learn from our highly experienced academic team of industry experts engaged in consultancy, business involvement and social impact. Block delivery course structure gives you year-round entry points so you can tailor your learning to fit around your life. Our business and management courses rank 4th overall in their subject field in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2024, with top 3 rankings for teaching, engagement, learning community and course organisation. Learning supported by extensive Harvard Business Publication resources and simulations.  Acquire essential professional skills aligned with bodies like the Chartered Management Institute. Join our Global Guest Speaker series, featuring academics, industry leaders, and professionals from organisations like Luton Borough Council, the European Commission, and bodies such as the Association of Project Management (APM). Participate in field trips to exhibitions like the Great Business Exhibition and Tech Show London, as well as industry visits to companies like TUI, gaining first-hand industry insights.  Solve real-life problems working with the University’s Research and Innovation Service (RIS) where you can assist local businesses and SMEs to up-skill and innovate.  

Modules

  • Advancing Professional Practice (BSS070-6) Compulsory
  • Leading And Managing Organisational Resources (BSS064-6) Compulsory
  • Management Practice (BSS063-6) Compulsory
  • Strategy And The Global Competitive Environment (BSS058-6) Compulsory
  • Theory Into Practice Project (BSS056-6) Compulsory
Every effort is made to ensure this information is accurate at the point of publication on the UCAS website. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to our website.

Assessment method

The underpinning philosophy of all assessments is to develop both your knowledge and skills to enter employment as a confident manager with a strong base from which to meet your own aspirations. This requires consideration of your own personal capabilities as well as looking outward at the business world. The aim is for you to become an independent and self-directed lifelong learner. Apart from the formal assessments there will be an emphasis on self, peer and group assessment. Tutors will provide feedback on formative assessments to support your development of good academic practice. All assessments are rooted in authentic and practical workplace scenarios to enable the integration of theory and practice in dynamic `real world work contexts. Exams are kept to a minimum. To facilitate learning for all students a range of assessment methods are used throughout the course, including:

  • Business Reports to demonstrate contextual insight and professional practice;
  • Project Plans to demonstrate project planning skills;
  • Seminar Papers to develop critical analysis skills; - In-class tests of your knowledge of core concepts in context;
  • Project Report integrates learning throughout the course independently applied in practice;
  • Business simulation where you demonstrate the impact of your strategic decision making.
The focus is on the impact of management education to management practice and later assessments require greater complexity and integration through independent study to support your successful transition into work. This is exemplified by two units at the dissertation stage: Management Practice and the Theory into Practice Project. These help you to consider your personal and professional development and the complexity of applying management education in practice once in employment.

Entry requirements

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent. We also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications and individuals with appropriate work experience. For international students English competence of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent is required.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

For information on the 2025 fees and scholarships please refer to our website, https://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/money/fees/
Business Administration at University of Bedfordshire - UCAS