Course summary

The MBA Business Leadership and Practice programme is designed to develop you as a manager and leader of the future through supporting you in analysing environments, formulating strategy, taking decisions and leading change programmes. The course incorporates a placement to help you develop practical experience and insight as well as build valuable links between theory and practice and enhance your overall employability. Through this placement, you’ll formulate a project plan with the aim of introducing a new approach or strategy into a public, private or voluntary sector organisation. The programme covers the full range of MBA skills as well as additional action learning and critical reflection skills – essential for the modern manager. You'll acquire creative problem solving, critical reasoning and strategic thinking skills, and apply these to your learning about global economic principles, strategic business issues, organisational management and the realities of the competitive marketplace. You'll utilise and augment your written and verbal communication techniques, giving you the confidence to present your ideas and strategies to the business world. You’ll learn through a combination of lectures, tutorials, workshops, group discussions and other interactive learning experiences. Classroom-based learning is complemented by attendance and participation at a residential weekend, and enhanced by masterclasses with guest speakers from various business sectors, keeping you in touch with contemporary business solutions. You'll be enrolled as an Affiliate member of the CMI.