Course summary
This degree is designed for professionals who are seeking to improve their management and leadership skills and broaden their theoretical knowledge of business and management. Over 12 or 24 months, students will acquire a deep knowledge of all the key business functions. Participants will gain a greater appreciation of the significance of the interrelationship of functional areas to the overall success of a business, in international, national and local markets. This degree offers students the opportunity to study at a postgraduate level, while maintaining and enhancing their contribution to their employer. We recognise that today business is conducted across international boundaries and that globalisation is a phenomenon that impacts all organisations. Therefore, the focus of the degree is on the specific challenges facing organisations that have global operations, or that transact business internationally. The degree will also support the development of a range of transferable executive skills including leadership; strategic decision making; problem-solving; change management, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship; finance; operations management; marketing and human resource management.
Modules
International Finance and Operations Postgraduate Study Skills, Research Methods and Ethics Principles of International Marketing Cross-Cultural Leadership and Human Capital Management International Strategic Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Postgraduate Integrative Project
Assessment method
The MBA is assessed through assignments and a dissertation. Assessment is by assignments based on the nine taught modules together with a 15,000-word dissertation based on the candidate’s own organisation, or an organisation that the candidate is intimately familiar with.
Entry requirements
Students must have the equivalent of a UK first degree at 2:2 or above plus relevant experience. If you have completed a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent non-UK qualification and did not achieve our required grades for entry, but can demonstrate that your life/work skills would make you suitable, you should still consider applying.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
EU | £8500 | Whole course |
England | £8500 | Whole course |
Northern Ireland | £8500 | Whole course |
Scotland | £8500 | Whole course |
Wales | £8500 | Whole course |
Channel Islands | £8500 | Whole course |
International | £18100 | Whole 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
Provider information
ARU London
Import and Export Buildings
2 Clove Crescent
Poplar
London
E14 2BE