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MBA - Master of Business Administration
Docklands Campus.
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
Our MBA is a dynamic, contemporary, and practical course designed to produce the business leaders of the future.We're rooted in London's most exciting region for enterprise, between the major financial institutions of Canary Wharf and pioneering new businesses in Stratford and Shoreditch. We work with these institutions, from Bloomberg to Barclaycard, to bring you cutting-edge insight into the way contemporary businesses are run. Our course is flexible and accessible. Full-time students attend during the day while part-time students attend during the evenings so you can tailor your attendance around your availability.We're committed to giving you the most complete and practical education we can so we offer you the chance to visit leading businesses in London, attend major industry conferences, and learn from inspiring guest speakers.During this intensive course, you will study six core modules to cover the main business disciplines. These are Managing Strategy, Operations, and Partnerships, Managing Financial and Human Resources for Sustainable Business, Marketing in a Digital Age and Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Simulation with Professional Development, Mental Wealth: Professional Exchange and Applied Research, Applied Business Project.To make our MBA as accessible as possible, it is offered on a part-time daytime basis. Our teaching is rooted in practical, real-world experience - making the most of our extensive links with major organisations based in Canary Wharf and East London, including Bloomberg, Accenture, and Barclaycard.You will be taught through lectures, seminars, and workshops, working as part of a team to apply theory to practical matters; from producing business reports, plans, and presentations to solving business problems. We use real case studies from our business partners to give you an insight into the issues that major companies have to wrestle with, and how they solve them.The business magazine, Forbes, has calculated that successful MBA graduates pay back the cost of their qualifications within four to five years on average - with lifetime earnings greatly enhanced thanks to the qualification.Studying for your MBA with us should enhance your employability and earning power and develop your ability to approach business problems in a strategic manner. As part of the course, you'll study a specialised 'Professional Development' module that is specifically designed to help you boost your career prospects and make the most of your MBA in the employment market.
The aim of this module is to enable you to conduct a live applied business project. This could include a work-based project, report on internship or placement (paid or unpaid), business simulation, Bloomberg project, project management report, or case study.
The aim of this module is for you to develop, maintain and evaluate a successful organisation through advanced analysis and synthesis of data in a simulated 'live' context. The module is designed to embed theoretical perspectives through participation in a business simulation over a number of financial years.
The module aims to develop personal and professional skills that enhance employability and career opportunities. On the other hand, the module aims to develop your understanding and skills in people management and leadership. You will learn some key theories that underpin the latest thinking in the knowledge and skills of being an outstanding leader and manager, regardless of sector (private, public, or non-profit sector).
In this module will enable you to explore the process of creating, evaluating and developing strategy and operations. You will be introduced to the challenges and practices associated with becoming strategic leaders and how organisations manage their operations.
This module is designed to introduce you to contemporary principles and practices in marketing, in a customer-focused and market-oriented organisation. Relationship marketing is the recent marketing approach that develops around the buying and consumption experience. As such the module aims to develop your in depth understanding of the strategic role of marketing in business, and its impact on the market and society in the digital age.
This module provides the opportunity for you to demonstrate the ability to diagnose and investigate a live, complex business issue from a variety of perspectives, to locate the work within the body of contemporary knowledge, to collect and analyse data, to derive supportable conclusions and to make practical and actionable recommendations for change, improvement or enhancement of current practice.
This course offers the opportunity of year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you?ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organisation, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge.
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