London South Bank University – MBA
Overview :
Our Master of Business Administration (MBA) concentrates on developing the skills required to operate at senior levels within an organization. The course offers an advanced understanding of business administration and incorporates a wide range of disciplines to deliver a comprehensive educational experience.
This program is distinguished by its international focus, both in course content and student body and has links with institutions around the world, including some of the leading business schools in Europe.
The MBA course seeks to provide a higher level management qualification, building on London South Bank University’s twenty year experience of management training and education.
Mode: Full Time
Duration: 15 Months
Start Date: January; September
Semester 1 :
- Managerial economics (20 credits)
- Accounting and finance (20 credits)
- Managing human resources (20 credits)
- Managing strategy and change (20 credits)
- Marketing management (20 credits)
- Critical management inquiry (20 credits)
- Dissertation, management project (60 credits)
- A first degree (minimum 2.2) or foreign equivalent.
- Level of language proficiency: This requirement applies to those students whose first language is not English: Applicants should have a minimum of IELTS 6.5.
Semester 2:
- Managing strategy and change (20 credits)
- Marketing management (20 credits)
- Critical management inquiry (20 credits)
The dissertation is the third stage of the MBA and is equivalent to three modules; it requires students to apply the skills learnt on the program to practical business problems.
International fee: £11250.00
Employment prospects are excellent. Successful students can, in addition to senior management roles, build a career in a variety of roles in consulting, marketing, finance and human resource management. In this respect the personal development emphasis on the course reflects the skills demanded for flexible roles in managing across a variety of organizational cultures and functions inside multinational companies.
LSBU is committed to supporting you develop your employability and succeed in getting a job after you have graduated. Your qualification will certainly help, but in a competitive market you also need to work on your employability, and on your career search. Our Employability Service will support you in developing your skills, finding a job, interview techniques, work experience or an internship, and will help you assess what you need to do to get the job you want at the end of your course. LSBU offers a comprehensive Employability Service, with a range of initiatives to complement your studies, including:
- direct engagement from employers who come in to interview and talk to students
- Job Shop and on-campus recruitment agencies to help your job search
- Mentoring and work shadowing schemes.
