MBA (full-time): University of Southampton

Course Description

The full-time MBA is designed for graduates who have at least three years of relevant work experience, who now wish to pursue a challenging programme of study to develop their managerial potential.

Strategic management and leadership practice are increasingly conducted in an international context of networked organisations. Managers are required to develop sustainable and responsive business solutions. Their AMBA-accredited MBA is academically rigorous, offering a participatory approach to learning, with its integrative, modular curriculum, including research training and consultancy skills.

They place emphasis on keeping as close to real-world business as possible, through various forms of interaction with businesses and organisations. A significant part of the teaching is based on real-life business case studies and practical, action-oriented projects.

Programme structure

Programme content is divided into four parts: parts 1 and 2 represent general business understanding; part 3 focuses on the application of the previously studied topics in the form of a group project; and part 4 is a dissertation.

Part 1: Key business skills

• Core modules: Accounting: managing and measuring performance; Contemporary marketing; Corporate finance; Effective leadership; Organisations in a global context; Quality and operations management

Part 2

• Three core modules: Decision modelling and analysis; Managing people for performance; Strategy
• Two optional modules from: Logistics management; Project management; Supply management; modules from current postgraduate programmes

Part 3: Application of management skills

• Core module: A group project facilitated by four themes: The creator (innovation management); The investigator (consultancy skills and research methods); The decision maker (strategy process, scenario planning, risk and decisions); The champion (organisational change and transition)

Part 4: Dissertation

Entry requirements

First or upper second-class honours degree from a UK university, or equivalent overseas/professional qualification (we are committed to assessing applications on individual merit) plus min. 3 years’ post-qualification work experience

MBA Admissions Tutor: Mrs J Ingledow