MBA
Develop your knowledge, ability, and ambition to shape the future of an organisation and your career. Our MBA is a truly transformative leadership experience.
The next generation of leaders need to be adaptable and resilient to change. With our MBA, you’ll learn to think and behave differently. You'll question established norms and search for new answers.
Our MBA programme offers you a carefully structured, immersive experience to equip you to 'challenge today, change tomorrow'. In our friendly and supportive learning environment, we'll prepare you for jobs of the future, technology that hasn't been invented, and opportunities we don't yet know about.
With our MBA, you will develop the capabilities you need to be competitive in any industry or entrepreneurial venture, honing in on your leadership, critical thinking and communication skills.
Your leadership journey has three key phases
Strengthen your management fundamentals, develop your global perspective, and integrate your learning with our 13 core modules.
You can personalise your MBA and choose from six electives during phase two of your leadership journey. This offers you more scope to align your learning experience with your individual career objectives.
Your MBA modules are outlined below for the September 2022 course start date.
Start your journey by developing a comprehensive understanding of business and management that makes the MBA the preferred route to success for the leaders and entrepreneurs of the future.
You will study:
- Accounting and Finance
- Organisations and People Management
- Projects, Programmes and Operations Management
- Marketing
- Strategic Management
- Transitions in the Global Economy
You will then integrate and apply your learning with the Business in Action. This module gives you real business awareness and experience.
You’ll work in project teams to practise and consolidate your understanding of core business skills. You'll do this through:
- a time-bound series of intensive lectures
- industry visits
- interactive workshops
Delivered in Newcastle, you'll benefit from our connections with business and industry.
Prepare for the key challenges of business in the 21st century and the changing landscape of the future of work. Choose two electives to develop your skillset and knowledge of emerging business trends and thinking.
You will study:
And choose two electives, one from each group, to suit your interests:
Group one
Group two
You will then integrate and apply your learning with the Personal Development Experience.
You will hone your skills as a leader and a team player by working with your peers in a developmental environment. Through a series of exercises, you will embrace new challenges that will lead to real personal growth, as you learn from constructive feedback provided by practitioners, academics and your fellow students.
Apply your MBA learning through a range of projects, enabling you to investigate and make an original contribution to issues of current concern to business.
Boardroom Challenge
Leverage your new knowledge and leadership skills from the Business Analysis for Decision Making module and take this opportunity to start to think like a director.
Gain an understanding of what it means to present a thorough business case to corporate executives. It’s more than education and training. It’s about developing that language, positioning, value and confidence that makes you ‘boardroom ready’.
Management Consultancy Project
Work with a live client on this team-based consultancy project. You can complete this project with a UK or international company, depending on international travel restrictions.
Individual Project
Apply your learning to a corporate consultancy project, an entrepreneurial business plan or a research project.
These modules focus on providing experiential learning that builds your consulting skills, integrates your knowledge, develops your self-awareness, and enhances your personal management style.
In an addition to the Business in Action module, you will also complete a year-long module:
Throughout the programme, business professionals are invited to contribute to the teaching and learning experience. You'll be invited to attend industry-led events and participate in business challenges and MBA competitions.
MBA Reflections
Hear from current MBA students Emily, Debarana and Chinyerer as they reflect on highlights from Semester 1 as they progress into Semester 2.
Newcastle MBA Journey
Meet two graduates from our latest cohort and discover a day in the life of the MBA and learn how we create leaders for the future.
7 reasons to choose the MBA at Newcastle
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Your career development
This is a journey of self-discovery, transformation and an opportunity to integrate and apply your learning. Find out how our MBA helps you on the next steps of your career.
