Master of Business Administration (full award)

Entry requirements

Undergraduate degree:

• A bachelor’s degree with a 2.2 (hons) is required and at least three years’ relevant strategic management or leadership experience. Alternatively, a minimum of five years’ relevant strategic management or leadership experience would be considered if no prior degree is held.

Relevant work experience:

• Applicants should be employed in a job role in which they contribute to strategic leadership/ management relating to their area of responsibility within the organisation.

RPL:

• Credits may be awarded for learning already undertaken in the University or elsewhere for which you have received qualifications or certificates and you may submit a claim for recognition of unaccredited prior learning (RP(E)L). This may be for work you have accomplished in a professional, paid, or voluntary capacity. This must be submitted via an RPL form with supporting evidence. You will also be liable to pay an administration fee and charge per credit. All RP(E)L claims must be applied for at the point of admission and cannot be considered at a later stage.

Alternative qualifications considered:

• If you do not meet the admissions criteria above, the course team has a strong commitment to widening participation and positively welcomes non-standard applicants. Candidates with some management experience or those who are about to enter a managerial role and have a demonstrated aptitude for study may still be considered dependant on circumstances and this can be discussed with the Programme Leader prior to application.

IELTS:

• Where English is not your first language, or your first degree was not taught and assessed wholly in English, an IELTS score of 6.5 must be achieved, with no individual score of less than 5.5. The programme complies fully with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010

Months of entry

January, September

Course content

A distinctive qualification which is intellectually-challenging, insightful and grounded in improving practice in the workplace.

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a part-time, 30-month programme that will help you respond to complex organisational issues at a senior management level. The programme supports you in examining strategic responses to organisational issues to create value and pragmatic solutions within your organisation. It develops you to become a confident, competent, forward-thinking senior leader who can identify and critically analyse data, prospects, and balance strategic thinking with excellent operational focus.

The central underpinning themes of the programme are transformation; both individual and organisational. It is intellectually challenging, insightful, and focused on improving practice in the workplace across all areas of management, leadership, and functions of a business. In consultation with employees, the curriculum has been developed to cover a broad range of business disciplines, including strategy, leadership, systems, innovation and finance, that prepares and enables you to take a strategic perspective in senior leadership.

Who is it for?

This programme is suitable for middle and senior managers, from any sector looking to better support their organisation’s strategic direction. We are dedicated to supporting mature, professional students and preparing you for work in the challenging and rewarding arena of senior leadership.

Benefits

• Part-Time, Block Taught delivery to support your development alongside your current role.
• Develop a strategic decisions within your organisational area.
• Gain confidence in horizon scanning and developing insight and foresight in organisational planning.
• Benefit from teaching informed by business research & local business needs.
• Expand your professional network and learn alongside local senior leaders and managers.
• Highly qualified & experienced teaching team.
• Specialised Masterclasses from business leaders.
• Transform your professional practice and enhance career progression prospects.
• All students and alumni benefit from membership of Liverpool Leadership Network.

An important element of the programme is the opportunity it provides to apply your learning to organisational situations. The fact that learning is applied, rather than being purely theoretical, is crucial to empower you to contribute to, and impact your organisation.

Modules have therefore been developed in consultation with businesses, who identified the following training themes.

• Your leadership development
• Strategies for engaging and motivating others
• Complex operational strategies
• Organisational change, innovation, systems & people
• Sustainable business practices & ethical business

In addition, learners’ digital skills will be developed and enhanced to increase impact within these themes and the programme. As such, the curriculum aligns to emerging social and business approaches to maximise the impact you can make individually, organisationally, and societally.

Information for international students

Fees and funding

Please see the course page for more information.