Executive MBA

Entry requirements

This programme is open to Business Owners, Chief Executives, Directors, Senior and Middle Managers, namely, those with leadership responsibility and who are ready to explore their capability in depth.

The Executive MBA is appropriate for you if you have experience of senior management in either a commercial or public sector environment. You need not necessarily have had previous exposure to studies in business, leadership or management

Applicants will normally have a first or second-class Honours Degree or equivalent in any subject and at least two years of business/management experience at a senior level

Months of entry

January, September

Course content

The Executive MBA is an accredited postgraduate programme comprising bite-size packages of learning. It aims to develop business leaders’ and managers’ understanding and critical appreciation of the theories, tools, and applications of leadership and management with a strong focus on sustainability and carbon literacy. This understanding enables them to, more effectively, manage change in organisations and utilise appropriate resources.

The Executive MBA at Worcester seeks to improve individual’s personal effectiveness, innovation, and strategic leadership to enhance organisational performance. The programme focuses upon applied and relevant learning, encouraging students to relate the knowledge and skills gained to real leadership and management scenarios.

Key features

• A challenge based curriculum that speaks directly to the needs of emerging leaders in contemporary business environments
• Sustainability and carbon literacy is woven through the course and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are explored in the modules
• The opportunity to apply learning directly into your own organisation to add immediate value and develop consulting and problem solving skills by engaging with a third party organisation on a meaningful change and improvement project
• Programme support scaffolding that develops you as an individual leader as well as your academic understanding
• Opportunities for the systematic development your skills in objective analysis, evaluation and presentation to enable you to further develop confidence in effectively appraising and implementing management strategies
• The chance to develop the capability to understand your own approach to the role of leadership and to inform this approach through the development of appropriate knowledge, skills, behaviours and techniques in a dynamic way
• The chance to develop an ability to apply knowledge and understanding of organisations, leadership and management to complex issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve your practice
• Enhanced lifelong learning skills and personal development so as to be able to work with self-direction and originality and to contribute to business and society at large
• A stimulating academic environment which is based upon the values of academic openness and critical appraisal

Teaching

The programme is taught on campus, with teaching taking place on selected Fridays and Saturdays. Each module will have an associated pre-read/material, which will then be followed by the taught sessions that will leverage this pre-work to do meaningful work.

Typically, the taught sessions will include group discussions, interactive workshops, and case study analyses. Group discussions enable the development of understanding of topics that have been introduced as part of the pre-work. Interactive workshops take a variety of formats and are intended to enable the application of learning through small group activities. Case study analyses enable learners to apply theories, concepts and frameworks to real business situational challenges to bring content to life, to drive relevancy and engagement.

Outside of modules, you’ll be encouraged to set up discussion boards and interact with others in the cohort using the virtual learning environment.

Finally, our strong links with external events and the CMI will create opportunities for you to build your professional and personal networks. In addition, you will have a minimum of two meetings with your Personal Academic Tutors, timed to coincide with key points, such as induction or assessment.

The University places emphasis on enabling students to develop the independent learning capabilities that will equip them for lifelong learning and future employment, as well as academic achievement. A mixture of independent study, teaching and academic support from Student Services and Library Services, and also the Personal Academic Tutoring system enables students to reflect on progress and build up a profile of skills, achievements and experiences that will help them to flourish and be successful.

Employability

This programme will give students the opportunity to develop a sound understanding of the principles of leadership and management and learn to apply these principles more widely. Through this, they will learn to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to solving problems. Their studies will have a vocational orientation, enabling them to perform more effectively in leadership and management in their own workplace contexts. Holders of qualifications at this level will have the qualities necessary for employment in situations requiring the exercise of personal responsibility and decision-making.

Information for international students

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.5 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).