• Complete your MBA in one year by studying full-time at the University of Hertfordshire.
• Start your transformational journey to change the way you think and work.
• Engage with an innovative approach management learning and cutting-edge research which will challenge your assumptions about management practice

Careers

Our Master of Business Administration course is career changing.

We’ve embedded career development into every part of our postgraduate teaching. You’ll also have access to our career coach. Boost your career with sessions on topics including personal branding, personal impact and difficult conversations. Our Business School careers team will invite you to join our vibrant alumni network and attend regular career-focused events.

Alumni success stories

See what some of our previous graduates have gone on to achieve and how their time at the university helped shaped their careers.

Work placement

At every stage, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with business, learn through practical, work-based assignments and apply your knowledge in real-world settings in your role.

You’ll also have the opportunity to undertake a six-month applied busines experience. This takes the form of a live business enterprise experience, where you’ll set up and run your own business or social enterprise. While this supports your learning, you’ll be encouraged to develop and explore your business ideas and apply it directly to your career aspirations.

About the course

Studying an MBA can transform the way you think and the way you work, change the way others see you and open up new leadership and management opportunities.

This full-time MBA enables you to develop the critical and reflective strategic leadership skills you need to succeed in an uncertain world, challenging your assumptions, cultivating flexible thinking, effective decision making and responsible management.

As a Hertfordshire MBA student, you’ll be supported by first-class facilities, including our virtual learning environment, StudyNet, which provides access to other students, lecture notes and over 100,000 e-books and e-journals.

You’ll also benefit from teaching and supervision by our expert research-active staff, several of whom are world leaders in their field and act as consultants with leading organisations such as Roche, Camelot and BDO Hayward.

Why choose this course?

• Make a powerful difference to your organisation by developing a strategic, global outlook and experience of everything from accounting to marketing.
• Earn a highly respected Master of Business Administration (MBA) to support your future career opportunities
• Take a life-changing professional journey and expand your mind, skills, career potential and professional network.
• Challenge your assumptions and gain a critical, reflexive approach to strategic leadership and management.
• Focus on industry best practice and live consultancy, underpinned by cutting-edge research.
• Business and Management Studies ranked in the top 25% of UK universities for research impact (Research Excellence Framework, 2021).

What will I study?

Our teaching and learning methods ensure you are able to actively engage with your own development. You’ll benefit from a blended learning approach which utilises web-based activities and reading, alongside simulations, reflective writing, discussions and live enterprise projects.

All of the teaching resources have been designed in a highly structured way and complementary way to take you progressively through business concepts and to give you confidence, enhance your skills and expertise when completing specific tasks.

A participative style is used throughout to enable you to learn from your fellow students, as well as from teaching staff. Experiential learning is central to our teaching philosophy.

There is a considerable emphasis on the utilisation of theory and knowledge to make sense of your own and fellow participants' experiences at work. Case study material is widely used alongside case histories developed by fellow participants.

The MBA at the University of Hertfordshire has multiple pathways for students:

• MBA
• MBA (Human Resource Management)
• MBA (Entrepreneurship)
• MBA (Digital Marketing)
• MBA (Finance)
• MBA (Healthcare)
• MBA (Public Services)
• MBA (Sustainable Industries)
• MBA (Data Analytics)
• MBA (Project Management)
• MBA (Management Consultancy)
• MBA (Information Systems)

• Human Resource Management (MBA)
• Strategic Marketing Planning and Entrepreneurship (MBA)
• Financial Management and Analysis (MBA)
• Operations and Business Analytics (MBA)