Course overview
The MBA in Global Healthcare Management and Leadership is an exciting, vibrant, intensive course that aims to prepare students for successful careers in multi-discipline, healthcare leadership, and management roles globally.
Responding to global market trends, the healthcare economy, and constant change, this course addresses the needs of a new generation of healthcare business leaders.
- Study on a contemporary, CMI accredited course1 reflecting the latest developments in healthcare management and leadership theories and inspiring and nurturing knowledge, aptitude and skills, which are needed to advance your career in healthcare.
- Develop an analytical understanding of global healthcare business in the context of an increasingly changing environment, through the critical analysis and evaluation of new concepts and managerial practices in addressing today’s macro and micro business environment.
- Take advantage of business simulations4 and apply the acquired personal and professional skills into real business situations, evaluating the results and developing solutions. Experience career-relevant teaching and learning, which maximises your exposure to the corporate world (e.g. employer workshops and periods of work experience2).
Why you should study this course
- CMI accreditation1
Study on a course with professional accreditation from one of the UK’s leading professional management bodies, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Take the opportunity to obtain the CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership. - Real-world application
The course has been structured to allow you to embrace and integrate knowledge and skills from the fields of health, social care, leadership, and management, influencing and impacting the provision of future health and social care services across the globe. Through online and on-campus discussion, you will have collaborative learning opportunities to apply leadership theory to healthcare settings and critically analyse and discuss case studies with your fellow students. - Industry insight
You will be taught by helpful, supportive and highly qualified academics with extensive career experience. Current members of staff are PhD holders, Fellows in HEA, or industry-trained (staff subject to change). They will apply their experience to illustrate your learning, and they will aim to use their extensive network of industry contacts to create networking opportunities for students. You could also hear from guest speakers from academia and healthcare services across the UK (subject to availability). - London location
Our campus is based in the heart of the City of London, close to some of the world’s leading healthcare organisations. - Prepare for your future.
You may have the opportunity to mix with employers and to build your CV. Should you wish to start your own business, we can offer business start-up advice and support through our Enterprise Hub (subject to availability). MBA students also have the opportunity to take part in our Professional Development Programme, developed in collaboration with corporate learning and development specialists to help you develop key industry competencies.
Accreditation and professional recognition
Chartered Management Institute
This course has been accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). For the 2023/24 intake. Students who successfully pass the CMI Mapped Modules offered in this course on their way to achieving the full Coventry University qualification will be eligible for a CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management & Leadership award.
How you'll learn
The course design and its modules have been approved as career-relevant by external business and healthcare subject specialists.
- The course is delivered by academics and subject experts who hold both academic and professional qualifications, many of whom are Fellows or Senior Fellows of HEA, have direct experience in the industry and are passionate about teaching so that employment-related knowledge and skills are a natural part of every lecture and seminar (staff subject to change).
- Academic and business technology is employed where it assists in the achievement of the learning outcomes4.
- All modules feature problem-based learning where you could develop your skills in collecting, evaluating, and synthesising resources as well as in critical and creative thinking as you first define and then propose a solution to complex problems.
- To ensure you gain the most from contact hours, some modules or part of certain modules will be flipped so that you have sufficient time to engage with the subject knowledge according to your learning styles and needs and to prepare for your learning journey and teamwork.
- All modules are based on current professional practice and academic research. You gain access to current research, develop academic and business research methods across all levels of the curriculum and engage in independent research in your final term.
This course can be offered on a part-time basis. Whilst we would like to give you all the information about our part-time offering here, it is tailored for each course each year depending on the number of part-time applicants. Therefore, the part-time teaching arrangements vary. Please contact [email protected] for more information about studying this course part-time.
Careers and opportunities
On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Enter or return to the health and social care sector with the knowledge and skills to enhance the efficiency and quality of service provision in your area.
- Explore careers in related fields such as public and community health management, medical sales or third sector organisations, outpatient care and public health, executive roles in support services and a variety of roles in business and health.
If you exit the course at the Postgraduate Certificate level, you will have demonstrated original and critical application of knowledge and integrative management thinking within health services and organisations. Those of you who exit the course at the Postgraduate Diploma level will have demonstrated original and critical application of leadership skills and integrative management thinking within health services and across health systems.
This is more than a management course. Managers are responsible for planning, organising, leading, and controlling functions within an organisation. But not all managers are leaders. This course will help you develop the skills needed to be a leader – such as communication, motivation, providing inspiration and guidance, and encouraging employees to rise to a higher level of productivity. You will graduate with a leadership qualification in the healthcare sector, offering you the possibility to work for the NHS, private healthcare organisations or academic institutions.
Upon successful completion of the course you should feel confident about entering or returning to the health and social care sector with the knowledge and skills to enhance the efficiency and quality of service provision in your area. You may also want to look at careers in related fields such as public and community health management, medical sales or third sector organisations, outpatient care and public health, support service executives and many more roles in business and health.
Further Study
As part of the journey of professional and role development, students are encouraged to continue on their academic journey through access to a range of higher degrees, including PhD and other taught doctorates.
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