Why choose Herts?
- 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.
- This course is up for periodic review
To ensure this course continues to be cutting-edge and enables you to be ready for the modern workplace, it is due to be reviewed by March 2024.
Our website will typically be updated within a month of the review confirming any enhancements, including:
- module titles (and whether they are core or optional)
- expected contact hours
- assessment methods
- staff teaching on the course
- Entry requirements and key information
An honours degree (at least 2:2 or equivalent) in any discipline, a degree equivalent professional qualification or appropriate work experience.
All students from non-majority English speaking countries require proof of English language proficiency. The following qualifications and grades will be considered:
- GCSE English language grade A-C
- IELTS 6.5 (with no less than 5.5 in any band)
- Other English language tests are accepted including some local qualifications such as Standard XII, WAEC and NECO. Please contact the International Office for details.
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?
Our Postgraduate studies are sector leading amongst over 100 Higher Education Institutions in the UK as evidenced by our extraordinary achievement:
- 2nd overall in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) out of 101 institutions (Advance HE, 2023)
- 1st for Skills Development, 2nd for Support, Resources, Community and Assessment (Advance HE, 2023)
- 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 student. These are offered subject to student numbers.
- MBA
- MBA (Human Resources)
- MBA (Entrepreneurship)
- MBA (Digital Marketing)
- MBA (Financial Services)
- MBA (Healthcare)
- MBA (Public Services)
- MBA (Sustainable Industries)
- MBA (Data Analytics)
- MBA (Project Management)
- MBA (Management Consultancy)
- MBA (Information Systems)
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