MBA/PgDip/PgCert Master of Business Administration

Attendance

Part-time

Part-time block learning, typically over three years
Starts February
You study four modules a year over the first two years, each lasting between three and four days.

At a glance

About this course

The MBA is an internationally recognised management qualification. It develops your ability to make a significant contribution to the management, leadership and development of your organisation.

This course is for middle and senior managers, entrepreneurs and leaders who are seeking stimulating career and professional development.

You gain key skills in the main disciplines of modern management to equip you with the latest management tools and techniques. These improve your ability to lead and motivate others, and develop your analytical and problem-solving skills.

The global business module is currently studied in Prague. It is taught over approximately three days with two days travelling (this may be subject to change).

You study with people from a range of organisations and professions but with similar ambitions. This allows you to share experiences and discuss real issues that heighten your academic learning.

Flexibility is a key feature of this course. It allows you to combine part-time study with the demands of your career and personal commitments. Our MBA enables you to target your learning to your career, benefiting you and your organisation right from the start.

We try to tailor assignments and projects to apply to the needs of your organisation and your own areas of interest, which maximises the value of your studies.

Associated careers

This MBA improves your career prospects at all management levels in any organisation.

Course content

Postgraduate certificate

Strategic management in action
This module introduces you to the nature of the strategic challenges facing organisations in complex and global markets. It provides a thorough grounding in the essential challenges, qualities, components, principles and practices for strategy, and provides a fundamental framework to integrate other elements of the course.

Managing people and organisations
This module provides an essential and critical perspective of organisational theory and its influence on human resource management issues. It develops your knowledge and equips you with the skills to improve your organisation’s effectiveness and your own people management capabilities.

Finance
You learn the skills to make financial decisions at a strategic level and apply appropriate performance measurement systems to the strategic management process.

Strategic marketing planning
You focus upon the nature and importance of marketing strategy in fast moving markets. You look at how an organisation’s competitive advantage might be developed and exploited in a cost effective manner through the planning process. This equips you with the skills and mindset required to manage marketing strategically in a global context.

Postgraduate diploma

Innovation in the digital enterprise
You explore the current and emerging technologies, standards and infrastructures that provide the opportunity for new business models which generate revenue and reduce costs.

Leadership and strategies for change
Providing a critical perspective of leadership theory and its influence on change management issues, this module encourages you to develop a personal approach to leadership and change through a critical understanding of the way in which organisations are developed and managed, and the implications of this for leadership behaviour.

Enterprise and innovation
You evaluate the latest ideas in management and organisations and analyse the implications of these ideas for the future of organisations in general and for a specific organisation. You gain an understanding of how management research is actually practised, and its contribution to organisational theory.

Global business
This module provides you with a thorough understanding of the international business environment and the impact that globalisation is having on organisations and their management.

MBA

Business research methods
This module enables you to understand and evaluate the issues involved in developing and undertaking assignment research and writing activities. You develop skills in learning, research, communication, reflective practice and analysis. You learn how to use the selected approaches and techniques in your own assignment work.

Dissertation
Masters level study requires you to demonstrate the ability to sustain an argument, supported by evaluated evidence offering new insights or hypotheses. This module gives you the opportunity to produce work which meets these criteria by exploring a practical business issue in the form of a dissertation.

Assessment

• written assignments • group projects • dissertation for MBA stage

Entry requirements

You normally need an honours degree or equivalent from a recognised institution and at least two years’ experience in a management role. If you have more substantial management experience and/or relevant professional qualifications we may accept your application based on these.

We welcome applications from overseas students but you must be able to demonstrate a high level of written and verbal fluency. A TOEFL test minimum mark, paper-based 575, computer-based 233, internet-based 91 or an IELTS score of 6.5, is the standard for non-native speakers of English. If you do not meet these scores but have at least five years’ work experience, two of which must be at managerial level, you can apply for the Graduate Diploma in Business and English.

If you apply for the MBA and the Graduate Diploma, we will offer you a place on the MBA subject to your passing the diploma.

Fees

Home and EU students

2013/14 academic year

Typically £4,075 a year

International students

2013/14 academic year

Typically £4,500 a year

2014/15 academic year

Typically £4,500 a year

How to apply

Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form

Contact details

For more information contact Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, Stoddart Building, City Campus, Sheffield S1 1WB. Phone +44 (0)114 225 2820, fax +44 (0)114 225 5268, e-mail sbs@shu.ac.uk