Program Overview

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Introduction

The Suffolk Executive MBA here at the University of Suffolk offers business knowledge at a senior level of management and advances leadership skills. Undertaking this qualification demonstrates determination to succeed in your chosen career and achieve your potential. With its distinctive nature the course aims to develop analytical and strategic management skills using concepts derived from a wide range of academic disciplines. With its flexible and practical nature, the Suffolk Executive MBA is designed to fit in with existing career commitments, offering flexibility for managers and senior leaders across several different industries and sectors who are wanting to boost their career prospects whilst continuing to work.

Students will be involved in live management issues through various projects and assessments, developing leadership and management skills, and undertaking both group-based and individual work. The blended approach to the Suffolk Executive MBA combines a multitude of different traditional classroom learning supported by additional forms of online learning and a Postgraduate Workshop Series. The Postgraduate Workshop Series aims to address a wide range of current management issues and offers an opportunity to discuss these themes with academics and practitioners.

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Through our accreditation scheme, and upon successful completion of modules on the Suffolk Executive MBA programme, students will be eligible to apply for the

ILM Level 7 Diploma in Leadership and Management

and

CMI L7 Strategic Management and Leadership Practice.

Further information about the University's relationship with the ILM and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is available in the PSRB register.

Specialisms

Leadership

Marketing

Integrated Care

Please speak to the programme leader Dr Ross Kemble (

R.Kemble@uos.ac.uk

) to discuss options

Tuition

You will be taught by professors and lecturers, each of whom has extensive experience in both senior management and academia.

View profiles of the School's teaching staff

Critique

Many MBA degrees offered elsewhere are principally formulaic how-to courses.  With us, however, we actively encourage students to fundamentally question generally-accepted management and leadership wisdom by drawing upon the full range of social scientific knowledge.

Not only does this develop a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of the complex nature of organisations and their functioning, but it develops the transferable skills of evaluation and analysis required of senior management.

Practice-based learning

Students will be involved in live management issues through various projects and assessments, developing leadership and management skills, and undertaking both group-based and individual work. Students are also invited to guest lectures by practising managers, each of whom has extensive experience in their particular field.

View more information about the range of employers our students work with in the Business School.

Facilities

The course is delivered in the award-winning Waterfront Building in Ipswich. This is an inspiring location not least because of its views over the Marina, and is the focal point of an extremely well-resourced campus. Class sizes are small (typically between 10 and 15 students).

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Pre-course reading:

Cameron, S. (2008) 6th. Ed. The MBA Handbook: Skills for Mastering Management, Prentice Hall, Harlow

Gatrell, C. & Turnbull, S. (2002) Your MBA With Distinction: Developing a Systematic Approach to succeeding in Your Business Degree, Prentice Hall, Harlow

Ramsay, P, Maier, P & Price, P. (2010) Study Skills for Business and Management Students, Longman, Harlow

Saunders, M., Lewis, P., Thornhill, A. (2009), Research Methods for Business Students, 5th ed, Pitman, London

You can take your own pace through the programme by choosing to do fewer modules in a year. You can also opt to take just one module as part of a Continuing Professional Development programme. On passing, this will give you 20 Masters Level credits, which may be used to build up a Masters qualification.

Further information about the University's relationship with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is available in the PSRB register.