Master of Business Administration (MBA) drafted

Program Overview

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at the University of Huddersfield is a 1-2 year program that focuses on responsible leadership and global management perspective. It offers a range of modules such as Strategic Financial Decisions Analysis, Strategic Marketing, People Matter, and Business Research Project. The program emphasizes group discussion, sharing of experiences, and practical application through a business project. Graduates from the program have gone on to successful careers in management and leadership roles in various industries.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Huddersfield MBA aims to help students realize their ambitions, become more effective and responsible leaders, develop a strategic and global management perspective, and improve their communication skills. The program has an overarching focus on responsible leadership, emphasizing a multiple stakeholder perspective.

Objectives:

• Develop an integrated and critically aware understanding of responsible management and organizations.
• Equip students with the necessary skills for effective roles within organizations.
• Foster professional development to become a responsible leader.
• Enhance responsible leadership and people management skills within an organization.
• Develop responsible leadership in a changing environmental and societal context.
• Equip students with the skills for strategy development and innovation to fulfill value propositions.

Outline:

Duration:

1 year full-time, 2 years part-time It is designed for non-specialists in finance and helps understand key finance and accounting concepts, including risk analysis, transparency of financial information, and strategic financial decisions. It emphasizes a market-oriented, customer-driven approach to planning and implementing marketing strategies that help achieve organizational goals. The module equips students with the knowledge and skills to undertake strategic analysis of any given market, and create, adapt, and implement marketing strategies.

• People Matter: This module explores how sustainable success is delivered through strategic and responsible management of people.
It considers how responsible people practices encourage commitment and improve performance in the challenging environment in which organizations exist.
• Responsible Leadership and Systemic Risk Management for Business: This module explores theories of responsible leadership and systemic risks, considering how responsible business leaders can manage or mitigate them.
It emphasizes the importance of responsible leadership in avoiding or mitigating systemic risks, which are a modern manifestation of the tragedy of the commons.
• Strategic Management and Innovation: This module explores the nature of strategic management and innovation practice within a range of organizations and across business networks.
It includes understanding and exploring strategic formulation and responsible leadership practices in the 3rd Sector (Voluntary and social Enterprises) as well as other public sector bodies. The module focuses on contemporary concepts such as digitization, servitization, digital ecosystems, platforms, business model innovation, and disruption.
• Professional and Personal Excellence (PROPEL 1): This module focuses on enabling students to maximize their professional and personal development and develop the skills necessary to become continuous learners.
It covers learning styles and preferences, and research methods.
• Professional and Personal Excellence (PROPEL 2): This module builds on PROPEL 1 and focuses on developing knowledge and ability in the areas of self-awareness, planning and undertaking personal and professional development, and improving interpersonal relationships.
It introduces a range of models and concepts for the analysis of business activity.
• Business-Research Project: This module provides students with the opportunity to get involved in a project, normally within a business of their choice.
The project aims to provide solutions to a commissioned business problem.

Assessment:

• Individual and group reports
• Essays
• Learning logs
• Time-constrained assessment activities
• Dissertation

Teaching:

• Lectures provide formal input to the modules.
• Guided reading and case study analyses supplement lectures.
• Workshops, tutorials, and seminar activities are also used.
• The postgraduate dissertation proposal module is delivered throughout the program, enabling students to understand the importance of research for business while developing a research question for their dissertation.
• The dissertation is undertaken during the summer term, after all taught elements of the module have been completed.

Teaching Excellence:

• University staff rank in the top three in England for the proportion who hold doctorates, have higher degrees, and hold teaching qualifications.
• The University is first in the country for National Teaching Fellowships, which mark the UK's best lecturers in Higher Education.
• The University won the first Global Teaching Excellence Award, recognizing its commitment to world-class teaching and its success in developing students as independent learners and critical thinkers.

Careers:

• The MBA qualification is globally recognized and highly valued by employers.
• The program helps students achieve their personal goals, become valuable assets to their organizations, and improve their chances of climbing the career ladder.
• Students can use their MBA to explore and redefine their ambitions and change their career direction.
• Recent graduates are working as Managing Directors, Banking Professionals, Operations Managers, Investment Analysts, and Marketing and Communications Managers for companies such as Morgan Sindall, Cummins Inc, and Rotherham United FC.

Other:

• The University of Huddersfield is an official HE Partner of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
• Huddersfield Business School is an accredited member of AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
• The program emphasizes group discussion and encourages students to share their experiences.
• The program offers a variety of PhD study opportunities, including the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) and the Doctor of Public Administration (DPA).

Full-time tuition fees for this course in 2023/24 are £19,690. Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X).Part-time tuition fees for this course in 2023/24 are: Year 1 £9,845 and Year 2 £9,845. Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X).