Program Overview

Become an effective business leader with ideas that matter and the skills to put them into practice. The Sussex MBA is built on four pillars to help you develop the leadership needed in today’s disrupted business environment: digital work – the move to digital technologies and virtual work environments; innovation – develop new strategies to adapt to disrupted environments; resilience – ensure employee wellbeing and the sustainability of business models; policy – lobby and influence policy-makers at local, regional and national levels.

Guided by leading academics and industry experts, you’ll gain a range of management and leadership skills. You’ll develop your critical and strategic thinking and learn to apply cutting-edge business theory in practice. Students on our MBA come from all over the world and have experience in a range of industries. This diversity helps open new ways of thinking. Through teamwork you’ll delve into cross-cutting themes in the world of business.

Our MBA is for you if you’re interested in mid-career development or want a general management qualification. MBA graduates are eligible for a Level 7 Strategic Management and Leadership Diploma from the Chartered Management Institute.

You’ll be able to: understand different approaches to business administration, provide the leadership needed to manage in today’s disrupted business environment, particularly in the areas of digital work, innovation, resilience and policy, apply a critical evaluation of these approaches to current problems and/or new insights at the forefront of your field, apply these methods to make sound professional judgements, and to be able to communicate these clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences, demonstrate originality, self-direction and autonomy in planning and implementing business administration in organisations.