Modular Executive MBA

Program Overview

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Modular Executive MBA

Key information

Duration: 24 months

Attendance mode: Part-time: Friday - Sunday once a month, with some blended online learning

Location: Finsbury Square

Start of programme: 13 March 2026

Next application deadline: 6 July 2025

Entry year: Showing course information for 2026

Overview

Bayes Executive MBA will equip you with advanced leadership skills, strategic thinking, and a global perspective, enabling you to navigate complex business challenges and drive meaningful immediate impact in your organisation.

Apply new theory, frameworks, and skills to your current role immediately and witness the direct impact your learning can have on both your organisation and the broader business landscape. The programme will help you understand the bigger picture and drive impactful change.

Engaging in continuous learning and development through career-enhancing opportunities on the Executive MBA will prepare you with the skills and knowledge needed to advance professionally, stay competitive, lead effectively, and navigate complex business environments.

Offered in a three-day (Friday – Sunday) monthly format that allows you to balance your career, personal commitments and studies.

If this format isn’t right for you, why not consider the evening format. Delivered primarily in person, allowing you to take advantage of London's spirit of innovation and creativity.

Who is the Modular Executive MBA for?

Ideally suited for executives with leadership or management experience, looking to continue your successful career while studying part-time.

You’ll be based in London, UK or globally and are comfortable with travelling to London once a month. You’ll need to be committed and confident in independent study when not on campus.

Study alongside a driven and ambitious global cohort of senior executives, leaders, and entrepreneurs. Representing a diverse range of professional backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities, fostering a rich and dynamic learning environment.

Programme content

A high touch programme offering an immersive experience focused on blended and experiential learning. The modular format is delivered through a distinct combination of online preparation, in-person teaching and live synchronous sessions.

• The online materials are designed to prepare you for your in-class teaching. You can set your own pace and allow you to work flexibly so you are ready for your on-campus sessions.
• On campus teaching focusses on a combination of theory, class-based discussions, case studies and group work. It is also an opportunity to develop your connections and network with your and other cohorts.
• The live synchronous sessions are designed to give you an additional touchpoint with faculty and your classmates while you work on coursework with your study group.

The Executive MBA curriculum is current and reflective of today’s rapidly changing technological landscape. It’s designed to build on your current expertise, to develop new skills in management and core business principles, empowering you to lead with confidence and make informed, strategic decisions.

We place a strong emphasis on enhancing self awareness and professional skills needed for senior leadership through workshops and one-to-one support. Throughout the two years you will benefit from our careers and professional development curriculum specially tailored for seasoned executives and professionals.

Course structure

Pre course

• Pre-programme activities Runs in January
• Once you have accepted your offer this is the first step that officially makes you part of the Bayes Business School Community.
• Pre-study modules covering mathematics and stats will be available to you prior to the start of the programme. This ensures all students have the basic knowledge and skills required for the start of the programme.
• There is also a range of pre-programme activities for you to complete including pre-reading and other useful information to help you prepare for student life.

Induction

• Runs in March
• You want to make the most of every moment of your Modular Executive MBA. We have designed induction to fit over a long weekend, similar to how you will be taught over the next year.
• You will spend the time getting to know your fellow classmates and engaging in team-building activities. You will meet your Course Director, faculty and start to get to grips with the case method – a core learning tool in your Modular Executive MBA. You will also focus on careers and professional development activities such as increasing your executive presence.
• Induction sets you up for the academic challenges that lie ahead and ensures that you and your classmates have a strong and shared knowledge base.

Career accelerator course

• The online career accelerator course provides early access to insights and resources, preparing you to maximise the careers and professional development curriculum once you start the programme.

Compulsory modules

• Leadership in Strategy & Finance
  • Accounting & Financial Reporting, Strategic Leadership, Corporate Strategy
  • This integrated module combines Accounting and Financial Reporting, Strategic Leadership and Corporate Strategy to equip you with essential management skills.
  • The Accounting and Financial Reporting component focuses on understanding and interpreting financial statements to manage and evaluate business performance effectively.
  • Strategic Leadership explores key concepts and theories related to individual and group dynamics, culture, change, power, and leadership to enhance management skills.
  • The Strategy component delves into strategic decision-making from the perspective of senior managers and MBA holders, emphasizing the importance of shaping the firm's future.
• Global Economy and Investments
  • Investments & Financial Markets, Analytics for Business, Business in the Global Economy
  • This integrated module consists of three key components: Sustainable Investments and Financial Markets, Analytics for Business and Business in the Global Economy.
  • The Financial Markets and Investments component covers corporate finance and financial markets, focusing on capital budgeting, financial instruments, derivatives, and investment strategies to prepare you for advanced financial analysis.
  • The Analytics for Business module emphasizes quantitative data analysis, teaching you how to apply statistical tools for descriptive and predictive analytics to inform business decisions.
  • Business in the Global Economy provides a practical understanding of microeconomics and macroeconomics, helping you appreciate the impact of economic theories and policies on business and financial markets.
• Operational Excellence
  • Managing Human Resources, Operations Management, Marketing for Sustainable Value Creation
  • This integrated module encompasses Managing Human Resources, Operations Management, and Marketing for Sustainable Value Creation, aiming to develop a comprehensive skill set for managing various business functions.
  • The Managing Human Capital component focuses on understanding and implementing effective HRM practices and policies to manage people within an organization, incorporating international perspectives and current debates.
  • The Operations Management component enhances analytical skills and techniques for planning and executing processes involved in creating and delivering products and services, emphasizing practical applications.
  • The Marketing component provides analytical skills and managerial insights to understand and leverage the marketing function's value within an international business context.
• Sustainable Corporate Innovation
  • Sustainability & Responsibility in Business, Corporate Finance, Leading AI & Industry 4.0
  • This integrated module encompasses Sustainability and Responsibility in Business, Corporate Finance, and Leading AI and Industry 4.0.
  • The Sustainability and Responsibility in Business component addresses the complexities of corporate social responsibility (CSR), exploring its varying definitions, impacts, and the challenges companies face in managing social, environmental, and ethical performance.
  • The Corporate Finance component focuses on long-term financial decisions, covering financial instruments, cost of capital, debt and equity issuance, dividend policy, mergers, acquisitions, and corporate control.
  • The Leading AI and Industry 4.0 component examines the transformative impact of digital technologies on organizational processes and business models, highlighting emerging opportunities, challenges, and ethical considerations.
• Creating Value through Innovation
  • Leadership & Performance, New Venture Creation, Creating Corporate Value
  • This integrated module encompasses Leadership and Performance, New Venture Creation and Creating Corporate value.
  • The Leadership and performance component covers the latest evidence on why leadership is crucial and how someone can be a more successful leader. It draws on modern research about leaders and managers and so presents you with robust empirical findings that are both scientifically interesting and practical.
  • The New venture Creation component equips you with the knowledge you require to develop and refine your business creation strategy and provides an academic underpinning to the process. At the end of this module, you will be able to produce a comprehensive business plan so you can then launch a business.
  • The Creating Corporate Value component, equips you with the skills to apply theoretical financial tools and methodologies to real life situations. It covers the ley issues of finance, valuation and appreciating the value of optionality in real life problems.

Professional development

• Achieving your potential weekend
  • Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience, active experimentation and reflective observation.
  • Run over the course of a weekend and purposefully held off campus, this event takes students away from a typical working or study environment, giving EMBA students the opportunity to:
    • Think in detail about potential career transitions: defining where are they now, where do they want to be and how are they going to get there?
    • Take ownership for career transitions; set specific goals to support their achievement
    • Discover / re-discover strengths and how they can be harnessed to enable / accelerate personal and professional development
    • Consider energy and how to manage this purposefully in a career context.

International Consultancy Week

• This module is the integrating element of the Modular Executive MBA core teaching, bringing together the theoretical elements of the programme so far in a practical experience, enabling you to draw out the principles from the core modules. You will be asked to apply your classroom learning to some very demanding problems often in a challenging business consultancy environment.
• Consultancy is undertaken to bring added value to the client and the temporary nature of the field trip projects stands in contrast with class room teaching and as such requires the development of distinct research skills, organisation and interpersonal skills.
• The projects typically focus on developing solutions for business development strategies, marketing, HR, finance or operational challenges. Throughout the data collection and analysis stages you will have the opportunity to test your MBA learning in the real world by applying it to real business problems as well as reflect on your own skills as a consultant, leader and team player in a new market, unfamiliar industry and culture.
• You have one week to work with the company face-to-face and then a further four weeks to provide a full set of recommendations to the company which is assessed.

Electives

• You can choose to study a wide range of electives or focus on a concentration in one specific area. These modules are offered from across our Executive and Full-time MBA portfolio of classes, some electives will run in the evenings and over weekends as well as during the day.
• This list of electives is only an indication of the range of subjects on offer and is subject to change. Note that international electives are subject to a specific allocation process, which will be explained during the programme.

Business Integration Project

• During the second year you will draw on the many elements of the programme in the Business Integration Project, a major piece of self-managed work. The project aims to develop your research skills in a multi-disciplinary business environment. It is a major piece of largely self-managed business analysis, taken over several months, which forms an important part of your MBA degree.
• It gives you an opportunity to put your knowledge into practice usually in the context of a company of your choice. You will also be assigned an academic advisor from Bayes to supervise your work.
• Projects must be multi-disciplinary drawing significantly on at least two disciplines studied on the programme.

Faculty

• Taught by world leading faculty, bringing cutting-edge research, industry expertise, and real-world insights to enrich your learning experience and enhance your leadership capabilities.

Careers impact

• Be prepared to take the next step in your career journey
• From the beginning of the Modular Executive MBA, the Careers and Professional Development team will be on hand to support you throughout your journey at Bayes. Through one-to-one coaching, career management workshops and the Achieving Your Potential weekend, we will work with you to test your capabilities and bring your goals within reach.
• Our team brings invaluable expertise to your journey, drawing from their real-world experience in diverse commercial backgrounds such as recruitment, occupational psychology, coaching, and leadership across various industries.

Fees & funding

• Tuition fee for March 2026
  • Modular Executive MBA tuition fee: £55,700
• Fee structure
  • Application fee: £100
  • Full tuition fees: £55,700
  • Deposit: £5,000 (Paid to secure your place)
  • First instalment: £8,925 (Fees excluding deposit, to complete registration in February 2026)
  • Second instalment: £13,925 (Paid in June 2026)
  • Third instalment: £13,925 (Paid in March 2027 in order to complete your re-registration)
  • Fourth instalment: £13,925 (Paid in June 2027)
• Scholarships
  • Bayes Business School offers a range of financial awards and scholarships to talented individuals with a strong potential for career advancement.
• Other funding opportunities
  • There are several funding options we recommend from
    • Prodigy Finance Ltd: Founded by three MBAs providing loans for students through contributions sourced from the University, alumni and friends of the School
    • US Federal Loans: William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (Direct Loans) can provide funding to cover your tuition fees and living expenses, subject to approval by the Student Centre
    • RBC Royal Bank Royal Credit Line: is route for Canadian students to manage their cash flow and supplement the money they receive from the Canadian government through the Canada Student Loan Program
    • Postgraduate Masters loan: A postgraduate loan is available from the UK Government to help cover the cost of postgraduate study. You must be a UK national or have settled status in the UK (other T&C's also apply)

Admissions

• At Bayes we look for ambitious executives or entrepreneurs from culturally diverse backgrounds, who are looking to become business leaders of the future.
• Professional experience
  • A minimum of five years’ full-time professional experience, gained after graduation.
  • You will be at executive level, with previous leadership or management experience and looking to continue your successful career whilst you study part-time.
• Academic requirement
  • A good university degree (equivalent to an upper second-class honours degree (2:1) or above) or equivalent professional qualification. Alternatively, at least six years' relevant business experience if you do not have a degree.
• GMAT/GRE
  • Most applicants will not be required to take GMAT/GRE. If we need further information on your academic capacity for the programme, or your current motivation to study, we may request that you take GMAT/GRE.
• English language requirement
  • You will need excellent English language skills in order to succeed on the Bayes Executive MBA. If English is not your first language, you will need to provide a score from one of the following tests as part of your application.
  • These are our minimum requirements, and successful applicants typically demonstrate higher levels of achievement. We will assess your competency in English throughout our selection process.
  • IELTS Academic: We require a minimum, well balanced score of 7.0, with no less than 6.5 in each individual section. We also accept the IELTS Indicator and IELTS online tests with the same minimum scores as well as IELTS One Skill Retake. Please note that we accept IELTS Academic tests taken at test centres that are not included on UKVI's SELT list. We do not accept IELTS General.
  • TOEFL iBT: TOEFL iBT can be taken in-person or online. We require an overall score of 100 with a minimum of 25 in Writing and no less than 23 in any other section. Scores must be achieved within a single test (not MyBest scores) and made available to us using Institution Code 0870. We do not accept TOEFL Essentials or TOEFL ITP Plus for China.
  • Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic: We require an overall score of 69 with a minimum of 62 in Writing and no less than 60 in any other section in the in-person test. We do not accept PTE Online or PTE General.
  • LanguageCert International ESOL - C1 Expert: We require a Pass in all components of the in-person or online test (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking).

Apply

• The application form is completed online and is designed to allow you to complete it over several sessions, allowing to submit your application when you are ready.
• As soon as you submit an application it will be processed and there is no need to wait until the next deadline.
• Once your application is complete and meets our entry requirements, it will be reviewed by the admissions panel and if successful you will be invited for an interview with a member of faculty.
• The whole process from complete application to final decision typically takes 4 - 6 weeks.

Key dates

• Round 1: 20 April 2025
• Round 2: 6 July 2025
• Round 3: 14 September 2025
• Round 4: 16 November 2025
• Round 5: 18 January 2026
• Round 6: Rolling Admissions

Modular Executive MBA - Admissions process

1. Start your online application
2. Prepare your personal statement
3. Upload supporting documents
   • Upload your CV
   • Contact details of two professional referees
   • Copy of your university documents or equivalent
   • English language test results (if applicable).
4. Check if you need a visa
5. Pay the application fee
6. Submit your completed application
7. Interview if shortlisted
8. Admissions decision

View our full application guide

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Related programmes

• Full-time MBA
  • MBA London Bayes Business School - An intensive 12-month journey of personal and professional growth for early career professionals in the heart of the City of London.
• Evening Executive MBA
  • For those who can commute into London - taught on-campus two evenings a week (Tuesday and Thursday) over two years.
• Global MBA (Online)
  • Develop your leadership flexibly. Our core modules are taught online alongside some introductory modules on-campus in London.

Program Outline

Significantly, our MBA alumni have access to one free elective every year. This means you can continue to study with us beyond graduation, upskill annually for free, and benefit from lifelong learning and a lifelong relationship with us.

Your career

Your professional development starts even before you join, with our online pre-study careers course. We then build your career development into your studies. Our Careers team use their career and executive coaching qualifications - and their experience of working in talent management - to support you through key stages of your career development.

Our careers curriculum was designed with experts in the fields of career management and professional development. It focuses on the essential skills expected from Executive MBAs. At the Postgraduate Career and Professional Development Centre, you'll receive training and guidance to make you more employable. We'll base your personalised professional development plan on your career objectives, and we'll support you with one-to-one coaching and workshops to help you sharpen your skills.

Your London campus

At Bayes, our outlook is forward-thinking and innovative. This is reflected in our London location: our campus is situated between the City of London (also known as the Square Mile) and Tech City, where centuries-old institutions are neighbours to cutting-edge start-ups.. When you study with us in person every month, you’ll have the best of both worlds on your doorstep, and you’ll benefit from our strong connections to both these areas and more.

Your global network

As a Bayes student and graduate, you’ll have access to our global network of alumni. Our active network comprises more than 50,000 professionals across 160 countries. Bayes alumni events in the UK and internationally will give you unique networking opportunities. We also have a number of alumni special interest groups.