Postgraduate Prospectus

Duration:

1 year full time - September Entry

2-4 years Part Time – September or January start

Designed to equip you with enhanced creativity and effective problem solving skills, our MBA programme will inspire and challenge you intellectually and help you to develop the essential management skills to meet and participate in the increasingly international business environment.

Studying alongside a peer group from over 21 countries, our MBA programme will enhance your learning process and cross-cultural awareness common to modern business through an advanced teaching and learning programme in management with a focused and practical application and through participation in group work with course members from many different industrial, commercial, geographical and cultural backgrounds, and is aimed at improving the decision making abilities of participants and producing managers of the highest quality.  

Delivered on a full-time basis over 12 months or part-time for between 2-4 years, the MBA programme consists of seven core modules together with a choice of five electives to tailor make your own version of the Nottingham MBA. It is completed by undertaking an individual or group management project.

A number of facilities are available to you as our commitment to our students and these include a dedicated careers officer, a personal tutor and a knowledgeable and friendly professional administrative team.

Course-specific entry requirements

Applicants to the Nottingham MBA are a required to meet the following requirements: 

• You must normally be a graduate of an approved University holding an honours degree or a relevant professional qualification considered equivalent to a first degree with honours
• You are expected to have three years or more of full time work experience with a management dimension (five years for the Executive MBA programme) preferably gained since graduating from your first degree
• Provide two acceptable references – preferably one academic and one from business
• Provide evidence of  English Language Proficiency with one of the following:

 

 

IELTS:	7.0 (no less than 6.0 in any element)
TOEFL paper based:	600 with 5.0 TWE
TOEFL IBT:	100 (no less than 19 in any element)

Pearson Test                           68 (minimum 55)

 

If you wish to focus on a particular area, we offer specialist programmes where you study the seven core modules, three specialist core modules, two electives and complete a management project relative to the specialism. Specialist areas include: 

Corporate Social Responsibility  

Entrepreneurship                    

Finance                             

For further information on all MBA programmes please visit http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/mba

 

• This MBA is offered in conjunction with the internationally renowned University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI).
• Nottingham University Business School is one of only 128 business schools worldwide accredited by EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System)and the Association of MBAs. Uniquely, EQUIS accreditation applies to all our campuses in the UK, China and Malaysia.
• Accredited by AMBA since 1993, which ensures that all Nottingham MBA programmes meet rigorous quality standards.
• Our MBA programme rates 16th in the world and fifth in the UK for career progression (Financial Times MBA 2009)
  Recognised as one of the top schools in the world for the quality of its research and teaching on sustainability and corporate social responsibility. 
• Ranked first in the UK, third in  Europe and 23rd globally in the Aspen Institute’s ‘Beyond Grey Pinstripes’ ranking of MBA programmes that integrate ethical, social and environmental issues into teaching and research. This prestigious ranking also places the Business School’s faculty research fifth in the world in these areas.
• Ranked as a leading research business school by the UK’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in which our high ratings for world-leading research place us among the UK’s top 10. This high standard of research activity informs the content and design of all our MBA programmes, ensuring that we combine relevant academic theory with good business practice.
• We regularly review and update our MBA programmes to ensure that their content is relevant to the changing global business environment.
  

The courses and research opportunities listed on this website are subject to change. While we will do all we can to ensure the information on these pages is accurate and up-to-date, The University of Nottingham reserves the right to change the content, modules and titles of any courses and research opportunities listed here without prior warning.