MBA in Leadership
Bath, United Kingdom
MBA
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
GBP 17,645 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international full time | UK part time: £5,170 | UK full time: £10,340
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Key Summary
About: The MBA in Leadership at Bath Spa University offers executive leadership education and professional development for experienced managers. Created with employer collaboration, it focuses on strategic leadership, change management, decision-making and transferable professional skills through real-world, context-based assessments. On passing every module you'll gain an MBA and a Level 7 Strategic Diploma in Management and Leadership Practice (CMI), supporting career progression and network development.
Career Outcomes: You'll leave with executive-level skills, experience and professional networks. Career opportunities include senior manager, leadership consultant, operations director, change manager, executive coach and strategist; roles in public, private and nonprofit sectors are possible.
The MBA Leadership course at Bath Spa offers executive leadership education and professional career development for individuals with existing management experience.
Created and delivered through close consultation and collaboration with employers, the course is designed to ensure that you'll graduate with the leadership skills that organizations need in an ever-changing business environment.
The MBA Leadership supports the development of strategic leaders who can work effectively in a range of roles, drawing on a broad mix of transferable professional skills and experience.
After you graduate, and provided that you pass every module, you'll gain a Level 7 Strategic Diploma in Management and Leadership Practice from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in addition to your MBA qualification.
This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the course handbook or definitive Program document for full details on which modules are core, required, or optional.
- Leading, Managing, and Developing People
- Strategic Management
- Leading Change and Innovation
- Governance and Risk Management
- Strategic Marketing Management
- Corporate Financial Management
- Project Management
- Professional Development Portfolio
- Leadership Project.
What you'll learn
Overview
The MBA Leadership is designed to further develop your understanding of theoretical and practical knowledge and expertise in business, management, and leadership.
The course enables you to take an international perspective on business, management, and leadership to deepen your understanding of the impact of globalization on business, societies, and the environment.
It supports your professional leadership development through scholarly inquiry, peer discussion and networking, evaluation, work-based learning, and reflective practice.
It challenges you to further develop leadership and management expertise that is relevant to your chosen career path and develop the lifelong learning skills crucial to your ongoing personal and professional development
Course structure
The MBA Leadership is delivered either full-time over one year or part-time over two years.
You need to take 120 credits of classroom-based taught modules first, before completing your 60-credit Leadership Project.
How will I be assessed?
You'll be assessed by a variety of methods that may include some or all of the following across the various modules on the course:
- Reports
- Case studies
- Business plans
- Proposals for work-based projects/consultancy project
- Reflective learning, professional career development, and work-based experience portfolio
- Project evaluations
- Presentations.
In this course, you'll develop your leadership and management expertise in the context most relevant to your chosen career path, and develop lifelong learning skills, including enthusiasm for business and learning as part of personal and professional development.
The embedded real-world content and context-based assessment in this course ensure that you leave with relevant experience, and executive-level skills, and will have further developed your professional networks.
How will I be taught?
We combine academic study with work-based learning and your own professional experience. You'll learn through a variety of activities including lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, online activity and discussion, case studies, and project work.
Staff on this course offer you access to a wide range of academic and practical expertise in leadership and senior management. You'll benefit from one-to-one tutorials, workshops, peer support, and shared learning. We work with you to ensure that what you learn on the course develops into effective practice in the real world, and enhances your professional career development.
Course length
One year full-time; and two years part-time.