Graduate Master of Business Administration
Leeds, United Kingdom
MBA
DURATION
20 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2027
TUITION FEES
GBP 19,630 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for international students | for UK students: £17,820
Key Summary
About: The Graduate Master of Business Administration at Leeds Beckett University develops knowledge and expertise for managerial roles. You’ll study strategic analysis, ethical decision-making, people management, financial analytics, marketing and risk management with an entrepreneurial focus. Teaching combines lectures, seminars and case studies with personalized feedback. You’ll complete a work placement or an MBA Consultancy Project and use the simulation suite and trading floor with Thompson Reuters’ Datastream.
Career Outcomes: You’ll gain analytical, leadership and problem-solving skills for roles across industries. You could pursue business consultant, entrepreneur, business development manager, project manager or operations manager. Also strategy analyst and consultant.
Develop the knowledge and expertise you will need for a managerial position in business.
You will gain an in-depth perspective of all areas of business including strategic analysis, ethical decision-making, people management, financial analytics, marketing and risk management. A focus on entrepreneurial skills will be embedded throughout your course and your assessments will reflect the demands of the workplace environment, for example researching and delivering a presentation.
Your tutors will deliver theory via lectures before you explore those ideas in smaller seminars. You will learn in a collaborative environment using case studies to enhance your learning and your tutors will guide your development by providing immediate personalised feedback. You will complete either a work placement or MBA Consultancy Project; either module will enable you to apply your theoretical knowledge to a real-life business issue, before collecting data and research to identify practical solutions.
Why study MBA (Graduate) at Leeds Beckett University...
- Career development
- Globally recognised qualification
- Work placement opportunity (September start only)
- Managerial skillset
- Specialist facilities
Independent study is a crucial part of learning at university and you will be required to undertake many hours of self-directed research and reading, and preparation and writing of assessments. Your course is delivered through a number of modules, which will help you to plan your time and establish a study routine. Outside of your lectures, workshops and tutorials, a range of support is available to assist with your independent study. Our subject-specific librarians will be on hand to direct you to the specialist learning and study-skill resources. You’ll also be assigned an academic advisor to give you tailored feedback and support.
At the end of the PG Certificate level, students will be able to:
- Critically evaluate and justify current information and create new connections between theory, method, and strategies to be applied.
- Work collaboratively with individuals and groups in varied settings with awareness of the process and outcomes of a trainee manager.
- At the end of the PG Diploma level, students will have achieved all of the above plus be able to:
- Apply skills, both theoretical and practical, to contemporary organizations and provide solutions to underperforming areas identified.
- Develop skills for entrepreneurship by examining problems and issues critically, using theoretical perspectives of the cognate area.
- At the end of the MBA course, students will have achieved all of the above plus:
- Critically evaluate organizational performance through research and communicate improvements by working in teams with clients/management.
There are ways you may be able to fund your course. Sometimes it is possible to get sponsorship from a government body in your country. There are many different options, so have a look through the links carefully to see if they apply to you.
- International Scholarships
- Chevening Scholarships
- US / Canada Direct Loans
Your managerial knowledge and expert skillset will include strategic analysis, financial analytics, ethical decision-making, people management, marketing and risk management, and your confident approach to identifying business problems and implementing a solution before they happen will be attractive to employers across industries. You could apply your acumen as a business consultant, or you could drive your endeavour using your entrepreneurial know-how. Whatever the next step in your career, your highly-developed analytical skills will open a wide range of opportunities.
- Business development manager
- Sales manager
- Project manager
- Operations Manager