Lloyd's Maritime Academy

MBA in Diploma Continuation

Continue your diploma course study to a Master of Business Administration

International MBA continuation route exclusively for Diploma graduates of Lloyd’s Maritime Academy, Informa Connect and North Kent College

This is a unique programme for holders of the approved Diploma courses from Lloyd’s Maritime Academy and North Kent College. Delivered 100% by part-time online distance education in partnership with Middlesex University, it is an advanced entry MBA programme to help you develop the skills you need. An MBA is more than an educational programme – it is also a management development programme. As the course progresses you will find that your perspective on your role, on your managerial challenges, and on your career will be ever more contextualised. This will inevitably change the way you work as a professional manager.

The MBA (Diploma Continuation) will equip both established and future industry leaders with the skills and knowledge they need to manage themselves as well as their operations successfully.

On successfully completing the degree you will achieve the following learning outcomes:

• Enhance and extend previous experience in business and management
• Apply existing and newly acquired knowledge and experience to complex business issues
• Prepare for leadership and transformational roles in business
• Improve strategic thinking and innovation skills
• Encourage lifelong learning and personal development
• Develop advanced knowledge of your organisation, its management and the environment in which it operates
• Demonstrate a broad perspective on organisational management and its wider impact on society and the environment
• Operate and manage in a global and multicultural environment
• Acquire improved communication, writing and time management techniques
• Develop interpersonal, networking, virtual teamwork and group management skills
• Gain higher levels of self-confidence and awareness of unique strengths and abilities

MBA Continuation

Continue Your Diploma Course Study to a Master of Business Administration

The course will develop your subject knowledge, communication, negotiation and report writing skills, strategic principles and decision-making abilities, as well as help you learn about yourself and how to develop into the kind of business leader you want to be. The MBA starts with a two-week distance learning induction, followed by three study modules before culminating with the submission of a Business Transformation Project, developed and delivered over the 18 months of the course. The structure draws in wide geographical, commercial and personal best practices to ensure maximum learning and development.