The Loughborough MBA
Part-Time MBA
A specialist provider of part-time MBAs for a quarter of a century, Loughborough University has designed a course specifically for working professionals.
Aimed at experienced professionals looking for a flexible MBA to take their career to the next level, our award winning Part-Time MBA is AMBA-accredited and suits individuals with the drive to achieve their personal best while transforming the organisations they work for.
In addition to core management skills directly applicable to the workplace, innovation and enterprise are embedded in the programme. Your abilities to understand and adapt to the global challenges of tomorrow will put you ahead of the pack.
This stimulating, career-enhancing course will help you get where you want to be with all the benefits of flexible part-time learning.
- About the Course
- Course Structure
- Entry Requirements
- Fees & Funding
- Apply
About the Course
The Part-Time MBA delivers practical knowledge and skills that can be applied directly and immediately to your work environment, as well as relevant concepts and theories that enhance your understanding of management and organisational environments.
Designed specifically for working professionals, the part-time structure helps you fit your study around your work and family life. With the flexibility of optional block release classes or evenings and the occasional Saturday, a world-class MBA can be gained in just over two years.
Through innovative study, challenging lectures delivered by leading academics and industry leaders and interactive group discussions, you will develop powerful decision-making, problem-solving and leadership skills in an enriching and supportive environment.
This career enhancing MBA develops life-long business skills and knowledge that can be put to immediate effect in improving managerial and overall business performance. The programme is suited to self-motivated individuals who are serious about developing themselves professionally and personally, and who strive to contribute positively to their organisations. With strong links to industry, and recognised for teaching excellence, you will be joining a cohort of participants whose aim is to succeed.
Course Structure
Semester 1 introduces the core modules, delivering practical knowledge and skills that can be applied directly and immediately to any work environment, and giving you the relevant concepts and theories to enhance your understanding of management and organisations. Semester 2 builds on your learning in the first semester with a business administration project that develops your research skills while also giving you a chance to apply your knowledge in the solution of real-life business problems.
In addition to the core modules listed below, students on the Part-Time MBA programme will undertake electives from a range of optional modules.
Exploring the decision-making process and the range of technologies, systems and modelling techniques that can be used to manage information and support decisions, this module also examines the approaches used by organisations to successfully plan, develop and implement technology.
With a focus on the processes by which marketing strategies are developed, this module builds an understanding of the principles behind the marketing concept and the marketing mix and their usage in addressing marketing problems.
This module covers the scope of financial management and accounting, the objectives and processes of financial reporting, the role of management accounting and an introduction to financing issues. It equips you with the ability to analyse and interpret financial information and understand the financial dimensions of the management process.
Tackling the critical issues in the management of people, particularly from the perspective of day-to-day line management, this module covers topics such as culture and commitment, managing motivation and performance, and staff selection and assessment.
This module provides an understanding of economic concepts and models appropriate to business decision making. You will learn to use economic theory to explain and analyse the behaviour or consumers and organisations, and to select relevant economic concepts and apply them to real-life situations.
Covering both service and manufacturing operations this module develops knowledge of the factors that help formulate operational strategies and the implications of implementing them. Process design, resourcing and capacity management approaches are evaluated with reference to real situations through case study analysis and application in the workplace.
Unique in the UK, this double-weighted module provides the opportunity for small groups to assess the commercial potential of real technological innovations. Within a structured framework, the first sessions evaluate the technologies and explore the products and markets within which they may be exploited. The second half of the module covers the commercialisation strategies to be adopted. Intensely practical in nature, and involving liaison with innovators and businesses to bring about exploitation of technologies, you will engage fully in the complex process of evaluating and commercialising new ideas.
This is a major piece of work supported by an academic supervisor. The aim of the project is to allow you to research and write an independent, detailed piece of work in an area of personal or company interest, in order to improve your research, evaluation and report-writing skills, as well as your ability to apply management concepts.
Electives include
Professional Development, Information Systems: Strategy and Management, Career Development and Management, Creative Problem Solving, Project Management, Corporate Finance, Marketing Strategy Simulation, International Management, Leading Strategic Change.
Additionally, you may attend the European Summer School for Advanced Management (ESSAM). This 10-day intensive programme, also double-weighted, affords you the chance to study at a top European university alongside MBA students from all over the globe.
Teaching and Assessment
- Learning and teaching is provided through lectures, seminars and workshops, consultancy style projects, web-based guided study and guided independent work. Case studies and group work feature on a number of modules;
- Feedback to the learning process is through coursework assignment, class tests, one-to-one contact with lecturers and/or tutors. Feedback may sometimes occur through tutorials, seminars or workshops, as determined by individual module organisers;
- Demonstration of learning achievement is through formal examination, tests, coursework assignments, and project reports.
- The Part-Time MBA programme consists of core modules totalling 80 credits, an additional 30 credits for the Business Project module and 70 credits of optional modules chosen from the current MBA electives suite of modules.
Entry Requirements
Successful applicants must hold either a Bachelor’s degree from a UK or recognised overseas University, membership of an approved chartered institute or a Diploma in Management Studies.
Three years’ relevant work experience is also required to ensure our high standard of classroom experience. Students should be able to evidence:
- Substantial professional experience and achievements
- Leadership potential
- Self-motivation and commitment to personal development
- Academic ability
The requirement for a degree or similar qualification is occasionally waived for those who possess significantly higher levels of experience and achievements – in which case an interview and test will normally be required.
Fees & Funding
Programme Fees
The total tuition fees for 2012/13 entry are £17850. The fees are split into three annual instalments. There will also be the opportunity to pay each annual invoice in instalments tri-annually (November, January and May). This arrangement must be set-up with our Finance Office directly, please refer to: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/financial/pages/payment_methods.htm for further details. .
Bursaries and Discounts
The School offers a range of funding options to assist applicants. Students who are eligible for more than one of the below will only receive the highest in value.
Part-Time MBA Bursary
We offer up to ten £3000 bursaries for the Part-Time MBA awarded to self-funding applicants based on the merit of an original essay. Bursaries are credited annually when fees are invoiced.
Application Deadline: 14th September 2012
Apply: Contact mba@lboro.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1509 223398
Alumni Discount
Applicants who are a Loughborough University Alumnus are automatically entitled to a 10% discount on fees.
More information: Contact mba@lboro.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1509 223398
Group Discounts
Where an organisation successfully nominates two delegates onto the programme a 10% reduction on fees can be applied to their fees.
Apply: Group Discounts must be agreed with the MBA Programme Director in advance.
More information: Contact mba@lboro.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1509 223398
University Scholarships and External Funding
There are a range of university scholarships and external funding that postgraduate students can apply for. These can be applied for in addition to any School scholarship or bursary awarded, although the total value of bursaries and scholarships awarded cannot exceed the value of the course fees.
- UK/EU students: University Scholarships & External Funding
- International students: University Scholarships & External Funding
Chartered Management Institute
All Loughborough MBA students are offered free one-year membership to the Chartered Management Institute upon joining the programme.
Staff Discounts
A discount on fees is also available for Loughborough University staff. Please enquire for further details.
How to Apply
We encourage prospective participants to phone the MBA Office and to attend one of our Open Events to find out further information about the course before applying.
When you are ready to apply please be clear which MBA you are applying for.
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For further information, please contact:
Janet Giampalma or Linda Smith
MBA Programme Admissions
School of Business and Economics
Loughborough University
Leicestershire, LE11 3TU
T: +44 (0)1509 228825
E: mba@lboro.ac.uk
W: www.loughboroughmba.com
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