Executive MBA

The University of Bedfordshire’s Executive MBA programme offers the underpinning research knowledge relating to management, innovation and change in a business environment which is essential to any practicing professional business person.

This MBA would enhance professional prospects of any busy and ambitious business person by showing how to apply the latest thinking relating to organisational development and change in the knowledge economy. Our course:

• focuses on enabling you to work more productively with people at work in a dynamic environment
• covers areas of learning that are particularly relevant to the knowledge economy including units on Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Leadership
• includes a career development stream, delivered with our careers service, which will enable you to critically reflect on your activities, ways of working and personal development, and more importantly how to market yourself in today’s day and age
• will enable you to become an innovative and imaginative change agent within your workplace, by acting as a role model and champion for ensuring your workplace maximizes the use your capabilities and talent

Blended learning is at the core of the pedagogic approach of the course, creating an incorporated teaching method. These approaches include learning technology, action learning and independent learning and take the form of:

• Direct learning sessions: podcast/video, experts’ lectures, discussions, etc;
• online learning units: online interactive learning;
• work-based activities: projects and assignments;
• collaborative learning: online discussions, WIMBA live classroom, WIKIs;
• assessment: examinations, group activities, individual tasks;
• Personal Development Plan.

The teaching is delivered during weekend Business Schools which take place once a month (a total of 8 each academic year) and last a full day. Additionally to this, you will also be able to access the learning materials and any additional reading via BREO – our virtual learning environment. The idea behind using blended learning to deliver our courses is to give you the responsibility for your own development and to help you become an autonomous and self-directed learner.

Find out more about the course and its structure