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Why choose the Graduate School of Business
Internationally recognised as the premium management qualification, helping to shape innovative leaders who excel in creativity and strategic free thinking.
Designed for professionals in operations and supply chain management who have at least two years’ relevant experience and wish to progress into more senior roles.
Our postgraduate taught business and management courses rank 4th overall in their subject field in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2024, with top 3 rankings for teaching, engagement, learning community and course organisation.
About the course
This 20-month Executive MBA gives you the specialist strategic insights and leadership capabilities to not only solve current global supply chain challenges but also anticipate future trends and disruptions. The course’s approach to problem solving involves developing and adapting existing models, methods and techniques as well as incorporating approaches from other fields. It is practice-led with daily interactions across a wide spectrum, from your own team and managers to external experts, regulators, researchers and local or central government.
The course is part time and uses a blended approach, combining on-campus study with online distance learning in your own time. This flexibility helps you to fit your studies around your work and other commitments.
For further course information, contact Gary Hudson at gary.hudson@beds.ac.uk
Course accreditation
This course is accredited by The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). Accreditation demonstrates that our degree meets a globally recognised benchmark for logistics and transport training, equipping you with the depth of knowledge and technical prowess required to excel in the industry.
Facilities and specialist equipment
- State-of-the-art business suite equipped with industry-standard hardware and software
- Access to Harvard Business Publication learning resources and simulations
- Business pods, boardroom areas and IT suites designed to simulate a professional office environment
- Library resource service offering full support 24/7
Industry links
We work closely with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), the UK’s leading organisation representing businesses.
Your student experience
In line with our career-powered education aims, the course gives you advanced skills in leadership, strategic thinking and business management for supply chain management alongside a broader understanding of organisational dynamics, financial processes, and how to drive meaningful change and innovation.
Become a specialist in assisting clients in making strategic, tactical and operational decisions, using advanced analytical methods to solve complex supply chain issues.
Gain a deep understanding of cross-cultural business practices and global market dynamics, preparing you to lead and innovate in multinational corporations, start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures worldwide.
Learn from a highly experienced academic team, using their engagement in research, conferences and consultancy to shape their teaching and expose you to the latest industry developments.
Benefit from executive coaching to support your personal development and ambitions while developing your skills under the guidance of industry and academic experts.
Work on live consultancy projects with leading employers in organisations across private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
Enrich your learning journey through immersive visits to a range of organisations, offering first-hand exposure to diverse business environments and practices.
Access our Global Guest Speaker series, featuring academics, industry leaders, and professionals from organisations like Luton Borough Council, the European Commission, and bodies such as the Association of Project Management (APM).
Solve real-life problems working with the University’s Research and Innovation Service (RIS) where you can assist local businesses and SMEs to up-skill and innovate.
What will you study?
Areas of study may include:
- Innovating in the strategic environment
- Creative leadership
- Logistics and supply chain management processes: procurement, production, distribution and global strategies
- Business analytics
- EMBA final dissertation
How will you be assessed?
The assessment strategy is forward-looking and deliberately innovative both to best test the intended learning outcomes and to reflect complex tasks undertaken in practice. Students are exposed to a range of assessment types and individual assessments within units are clearly identified and provide an effective measurement of performance, with an acceptable and balanced overall student workload.
The underpinning philosophy of all the assessments is to develop the skills to support students’ success in the new economy, foster collaboration and reflection as well as the ability to learn how to learn. For this reason, there are no traditional exams on this course, instead challenging and stimulating tasks that will develop participants. Tutors will provide timely feedback on formative and summative assessments to support students’ skills, knowledge, development and understanding.
To maximise learning for all students, a range of innovative assessment methods appropriate for developing the professional skills and knowledge required of an Executive MBA are used throughout the course including:
- Writing a detailed analysis to a constrained word limit
- Acting as a consultant for another participant’s organisation
- Generating solutions to real-world business problems
- Producing a presentation on an innovative topic
- Keeping a reflective journal
- Experiential learning by planning a venture, pitching ideas or acting as a consultant or leader.
Such a strategy avoids mechanistic, formulaic assessment; stimulates creativity; underpins the applied focus of the course; and supports enquiry-based learning. Students will receive constructive feedback from course tutors, and student peers. The team will support students to use this feedback as part of continuing professional and self-development.
The culmination of study is the EMBA Project which enables students to engage in a focussed investigation leading to a distinctive analysis of a selected problem and will be supported by classroom sessions aimed at focussing the project and supporting research techniques.
There will also be scheduled Research Methods workshops to develop your research capabilities. The notions of accountability and academic integrity will be an integral part of this course; plagiarism and any other attempt to deceive in the context of assessments will not be tolerated and the courses will be managed in this respect in line with current university regulations. The assessments designed are new, require interaction and cooperation and are difficult to plagiarise.
Careers
Whether aiming for top executive positions, consulting roles or leadership in non-profit organisations, the EMBA provides the foundation for a successful and impactful career working in the UK or internationally. Logistics and supply chain management specialists have a wide range of career opportunities with potential career paths including supply chain or logistics manager; operations manager: inventory control specialist; demand planner/analyst; consultant; data analyst/data scientist; project manager; and healthcare supply chain specialist. There is also the option to continue your studies at Doctoral level.
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Fees for this course
UK 2025/26
The standard fee for the Executive MBA (2yr course) for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £17,350. This is the cost of the whole two year course.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
Fees for this course
UK 2025/26
The standard fee for the Executive MBA (2yr course) for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £17,350. This is the cost of the whole two year course.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
Fees for this course
UK 2025/26
The standard fee for the Executive MBA (2yr course) for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £17,350. This is the cost of the whole two year course.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
