Course Level:Postgraduate

Next Start Date: April 2023

Duration: 1 Year

Campus Location: University Square Campus, Luton

Attendance: Full-time | Block delivery

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About the course

The full-time MBA is a flagship management qualification for early-career individuals, structured to support fast-track career progression. It will develop your leadership and strategic management skills, and provide you with an up-to-the-minute understanding of the ever-evolving modern business environment.

This postgraduate degree aims to enhance your prospects by developing your ability to apply the latest thinking to organisational development and change in a competitive global context. Successful completion of the MBA highlights your potential to have a transformational impact on the organisation you join.

Units cover core MBA areas such as advancing professional practice; leading and managing organisational resources; management practice; and strategy and the global competitive environment. You can also choose to specialise with our innovative pathway options:

Additionally, we offer an MBA with Placement (22 months full time); MBA with Data Analytics (2 years full time). We also have a part-time, two-year MBA Executive course, for professionals who already have some management experience: the Bedfordshire Executive MBA.

Your course runs over three semesters, with six entry points through the year. The point at which you join the course determines the order of the units you study. You benefit by beginning your studies with others who started at an earlier point of entry.

Why choose this course?

Six entry points through the year adds flexibility, allowing you to start when it most suits you
Follow a practice-led curriculum that develops your ability to creatively apply theoretical knowledge and understanding to complex, real-life issues
Study with experienced academics who all have substantial management experience
Through practice events, work on live consultancy projects with leading employers in organisations across private, public and not-for-profit sectors
Explore the latest research in strategic management and leadership to develop your business competence and confidence
Develop the attributes and skills expected by professional and industry bodies such as the Chartered Management Institute and the Confederation of British Industry; these include team-working, negotiation, leadership, confidence, and the ability to apply critical and creative thinking to complex problems with the aim of finding innovative solutions

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Course Leader - Richard Ogston

I joined the University of Bedfordshire in 2019, and am currently a Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Business where I teach various subjects including Project Management and Strategy and Innovation. In addition, I am the course coordinator for the MBA General - 12 month FT.

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Units

Advancing Professional Practice (BSS070-6) Compulsory
Leading And Managing Organisational Resources (BSS064-6) Compulsory
Management Practice (BSS063-6) Compulsory
Strategy And The Global Competitive Environment (BSS058-6) Compulsory
Theory Into Practice Project (BSS056-6) Compulsory

The underpinning philosophy of all assessments is to develop both your knowledge and skills to enter employment as a confident manager with a strong base from which to meet your own aspirations. This requires consideration of your own personal capabilities as well as looking outward at the business world. The aim is for you to become an independent and self-directed lifelong learner. Apart from the formal assessments there will be an emphasis on self, peer and group assessment. Tutors will provide feedback on formative assessments to support your development of good academic practice. All assessments are rooted in authentic and practical workplace scenarios to enable the integration of theory and practice in dynamic `real world work contexts. Exams are kept to a minimum. To facilitate learning for all students a range of assessment methods are used throughout the course, including: - Business Reports to demonstrate contextual insight and professional practice; - Project Plans to demonstrate project planning skills; - Seminar Papers to develop critical analysis skills; - In-class tests of your knowledge of core concepts in context; - Project Report integrates learning throughout the course independently applied in practice; Business simulation where you demonstrate the impact of your strategic decision making. The focus is on the impact of management education to management practice and later assessments require greater complexity and integration through independent study to support your successful transition into work. This is exemplified by two units at the dissertation stage: Management Practice and the Theory into Practice Project. These help you to consider your personal and professional development and the complexity of applying management education in practice once in employment.

Reasons to study in the Business School

A BSIS school - Business School Impact System

Holder of the Bronze Award among 21 Business Schools in the country for start-up and business growth advice

CIPD approved

Professional body exemptions, ACCA, AIA

Our graduates have created 870 start-up businesses since the 2014/15. Read more

Entry Requirements

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent.

To apply for a place on a postgraduate course (MA/MSc/MBA) at the University of Bedfordshire you should have a good first degree and the required English language qualification

Find out more about specific entry requirements for your country

To apply for a postgraduate degree (MA/MSc/MBA/LLM) at the University of Bedfordshire you should have a good honours degree (or equivalent qualification) in an appropriate subject from a recognised university or HE institution.

We will also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications or appropriate work experience.

You also need to have the required English language qualification

Contact your country’s International Admissions Team for more information.

Find out more about specific entry requirements for your country

Entry Requirements

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent.

To apply for a place on a postgraduate course (MA/MSc/MBA) at the University of Bedfordshire you should have a good first degree and the required English language qualification

Find out more about specific entry requirements for your country

We will also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications or appropriate work experience.

You also need to have the required English language qualification

Contact your country’s International Admissions Team for more information.

We also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications and individuals with appropriate work experience.
For international students English competence of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent is required.

On completing your MBA, you will be well placed to fill a wide range of positions. Your team-working skills, analytical abilities and understanding of management will be attractive to employers.

Whatever you decide to do, the successful completion of your MBA will lay a strong foundation for you to become a positive change agent in any organisation and an obvious champion for the added value of a dynamic and innovative organisational culture.

Fees and Funding

The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2022/23 is £13,100. This is the cost of the whole course.

Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk

The 2022/23 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £15,400.

For more information on our MBA fees, please see international fees

If you have any questions around international fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk

The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2023/24 is £14,400. This is the cost of the whole course.

Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk

The 2023/24 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £15,900.