MBA in International Business Management

This MBA in International Business Management enables you to build on previous experience of work. It is particularly suitable if you are looking to change your career direction and/or enhance your professional standing.

The course adopts a contextualised and applied approach to learning with the aim of enabling you to make an immediate impact and long term difference in your management career.

You will learn how to become a skilled and knowledgeable leader who can influence people, offer strategic direction and make good use of financial, human and technical resources. The course will help you to develop creative thought and insight and challenge you to stretch your natural abilities, whilst also benefiting from your previous work experience.

You will be working with our leading academics and successful business leaders to access a mixture of academic expertise combined with real-world professional application, and will study alongside students from a diverse range of backgrounds, who share your career enhancement aspirations and have a similar amount of practical experience in the workplace. which will allow you to share each other's experiences of different management styles in a range of organisations and international cultures.

You will also begin to build a network of future business contacts for when you complete your course.

This programme is designed for aspiring middle and senior managers in private, public or voluntary sector organisations from across the world, with at least two years’ work experience and a second-class Honours degree (or equivalent). It is not necessary to have previously specialised in business and/or management at degree level.

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How to Apply

For all taught postgraduate and PG Cert programmes, please apply directly to University of Worcester. You can download an application form, or can contact the Admissions office on 01905 855111 / pg-admissions@worc.ac.uk

Please post your completed application form to:
Admissions Office
University Of Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester
WR2 6AJ

Alternatively you can apply online for postgraduate programmes at University of Worcester via the Prospects online directory of postgraduate programmes. There is no fee for using the online application service.

When we receive your application form, your details will be passed to the Masters Programme Leader who will contact you to arrange an informal interview. You may include additional material, such as references, in support of your application or bring them with you to interview.

You can apply for postgraduate taught courses and PG Certs at any time, but preferably as early as possible before the start of the academic year, which begins in September.

Study options

The course includes three concept modules – Marketing Management, Organisational Leadership & Management and Financial Management, designed to establish a core foundation of knowledge and international business management theory. The remaining applied modules – International Strategy & Innovation and Emerging Themes in International Business provide the opportunity to apply the latest international business concepts to actual business situations and problems.

This applied approach is further developed through a supervised 10,000- word Dissertation. Your Dissertation will commence following successful completion of the preparatory module in Research Methods, and will involve one-to-one supervised research into a topic of your choice, perhaps based on your own organisation.

Get in touch

John Gardener
Business School Admissions Tutor
01905 855357
j.gardener@worc.ac.uk

International Office
international@worc.ac.uk

Either a first or second-class Honours degree or equivalent plus a minimum of 2 years’ work experience at an appropriate level.

If English is not your first language, you will be expected to have reached a sufficient standard on admission to the course (e.g. IELTS 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each element).

Modules

Marketing Management
Finance for Managers
Organisational Leadership & Change Management
International Business Strategy
Operations Management
Research Methods
Dissertation
One option from
Emerging Themes in International Business
or
International Human Resource Management
or
International Financial Management
or
Emerging Themes in Marketing

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Assessment

The course is designed to be student-centred and features a significant amount of group work and case study analysis. Assessments will focus on professionally relevant projects, reports and presentations related to relevant areas of leadership and management.

The Masters award will require you to complete a supervised 15,000-word Dissertation

Academic department

Worcester Business School

“We champion an imaginative ethos that combines sound business principles with instinctive commercial drive. Our students ranked us in the top 5% of universities for ‘personal development’.”
Mark Richardson, Head of Worcester Business School

Employability

This course is designed to equip students who have already established a career in business with both the enhanced management skills required to successfully operate in a management role, and the more detailed expertise demanded from those working within specific discipline areas.

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