M.B.A from University of Edinburgh

The Full-time MBA suits professionals who:

• Are able to take a year away from work
• Wish to relocate and immerse themselves in a new location
• Prefer to focus efforts and learn best in an intensive environment
• Are motivated by frequent in-person interaction with peers and faculty
• Want to work in a different country and use the opportunity of the graduate visa route into the UK

The most popular professional degree programme in the world, the MBA is a globally recognised qualification designed to develop your leadership skills, underpinned by practical and theoretical knowledge. It offers you the opportunity to formally recognise your business expertise and take you to a higher level in terms of career progression, earnings potential and job satisfaction. Completing our MBA will make sure that you have the credentials required to compete against the best.

The MBA is focused on the real needs of business and will provide you with an opportunity to develop your understanding of the key knowledge and skills required to succeed in today’s challenging business world when it's going to be harder and harder to move up without a higher-level qualification.

Designed for professionals, an MBA is different from other master's degrees in that it draws very much on your life and personal experiences. You’ll have group work, real-life examples and case studies to work through.  This internationally-recognised qualification will develop your managerial skills and give you the expertise you need to take on senior roles.

This programme is tailored to the dynamic, contemporary, global business environment, focused on developing skills in business administration and the application of conceptual management theories to current practice.

Students choose Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University’s online MBA for its academic rigour, its intellectual challenge and its proven ability to greatly enhance student career prospects.

They’re also drawn by its sheer flexibility; no other MBA gives you as much freedom. You can study the subjects you want, in the order you wish. You can begin and end whenever you choose.

This MBA covers key management disciplines, including economics, financial decision making, leadership, marketing, people skills, project management and strategy.

The Strathclyde MBA is not just a business programme, it's a stimulating, challenging, life-changing experience, which will make you question, re-think and re-evaluate how you do business.

The programme is highly experiential and based on collaborative learning. Students share their varied work experiences, knowledge, understanding and skills.

The MBA course will shape and guide you as a reflective, open- thinking, adaptive learner. This is facilitated through an enhanced understanding of the interplay of theory and practice in management. In particular it:

provides the skills required for progression to higher level policy-forming positions
allows you to make successful career transitions
facilitates the move from technical specialism to general management
polishes the skills and enhances the abilities of people working for themselves or about to set up in business

• Open to graduates from any discipline, this programme does not require business or management study to have completed at undergraduate level
• This programme is for you if you have a minimum of TWO years post-degree work experience

The entry requirement for this course is a Bachelor (Honours) Degree at 2:2 or above. In addition, applicants must have two years' professional work experience.

• Typically you will hold a recognised first or second class honours degree, or equivalent professional qualification.

• hold a degree from a UK university, or equivalent academic qualification from a comparable non-UK institution. If you studied for your undergraduate degree at a non-UK institution we'll need a copy of your degree transcript. Professional qualifications will also be considered.
• be at least 24 years of age.
• have a minimum of three years' full-time postgraduate experience where the management of people and resources has played a significant role