MBA Master of Business Administration (top-up) (Taught)

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The University of Greater Manchester’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) top-up qualification offers skills and knowledge to advance your career. You can learn how to tackle large-scale, strategic business challenges and grow as a leader ready to flourish in almost any field.

Whatever sector you currently work in, this MBA top-up programme offered by the Greater Manchester Business School at the University of Greater Manchester supports your growth as a leader. Studying this full-time course will help you understand the problems and challenges facing all organisations and identify potential solutions. Our expert team will support you in building vital skills you can apply in almost any business.

As you study alongside like-minded professionals from a wealth of industrial and business backgrounds, you'll build a thorough knowledge of organisations and their leadership. We'll guide you in developing creative and systematic approaches to underlying business issues and improving business and management practices. Engaging in these studies will cultivate your intellectual capabilities in research, critique, synthesis and innovation, culminating in your master's level professional capstone project.

We use various teaching and engagement methods to maximise your learning, such as lectures, workshops, group tutorials, individual tuition and guest speakers. By tutoring you in strategic thinking skills, we focus on helping you develop the sought-after analytical and critical competencies that prestigious employers in today’s global economy value so highly.