MBA (Full-time) - 2012 entry

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The Full-time MBA programme, studied over 12 months, is an intensive experience, representing the fastest way of gaining the qualification. 

The Oxford Brookes MBA can significantly improve your employability prospects by providing you with:

• the confidence to operate across all areas of the business
• enhanced capabilities to lead, think and act more strategically
• self-insight into your leadership style and awareness of your strengths and limitations
• the ability to apply knowledge to your own organisation and a wide range of other situations
• an understanding of the challenges in other areas of the organisation
• the knowledge and expertise to meet the challenges of a more senior management role
• the skills to continue developing and learning after completing the MBA
• assistance with launching your career after graduation and membership of an alumni network for life.

The Oxford Brookes MBA can benefit your employer by:

• significantly improve your capabilities across a range of areas, e.g. marketing, strategic thinking, innovation and change, and people management
• improving your powers of analysis with greater ability and flexibility to operate at a more strategic level and contribute beyond your own functional specialism
• providing an opportunity for a cost effective management development programme
• presenting the opportunity to gain value for your organisation through your dissertation or consultancy project, providing significant research into a relevant business issue.

This may help you to make a case to your employer for support with funding for the MBA programme.

Your MBA journey will:

• support you through executive coaching or mentoring, which are features of the programme, helping you to improve your employability and develop new skills
• provide you with a framework for the analysis of organisational activity and the integration and application of learning
• prepare you to take a holistic view of the organisation and its environment
• extend your leadership capabilities
• challenge and develop you by participating in short intensive international events where you are exposed to the issues facing business in different markets
• develop your ability to work effectively with a diverse group of colleagues from different cultural backgrounds and industry sectors.

The MBA begins with an induction programme that familiarises you with the learning environment and library facilities. It enables you to interact with other students and tutors. It facilitates understanding of the assessment requirements and introduces you to case study analysis and to the feedback and support available to you during the MBA. This induction prepares you to make the most of the learning opportunities afforded by the MBA.

During the programme you will have an opportunity to participate in an overseas workshop and take an elective with one of our partner institutions overseas.

As a full-time MBA student you will be supported by your own Personal Coach who will help you to focus on an area you wish to develop. Many of our full-time MBA students choose to focus on career development issues, however it is up to you to determine your own agenda.

Your MBA gives you the opportunity to develop an area of interest by combining your elective choices with a dissertation or consultancy project in an appropriate field of study. Electives are reviewed each year and may run at different times. It is therefore advisable to check the timings with the course administrator at the time of application.

The elective choices currently offered are in the following areas:

• entrepreneurship and enterprise
• hospitality and tourism management
• information technology management
• marketing
• publishing
• real estate
• finance.

As our courses are reviewed regularly, the modules you choose from may vary from those listed here.

Faculty

Faculty of Business

Department

Business School

Course length

Full-time: MBA: 12 months

Teaching location

Wheatley Campus

Start date

September 2012

UKPASS code

P037283

Entry requirements

You will normally need:

• a minimum of three years’ relevant managerial or professional experience, together with a good degree (or GPA equivalent); or
• a relevant postgraduate/post-experience qualification from a recognised university or college; or
• a professional qualification that is regarded as equivalent to a degree, from an approved and recognised body.

Two written references (normally one academic) are also required.

It is possible to enter this course on the basis of managerial experience rather than as a graduate. We normally seek a minimum of seven years’ relevant managerial or professional experience. 

Scholarships and funding

Oxford Brookes University Business School is delighted to offer a number of scholarships for its full-time MBA ranging from £1,000 to 50% of tuition fees. For further information, please visit http://business.brookes.ac.uk/postgraduate/scholarships.

For general sources of financial support, see:

• funding for students from the UK and EU
• funding for students from outside the EU

Why Oxford is a great place to study MBA (Full-time)

As a student in Oxford you'll be at the heart of the UK's most successful economic region and in a centre for leading industries which provides you with a host of learning opportunities. As a business student you'll have easy access to London and the 'M4 Corridor' - a hub for technology and financial services - as well as the numerous businesses and hi-tech firms located in the Oxford area.

Because Oxford is one of the world's great academic cities, it is a key centre of debate, with conferences, seminars and forums taking place across education, science, the arts and many other subjects.

In addition to our own excellent libraries and resource centres, our postgraduate students have access to the world-renowned Bodleian Library, the Bodleian Law Library and the Radcliffe Science Library.

How Brookes supports postgraduate students

Supporting your learning

From academic advisers and support co-ordinators to specialist subject librarians and other learning support staff, we want to ensure that you get the best out of your studies.

Personal support services

We want your time at Brookes to be as enjoyable and successful as possible. That's why we provide all the facilities you need to be relaxed, happy and healthy throughout your studies.

Research areas and clusters

The Business School has an active programme of research based around six key research areas:

• accounting, governance and information management
• economics and strategy
• hospitality, leisure and tourism management
• human resource management and organisational behaviour
• marketing and operations management
• pedagogy.