MBA (full-time and Part Time) – (MBA)

The University of Southampton MBA will give you the tools, knowledge and confidence to challenge conventional thinking and succeed in today’s fast-moving business world by standing out, not blending in.

We are one of the UK’s top research-led universities, committed to high quality teaching and the advancement of knowledge.

Taught in our new Executive Education Centre, our MBA meets the global standard of the Association of MBAs (AMBA), through a broad curriculum aimed at developing your business skills in all areas. Key management theories and concepts are taught by inspirational academic staff who also carry out cutting-edge research in their specialist fields.

Whether on our full-time or part-time programme, the Southampton MBA will challenge you to look at business issues from different perspectives in order to find the best solutions. You will learn from real business problems and share experiences with the diverse cohort that makes up this programme. Throughout your time at Southampton, you will be encouraged to consolidate and reflect on your learning.

Studying for the Southampton MBA will also give you the chance to meet and network with other future business leaders from around the world. You will make friends and contacts for life.

Originally established in 1988, our AMBA accredited MBA is continually updated to reflect the changing nature of the business world. Maintaining AMBA’s high global standard, our objective is to ensure the programme remains relevant and challenging for students and businesses.

Our MBA was significantly revised and restructured in 2008 after a year-long consultation exercise involving students, alumni, employers and teaching staff.
The Southampton MBA is a flexible programme, which enables you to study either full or part-time.

Our MBA will develop your business skills. Its integrative structure will give you the opportunity to consolidate and apply your learning from across the programme to address business issues from new perspectives.

The MBA programme will provide you with:

* a rigorous and challenging scheme of study in order to enhance your effectiveness as a manager
* a broad appreciation and understanding of the principles, concepts, terminology, purpose and practice of management in contemporary organisations
* an awareness of the opportunities afforded, and the constraints imposed, by the environment in which organisations and their managers operate
* practical research skills based upon relevant research methods and analytical techniques
* the facility to analyse complex organisational and managerial issues and to propose well-argued recommendations for dealing with such situations
* the ability to identify and combine different functional areas and theories to maximum effect when addressing real business issues
* the opportunity to continually reflect on and put into context your newly acquired knowledge from across the programme
* opportunities to develop key skills including teamwork, leadership, planning, communication, self-management, problem solving, decision making, negotiation and numeracy
* an opportunity to build long-lasting business networks
* a learning environment which is stimulating, challenging and informed by cutting-edge theory

Full-time
Strategic management and leadership practice are increasingly conducted in an international context of networked organisations. Managers are required to develop sustainable and responsive business solutions. Our AMBA-accredited MBA is academically rigorous, offering a participatory approach to learning, with its integrative, modular curriculum, including research training and consultancy skills.

We place emphasis on keeping as close to real-world business as possible, through various forms of interaction with businesses and organisations. A significant part of the teaching is based on real-life business case studies and practical, action-oriented projects.

Part time
The part-time MBA is suitable if you have at least five years’ significant managerial experience, and you are seeking to further your understanding of, and effectiveness in, the organisational and business context.

Duration: 1 year (full-time); 2–3 years plus 6 months to complete the dissertation (part-time)

Start date: September 2011 (full-time), September 2011 and February 2012 (part-time)