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| Application Deadline: | as soon as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 22,594 - | ||
| Location: | Oxford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 90 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
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To be successful in a 21st-century business environment you need to think and lead across international boundaries. The MBA prepares you for the challenges of senior management in an increasingly competitive and global economy.
The Oxford Brookes MBA develops your career by building on your professional and managerial experience - focusing on leadership, strategic thinking and issues of implementation. The MBA develops your skills of critical enquiry and practical insight, and equips you to manage your own development long term, helping you to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment.
A distinguishing characteristic of the Oxford Brookes MBA is the emphasis on developing a 'collaborative' rather than 'competitive' approach to learning. This is based on our belief that successful businesses operate through the cooperation and collaboration of others, both within the business and through the development of long-term relationships and alliances with customers and suppliers.
Why Brookes?
* Programme ranked 16 in the UK and 45 in Europe by QS TopMBA 2010.
* Accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) through EPAS.
* A focus on responsible leadership and strategic thinking supported by a collaborative learning culture.
* International reach with students from more than 60 countries, and opportunities to study outside the UK.
* Coaching and mentoring, careers support and world-wide alumni network.
* Participation in an overseas event, exposing you to a range of challenges and issues facing businesses operating in different markets
Career prospects
Our alumni surveys indicate that students of the MBA make significant increases in salary and career progression.
Many Business School graduates realise significant career progression and go on to achieve high status in the industry of their choice.
The school maintains a rigorous and dynamic doctoral programme leading to the higher degrees of MPhil and PhD. Postgraduate students join a supportive, friendly and multicultural research environment.
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Course length
Full-time: MBA: 12 months
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.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
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.
English language requirements
Applicants whose first language is not English must also demonstrate that their level of English is high enough to study at postgraduate level, by achieving a score in a recognised test such as:
* IELTS level 6.5 – with a minimum of 6 in reading and writing
* TOEFL score of 90 or above (internet-based).
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 575 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 233 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
Accreditation
Accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and EPAS (EFMD's programme accreditation)
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