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Disaster Management – (MBA)
Coventry University
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| Location: | Coventry / United Kingdom | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Coventry University
The MBA Risk and Disaster Management is a unique programme designed to enable practitioners to develop management skills to operate in senior management positions. It is a taught MBA designed to develop the key concepts of business practice, disaster management and risk assessment.
The programme allows the opportunity for students to focus and apply their learning to their particular professional development needs. The MBA will develop critical evaluation and the application of key elements of business planning and the management of risk and disasters.
The course runs full time over one year or part-time up to three years.
Career Prospects
This programme of study is ideal for those seeking to develop careers in senior management positions and enhance their professional qualifications within the public or private sector.
This MBA is designed in particular for professionals in the areas of emergency planning, risk assessment, community development, humanitarian aid and capacity building.
It is also designed to accommodate the ongoing professional commitments of practitioners and to equip them with the research skills, knowledge, technical capacity and management expertise to deal with a future crisis, emergencies and disasters in the developed and developing world.
Contents
Course content
The programme includes study in:
* Strategic Management
* Human Resource Management
* Financial Statement Analysis
* Marketing Management
* Disaster Management
* Risk Assessment
* Business Continuity Management
* Management of Urban Disasters
* Research Methods
These study areas not only focus on the industrialised nations but will also deal with global aspects of business, risk and disaster management.
Staff delivering the course have a wide range of practice based knowledge and research skills.
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Successful applicants must normally hold at least a second-class honours degree from a discipline relevant to the Programme. Applicants with a lower class of degree and/or with a qualification in other subject areas will be individually considered and will usually be interviewed prior to being offered a place on the course. Applicants without a first degree, but who have considerable relevant work experience and/or a relevant professional development qualification, will also be considered for admission to the Programme, on merit. Such applicants will be interviewed and may be required to provide supportive evidence of their career to date. Applications to the course are encouraged from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of age, race, gender or disability. The applications and admissions procedure conforms fully to the University
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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