Full Time MBA – (MBA)

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The Cass Full-Time MBA is a dynamic and intensive 12-month programme which allows you to tailor your skills and learning around a Core General Management Programme.

September-April: Core General Management Programme

The Core General Management Programme will develop your fundamental knowledge and skills. You’ll balance hard, statistical expertise with the ‘softer’ abilities of inspiring and managing people.

Block 1: Strategy and Organisations

In Block 1 you will gain a good understanding of obtaining and organising information. This draws together issues relating to IT, analytical tools and financial reporting. The block will end with an integration week designed to test your skills and abilities around the challenges presented in this block.

Block 2: The Financial Environment

Block 2 will give you a better grasp of business fundamentals, in a global context, including economics, finance and marketing. The block will end with an integration week designed to test your skills and abilities around the challenges presented in this block.

Block 3: Creating Management Advantage

Block 3 will cover all aspects of management, including decision making, operational frameworks, human resources and understanding organisational behaviour and managing change. The block will end with an integration week designed to test your skills and abilities around the challenges presented in this block.

Block 4: Knowledge and Policy

After the final block you’ll better understand how to construct key policies and make strategic and financial decisions that underpin business success. The block will end with an integration week designed to test your skills and abilities around the challenges presented in this block.

Commercial Projects

Throughout the core general management programme, you will be asked to deliver a number of commercial projects which integrate the tools, concepts and frameworks from the different blocks. These projects will be lively, challenging, energising and immensely satisfying!

Strategy Project

As a result of the strategy project, you will gain practical, hands on experience of undertaking a strategic audit and analysis, with recommendations, working for a company of your choice. You will work in consultancy teams throughout the core general management programme. This project will integrate frameworks, tools and concepts taught during the strategy skills workshops within the programme. It will culminate with a group presentation to a panel of experts drawn from industry and the Cass alumni network.

Previous corporate clients include Vinopolis, Genes Reunited and maritime insurance specialist Watkins Syndicate.

April-September: Tailored Programme

The core MBA General Management programme will give you the business skills everyone needs. You then design the tailored programme yourself. This enables you to choose the electives and Business Mastery Project which are relevant to your ambitions and personal career objectives.

Running parallel with your formal learning, you will also benefit from career coaching and by formulating your personal development programme. You will get one-to-one support from coaches chosen to benefit your specific needs and ambitions, as well as practical help and advice with job searches and career development plan.

Electives

Focus in a chosen discipline or mix and match electives from a range of disciplines.

Business Mastery Project

In the final part of your programme, you will draw on the many elements of the course in the Business Mastery Project. This is a major piece of self-managed business consultancy which counts substantially towards your final degree.

You will design, conduct and manage every aspect of your project, which will address a specific real-world business problem for your chosen company, industry or research area.

Many of the projects are offered by companies via the Cass Careers Service, and tend to be centred around a summer internship. Sponsoring companies use this opportunity to road-test new talent, whilst you can use this as a platform to consolidate your experience in a particular field which adds value to your CV and could lead to your next career move.

Past Business Mastery Projects have tackled a variety of business problems across a wide range of industries such as banking and finance, stock exchanges, manufacturing, law, advertising and marketing, travel and tourism, and carbon markets.

Recent examples of projects include:

• The affects on the UK financial system, following the failure of a major global hedge fund
• Liquidity shift among stock exchanges: the Ryanair case study
• Issues faced by family businesses - a study for Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
• Achieving Competitive Advantage.

Accreditation

An integral part of City University London, Sir John Cass Business School is among the global elite of business schools that hold the gold standard of 'triple-crown' accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). We are consistently ranked amongst the best business schools and programmes in the world which, coupled with an established 40-year reputation for excellence in research and business education, enables us to attract some of the best academics, students and businesses worldwide into our exclusive Cass network.

Funding details

Cass are delighted to announce the following scholarships that are available for entry to the September 2011 cohort.

Scholarships are highly competitive and reflect our insistence that only the best need apply. We don't have a typical student but we do have individual screening where we see if you are a good fit for this most competitive of programmes. Our decisions are based on the following criteria:

• Significant achievements, both in the work place and outside
• Professional experience and proficiency
• Academic ability
• Potential to fulfill leadership promise
• Likelihood of adding value to MBA cohort
• Strong set of attributes and ideals, similar to the vision set out by Cass Business school.

All those receiving a scholarship will be required to assist in promoting the school during their time at Cass and once you have become an alumnus.

Developing Economies Scholarship

6 x £10,000

Open to: Candidates who are a national of a developing country and who have been resident in that country over the past 10 years. Candidates must also have have achieved a 2.1 or 1st class undergraduate degree (or equivalent) or Merit or Distinction MSc/PhD (65% or above)

Application format: Essay based
Application deadline: 15 July 2011 (scholarship and complete MBA application)

Financial Support Scholarship

2 x £15,500

Open to: Candidates who earn less than £25,000 per annum

Application format: Essay based
Application deadline: 15 July 2011 (scholarship and complete MBA application)

Entrepreneurship Scholarship

2 x £10,000

Open to: Candidates who currently run, or have previously run their own business and can provide supporting evidence of business success or failure (i.e. turnover/profitability etc); or candidates who are considering a new venture and can submit a copy of their business plan with their application.

Application format: Essay based
Application deadline: 15 July 2011 (scholarship and complete MBA application)

Academic Scholarship

2 x £15,000

Open to: Candidates who have achieved a 2.1 or a 1st class undergraduate degree (or equivalent) or Merit or Distinction MSc/ PhD (65% or above), as well as a minimum, well balanced GMAT of 700

Application format: Essay based
Application deadline: 15 July 2011 (scholarship and complete MBA application)