Executive MBA (Taught)

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Course summary

• Grow your confidence, challenge your thinking and take your career to the next level.

• Enhance key business skills for leadership, management and consultancy positions.

• Direct your learning with projects that meet your ambitions and organisational needs.

• Benefit from flexible, part-time study options while applying your learning to the workplace.

• Study and collaborate with fellow professionals and business leaders.

• Join a network of entrepreneurs in our award-winning enterprise centre.

This Executive MBA programme is recognised and respected for its innovative, practice-based teaching and integration with the modern business environment. Combining theory with practice, it’s an MBA of choice for individuals looking to develop themselves as the leaders and managers of tomorrow.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Based in our Sheffield Business School, you’ll join a global community where business leaders, researchers and business students all come together to solve problems and make things better.

You’ll be taught by industry experts, who bring their professional experience and insights from cutting-edge research into the classroom. They’ll lead you through a transformational experience – on a programme that’s designed and delivered to inspire you to realise your ambitions.

You learn through:

• Formal teaching

• Applied problem-solving

• Real and simulated case studies

• Class discussions

• Presentations

• Guest speakers

• Networking opportunities

• Independent study

• Portfolio assessment

• Reflective practice

Course topics

To be a successful global business leader, you need insights from differing professional and sector perspectives.

You’ll gain knowledge, skills and expertise across core topics including marketing, strategy, leadership, people, finance, operations and business research. Direct your learning by choosing to develop specialist knowledge in areas such as sustainability, internationalisation, disruptive technology, crisis response, and equality, diversity and inclusion.

Throughout the MBA, our approach replicates the real-world – where strategic decisions are made. Rather than simply teaching theory, you’ll learn how things work in practice – through case studies and real-world projects.

You’ll also have the option to strengthen your business acumen and gain work-related experience by exploring other functions within your organisation. This will help you to gain the maximum benefit from the MBA, developing skills to enable you to achieve your leadership goals.

Course Support

Throughout your learning journey, you’ll experience a range of dedicated support, such as:

• Access to specialist support services to help with your personal, academic and career development.

• Access to our Skills Centre with one-to-one support, webinars and online resources.

• Free office and studio space, expert workshops, freelance opportunities and a vast business network.

• A network of entrepreneurs and business leaders in our award-winning enterprise hub.

• Career support for up to five years after graduating.

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.

Modules studied may differ depending on when you start your course.

Year 1

Compulsory modules
Global Finance And Operations Management
Leadership, Change And Responsible People Practice
Strategy And Marketing For A Changing World

Final year

Compulsory modules
Mba Applied Business Investigation

Elective modules
Digitalisation Of Business Processes
Enterprise And Entrepreneurship
Global Business In Emerging Markets