MBA - London Metropolitan University, UK
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Jun 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 4,950
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
Introduction
Change has never been so intense. While some functions will be automated and others taken over by AI, there's a growing need to develop emerging skills such as problem-solving, leadership, innovation, decision-making, and digital literacy. The updated MBA program from London Met equips you with this essential skillset to thrive in a disruptive world. This MBA at London Metropolitan University, UK, aims to prepare its graduates to initiate significant career changes, whether that involves assuming greater leadership and management responsibilities, transitioning to different industries, or launching their own businesses.
What’s Happening?
The businesses of today’s world are Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous. The impact of accelerating climate change, technology development & changes in world power are increasingly evident and result in a dynamic ever-changing environment. As a modern professional, it is essential to make sense of this intricate environment by applying contemporary tools, techniques & thought processes to allow modern business organizations to compete successfully. The main takeaway from the global COVID-19 pandemic was that we need to be prepared, & this course considers change as an opportunity that should be embraced.
This MBA course seeks to prepare its graduates to make a significant change in their career that might entail taking on greater leadership and management responsibility, switching industries, or starting a business.
Students can obtain practical skills & experience through business simulations, where they are provided with the opportunity to make real business decisions to ensure the imitation businesses make a profit & can operate. This will allow the students to obtain firsthand experience of working in a team to make decisions in a competitive environment & then deal with the results.
This program will allow the students to refine their complex problem-solving skills & develop their critical thinking abilities. Our MBA will help the students to develop their management skills, how to work effectively in teams, take on the leadership of a diverse group & influence others.
Why this MBA?
This course places a huge emphasis on hands-on learning. While other courses may offer one business simulation, we offer these experiences in two of our modules. We believe a practical approach makes our MBA graduates stand out. Through these business simulations, you’ll learn how to manage a large organization as well as how to work effectively as part of a team. You’ll be responsible for making critical & strategic decisions to ensure your business is profitable and functional.
Our faculty have a wealth of industry experience and broad practitioner knowledge. You’ll learn from our academic experiences & have opportunities that will allow you to network & build your industry connections. Building relationships on your MBA course is a fundamental way for you to expand your professional network. Our diverse student cohort means you’ll benefit from studying with course colleagues who have experience in a range of industries from all around the world.
Curriculum
Business Study Boot Camp
- Build key skills & knowledge that will enable you to maximize the value you gain from this program & accelerate your return to studying successfully as independent learners at UK Level 7.
Breakthrough Leadership Skills - 20 Credits
- Examine the nature of the inherent challenges of organizational change. Learn what it means to be a change agent, and gain the knowledge & understanding needed to design, initiate & lead change in diverse organizational settings.
Financial Decision Making - 20 Credits
- Learn how to use financial information to make effective business decisions in modern organizations. Discover how to ask insightful questions from financial advisors, challenge their analyses & specify your financial information needs.
Digital Business Delivery - 20 Credits
- Understand how business operations are designed, managed & improved, & what the relationship is between new product/service development & operations.
Marketing in the Digital World - 20 Credits
- Develop knowledge concerning the nature & character of marketing as well as sales in an international context, capitalizing on current & emerging technologies.
Global Strategy & Innovation - 20 Credits
- Understand how strategies are developed & executed in modern business organizations. Learn how to exploit innovation through the development of new products & services.
Business Problem Solving - 20 Credits
- Learn how to become well-informed & effective managers, business owners & entrepreneurs who can lead, manage & solve problems in dynamic & complex environments.
Building Business Insights - 60 Credits
- Select a preferred topic & conduct independent research on specific management & business issues that organizations are facing, coupled with high-level analysis & interpretation of information.