Master of Business Administration (MBA)

The program is aimed to Graduates and Managers those have a pasion for business and education and would like to enhance their CV with a prestigious MBA aiming to:

• Make a powerful difference to their organisation by developing a strategic, global outlook and experience in everything from accounting to marketing.
• Expand their career opportunities by earning a highly respected Master of Business Administration (MBA).
• Take a life-changing professional journey and expand their mind, skills, career potential and professional network.
• Challenge their assumptions and gain a critical, reflexive approach to strategic leadership and management.
• Focus on industry best practices through live consultancy, underpinned by cutting-edge research.

Academic Programme

• Executive Career and Professional Development

The module content focusses on the tools of analysis to support professional and career development. The module comprises two core interrelated areas of focus. Firstly, students will investigate management practice in a chosen field, evaluating the professional skills required to succeed within this context. Through reflection, self-evaluation and engagement with industry practitioners from relevant contexts, learners will consider their own career development needs and produce a personal development plan to aid them in their employability. Secondly, the module requires learners to reflect on their programme learning, synthesising and critically evaluating the application of a range of generalist management theories to their chosen field.

• Strategic Management Research

Students will undertake strategic analysis and decision making in the context of real businesses and organisations, exploring the role of unpredictability, rapidly evolving industry architecture and dynamic processes of organisation.

Students engage in a range of strategic debates impacting modern organisations, developing their skills as a manager and leader through the exploration of complex business challenges. Creativity, innovation and collaboration are critical success factors within the context of strategic decision making.

• Operations and Business Analytics

The module learning outcomes encourage students to explore business data analysis and business operations within a range of organisations. Students consider the relationship between data and operations, and how these influence each other. Students focus each component of assessment on operations or analytics, whilst synthesising evidence from the other element; thereby demonstrating a rich understanding of operations and analytics as a holistic aspect of business practice.

• Financial Management and Analysis

This module is designed to enable you to become more confident in the use and limitations of financial information and, thus, interact more effectively with both financial and non-financial management. You will learn how to assess and use financial information, both that provided to external stakeholders (financial statements) and assist in the management of the organisation.

In addition, you will produce financial information which you will develop to help solve business problems, including alternative techniques for evaluating major investment projects and explore ways in which they may be financed.

The module also explores how financial management and business performance is monitored and managed, how value is created and maintained and how it is distributed to stakeholders. This will include a number of context including not for profit organisations. There will also be an opportunity to reflect upon relevant corporate governance and ethical issues.

• Strategic Marketing Planning and Entrepreneurship

This module will typically be constructed of two parts, with the first part concentrating on marketing understanding and knowledge, and the second part developing applied marketing and entrepreneurial skills.

Part One: Strategic Marketing Planning and Communications

Development and understanding of core marketing principles and the role and processes of Strategic Marketing Planning. Students will examine the intersection between the marketing environment and the opportunities for market growth.

Part Two: Digital Venture/New Product or Service Development Project

Having identified opportunities for market growth in part 1, students will further develop the concepts and skills of entrepreneurship through a new digital venture or product/service project.

• Human Resource Management

Key theoretical models, relevant and contemporary issues and debates addressing the contribution of HRM and people management to organisational success will be included in the following core areas:

Principles of Human Resource Management - Strategic HRM and HRM Policy.

Application of People Management Practices - Resourcing, Performance and Reward, HR Systems, People Development and Employee Engagement. Contextual HRM aspects and influences - Organisational Behaviour, International and Comparative HRM, Cross Cultural Management and Ethics & Diversity.

External recognition

• The University of Hertfordshire has been honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise for its highly effective internationalisation strategy. Considered the country’s highest business accolade and approved by both the Prime Minister and The King, the University was recognised for its excellence in international trade, winning the King’s Award for International Trade for Outstanding Continuous Growth in overseas sales over the last six years. The only university to be awarded a King’s Award for Enterprise this year, Herts was recognised for how it has developed and grown its internationalisation strategy, which has resulted in a booming international community at its Hertfordshire campus, and an extensive overseas partner network.
• It is ranked 2nd in the UK for overall satisfaction in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES), 2023
• 1st in the East of England for overall student satisfaction (NSS, 2023)
• 78% of research ranked as world-leading or internationally excellent in the latest Research Excellence
  Framework (REF), 2021
• Silver award in the national Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF, 2023)

We’ve embedded career development into every part of our MBA. The programme provides cutting-edge theory-based learning, delivered through real business problems. You’ll also benefit from guest lectures networking opportunities delivered by business practitioners and MBA Alumni.

You’ll also have access to our career coach; boost your career with sessions on topics including personal branding, personal impact, and difficult conversations. Our Business School careers team will invite you to join our vibrant alumni network and attend regular career-focused events.

During your MBA, you’ll be involved in a Young Enterprise (YE) Start-up Programme, distinct from a traditional work placement. You’ll participate in a live ‘business incubator’, establishing and managing your own business or social enterprise, from the company name and defining your product or service, to mastering the finances.

IMS has a huge alumni and professional network in various sectors of the economy ranging from high calibre public sector organisations to multinationals and shipping companies. Students will be able to access a huge database of professionals and will be taugh real business case studies.

The University of Hertfordshire is a modern university based largely in Hatfield, in the county of Hertfordshire, about 35km north of London. Described as “the UK's leading business-facing university”, Hertfordshire has more than 25,000 students enrolled from nearly 90 different countries and over 300 courses available to international students, across seven Schools of Study.

IMS College (International Management Studies) was set up back in 1995 by a team of British management education specialists to provide high quality management development programmes to experienced and talented professionals and initially operated as Center of Liberal Studies (licensed by EOPPEP A/23684). It subsequently became a fully licensed COLLEGE (No. 46327/K1/ 17 – 3 – 2017 Ministry of Education and No. 1057/B’ National Gazette) from the Ministry of Education. Under this capacity, IMS COLLEGE is able to form collaborations with any foreign institution, for the delivery of either UG or PG programs.

IMS College has 30 years experience in the delivery of MBA and Masters programs – has been collaborating for more than 28 years with University of Strathclyde (offering the Executive MBA and various MASTERS programs in Greece) as well as with a number of other UK Universities (i.e. University of KEELE) offering PG programs. IMS is one of the oldest established colleges still in existence today.

IMS is located at Kifisias Avenue, Chalandri, the heart of the Kifisias Business District in modern facilities just minutes away from the centre of Athens and with excellent transportation links.

Our teaching faculty consists of world known professionals with both academic and teaching experience in Greece and abroad. Most of our proffesors are high calibre managers in various sectors of the Greek and multinational economy

IMS has a huge alumni and professional network in various sectors of the economy ranging from high calibre public sector organisations to multinationals and shipping companies. Students will be able to access a huge database of professionals and will be taugh real business case studies.

We look forward to welcoming you into the Herts community.

Throughout the program, there are about 6 weekends where students have a synchronous meeting with UH Professors for extra counselling-teaching-lecturing (exact timings will be communicated when the delivery starts). In addition, there are local counselling sessions (once per week) run by practitioners/seminar instructors who teach, and supporting-complementing UH Professors. The program will be administered by IMS College in Athens. Students will be supplied with all learning materials, textbooks, seminar notes, etc. In addition, they will have full access to the University’s ONLINE databases since they will be registered as a UH student. All remaining administration will be covered by the Athens office.