Master of Business Administration (MBA)
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 19,000 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international | UK: £16,500
Open Days at University of Westminster
Undergraduate Open Day 19 October 2024/ Postgraduate Open Evening 2 October 2024
Introduction
Our innovative Westminster MBA is designed for ambitious business professionals – and recent graduates from any discipline – who don’t want to wait until they have extensive work experience before taking the first steps toward a management career.
Setting you apart in a competitive job market, you’ll graduate with direct experience from a three-month internship and the holistic business knowledge, capabilities and cutting-edge digital expertise demanded by today’s employers.
In the fast-moving global business environment, employers demand multi-skilled, digitally competent graduates with a sophisticated understanding of business and its changing context, one which cuts across the traditional business disciplines that include human resources, management and marketing. To succeed, you need a ‘big picture’ approach. You must be capable of adapting to emerging business models, creating new enterprises, leading and managing people effectively and improving processes with digital solutions.
At Westminster Business School, we recognise that future business professionals need the full range of technical and personal development skills – more responsible, resilient, adaptable and versatile than ever before. Our aim is to help you become an aspiring leader and entrepreneur, someone who can add value to any type of organisation. But we believe it’s essential for this transformation process to start early before you have extensive working experience or have adopted the mindset of one particular employer or business sector. By starting this process early, it’s much easier to develop your skills, learn to think outside the box, and independently lead changes in the business world – wherever your career takes you. It’s also what our employer contacts tell us they’d prefer.
Responding to a shifting market, the Westminster MBA offers a practically oriented, cross-disciplinary, advanced education in modern business: it combines academic rigour, accelerated study, stimulating teaching approaches and practical business leadership experiences, including a three-month internship. We'll support you on your journey to becoming part of the next generation of successful business executives and entrepreneurs.
We’ll introduce you to the latest business methods and technologies in a way that more accurately reflects the corporate and entrepreneurial environment – through interdisciplinary, capability-building thematic modules, which span anything from innovation and design thinking to contemporary challenges, sustainability, and management complexity data analysis and finances. You’ll then apply your learning to practice-based business problems and live business projects and, in doing so, gain sought-after soft skills, such as creativity, critical thinking, personal agility, adaptability and resilience.
Recognising the growing importance of technology and preparing you for careers in a 2020s digital world, we’ll examine some of the latest developments, including blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, cloud technology, AR/VR, disruptive innovations, and the growth of ecosystems and the sharing economy.
We expect our MBA graduates to go on to secure management and leadership roles in corporates, start-ups, SMEs, the public sector and non-profit organisations.
Top reasons to study with us
- This MBA is ideal for recent graduates and ambitious early-career professionals with the determination to pursue management careers.
- Become business-ready through intensive practical experiences and accelerated study.
- Three-month ‘Management in Action’ internship or project at home or overseas to boost your CV.
- Week-long international consulting project based overseas with a client company.
- Career development workshops and masterclasses enhance your global perspective and employability.
- Taught by staff with expertise in strategic management, entrepreneurship, design, innovation, marketing, consumer insight, social media, operations, digital business, psychology, human resources, organisational behaviour, economics, finance, management accounting and leadership.
- Exciting teaching and learning approaches with live case studies, simulations, role-playing workshops and hackathons.
- Engaging assessment methods, including simulations, business challenges, investigating briefs, group pitches and video presentations.
- Excellent facilities include an MBA Boardroom, digital classrooms and our state-of-the-art Bloomberg virtual trading room.
Why study this course?
- Fantastic facilities
State-of-the-art Bloomberg-powered Financial Markets Suite (FMS) featuring industry-leading technology and software. - Combine theory and practice
Link theory to global practice through real-life case studies, problem-solving and live business projects. - Business insight
Strengthen business insight through interaction with businesses and discussions about current market challenges.
Career Opportunities
At the core of our forward-thinking MBA is its focus on preparing you for today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world of work through a highly practical and experiential programme delivered in partnership with a range of ‘client’ organisations.
Taught in the heart of London, close to many of the city’s national, international and global employers, our emphasis on skills, capabilities and attributes – with multiple opportunities throughout the course to apply these capabilities to real business problems – will provide direct work experience to enhance your CV and narrative when applying for new positions. These applied projects and the final internship/project will not only expand your professional networks but directly enhance the prospects for early employability after graduation.
By focusing on business-ready skills, hard and soft, we expect a wide range of employers to be interested in our graduates. You will have the capabilities and confidence to adapt to a rapidly changing business world, one characterised by digitisation, hyper-competition, resource scarcity, volatility, complexity and continual business model disruption.
With a growing global network of 3,000 employers, our Careers and Employability Service is here to support you in achieving your full potential.
- Build your business network
Build connections with peers and future business leaders. - Develop your CQ
Develop your cultural intelligence – or ‘CQ’ – by studying alongside students and staff representing more than 100 nationalities. - Kickstart your career
Learn how to use social media in your job hunt or LinkedIn to kickstart your career.
Industry links
Westminster Business School is one of London’s leading centres for business education based in the heart of London and its political, media and financial services scene.
Staff who currently teach on this course have extensive professional experience, covering roles such as:
- a senior management consultant for McKinsey & Company
- a manager in Savoy Hotel Group
- export manager for Labaronne-CITAF
- deputy general manager of QSR Franchise Development Group
- an equity and structured finance analyst for Bergstrom Capital
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles such as:
- Business design lead
- Business development manager
- Business/Financial analyst
- CMS manager
- CRM manager
- Digital marketing manager
- Digital product owner
- Management consultant
- Solutions architect
- Start-up entrepreneur
- UX manager
Graduate employers
Graduates from the Westminster Business School have found employment at organisations including:
- Amazon
- Citibank
- Financial Conduct Authority
- Paribas
- Santander
- Sberbank
- Société Générale
- Standard Chartered
- World Economic Forum
Admissions
Curriculum
The MBA follows a strong narrative with a journey of discovery, beginning with the diagnosis of business problems/issues, the design of innovative solutions, immersion in digital applications and the development of drive, resilience and diplomacy as part of the student’s personal growth. In addition to the module assessment, capabilities learned are applied during the client projects for Entrepreneurial Mindset, the International Study Consultancy and the Management in Action internship. You will study problem-solving and capability-building modules for a total of 180 credits.
Semester 1
We begin by learning how to conduct a business diagnostic, developing your skills in analysing financial, performance and market data, as well as critical thinking. You’ll learn to confidently identify the symptoms of underperformance and analyse business problems, using your judgement to make informed decisions to improve future market performance. We’ll examine how design thinking and creativity can reimagine business models and help design new products, services and processes. You’ll also gain a better understanding of digital disruptions and how these impact business operations, business services and performance.
- Business Diagnosis (20 credits)
- Designing Value (20 credits)
- Digital Capabilities (20 credits)
- Entrepreneurial Mindset (10 credits, block week)
Semester 2
We move on to business structure and modern strategies in a changing world, as well as the traits, behaviours and management processes needed for resilient, flexible organisations. You’ll consider some of the contemporary challenges facing business, from the merits of sustainable global growth to the global perspective of business development and the need for sensitive, collaborative working in multicultural project environments. You’ll examine the latest insights in innovation and new business models before participating in a week-long International Consultancy Project advising overseas client/s to solve a strategic issue or problem.
- Resilient Organisations and Teams (20 credits)
- Sustainable Global Growth (20 credits)
- Strategic Innovation in a Digital World (20 credits)
- International Study Consultancy (10 credits, block week)
Semester 3
For the Management in Action Internship or Project, you’ll investigate a problem/issue related to innovation and/or digitisation for a client organisation in the UK or overseas – anything from how a digital start-up can compete against digital/conventional rivals to the impact of digitisation on an organisation’s operation and performance. It’s an ideal opportunity to demonstrate your resourcefulness and ability to ‘think on your feet’.
- Management in Action – Internship or Project (40 credits)
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
The University is dedicated to supporting ambitious and outstanding students and we offer a variety of scholarships to eligible undergraduate students, which cover all or part of your tuition fees.