Master's Degree
MBA (Master of Business Administration)
No longer can business professionals rely on a limited range of expertise. To get ahead in this busy corporate world, it is important to have a broad skill set. The Master of Business Administration is designed to help you gain professional and personal skills needed to succeed in a senior management position. The programme is oriented to the needs to today’s and tomorrow’s business leaders. Students will gain professional expertise in areas such as accounting, business ethics, economics and finance, as well as specialisation in management, marketing or policy.
Programme Structure
8 modules to be completed in a minimum of 16 months over 4 trimesters.
MBA (Master of Business Administration)
No longer can business professionals rely on a limited range of expertise. To get ahead in this busy corporate world, it is important to have a broad skill set. The Master of Business Administration is designed to help you gain professional and personal skills needed to succeed in a senior management position. The programme is oriented to the needs to today’s and tomorrow’s business leaders. Students will gain professional expertise in areas such as accounting, business ethics, economics and finance, as well as specialisation in management, marketing or policy.
Programme Structure
8 modules to be completed in a minimum of 16 months over 4 trimesters.
While this unit provides an introduction to accounting issues relevant to both preparers and users of business reports, it predominantly explores the principles of financial and management accounting from a user perspective. The focus of the unit is on decision-making, a practical understanding of how to analyse information obtained from the accounting system to assist in management decision-making.
This unit provides students an understanding of the macroeconomic setting in which corporate financial decisions are made. Students will be exposed to finance theory, tools and techniques used in financial decision-making. To assist students in acquiring this understanding, it is necessary for students to perform basic financial calculations. The conceptual framework and techniques covered in this unit will provide students, who wish to progress to a practitioner role within the finance discipline, a foundation for further studies.
This unit addresses key issues about the relationship between business, society and the environment in order to foster a critical understanding of the role of firms in contemporary societies. It will pay special attention to the interplay of markets, politics, sustainability science and ethical reasoning in order to foster responsible management-and-governance approaches.
This unit addresses key issues about managing global businesses in the 21st century - often called the Asian century. It examines accelerated globalisation and the rise of Asia, and discusses how managers make decisions on firm strategy, market entry, alliances, marketing, R&D, production, supply chain management, and human resource management in a changing global business environment.
The unit places you in the role of decision makers, developing your ability to innovatively apply theories to resolving problems in challenging international business situations.
The modern enterprise engages with all quarters of society as it pursues its goals. The core of the engaged enterprise is its people. It is these engaged people who execute strategy with intent while continually exploring new horizons. This unit focuses on fostering and engaging with staff by distributing leadership at all levels of the enterprise, leveraging the power of groups, and reaffirming the strategic role of human capital development in learning to innovate new responses to organisational challenges.
This unit enables students to investigate how firms and organisations design and execute effective strategies. The unit also explores relevant issues: macro-globalisation, market competition, environmental, sustainability, information communication technology, mesogovernment regulatory frameworks, shareholder and stakeholder needs, and microresources, leadership and organisational culture and climate. Students analyse recent case studies and ‘hot topics’ in strategies drawn from the media and business journals.
This unit explores the creation of product concepts, startup enterprises and social ventures. It focuses on concept development, evaluation, commercialisation, operational sustainability, planning and financing. Students adopt an explicit process model to launch a new venture concept, and learn how to pitch and sell their new business. The unit uses case studies, media clips, innovation tools, and seminar and assessment activities to explore how new organisations can emerge from creative concepts.
Strategic Risk Management (SRM) extends the concept of Risk Management in that it addresses the dynamic complexity during risk assessment processes. This innovative unit will address major types of risk management strategies at the enterprise level (Operation, Technology, Environment, etc). Students will engage with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks and develop critical skills to analyse and identify key risks and opportunities. Project Management will be utilised with the development of a project plan to mitigate enterprise risks.
This unit introduces students to concepts and theories of organisational behaviour useful to managers. The unit also considers behavioural impacts at the individual, group and organisational levels. The focus is on helping students to understand themselves, and how they can operate today and in the future in management contexts within a globalised world. The unit uses practical, problem-solving and experiential activities to explore organisational behaviour and challenges for managers, individuals and interactions in organisations, organizational dynamics, and organisational processes and characteristics.
This unit offers a sound foundation in marketing management strategy, which is relevant for all types of profit and not-for-profit businesses and organisations. Marketing management strategy is essential practice for all brand and service operations. The main topics include the marketing mix, product life cycle, consumer behaviour, the competitive environment, strategic options, market positioning, international marketing, and online marketing.
This unit focuses on developing skills, practical in nature and based on theory. This unit presents a practical understanding of how marketing research is conducted internationally. Students will gain the capability to effectively plan and manage market research projects, and conduct basic data analysis. The unit draws together the research skills and knowledge required to fulfil a marketing management role in the context of international marketing.
Entry Requirement
- Successful completion of Bachelor’s Degree
- 2 years of relevant working experience
English Entry Requirement
- IELTS 6.0 or equivalent
- Pass for Kaplan Academic English Programme (Level 6)
*Decision for admission is subject to University’s approval and the final decision rests with the University.
The environment in which businesses operate today is extremely dynamic, posing a myriad of challenges and uncertainty for leaders and their organisations. The overall aim of this MBA course is to develop reflective, entrepreneurial, innovative and responsible leaders with the necessary skills and knowledge to lead their organisations in a complex global environment. The course offers an exciting and well balanced integrated curriculum that places a large emphasis on the application of knowledge in the organisational setting. Students will develop their personal, professional, critical thinking and reflective skills in order to prepare them to manage, lead and transform organisations and make a positive difference to their performance and society more generally. 6 modules and 1 Dissertation to be completed in 16 months The environment in which businesses operate today is extremely dynamic, posing a myriad of challenges and uncertainty for leaders and their organisations. The overall aim of this MBA course is to develop reflective, entrepreneurial, innovative and responsible leaders with the necessary skills and knowledge to lead their organisations in a complex global environment. The course offers an exciting and well balanced integrated curriculum that places a large emphasis on the application of knowledge in the organisational setting. Students will develop their personal, professional, critical thinking and reflective skills in order to prepare them to manage, lead and transform organisations and make a positive difference to their performance and society more generally. 6 modules and 1 Dissertation to be completed in 16 months As the global business environment becomes ever more complex and volatile, there is a need for organisations of all shapes and sizes to think and act more entrepreneurially, innovatively and creatively in order to be able to change and adapt. This interdisciplinary module will provide students with an understanding of the internal and external factors that impact strategic decision making. Students will be introduced to a variety of strategic theories, tools and concepts, but all in the context of the external environment and its impact on strategic challenges and choices. Students will be exposed to a variety of academic and practical material that they can apply to their own organisations, or a live case organisation in order to appreciate the importance of developing and implementing innovative strategic plans for the success of the organisation, its key stakeholders and society more broadly. The world we live in today is rapidly changing and presents a myriad of challenges, opportunities and, often, dilemmas for business and society more generally. In this module, students will be exposed to the latest issues facing business and society, but from a multidisciplinary perspective – drawing upon thought leadership from a combination of disciplines, such as business, social sciences and the humanities. The aim of this approach is to develop students’ critical thinking skills and to expose them to a range of different perspectives in order to enhance their responsible managerial decision-making skills. The module will, in part, take inspiration from the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a basis for topical content, but given the dynamic nature of the global business environment, the content will be very much based on what is happening in the world at the time of delivery. In addition, this module will provide inspiration and ideas for research (e.g. the dissertation), with the hope that students will take a much more critical approach to their research, given the exposure to a wider theoretical and contextual base. This module introduces the students to the concept of the sustainable organisation, with a particular emphasis towards socio economic impact. Students will analyse the relationship between various stakeholders and evaluate the relationship between entrepreneurship, philanthropy and sustainability. Students will gain an understanding of business in society and contemporary issues relating to philanthropy. Students will consider the role of government and policy-makers in shaping the legal, fiscal and cultural context for philanthropy and classical economics, and the role of the rational economic organisation. This module is designed to provide both a theoretical and practical insight into a range of finance management techniques. The module examines the means by which financial information is used to inform the effective management of an organisation, including decision making and control, performance management, and investment management. The module also covers the relevance of financial information on management behaviour, and on key decisions in related areas such as risk management and environmental impacts. *Decision for admission is subject to University’s approval and the final decision rests with the University.MBA (Master of Business Administration)
Programme Structure
MBA (Master of Business Administration)
Programme Structure
A particular aspect of this module is the importance of developing an organisation and the strategic capability of the team. Management of change is critical in business, and emphasis is placed on the notion that in order to manage change effectively, the leader must embrace it, create it, shape it and implement it at speed.
A symbiotic relationship between academia and industry is a crucial component of this module, within which students will be required to participate in practical entrepreneurial experiences in collaboration with local SMEs, supported via the Marketing Clinic framework. The module’s practical learning concept encourages the students to be active learners and decision-makers, and to improve their managerial effectiveness and efficiency. The module will require students to draw on knowledge and techniques previously gained throughout their course, including marketing, management science and organisational behaviour, finance and accounting, and economics.
Entry Requirement
English Entry Requirement