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Providing graduates with the professional skills and business knowledge to pursue a career in business

Overview

Our intensive, Two-year full-time MBA combines academic rigour and practical relevance.

There is a careful balance between teaching, learning, individual work and group work. Case study methodology and class-based discussions are used to strengthen your conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills. There are also regular seminars held by expert guest speakers.

Your analytical, innovative and entrepreneurial skills will be challenged and stretched, and the selection of projects available allow you to apply your learning to real-world situations.

Key information

Duration : 1 year full-time

Start date : September 2022

Location : South Kensington

ECTS: 90 credits

Study programme

You will complete pre-study modules to equip you with the basic knowledge and skills required for the programme. You are required to pass these modules, but they are not formally assessed.

Core modules begin in the autumn term and continue throughout the academic year. All students follow the same programme for these initial months and cover key concepts in business.

During the spring and summer terms, you choose optional modules to study. Optional modules allow you to shape the programme to your own ambitions and specialise in the areas of business that interest you the most or suit your career ambitions.

The programme includes a number of integrative modules that bring learning together, allowing you to develop by putting into practice what you have covered in the core modules. These include the Global Experience Week, Capstone Week, Business Simulation, Innovation Challenge, Consulting Project or Entrepreneurial Journey, and a final individual project or internship report.

Our optional exchange programme is a great opportunity to network internationally whilst taking advantage of specialised optional moduless at one of our partner schools. You can choose to travel to another business school and learn from their expert faculty, or join one of their abroad tours and build your network in another country.

Careers

You have access to personalised support from the Business School’s Career and Professional Development Service throughout the programme.

The combination of your enhanced professional skills, strong understanding of business, and numerous opportunities to network with leading experts from the business world will help you pursue your ideal role in business.

Professional accreditation

We are among a handful of business schools worldwide to achieve triple accreditation:

Structure

Modules shown are for the current academic year and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.

      Please note that the curriculum of this programme is currently being reviewed as part of a college-wide process to introduce a standardisedmodular structure . As a result , the content and assessment structures of this course may change for your year of entry . We therefore recommendthat you check this course page before fnalising your application and after submitting it as we will aim to update this page as soon as anychanges are ratihed by the College .

Please note that the curriculum of this programme is currently being reviewed as part of a College-wide process to introduce a standardised modular structure. As a result, the content and assessment structures of this course may change for your year of entry. We therefore recommend that you check this course page before finalising your application and after submitting it as we will aim to update this page as soon as any changes are ratified by the College.

Find out more about the limited circumstances in which we may need to make changes to or in relation to our courses, the type of changes we may make and how we will tell you about changes we have made.

Core modules
Non-assessed modules
Optional modules
Project

You study all of the core modules below.

  • Accounting

  • Business Economics

  • Organisational Behaviour

  • Business Problem Solving

  • Corporate Finance

  • Marketing

  • Strategy

  • Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving

  • Decision Analytics

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • Investments and Risk Management

  • Macroeconomics

  • Operations

  • European Business Insights Trip (see below)

  • Induction

  • Personal Ethics and Core Values

Pre-study modules

  • Accounting Primer

  • Data Analysis Primer

  • Finance Primer

  • Introduction to Corporate Sustainability, Social Innovation and Ethics

  • Maths Primer

  • Plagiarism Awareness

  • Study Skills

Business Insights in Europe

During your MBA journey you will visit a key European city* to learn about international business practices in Europe. You will have the opportunity to visit top companies and learn about the cultural and economic ecosystem of Europe outside of your London classroom. This activity is one of your non-assessed core course elements.

* subject to Covid-19 travel restrictions

You choose six modules from below.

  • Advanced Strategy

  • Alternative Investments

  • Banking and FinTech: Strategies and Challenges

  • Big Data, AI and Machine Learning

  • Brand Management

  • Breakout Strategy

  • Building and Managing Reputations During Good Times and Bad

  • Business Analytics

  • Clean Technology Investment

  • Climate Change and Business Strategy

  • Consumer Behaviour

  • Contemporary Financial Accounting

  • Design for Business Transformation

  • Digital Business

  • Digital Business Model Design

  • Digital Transformation: leading real-world change

  • Economics of Information and IP

  • Energy Business

  • Entrepreneurial Finance

Integrative modules

  • Capstone Week

  • Consulting Project or Entrepreneurial Journey

  • Global Experience Week

  • Imperial Innovation Challenge

  • Perspectives on Practice: Project or Internship Report

Capstone Week

This is the final week of your studies where you have the opportunity to celebrate your achievement and continue to apply your MBA learning. You experience a mix of case studies, poster sessions and a conference aimed at consolidating your MBA experience.

Global Experience Week

You will travel to another country to view business in an international context.

Imperial Innovation Challenge

Business must ask – how can our insight and imagination transform society? The Imperial Innovation Challenge tasks you to solve this question. Through this one-week learning laboratory, you will apply innovating thinking to complex international issues and generate business solutions. Working in groups, you will use business model innovation to create economic disruption with positive environmental and social effects. By the end of the project, you will display critical knowledge of skills related to the management of innovation and understand how to articulate the importance of sustainable business model innovation in addressing global challenges.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching methods

  • Case studies

  • Equipment/technique demonstrations (e,g, Bloomberg, Datasteam)

  • Formal presentations

  • Group work exercises

  • Interactive content including video and module quizzes

  • Lectures

  • On-line discussion forums

  • On-line lecture materias

  • Practical classes and field work

  • Pre-programme VLE modules

  • Seminars

  • Work Placement Opportunity

  • Workshops

Assessment methods

  • Case studies

  • Continuous assessments

  • Essays

  • Formal Presentations

  • Multiple Choice Tests

  • Participation

  • Reports

  • Written Examinations / Tests

A pass mark in the language component of the programme will be part of the assessment.

Exchange opportunities

There are exchange opportunities available to MBA students. You are able to apply to take a number of module credits at one of the partner institutions listed below.

Exchange partners:

Entry requirements

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Minimum academic requirement

Our minimum requirement is GPA 2.1 in a highly quantitative subject.

You are also required to have a well-researched career plan with clear short and long term goals.

English language requirement

All candidates must demonstrate a minimum level of English language proficiency for admission to the College.

For admission to this course, you must achieve the IELTS 6.0 or TOFEL 80 English language qualification.