The Open University MBA is your catalyst for change. The great advantage of our MBA is that you will gain business acumen and effective leadership skills.
These skills will impact your organisation's business when applied to a broad range of strategic priorities.
The Open University MBA places a powerful emphasis on strategic analysis, interdisciplinary skills, creativity and innovation to deliver both personal career goals and organisational success.
Our MBA provides an executive experience that is founded on a practice-based learning method. This methodology will enable you to learn from your fellow programme members and work colleagues. It is also a proven method to develop the softer skills of leadership and management and develop your personal capability as a leader ready to face the challenges of business in the 21st Century.
Achieve your career ambitions with The Open University MBA:
You can expect to study with individuals from Sweden, Norway, Ireland, India, Malaysia and Singapore. Their ages will range between 25 and 65, with the average being somewhere around 39yrs. The cultural mix is truly global and diverse, significantly enhancing the experience of learning. You will interact with guest speakers and faculty through global online events.
Global Exchange Events are three to five day residential workshops where you are totally immersed in the practical reality of leadership and management in a global context. They take place in different parts of the world to immerse you in different approaches to business. Our Global Walkabout could take you to places as diverse as Kuala Lumpur, Dubai or Oslo. Each city is selected for its representation of a particular business community, cultural ethos and economic history.
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Entry requirements for The Open University MBA:
The Open University MBA will fundamentally improve your knowledge and leadership practice enabling both individuals and organisations to achieve the desired results. In essence, end skills, as a result of studying for the MBA, are about impact - it’s about getting the results you want, in the most efficient way, bringing people along with you on the journey. The experience of people who do our MBA, regardless of their starting point or background, has shown that they consistently add value to their organisations by:
A key feature of The Open University MBA that no other MBA can offer is learning with the embedded Financial Times thought leadership – invaluable to both your business and academic life. As part of this MBA you will receive:
Combining an MBA programme with FT content can help yougain a breadth of knowledge and understanding of global business news, politics and finance that is essential if you are to stand out from the crowd.
In today's turbulent economic climate, the Financial Times is the first place to look for breaking business news, wherever it happens. Many of the world's most influential political and industrial figures, from Warren Buffett to Barack Obama, depend on the FT for unbiased news, incisive comment and in-depth analysis. And with over 500 journalists reporting from 50 countries around the world, it provides unparalleled global business coverage and insight to help them, and you, stay one step ahead.
The price of The Open University MBA is £16,489, when paid in a single payment upfront, and £17,730, when the amount is paid in three installments.
We have a limited number of Merit Bursaries for the MBA programme starting in May 2010. Please do contact us for details.
Unlike a number of leading MBA providers, this fee is fully inclusive, except for travel to and from the Global Exchange Events. Therefore this fee is inclusive of:
Sponsorship means your Employer pays your fees. Over 40% of our MBA participants receive some sponsorship payment for the MBA from their employer. 75% of the FTSE top-100 companies are sponsoring, or have sponsored their staff to study with The Open University.
We have extensive experience of gaining sponsorship from employers, in terms of return on investment business cases. Please contact us to see how we can help you gain full or part sponsorship from your employer.
When you come to The Open University, you join one of the most prestigious centers of learning in the world.
In the 40 years since The Open University was founded, over 350,000 people around the globe have graduated from The UK’s Open University. As the first and original open university, it is recognised for delivering global top-tier education, on a local basis.
At The Open University Business School we offer opportunities for everyone throughout the world to realise their full potential, whatever their educational or financial starting point: we have broken the link between exclusivity and excellence.
We have also taken down the boundaries between the academic and working world with our pioneering and practice-based approach: what is taught one day can be put into action next. We pursue excellence in everything we do, in our internationally recognised research, teaching and delivery methods and we challenge the way professionals and organisations work and learn around the world: we learn from professionals while professionals learn from us.
Some 2,500 organisations work with us at any one time, we are always abreast of trends across the entire spectrum of the key economies.
The Open University Business School is one of the very few Business Schools with quadruple accreditation from AACSB, AMBA and EFMD (EQUIS and CEL) . We have the largest alumni network and programme membership of any triple accredited school worldwide. One in five UK MBA students study with us.
