MBA Executive Leadership

Entry year:
2024/25
Start date:
September, January
Study mode:
Full-time, Distance learning
Course duration:
2 Year
Campus:
Mount Pleasant

Course modules

Discover the building blocks of your programme

Further guidance on modules

Modules are designated core or optional in accordance with professional body requirements, as applicable, and LJMU’s Academic Framework Regulations. Whilst you are required to study core modules, optional modules provide you with an element of choice. Their availability may vary and will be subject to meeting minimum student numbers.

Where changes to modules are necessary these will be communicated as appropriate.

Core modules

Leadership and Strategic Performance
20 credits

This module enables you to develop leadership and strategic performance by:

  • providing an understanding of the external business environment, taking into account global perspectives, governance and accountability as well as social, technological and policy implications.
  • focusing on leadership and communication and bringing opportunities and strengths together
  • enabling you to build strategies which lead to high performance in the working environment

Marketing Context and Relationship Management
10 credits

This module aims to provide an understanding of marketing context and the importance of relationship management by:

  • providing you with an understanding of marketing orientation, its antecedents, and subsequent uses both externally and internally
  • developing your appreciation of the nature of organisational relationships and the importance of managing these effectively

Business Process Excellence
10 credits

This module aims to:

  • enable you to understand the management of the supply network
  • critically evaluate and apply current operational theory and techniques to optimise process excellence

Research Strategies for Practitioners
10 credits

This module enables you to develop a conceptual framework from which research philosophies, strategies and methods associated with leadership business and management can be critically reviewed. You will apply research methods in the strategic leadership/business consultancy project to develop yourself as a reflective, scholarly practitioner.

Strategic Business Consultancy Project
60 credits

This module aims to:

  • enable you to undertake a work-based strategic business consultancy project
  • put into practice the skills and knowledge gained over the duration of your course
  • apply concepts from wider management literature
  • provide you with an the opportunity to conceptualise and propose high performance strategies focusing on growth/sustainable outcomes

Management Basics and Project Management
30 credits

Managing Business Finance and Information
20 credits

Course tutors

Career paths

Further your career prospects

LJMU has an excellent employability record with 96% (HESA 2018) of our postgraduates in work or further study six months after graduation. Our applied learning techniques and strong industry connections ensure our students are fully prepared for the workplace on graduation and understand how to apply their knowledge in a real world context.

Fees and funding

Tuition Fees:

Home fee:
£5,350

Entry requirements

You will need:

Qualification requirements

Alternative qualifications considered

All candidates must be able to demonstrate an ability to benefit from and contribute to the programme. QAA describes the experience requirement for admission to a MBA as "significant post-graduation and relevant ... experience on which the learning process should build". QAA envisages this experience as "at least 2 years with the typical entrant having substantially more than this". Given the nature of learning and the assessment of learning, participants would normally be in a position where they undertake important management decisions, or have been in such a position in a way that supports their learning and assessment. Admission, therefore, to the programme will require a mix of experience, academic development and intellectual aptitude. Admission will normally be by interview, after formal application in order to assess their aptitude for study. As this is a dual award programme and entry onto the this MBA Executive Leadership programme with the Masters in Engineering (IPM) (MEng IPM) at Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart (HfT) Stuttgart the intended students profile will reflect the need for a first degree professional Qualification (e.g. architect, quantity surveyor, project manager) and professional experience in this field. Mature entry The course team has a strong commitment to widening participation and positively welcomes non-standard applicants. Candidates with significant management experience (>2 years) and a demonstrated aptitude for study can be accepted without previous experience of higher education however a professional qualification is a requirement of entry onto this dual award programme with HfT Stuttgart (e.g. architect, quantity surveyor, project manager) in addition to mature students experience. Admission will normally be by interview, after formal application in order to assess their aptitude for study.

International requirements

Other international requirements

Applications where an interview is not possible will need to provide additional evidence of experience and aptitude to study. This will normally be achieved by taking up employment references and a score in the recognised international admissions test for management programmes, GMAT. Where English is not the candidate's first language, or their first degree was not taught and assessed wholly in English, an IELTS score of 6.5 must be achieved, with no individual score of less than 6. The programme complies fully with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.

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