Name: 36227 Smart City Leadership MBA
Price: 5350 GBP

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

Course modules

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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, Engagement and People Performance
20 credits

This module's primary objectives are to help students initiate their studies by identifying personal and professional leadership development goals through self-reflection, considering aspects such as personal identity, the social context of leadership with and through others, and evaluating the influence of their business or organizational context on leadership practices. Additionally, the module aims to equip students with the skills required to effectively engage in and manage performance in their surrounding business environment.

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

Digital Business Innovation
10 credits

This module aims to:

enable you to understand digital business
understand how digital technology is reshaping traditional business models
focus on innovation and the development of strategic priorities to deliver business at speed in a digital environment

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

Smart Solutions and Information modelling
20 credits

Smart Resources, Resilience and Sustainable Finance
20 credits

Smart Governance, Citizens and Management
10 credits

Course tutors

Michael Aiello

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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 Smart City Leadership programme with the Masters in Smart City Solutions at Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart (HfT) Stuttgart the intended students profile will reflect the need for a first degree from architecture, urban planning, civil engineering, business administration or management.

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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