Master of Business Administration - Business Administration (MBA)

The Brunel MBA is a one year full-time course with three pathway options: The Brunel MBA, The Brunel MBA (Digital Innovation Management), and The Brunel MBA (Healthcare Management).

The General Management MBA specialisation can help students become a more accomplished manager all-round. From finance to international strategy, harnessing technologies and marketing, this course will help them with senior management decision-making and solving business issues. Brunel support students in identifying their strengths and weaknesses and working with them to help them progress.

The Digital Innovation Management MBA focuses on equipping future leaders and aspiring managers with the toolkit aimed at dealing with technological innovation, vast amounts of digital information, Big Data and using them to make strategic decisions. This matches and reflects upon the increasing digitalisation and the reliance on Big Data as well as the disruptive shifts taking place in the work environment and economy. The course is designed for professionals who work in the IT sector and have an engineering or technical background, as well as entrepreneurs. The Digital Innovation Management MBA has seven core modules (students do not take Operations Management) and two electives: Information Systems in Organisations and Managing Digital Technology and Innovation.

The Healthcare Management MBA focuses on application of knowledge in the healthcare industry and enables students to develop managerial skills to handle real-life business situations in the sector. The MBA (Healthcare Management) course is designed for professionals in the NHS, public health services and outside suppliers and consultancies.

The Career Development Programme is an integral part of students' professional development while they are studying MBA. Landing a top job after completing their MBA is, of course, a key objective, and the Career Development Programme is designed to provide the tools to help them achieve their ambitions. The programme will help them define their career goals and create a personalised career action plan.

Students will have access to one-to-one careers coaching to help them understand what makes them stand out whether it’s their particular management experience and skills or specialist knowledge. Brunel will also help students with their CV, LinkedIn profile, and a professional portfolio as well as providing support in building a career plan, job-hunting, writing applications that get noticed, and brushing up on interview techniques.

As part of the MBA course, Brunel provides an innovative series of Leadership Masterclasses. Sessions will help students with effective ways to present their ideas, the best methods for managing change, negotiating better and resolving conflict, as well as giving deeper insight into cross cultural issues and corporate responsibility.

The Brunel Business School has links to many leading organisations such as Barclays, British Airways, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, IBM, Iraq Energy Institute, Jaguar, Johnson and Johnson, Microsoft, and Xerox. MBA students undertake regular visits to company head offices and representatives from these companies often visit campus as part of the MBA Guest Speaker Series, Let’s Talk Business.

The Graduate Entrepreneur programme allows selected graduates to stay on in the UK and work towards setting up their own business, under a special branch of the Tier 1 Route.

The Brunel MBA is one of a distinguished group of MBA programmes worldwide to have achieved accreditation by both the Association of Masters of Business Administration (AMBA) and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).