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Master of Business Administration (MBA)

2025-26

This course is eligible for Master's loan funding. Find out more.

Start date

22 September 2025

Duration

1 year full-time
2 years part-time

Places available (subject to change)

70

About the course

Studying for the Huddersfield MBA will help you realise your ambitions, become a more effective, responsible leader, develop a strategic and global management perspective and improve your communication skills. Our MBA has an overarching focus on responsible leadership, which engenders the need to take a multiple stakeholder perspective. The course aims to develop in you, an integrated and critically aware understanding of responsible management and organisations and necessary skills to prepare you for effective roles within organisations. It offers four areas of knowledge and skill development: * Professional developments to be a responsible leader * Responsible leadership and people management in an organisation * Responsible leadership in a changing environmental and societal context * Strategy development and innovation for fulfilling value propositions

Inspirational and supportive tuition, exposure to the latest management thinking and the benefits of mixing with and learning from other talented students for the duration of the programme will help equip you for senior management roles.

An MBA qualification is a globally recognised postgraduate management qualification that is highly valued by employers. Studying our MBA will help you to achieve your personal goals, become a valuable asset to your organisation and help improve your chances of climbing the career ladder. Alternatively, you may choose to use your MBA to explore and redefine your ambitions and change your career direction.

Course detail

Strategic Financial Decisions Analysis

The module provides opportunity to develop a systematic understanding of the purposes and uses of financial information, together with the ability to use quantitative skills to improve performance management and strategic financial decision making within an organisation. The module is designed for non-specialists in finance and will help in understanding the main finance and accounting empirical concepts, including risk analysis, transparency of financial information, and strategic financial decisions. Such topics are relevant to different types of organisations including the public sector since the public sector increasingly embraces the private sector.

Strategic Marketing
People Matter
Responsible Leadership and Systemic Risk Management For Business
Strategic Management and Innovation
Professional and Personal Excellence (PROPEL 1)
Professional and Personal Excellence (PROPEL 2)
Business Economics
Business-Research Project

Entry requirements

Entry requirements for this course are normally:

  • You should have an Honours degree (2:2 or above) in any subject or an equivalent professional qualification.
  • In addition you would need at least two years' relevant work or managerial experience.
  • Applicants with other professional qualifications and/or experience will be considered individually.
  • Advanced entry onto the programme would be possible for suitably qualified applicants. In such cases the University’s standard regulations and processes for accreditation of prior learning (APL) will apply.

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.

Your career


**Percentage of graduates from the School of Business, Education and Law who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 21/22, UK domiciled graduates).

91.3%** Graduates employed

Student support

At the University of Huddersfield, you'll find support networks and services to help you get ahead in your studies and social life. Whether you study at undergraduate or postgraduate level, you'll soon discover that you're never far away from our dedicated staff and resources to help you to navigate through your personal student journey. Find out more about all our support services.

Important information

Although we always try and ensure we deliver our courses as described, sometimes we may have to make changes for the following reasons