The Strathclyde MBA is a pioneering MBA. The first of its kind in the UK, it was designed as a comprehensive and integrated program, and has continually evolved since 1966. Quality has been key throughout. The University insists on the highest standards of education and the students it enrols are of the highest calibre. These are matched by a university with a reputation for teaching and research excellence, and one of the most modern, integrated MBA programs in the world.
Post Graduate and Post Experience
The Strathclyde MBA is post graduate and post experience. We feel that to appreciate the context within which the latest business thinking is taught students should already be practiced in managerial life. It is designed to allow students to immediately turn theory into practice and involves local and international businesses throughout.
Benefits of Strength...
The Strathclyde Business School uniquely brings a holistic and integrative perspective to management education with general and strategic management as the "spine" of Strathclyde's MBA. Management subjects are brought together within a powerful framework of strategic analysis and process.
... and Diversity
The Strathclyde MBA has a beginning, a middle and an end. It evolves throughout the course of the student's academic experience beginning with managerial basics, expanding to encompass a strategic and international business orientation and then allowing students to steer their learning into areas of managerial study and choose from the widest range of specialisms of their own choice.
Foremost in Business & Management Skills
The Strathclyde MBA promises to develop in students a much deeper understanding of current business and management issues. It gives them a new range of managerial skills and techniques. Beyond just learning the language and jargon of modern business and management, students will be empowered with a sound understanding of the fundamentals. Depending on options chosen students can increase their specialist knowledge in areas as diverse as e-commerce, management consulting, finance and supply chain management.
An International Learning Experience
The Strathclyde MBA allows students to acquire a wide range of business and management knowledge and personal managerial skills. This is achieved through varied means. Teaching is by lectures, case studies, tutorials, role playing exercises, skills building workshops and business simulations. Student learning is assessed by a combination of examinations, coursework and presentations. Experience of working in groups and collaborative study as well as working on individual assignments and exam preparation makes for a very healthy and unique international learning experience.
Personal Development
All students on the Strathclyde MBA gain through greater self-awareness and resilience. They often speak of their confidence boost and the ability to tackle upper management board level issues head on , new problems at work and to significantly develop their careers.