MBA Week: The MBA at Leeds Business School

IN the final part of our week-long series examining MBAs, TheBusinessDesk.com looks at studying the qualification at Leeds Business School.

MBA study at Leeds Business School takes place at the University’s landmark Rose Bowl building in the heart of Leeds making the latest facilities available to its students and putting it within easy reach of the city’s business districts and transport links to the rest of the region.

All students complete modules on marketing, human resources, finance and strategy with students able to shape their other study options to suit their needs and goals.

Successfully completing the MBA at Leeds Business School also automatically makes graduates eligible for three qualifications from the Chartered Management Institute including the diploma in management consultancy.

“There’s a mixture of learning methods and styles,” says Rachel Banfield, associate dean at the Leeds Business School.

“The beauty of the MBA is it is delivered to people in employment so that learning can be shaped around their experiences and they share and learn from others as part of the whole learning process so there will be an element of group work, of presentation and then there will be some more exam-based work.

“It’s a holistic mixture but it’s not a one size fits all.”

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The course also reflects individuals in terms of the prior experience they bring to the MBA. Credits are available for students who can demonstrate relevant previous experience worth two-thirds of the MBA course.

As part of its broader offering, Leeds Business School delivers courses on behalf of the Institute of Directors and Leeds Business School’s understanding of the demands at the higher levels of companies feeds into the experience of MBA students.

“One of the advantages we have is we can provide a boardroom focus,” says Nick Beech, head of the centre for director education at Leeds Business School.

“So we’re not just asking about the strategy you might employ in a business but also how are you going get this through a boardroom that may have its own agendas.

“This may particularly apply in a situation where you have a holding company there may be subsidiary companies that  have competing interests and you have to navigate that.”

Leeds Business School offers MBAs and Executive MBAs on a part and full-time basis with students expected to take two years to complete the course on a part-time basis. Employers will often support students with the costs of the course and releasing them to attend but those funding themselves can make payments in instalments.

Find the Leeds Business School prospectus at http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/study/postgraduate.htm.