Business Administration (Executive) MBA

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Location

Stoke-on-Trent campus

Learn how to become an effective senior leader and put innovation and strategic thinking at the heart of your day-to-day practice.

Our Executive MBA is designed for professionals who are already part of a senior management team or aspire to take on a high level position. With flexible, part-time delivery, you can fit the course round your busy schedule and tailor your assignments to your own workplace.

You will be able to draw on the wide expertise of our well-established Business School. And as key employers across the public and private sectors will be in the same room, it will be an ideal opportunity for you to network and share perspectives. As well as learning alongside top minds and influential peers, you’ll look inwards to consider how you will lead and succeed.

The Executive MBA covers strategic decision-making, managing people and culture, project management, organisational performance and how to harness creativity and innovation to achieve competitive advantage.

You will spend three days each semester attending face-to-face sessions on campus. The rest of the time involves structured online learning, independent study and work-based reflection. There will also be a dissertation focusing on an aspect of your own leadership and management, such as researching a business problem and coming up with a solution.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: MBA Business Administration (Executive)

Course content

The course will develop your knowledge, skills, and behaviours similar to an apprenticeship, helping you to upskill and gain confidence for senior leadership roles. The course combines online flexibility with face-to-face on-campus sessions, and would be ideal for mature professionals and part-time students with busy schedules. It will also appeal to those not eligible for apprenticeship funding, and MOD personnel seeking global access to education during deployments.

Overall, this MBA is tailored to meet the needs of mature professionals and part-time students, providing a flexible, practical, and career-focused learning experience.

Modules

The tables provide an indicative list of the modules that make up the course for the current academic year. Each module is worth a specified number of credits. Our teaching is informed by research, and modules change periodically to reflect developments in the discipline. We aim to ensure that all modules run as scheduled. If for any reason a module cannot be run we will advise you as soon as possible and will provide guidance on selecting an appropriate alternative module.

Year 1 compulsory modules
Innovation And Change 20 credits
Managing People And Culture 20 credits
Show 2 optional modules
Year 2 compulsory modules
Organisational Performance 40 credits
Project Management 60 credits

Entry requirements

For equivalent entry requirements in your home country, please see the information on our country pages.

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Careers

All students have access to Career Connect, our dedicated careers team.

Teaching and assessment

Learning support

Your course tutors will provide lots of support. But you can also take advantage of our Academic Skills team, who can help you with:

  • Study skills (including reading, note-taking and presentation skills)
  • Written English (including punctuation, grammar)
  • Academic writing (including how to reference)
  • Research skills
  • Critical thinking
  • Revision, assessment and exam skills (including time management)

Additional support

If you have additional needs like dyslexia or a sensory impairment, then our Student Inclusion Services are here to help make sure nothing stands in your way.

Staff

Bharati Singh

Course Director

Bharati is the Course Leader for the MBA and undergraduate Business Management and Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship courses. She teaches across the undergraduate, postgraduate and professional programmes within the Business School.

Bharati's profile

Fees

For the course starting on 20 October 2025 the tuition fees are:

Study option UK / Channel Islands
Part-time £11,000 per course

If you would like to know more about the fees listed and what this means to you then please get in touch with our Enquiries Team.

Alumni discount

If you have previously completed an undergraduate degree with us, you may be entitled to an alumni discount off your course fee for any subsequent postgraduate taught course. For further information please contact feesandbursaries@staffs.ac.uk.

Accommodation and living costs

Accommodation and living costs are not included in our fees. 

For more information on accommodation and living costs, please see: Accommodation

Sources of financial support

Providing you are studying towards a full Masters qualification you may be able to apply for a postgraduate loan of up to £11,570 to help with tuition fees, maintenance and other associated costs. Student loans are available for many of our postgraduate degrees and are provided by the Student Loans Company (SLC). The loan can cover a wide range of postgraduate study options; part-time, full-time and distance learning. 

For more information and how to apply visit masters loan.

Apply

Location Award Study option Start date
Stoke-on-Trent campus MBA Part-time, distance learning 20 October 2025 Apply now

Rules and regulations

If you are offered a place at University of Staffordshire, your offer will be subject to our rules, regulations and enrolment conditions, which may vary from time to time.

Students of University of Staffordshire enter into a contract with us and are bound by these rules and regulations, which are subject to change. For more information, please see: University Policies and Regulations. 

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Business Administration MBA

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