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Enrich your career and combine study and full-time work with the Aston Executive MBA. Learn through flexible online materials and workshops, as well as weekend residentials and apply new skills and knowledge straight away in your role.
Location: Aston University, Birmingham
The Aston Executive part-time MBA is the next chapter in your career. Whether your ambition is to lead in international organisations or start something closer to home, the course will hone your strategic thinking, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial perspective.
The best leaders have mastered the art of decision making and action based on critical thinking. The Aston Executive MBA will encourage you to think like a business leader from the start, teach you how to reflect on your career, perceive emerging opportunities, and develop a growth mindset. You will become enterprising in everything you do.
Discover cutting-edge leadership concepts and frameworks and put them into practice with applied exercises and real-life business projects. Youll develop your ability to inspire and lead enterprises and be a force for positive change within organisations.
Well help you to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and master the art of critical analysis and strategic thinking. This will allow you to perceive opportunities and overcome complex commercial challenges in your career.
The Aston Executive MBA is made up ofcore modules, an optional module, and a business project taughtover a 24-month period. Core modules will equip you with a thorough knowledge of key business and management issues needed for modern day business.
Crafting Organisational Strategy
You will learn to link strategy theory and practice to develop your skills as a strategic, innovative and entrepreneurial thinker and doer. Youll also develop your understanding of how to use financial analysis for strategic decision-making.
Creating and Delivering Customer Value
Youll learn and put into practice the key concepts and theories in marketing strategy and management, including how to research and understand customer behaviour, innovate for global markets and interpret data to develop marketing strategies.
Measuring and Enhancing Financial Performance
This module will improve your understanding of assessing the financial health of a business. Through a state of the art business simulation, youll work in teams making financial decisions for your shared business while competing against your peers. This simulation is an engaging way to put theory into practice.
Designing and Managing Operations, Systems and Processes
This module aims to provide an understanding of the role of operations management and how it contributes to the development and implementation of business competitiveness and efficiency.
The Aston Edge
The Aston Edge programme is delivered alongside the core curriculum and is our way of providing you with professional self-development skills to equip you with the skills and experience needed to succeed in today's global business environment. You'll learn leadership, team working, confidence, presentation skills, and much more through a programme of workshops and business simulations. Find out more
Business Project*
The course concludes with a major business project that gives you the opportunity to design your own learning experience to fit your own area of interest. This project acts as a springboard for your future career and as such, you can complete it in a number of ways.
*Business project can be a consultancy project on behalf of a client or your organisation, business plan for your own business, or industry/themed research project. Project type is subject to availability.
Select one optional module:
Accreditation is a stamp of quality and prestige for a business school and its programmes.Aston is proud to be among 1% of business schools worldwide withtriple accreditation.
To be accepted onto our programmes, you must be able to satisfy the University's English language requirements. The level required will depend on the programme you are applying for. We strive to make your application process as easy as possible, however in all cases we reserve the right to request an English language qualification and / or conduct an interview.
We accept a wide range of English language qualifications including:
Well teach you the ropes so you can make it to the top. Our comprehensive career management programme is designed to boost your employability and help you take the next step, whether thats in a new role, a change of career or launching a start-up.
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Whilst investment banking and management consultancy have long been regarded as typical MBA careers, the list of companies who now hire MBA graduates is extensive. Roles that our recent MBA Graduates have gone into include:
Jonathan Carter Morris, Co-founder, Caviar & Chips
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Tuition Fee
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