Management for Business Excellence (MSc)

Course overview

The framework for the Management for Business Excellence degree is the EFQM Excellence Model, a globally recognised model created to help organisations develop towards the achievement of sustainable excellence. The model was originally developed to increase the competitiveness of European businesses in response to global competition. It has now been adopted globally, and is instrumental in supporting thousands of businesses world-wide in their ‘journey to excellence’, helping them to manage change, improve performance, and develop a culture of innovation.

This course is applicable to any field of industry. It is suitable for people who want to be challenged in the way they think about effective management and the improvement of processes to optimise output quality. In WMG we achieve this through structured problem-solving and a dynamic learning environment through using case-studies to explore employer motivation and business culture.

Management for Business Excellence all about understanding how organisations can effectively work towards stakeholder-based goals; it takes a holistic look at organisations, the inter-relationships between departments within them, and how to optimise the use of available assets and resources. Typically students will have a background in engineering, business, management, finance, or economics, but MBE is open and beneficial to graduates from any academic discipline.

Designed to deliver a detailed understanding of the philosophies, strategies, processes and techniques that enable change and deliver business excellence, this course will provide you with a distinctly different learning experience. With a focus on critical autonomy, you will make active choices about what you wish to learn and how best to achieve your learning objectives; all this will be facilitated by our expert MBE course tutors.

Teamwork plays a central role throughout the course. By working collaboratively with your international colleagues, you’ll develop a rich, global perspective. Through classroom simulations, you’ll generate credible and practical solutions to real-business problems. Most importantly, you’ll learn to think critically about topics and issues that come to the fore; challenging views and growing both as an individual and as a leader of business.

Warwick welcomes applications with good degrees from respected universities in Jordan.

From Jordan, for Postgraduate Taught courses, we would typically require a 4-year bachelors degree from a recognised institution for entry, with the following equivalencies:

If you need any advice or guidance on the qualifications above, our Middle East and North Africa Team are here to help. Contact them at mena@warwick.ac.uk.

See our Jordan Country Information page for guidance, contacts and upcoming events in your country.

Your career

As a graduate of this course, you will learn to successfully drive change within an organisation and deliver business excellence from a whole-company perspective. The broad skillset gained will allow you to become an effective leader, able to make key decisions on business improvement by optimising resources and assessing the impact of your decisions across an organisation.

Following graduation, you can expect to develop your career within consultancy, management, or business development. Many of our graduates have been employed in roles such as:

• Management Consultant
• Quality Manager
• Business Development Manager
• New Product Development Manager
• Process Improvement Engineer
• Quality Assurance Manager
• HR Manager
• Customer Service Manager
• Senior Planner
• Business Solutions Architect

As the set of skills learned on this course can be applied to businesses across sectors, our graduates have secured positions with a very diverse set of employers, some examples of which you can find below:

• Banking (World Bank Group, Bank of China, Worldpay, HSBC, CitiBank Brazil)
• Consultancy (Ernst & Young, KPMG)
• Consumer goods (Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, L’Oréal)
• Food and drink (Nestlé, Danone)
• Higher Education (DePaul University, The American University in Cairo)
• IT (Google)
• Logistics (UPS, Kuehne & Nagel)
• Oil and gas (Petrobras, SOCAR)
• Pharmaceuticals (AstraZeneca, Pfizer)
• Technology and manufacturing (Siemens, Philips, Rolls-Royce)
• Transport (Emirates, Network Rail, EasyJet)

Helping you find the right career

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

• Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
• WMG Future Fest
• Options in Engineering sector event
• Careers for Experienced Hires
• Careers in Cyber Security
• Careers in Healthcare
• Careers in Project Management