Master of Business Administration (The Liverpool MBA) University of Liverpool

Overview

The  Master of Business Administration (The Liverpool MBA) programme from University of Liverpool focuses on enhancing your understanding of the interplay of organisation dynamics—people, power, politics and systems—and on gaining new analytical skills to identify, dissect and solve complex business problems. We also focus on you as a leader and the development of your personal capabilities to lead and drive change.

Key Features

The MBA programme:

• Helps build your strategic leadership capabilities and the ability to make and communicate connections across complex ideas
• Exposes you to the key dilemmas facing organisations in advancing technological development and economic growth, while balancing issues of sustainability, social responsibility and stakeholder management
• Develops your creativity and critical thinking skills, as well as self-awareness, emotional/social intelligence and interpersonal skills

Through compulsory and optional modules, the programme will expose you to core management and leadership challenges, including:

• Designing and implementing strategy
• Using the power of data analysis to anticipate, rather than follow
• Building and investing in teams and allocating organisational resources
• Innovating in processes, platforms and culture
• Navigating the politics of power
• Leading with presence and authenticity

Career prospects

The MBA Career and Professional Development Programme is designed to enrich your MBA journey by challenging your thinking about your own professional, career and leadership development. Active participation in the Programme will deepen your awareness of yourself, your strengths, motivations and aspirations, and support you in confidently articulating and leveraging your MBA with impact and influence.

Networking is a central part of the MBA journey, network with peers, MBA Alumni and Guest Speakers. The Programme enhances professional networking skills both in person and virtually.

Careers support doesn’t end when you graduate from your MBA programme. You are a lifelong member of the MBA community and we encourage you to stay connected and in turn become mentors to the next generation. You will also benefit from access to a wide range of careers and professional development support, advice and webinars up to five years after you’ve graduated.

In practice, the Career and Professional Development Programme offers:

• Full psychometric profiling and feedback
• A personal career development plan
• Unlimited access to support throughout the year and up to five years after graduation
• Access to a Mentoring Programme, connecting with leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators who will inspire and guide you

• Support with interviews, CVs and job applications.

Recent graduates are working within Liverpool, the North- West and across the world at:

• Accenture
• Airtel
• Arab Bank
• Bank of America
• Barclays
• Capgemini
• CitiusTech
• Cummins
• CSL Seqirus
• Deloitte
• Deutsche Bank
• Dubai Cable Company
• Goldman Sachs
• Hewlett-Packard
• Jaguar Land Rover
• KPMG
• Lloyds TSB/Capita groups
• Oracle
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Proctor & Gamble
• PwC
• Saudi Aramco
• Skye Bank PLC