The Accelerated MBA programme is aimed at high achievers who are adept at juggling their professional and personal commitments, and relish the challenge of fitting concentrated, part-time study into their busy schedules.
If you can rise to the challenge you will find yourself among like-minded executives, many of whom are CEOs, consultants, directors and senior managers of major global companies, who will greatly enhance your learning experience.
With a focus on leadership, innovation and internationalism, the Accelerated MBA will help you stay abreast of changes in technology, management theory and environmental issues and give you the skills and understanding to be a future leader in the fast-moving global workplace.
Each module workshop is delivered as a three-day residential workshop at Manchester Business School in the United Kingdom, with students typically attending two modules each trimester. Workshops typically run back to back from a Saturday through to a Thursday.
Invaluable networking opportunities
These workshops provide students with an invaluable opportunity to network with fellow business professionals. The academics who teach on the programme also enrich the student learning experience, providing direct instruction on the subject area whilst allowing experience to be gained in group co-operation, presentations and interactions.
High quality and interactive
The number of delegates in each workshop session is kept deliberately low, typically 15-30, to maintain their high quality and interactive nature. Workshop sessions are delivered by the same senior faculty who teach on the Full Time MBA programmes.
The sessions offer a minimum of 150 hours contact each year, more direct contact than many part-time on-campus programmes. Workshops are a prescribed element of the course and attendance to the workshops is mandatory.
The Manchester Global MBA includes extensive project work throughout; it comprises of three key elements all based around the Manchester Method, to allow students to put the skills they have learnt into practical issues in the business environment. During each of the project stages you will be assigned a project supervisor.
Group internal project
The first group internal project will be a project with relatively well defined parameters. This will act as an important introduction to many aspects of future project work, such as the available e-learning tools, familiarisation with colleagues, the dynamics of group work and the overall concept of the Manchester Method itself. This group project will be undertaken with groups made up of a diverse range of students from different nationalities while set within a safer, more restricted project environment.
Group business simulation
This is where you put your learning and experience into practice. Working in small groups of four to six people, you will carry out a challenging business simulation project based on real issues faced by today's organisations.
The business simulation is designed to test your team-working, communication, leadership and negotiation skills to the limit. As part of a group you will take over a fictional company competing in a growth market and work to maximise its share price by the end of the project. Based on challenges faced by genuine companies, the business simulation gives you the chance to improve your management skills by making decisions and taking risks in a way you wouldn't normally have the opportunity to do in real life.
Live company project
Working in their selected groups, the students will experience a full live company project, and through the use of the blended learning model they will mimic as close as possible a real working environment. Students will interact amongst themselves as a group and with the external company employees through email, discussion groups, video conferencing and face to face meetings, while conducting their own personal research and studies.
Students enrolled on the Manchester Global MBA will be assessed on the basis of examinations and continuous assessment, the latter comprising of two assignments at set points:
Assignments - 50%
Each course will be assessed on the basis of two pieces of assignments, contributing 50% to the overall course mark. These assignments will either be on the basis of two individual pieces of written work, or one individual written assignment coupled with an assessed group assignment during the residential workshops.
The assessment method is determined by each individual course director and is based on optimising the student learning experience and reflection process - students will be informed of the assessment method for each module at the start of each trimester.
Exams - 50%
A three hour open book* examination, forms an integral part of our MBA programme and carries 50% weighting towards the assessment of each course. Manchester Business School Worldwide operates a global network of exam centres, enabling students to take their exams at one of the many exam venues we have worldwide.
*A limited number of courses will not be open book.
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