Why study for an MBA?

The Oxford Brookes MBA educates the business leaders of tomorrow.

Prospects

The Oxford Brookes MBA can boost your career prospects by giving you:

• confidence to operate across all areas of business;
• enhanced capabilities to lead, think and act strategically;
• insight into your leadership style and your strengths and limitations;
• the ability to apply knowledge to your own organisation and many other situations;
• understanding of other areas of the organisation;
• knowledge and expertise to meet the challenges of senior management;
• skills to continue developing and learning;
• help with launching your career, and an alumni network for life.

Employability

The Oxford Brookes MBA can benefit your employer by:

• enhancing your capabilities across a range of areas, eg. marketing, strategic thinking, innovation and change, and people management;
• improving your powers of analysis with the ability to operate at a strategic level and contribute beyond your functional specialism;
• providing a cost-effective management development programme;
• allowing the flexibility to study without regular absence from the workplace;
• presenting the opportunity to gain value for your organisation through your dissertation or consultancy project.

This may help you to make a case to your employer for support with funding for the MBA programme.

Your MBA journey

The programme will also:

• support you through executive coaching or mentoring, to improve your employability and develop new skills (Full-time and Executive modes only);
• give you an understanding of the foundations of management and of different functional perspectives;
• provide you with a framework for the analysis of organisational activity and the application of learning;
• develop your understanding of the strategic and integrative nature of business and management;
• prepare you to take a holistic view of the organisation and its environment;
• extend your leadership capabilities;
• broaden or deepen your knowledge through the electives and your dissertation or consultancy project;
• challenge you by participating in intensive international events where you are exposed to the issues facing businesses in different markets.