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Why study for an MBA?
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.
"The MBA ... a positive milestone in my career, it has helped open doors I would never have tried before."
Dominic Preston, Western Europe Marketing Manager
for the Microsoft XBox - Full-time MBA graduate.
