Loughborough University has been a successful provider of
Part-Time MBAs for over 25 years, supporting many people to add
value to their organisations and progress their careers. Now the
School of Business and Economics is launching two new MBAs to
complement its existing AMBA-accredited Part-Time programme: the
Full-Time Loughborough MBA and the International Sports Management
MBA. All three are designed to equip students with the skills and
knowledge to manage in today's increasingly complex business
environment and to step up to the challenges of tomorrow.
The cutting edge programmes aim to develop forward-looking
leaders capable of addressing the real issues that organisations
face and of generating solutions that benefit both their
stakeholders and the wider community.
Embedded across all three MBAs is a focus on "real life"
management and students get the chance to work with organisations
to address real problems. Programme director Stuart West said: "The
launch of two new MBAs this year to complement our successful
Part-Time programme comes at a time when the world is facing both
tremendous economic challenges and paradigm shifts in the way we do
business. Loughborough aims to give its students the tools to
manage in this vastly different world: the tools to manage scarcity
to competitive advantage; to enable sustainable growth; to
understand alternate forms of ownership and governance through
social enterprise and mutuals."
"We want our graduates to stand out from the crowd and be
equipped to succeed in facing challenges of the future," he added.
"After all, why study the MBA that addresses yesterday's problems
when you can study one that addresses tomorrow's?"
Of course, the Masters in Business Administration (MBA) has long
been the programme of choice for successful working professionals
with seeking to take their career to the next level. Research shows
that an MBA qualification can boost salaries and help people
advance to senior management positions. But the Loughborough MBA is
designed to help students add lasting value to their organisations
and to foster innovation and enterprise in the development of
networks, products and services
The Full-Time Loughborough MBA is primarily aimed at students
wishing to obtain a world-class MBA within one year. Like the
Part-Time programme, the MBA develops core management skills with a
practical, commercially-relevant focus.
While both programmes feature the Managing Innovation module,
unique in the UK, which enables students to work alongside
technologists in the commercialisation of new products and
services, the Full-Time MBA goes further with a Managing Enterprise
summer school. The experience represents a golden opportunity for
students work with innovators to create a start-up of their
own.
Also launching in 2012 is the International Sports Management
MBA. Targeted at those seeking career development in today's
rapidly expanding global sports industry, this new MBA gives
participants the chance to access expertise and insight from the
UK's No.1 university for sport. Designed to develop the
sports leaders of tomorrow, the programme covers the fundamentals
of business and management from a sports perspective with modules
on governance and sports technology unique in the UK.
The launch of these two new MBAs comes in landmark year that has
seen the School of Business and Economics achieve Top-10 rankings
and EQUIS accreditation, and will see Loughborough University will
take a prominent role in the London 2012 Games as the official
preparation camp headquarters for Team GB.