Why Choose Lincoln
Study Part-Time While Working
Gain Chartered Manager Status
Learn From Leadership and Management Experts
Address real world challenges
Network With Your Professional Peers
Military Personnel May Use ELCs to Fund Studies
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Course Overview
The MBA Leadership is designed for professionals from all industries who want to develop their knowledge and understanding of leadership, management, and business strategy. The programme combines academic study with practical application, enabling you to explore current approaches to leadership and apply them within your professional context.
Delivered part-time through a flexible hybrid format, the programme provides an opportunity to build on your existing experience while developing the skills and knowledge required to lead effectively across a range of organisational contexts. The MBA also provides the opportunity to gain Chartered Manager status through the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
Programme Start Dates
| Academic Year | Course Start Date |
|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 26th Oct 2026 |
How You Study
As a part-time degree programme designed with professionals in mind, the MBA Leadership is ideal for students who wish to advance their careers by studying for a Master's degree while remaining in their current employment. This is achieved through a hybrid delivery format, which allows students to attend in-person or online via Microsoft Teams.
The programme draws upon critical action learning, which aims to promote a deeper understanding of the realities of situations through collective as well as individual reflection, considering the tensions, contradictions, emotions, and power dynamics that exist within a group and an individual manager's life. Through the use of action learning sets, students can combine action learning with critical thinking and critical management learning.
Fees and Funding
| Academic Year | Fees |
|---|---|
| 2026/2027 | £11,750 |
Military personnel may use ELCs to fund their studies.
If you have completed an undergraduate degree programme with the University of Lincoln, you may be eligible for an alumni scholarship of up to 20%. Please check your eligibility on our website's Scholarships and Bursaries page here.
Modules
Module Overview
This module examines corporate governance and the financial health of organisations, developing key skills to support good governance, effective risk management, control systems, and stakeholder dialogue throughout an organisation. It provides an overview of the role of boards and directors in corporate governance and aims to develop an understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in governance from sub-national government level to the international arena.
The module aims to develop students who understand and appreciate the importance of going beyond financial information and supporting good ethical business practices to help companies sustain long-term success. It also evaluates techniques to manage AI and cybersecurity risks within the student's own organisation and the wider environment.
Module Overview
This module aims to provide students with the experience of pursuing an independent in-depth study and investigation. This can involve identifying a topic to research, defining the scope of the study, assessment of resource requirements, project management, and range of other skillsets. The module encourages students to compare and contrast their work with that of others working in similar disciplines and enables students to develop multi-disciplinary skills in researching, organising, and presenting relevant information in verbal and written form and applying that information in practice.
Module Overview
This module equips students with an in-depth understanding of how to effectively lead and develop both people and teams. It supports students in the development of becoming a reflective leader and team member, promoting inclusive and empowering organisational cultures, in different organisational structures. Carefully designed module tasks and autonomous research, will support self-awareness of the impact of behaviours that underpin leadership and team working. This self-awareness will support the development of these skills in these areas, including developing the student’s emotional intelligence, and the skill of critical reflection supporting them to manage their own and others learning, development and performance.
Students will be equipped with in-depth knowledge of how to effectively engage their teams through strategically planned coaching, mentoring and feedback processes. Students will gain knowledge on ethical and value-driven approaches that support multiple and diverse stakeholders in driving effective decision making and organisational change.
Following completion of this module, students will have increased confidence in evaluating and integrating a range of strategic workforce development and planning tools and techniques into their managerial and leadership practice.
Module Overview
The Strategic Leadership module sees the students studying the purpose and activity of strategic leaders within an organisation. This module discusses the theory, practise, and individual experiences of those trying to design and deliver strategies. This module reviews the principles of strategy to understand how they can can be developed to meet the needs and objectives of the organisation.
Where possible the content will be anchored in the experiences of the students, depending on their level of prior leadership.
Module Overview
This module will focus on sustainability from the perspectives of organisations, business and management. It will explore the underlying causes of present-day challenges with sustainability at both an organisational and societal level. The module will also address the barriers and enablers associated with bringing about the essential transition to sustainability across industrial sectors and within individual organisations. Students will consider alternative forms of organisation and create solutions for addressing societal and environmental injustice.
† Some courses may offer optional modules. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by staff availability.
Chartered Manager Status
Students who pass all modules and meet Chartered Management Institute learning outcomes will qualify for a Level 7 Diploma with the CMI in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice, and Chartered Manager status, the highest status that can be achieved in the management profession.
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How you are assessed
Assessment methods are based on work-based portfolios that should contain evidence of theory, practice, and reflection. Portfolio assessment will be through a range of formats, such as reports, case studies, reflective learning accounts, presentations, projects, proposals, plans, and practical work-based artefacts with accompanying critical commentary.
The Integrated Research and Consultancy Project forms the final 60 credits of the MBA Leadership and allows students to demonstrate their mastery of business management and leadership in a 'capstone' project for an organisation. It is an individual project in which students can bring together all of their learning to help solve a chosen business problem or challenge. This enables students to combine elements of learning from different parts of the MBA Leadership to demonstrate their accumulated knowledge and understanding of management and its application to an organisation through synoptic assessment.
The University of Lincoln's policy on assessment feedback aims to ensure that academics will return in-course assessments to students promptly - usually within 15 working days of the submission date.
Entry Requirements 2026-27
Entry Requirements
Each applicant will be assessed individually. Minimum entry requirements are a mixture of academic qualifications and professional experience. The baseline for entry is Maths and English GCSCs at level two, or Grade C and above. Applicants must be employed in a managerial capacity with a minimum of 2 years' experience.