The Lincoln International Business School MBA is designed to provide a creative and collaborative learning experience, built around our key values of ethical, sustainable, and responsible management.
Our MBA is tailored to enhance professional and personal leadership development using technical, analytical, and soft skills, which are fundamental to succeeding in today’s business environment. Our MBA follows the UN PRME initiative, engaging with global challenges with passion, enthusiasm, and perseverance through our active research network.
Highlights of the Lincoln International Business School MBA include:
With your career goals in mind, we offer guidance and coaching to help you position yourself through a personalised leadership plan, designed to enable you to trust your judgement and become a strong leader in a complex global environment. We aim to nurture strong and lasting relationships which can provide you with a sense of belonging within our community and one from which can expand your personal network and prospects.
Full-time Duration: 1 year
School: Department of Strategy and Enterprise
Campus: Lincoln Campus [L]
Validation Status: Validated
Lectures and seminars offer the chance to engage and discuss the fundamentals of global business and leadership through workshops and group tutorials. There is flexibility in the scheduling of our timetable that allows class activities, as well as group and independent study.
The project module is designed to provides an introduction to consultancy. Students can engage with a client to conduct a piece of research, relevant to their situation and career aspirations. Students have previously lead Live Consultancy Projects with a number of high profile organisations such as Siemens, British Steel, Dynex, and the YMCA.
The Lincoln International Business School MBA includes leadership development activities as well as negotiation workshops as part of the modules offered in blocks. Through membership of LIBS Connect, students will be able to attend guest lectures from industry speakers and leaders. Previous guest speakers have included University Chancellor Lord Adebowale CBE, BBC Trustee and Non-Executive Director Suzanna Taverne, and the Chief Executive of Siemens pcl Juergen Maier.
MBA study involves a significant proportion of independent study, exploring the material covered in lectures and seminars. As a general guide, for every hour in class students are expected to spend two - three hours in independent study. Taught modules normally have 36 contact hours (lectures, seminars and workshops) per term.
Placements
The programme is structured to support work placement experience during your study. Students will be encouraged to apply for a short work placement during the academic year.
Please note that students are required to cover their own accommodation, travel, and general living expenses while undertaking a placement.
The Group Consultancy Project module is designed to expose students to a real-world experience and business issues. You will have the chance to develop consultancy skills which can also have a positive impact on your CV and demonstrable work experience to also support career advancement.
Business Economics (Core)
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Students have the chance to explore issues relating to industrial organisation, including competition policy and merger activity. Beyond this, the module explores how the State guides resources and might inject competition into a public sector industry, by introducing quasi markets.
Global Supply Strategies (Core)
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This module will examine global supply chain strategies in detail by looking at both those strategies that have been successful as well as those that have been less successful. Students can examine contemporary phenomena such as offshoring, supply chain disruptions, innovation and sustainability using a variety of theoretical frameworks. Students can develop not only a better understanding of the challenges of managing global supply chains but also of some of the tools needed to implement effective and responsible global supply chain strategies. Given the strategic importance of global supply chains, an understanding of how to manage them strategically may be invaluable for students entering the job market.
Group Consultancy Project (Core)
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This module aims to further enhance managerial competence and capability by providing the opportunity for students to develop the skills to become competent management consultants. Such competency is highly valued as it can help facilitate internal and external organisational consultancy interventions that add value at both an operational and strategic level.
Managerial Finance (Core)
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This module is intended to give a basic introduction to financial accounting and financial management to enable managers to employ financial tools for decision making. It covers diverse areas such as management accounting, pure finance and accounting and is intended to acquaint a non-specialist with financial managerial skills. Managerial finance commences with basic techniques for costing and break-even analysis and brings in the notion of pricing from a larger viewpoint, namely the market as well as from a strategic management view. Later it touches on financial analysis and budgeting and planning. It then moves on to analysing the sources of finance.
Managing People (Core)
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This module is designed to complement and balance other certificate modules by providing the opportunity for students to explore behavioural aspects of managing people, and themselves in organisational life. We believe people and the way they interact are at the core of management practice in organisational life. The aim of this unit is to provide the chance to develop insights into this belief by working with students and their colleague’s experiences and knowledge in relation to appropriate theory. This aims to develop an enhanced understanding which aims to develop, self awareness, lateral thinking, conceptual capability and reflective practice.
Marketing Management (Core)
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This module aims to inform the critical decisions that need to be taken by business leaders when taking their organisation’s products and services to market, because such decisions directly impact on profitability and shareholder value. The module introduces marketing management to students whose previous studies and current occupations may be very diverse and emphasises the need for a critical and analytical perspective. Students will be introduced to analytical tools, customer behaviour theory and international marketing factors.
Negotiation (Core)
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Negotiations are an essential and fundamental moment in the life of individuals, organizations, institutions, and firms. The module will typically examine the links among negotiation fundamentals, negotiation sub-processes and negotiation contexts. The module will support students in developing their negotiation skills through a review of theories, models and practical exercises.
Organisational Strategy (Core)
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The purpose of this module is to reflect and support the changing agenda for senior managers in organisations and the increasing impact that globalisation is having on the organisational landscape. As the boundaries between the private, public and third sectors become ever more vague, these challenges apply across all sectors and require the ability to lead in times of uncertainty and constrained resources in a way inconceivable only a few years ago.
This module is designed to address this and to support the challenges of strategic management by encouraging and providing the opportunity for students to develop the intellectual and professional acumen needed for the conception and analysis of responsible business strategies in this global turbulent environment.
Research Methods and Design (Core)
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This module aims to prepare students for undertaking the research for their Masters dissertation or project, and other assignments. It is designed to introduce students to the core principles of research design, the research methods they are likely to encounter in their research, the basics of research design and the organisation of independent study.
The MBA Dissertation project (Core)
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The dissertation provides an opportunity to carry out a substantive research project and a platform to demonstrate the ability to investigate and reflect critically on an aspect of business or management theory or practice.
It is designed to allow students to work as an organisational or academic researcher: idea generation, selecting a suitable topic, designing methodology, collecting & analysing data and discussing the findings. The dissertation project aims to have both a practical value as a piece of management research and also be of academic value by combining well-developed theoretical and methodological foundations.
† 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.
All taught modules will be assessed through a variety of assessment methods, including essays, examinations, projects, oral presentations and simulation games. These assessments are designed to develop skills that can be useful for your career.
For the MBA Dissertation, students will have the opportunity to produce a research focussed dissertation of 15,000 – 18,000 words.
The University of Lincoln's policy on assessment feedback aims to ensure that academics will return in-course assessments to you promptly – usually within 15 working days after the submission date.
Highlights of the Lincoln International Business School MBA include:
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| 2019/20 Entry* | |
|---|---|
| Home/EU | £12,600 |
| Home/EU (including Alumni Scholarship reduction)** |
£10,080 |
| International | £16,000 |
| International (Including International Alumni / Global Postgraduate Scholarship £2,000 reduction)** |
£14,000 |
* Academic year September- July
** Subject to eligibility
A Postgraduate Master's Loan can help with course fees and living costs while you study. Individuals** will be able to borrow up to £10,906 for the purpose of completing an eligible postgraduate Master's qualification. The amount available will depend on the start date of your course.
- £10,906, if your course starts on or after 1 August 2019
- £10,609, if your course starts between 1 August 2018 and 31 July 2019
As a postgraduate student you may be eligible for scholarships in addition to those shown above.
Tuition fees for additional activity are payable by the student/sponsor and charged at the equivalent £ per credit point rate for each module. Additional activity includes:
- Enrolment on modules that are in addition to the validated programme curriculum
- Enrolment on modules that are over and above the full credit diet for the relevant academic year
- Retakes of modules as permitted by the Board of Examiners
Exceptionally tuition fees may not be payable where a student has been granted a retake with approved extenuating circumstances.
For further information and for details about funding your study, scholarships and bursaries, please see our Postgraduate Fees & Funding pages [www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/studyatlincoln/postgraduateprogrammes/feesandfunding/].
For each course you may find that there are additional costs. These may be with regard to the specific clothing, materials or equipment required, depending on your course.
With regards to text books, the University provides students who enrol with a comprehensive reading list and you will find that our extensive library holds either material or virtual versions of the core texts that you are required to read. However, you may prefer to purchase some of these for yourself and you will be responsible for this cost.
It is expected that students will have a minimum of two years relevant work experience.
In addition, students whose first language is not English are required to have an English Language qualification of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent.
For information about our English Language Centre, including pre-sessional courses and in-sessional support, please visit:
https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/studywithus/internationalstudents/englishlanguagerequirementsandsupport/
Throughout this degree, students may receive tuition from professors, senior lecturers, lecturers, researchers, practitioners, visiting experts or technicians, and they may also be supported in their learning by other students.
Dr Andy Brookes
Programme Leader
Andy teaches across a range of subjects in the field of business and management at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research area is interorganisational collaboration, particularly in the domain of social problems. He has more than 30 years experience as a manager in a number of organisations across the public and private sector.
Contact: abrookes@lincoln.ac.uk
This course aims to develop essential managerial skills with entrepreneurial value, critical in becoming a successful leader in the modern business world.
The advanced strategic-thinking skills that graduates can develop are sought after by organisations around the world. Many graduates go on to work in senior or director-level posts within organisations.
Students may have the opportunity to access a large business network through a variety of activities. The LIBS Connect membership will give you access to a series of business networking events, where you can engage with our business community. The Group Consultancy Project, our career services, the exposure to industry guest speakers, and the MBA dissertation, are all designed to expose you to a wide range of career opportunities. Our students have previously worked with organisations including Siemens, NatWest, and The Boots Company.
An MBA is seen as the pinnacle academic qualification for business professionals with research evidencing the increased earnings potential for MBA graduates.
At Lincoln, we constantly invest in our campus as we aim to provide the best learning environment for our students. Whatever the area of study, the University strives to ensure you have access to the specialist equipment and resources you need to develop the skills you may need in their future career.
This course is taught in the award-winning David Chiddick Building, which is situated in the centre of the city of Lincoln on the Brayford campus. It provides dedicated teaching and learning spaces and comprises lecture theatres, workshop rooms, IT laboratories and a café. Software including SAGE is available for you to use, as well as SPSS, Datastream (the source of financial and economic data), and FT.com.
Students can study and research in the University's Great Central Warehouse Library, which provides more than 250,000 printed books and approximately 400,000 electronic books and journals, as well as databases and specialist collections. The Library has a range of different spaces for shared and individual learning.
