Designed for experienced, mid-career professionals from a wide range of sectors seeking to progress into more senior roles or launch their own enterprises.About the courseThe University has a long-standing reputation for innovation and, as our flagship programme, Bedfordshire’s two-year Executive Masters in Business Administration (EMBA) is a truly transformative MBA. It alters the way you view the ever-changing normal by developing how you think, lead and deal with uncertainty in a disruptive age. Entrepreneurial in spirit and practice, it fosters strategic skills, innovation and adaptability as well as free thinking and problem solving while addressing contemporary challenges such as digitalisation, AI and evolving work environments.The course is dual accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), offering the opportunity to gain chartered management status. Successful students are awarded the Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management & Leadership Practice.What will you study?Studying the Bedfordshire Executive MBA course will equip you with the diverse knowledge and a range of skills in strategic management, entrepreneurship, leadership, business and innovation. As a premium management qualification, this course will develop your ability to think creatively, problem solve, innovate and lead in a range of complex business environments.How will you be assessed?The assessment strategy is forward looking and deliberately innovative both to best test the intended learning outcomes and to reflect complex tasks undertaken in practice. Students are exposed to a range of assessment types and individual assessments within units are clearly identified and provide an effective measurement of performance with an acceptable and balanced overall student workload.The underpinning philosophy of all the assessments is to develop the skills to support students’ success in the new economy foster collaboration and reflection as well as the ability to learn how to learn. For this reason there are no traditional exams on this course instead challenging and stimulating tasks that will develop participants. Tutors will provide timely feedback on formative and summative assessments to support students’ skills knowledge development and understanding.CareersGraduates typically join when they are on a mid-level management position and aspire to move into senior executive-level posts within their current organisation or to pursue a change of career at senior level. Many students use the Executive MBA to help them develop their own businesses social enterprise or to begin an entrepreneurial career. Elsewhere the MBA could be part of a route back into employment after a career break - for instance following a period as a full-time parent.
