In the following few minutes, you will explore:
Top 4 MBA programs in the UK with fees ranging between 41,000€ to 51,000€.
The Financial Times ranking for each program
What your study will look like.
How each school will help you develop your career.
The prerequisites for each program
The fees and duration
So, prepare your notes to save the details most useful to you!
With their MBA ranked 5th in the UK, Alliance Manchester Business School’s MBA learning experience is very project-focused. Along your adventure, you will have 3 consultancy projects with real clients:
Social Impact Consultancy Project
Commercial Business Consultancy Project
International Business Consultancy Project
Not only those, but also work on the Mergers & Acquisitions Project where you and Your team will act as the acquisitions function of a major corporation. You will analyze the company and its markets, develop a strategy for growth through acquisitions, assess the company's value, and choose an acquisition target. Next, you plan and negotiate a merger.
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Your curriculum will include case studies to let you dive into the world of business and learn from other companies' experiences. You can also participate in business clubs and competitions to test your knowledge and make a variety of friends as the school includes students of 30 nationalities.
Along your adventure, you will be supported by a team of career consultants which will take you on a 5 stages journey.
Start
The main focus here will be to know who you are and how you offer value to the companies you apply for.
Personal Branding
Now that you know yourself better, it’s time to share your strengths with others. In this stage, you will work on your CV’s, cover letters, online presence, elevator pitch
Research
Now that you are ready to brand yourself, why not connect with others more closely as well to learn from their experiences? Here’s where you attend Information sessions, club events, and meetings with alumni to help you understand your target market(s) and role(s).
After researching, it’s likely that you will discover new interests, know about new opportunities, and find new inspirations. Your support consultants will help you enhance your personal branding according to your new findings!
Plan
Here’s where you set a plan for your close-coming action of applying to real-world opportunities.
Launch
And now it’s time to apply for jobs.
Although qualifications vary by country and university, the school expects you to be in the top 25% of your class and have at least 3 years of full-time work experience after graduation.
As for when it comes to tests, it’s expected to have a satisfactory GMAT® or GRE® or MAT score. Furthermore, you will need to take one of the standard English tests such as:
IELTS Academic (UKVI and non-UKVI versions)
TOEFL iBT (centre-based)
Cambridge Advanced (CAE/C1 Advanced) and Cambridge Proficiency (CPE/C2 Proficiency)
Pearson PTE Academic (UKVI and non-UKVI versions)
You can choose to pay £48,000 for the 15-month program or the 18-month program. Each program provides you with different options of a number of electives and study tours. Study tours are a chance to travel with a group of classmates to study a three-day course in international business and visit local companies and institutions.
Ranked 3rd globally for Corporate Strategy, Bayes Business School’s MBA is focused on connecting you with real-world experiences. Your adventure story will have two chapters, the first is where you learn the fundamentals of business. The second is where you choose your electives and tailor a personalized learning experience. You can even sit in on additional electives that you don’t want to take for credit.
Your journey will also include several stations till you reach the end such as:
The Strategy Consulting Project
During this project, you and your time will play the roles of directors, senior managers, and strategy consultants. You will need to gather information and perform a strategic analysis of a company that is currently operating in the UK over three months.
International Consultancy Week
During this week, you will be provided with a variety of start-ups to large organizations covering a range of different industries to select from. Previous destinations have included Ireland, Iceland, and Poland. Next, you will start developing solutions for business development strategies, marketing, HR, finance or operational challenges.
After the face-to-face week, you will have a further 4 weeks to provide a full solution to the assessed company.
Business Mastery Project
This is your final project, but it’s also your chance to develop your profile within an organization or in industry sectors of interest, and to develop an authoritative voice on a crucial business topic.
The Bayes Business School helps you increase your opportunities by:
Corporate engagement
You are kept up to date and in connection with leading companies through corporate and alumni panels, webinars, clubs and societies.
Coaching and Advice
The Careers Team will help you throughout the process of finding your next job. Starting from discovering your interests and strength, to applying to your dream jobs.
Bayes Careers Online and Resources
This is your personal career management tool! It can help you prepare for interviews, network with others in your field, book events, apply for jobs, keep track of your job applications, … etc.
Career Management and Employability Workshops
The workshops are designed to help you excel at Job Search Strategy, LinkedIn Masterclass, Networking, Executive Presence, Influencing and Persuading in Action.
The school expects you to have at least 3 years of full-time work experience after graduation. You will also need a good university degree (equivalent to an upper second-class honors degree (2:1) or above) or equivalent professional qualification.
As for the GMAT and GRE, the minimum GMAT score is 600 or 555 under the Focus edition. This equates to a performance in the 51st percentile under each format, or a GRE of at least 156 in the verbal, and 158 in the quantitative sections.
Furthermore, you will need to take one of the standard English tests mentioned before.
The full-time 12-month program fees are £50,400.
With its quintuple accreditation for quality, the Cranfield School of Management’s MBA focuses on your practical thinking in each chapter of your adventure. Their methodology to achieve this is by providing you with real-life projects with respected companies throughout the year:
Business Analytics and Consulting Project
International Consultancy Project
Career Pathway Project
Along those projects, you will work with clients from companies such as Siemens Gamesa, UK NHS, Baringa Consultancy, Harry Specters, … etc.
In love with traveling, expanding your network, and exchanging ideas?
You can spend a month in the ESCP campuses in Madrid or Turin. During which, you will have two weeks of credit-bearing study as well as a two-week consultancy project competition.
The Cranfield School of Management focuses on students' personal development. That’s why it provides you with mentorship from the very beginning of your journey. You will have access to one-to-one executive coaching, and plenty of ‘deep-dive’ analysis into your strengths and weaknesses to establish your own brand of responsible leadership.
You will also have plenty of activities to practically enhance your skills such as:
Leadership Week
Personal Development Workshops:
Designing how to work together: Psychological safety and team chartering
On becoming a critically reflective practitioner
How to resolve team conflicts
Effective cross-cultural management
The school expects you to have at least 3 years of full-time work experience after graduation. You will also need a good degree and/or professional qualification. Furthermore, you have to take The Cranfield Admission Test (CAT). It can be taken online once an application has been submitted. The test is designed to assess your communication analysis, critical thinking, data analysis, and data interpretation.
As for the GMAT and GRE, the minimum GMAT score is 600 or 555 under the Focus edition. This equates to a performance in the 51st percentile under each format. The minimum GRE score is in the 80th percentile for both verbal and quantitative reasoning.
Furthermore, you will need to take one of the standard English tests mentioned before.
The full-time 12-month program fees are £46,405.
Ranked 3rd in the UK for overall satisfaction, the University of Edinburgh Business School is unique for its Hybrid Teaching Model, a blend of face-to-face and online learning developed based on students' feedback.
Whether you choose the MBA program or the MBA Exchange program, your first semester will allow you to explore a mix of business, strategy, and leadership studies to better understand roles in organizations and how they function.
However, in the second semester, if you are an MBA student, you will have a collection of elective courses that you can tailor to suit the next step in your career. If you are an MBA exchange student, you will spend 10 to 12 weeks abroad, undertaking coursework with one of the school’s international partners and exploring international business
But won’t studying only be boring?
That’s true. That’s why you will have several offsite industry visits to connect and learn from diverse organizations such as Amazon, Royal Bank of Scotland, National Health Service (NHS), and a range of start-ups.
You will also have the chance to attend The Employability Conference which is not a recruitment fair but an environment where you develop your network, learn from industry experts in various sectors, and practically know how you can create value for companies with your prior professional experience and your newly acquired knowledge.
Once you are accepted into the program, you gain access to a collection of services designed to help you reach your dream job including:
Access to the University’s central careers service
Recruiter/employer sector-specific presentations and guest speaker events
MBA-specific job platforms
Webinars
Skills workshops
The school expects you to have at least 3 years of full-time work experience after graduation. You will also need a good degree and / or professional qualification.
As for the GMAT and GRE, the minimum GMAT score is 600 or 555 under the Focus edition. This equates to a performance in the 51st percentile under each format. However, The GMAT is not a compulsory part of the application process.
Furthermore, you will need to take one of the standard English tests mentioned before.
The full-time 12-month program fees are £40,900.
Now that you know about the top 4 affordable MBA programs in the UK, tell you which is most appealing for you.
Yasmeen Abas
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