Master of Business Administration with Professional Experience (MBA)

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Westminster Business School is one of London’s leading centres for business education based in the heart of London and its political, media and financial services scene. 

Staff who currently teach on this course have extensive professional experience, covering roles such as:

• a senior management consultant for McKinsey & Company
• a manager in Savoy Hotel Group
• export manager for Labaronne-CITAF
• deputy general manager of QSR Franchise Development Group
• an equity and structured finance analyst for Bergstrom Capital

Job roles

This course will prepare you for roles such as:

• Business design lead
• Business development manager
• Business/Financial analyst
• CMS manager
• CRM manager
• Digital marketing manager
• Digital product owner
• Management consultant
• Solutions architect
• Start-up entrepreneur
• UX manager

Graduate employers

Graduates from the Westminster Business School have found employment at organisations including:

• Amazon
• Citibank
• Financial Conduct Authority
• Paribas
• Santander
• Sberbank
• Société Générale
• Standard Chartered
• World Economic Forum

In our ‘hackathon’ boot camp, you’ll create a new enterprise, enhancing your knowledge of entrepreneurial thinking and how it applies to new venture creation.

Boot camps are a great way to mix the real-life decision-making process faced by companies of all sizes with the theoretical learning on your MBA programme. You’ll gain a real-life and practical understanding of how companies are tackling issues and adapting to disruption, and benefit from group work with a team of individuals with different backgrounds and experiences.

Your learning experience is designed to develop the capabilities needed by the graduate labour market, integrating practice-based learning and projects alongside academic learning and business theory.

We'll encourage you to keep up-to-date with market trends and regularly review current events, using trade publications such as the Financial Times and the live news streams available in the Financial Markets Suite (FMS). We also hope to invite current practitioners to share current challenges and experiences – past talks within the School have covered current topics in artificial intelligence start-ups and sustainable investment banking funds.

To assist the learning experience, we provide reading lists, lecture and seminar materials in advance via Blackboard, our virtual learning environment. Lectures are recorded using specialist software and similar tools to make sure you can really listen to what is said in class and don’t miss a thing.

How you’ll be taught

Through a variety of teaching methods – from lectures and seminars to live case study analysis, business projects, an international consultancy project and internship – we aim to bring study to life by incorporating real-world experience. A focus on group work and ideas generation will help to develop the strong interpersonal skills expected of top managers.

There is a requirement for ‘self-guided’ learning and you will be expected to develop your own opinions and approaches to problems. Group work is a core component of the programme, which allows you to deepen relationships with classmates, get a more thorough understanding of subjects by interacting with people from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds, and mimic the office environment in which projects are often conducted in small teams across different departments. You’ll be given multiple opportunities to put forth real-life solutions to problems, present business cases or introduce plans for service optimisation.

The teaching team has strengths across multiple subject disciplines, including academic scholarship and practitioner business experience, strategic management, entrepreneurship, design, innovation, marketing, social media, operations, digital business, psychology, human resources, organisation behaviour, economics, finance, management accounting and leadership.

In the following graph you'll find examples of how study time has been distributed in the past (data from the academic year 2024/25). Changes to division of study time may be made in response to feedback and in accordance with our terms and conditions. Learning typically falls into two broad categories:

• Scheduled hours: examples include lectures, seminars, practical classes, workshops, supervised time in a studio
• Independent study: non-scheduled time in which students are expected to study independently. This may include preparation for scheduled sessions, dissertation/final project research, follow-up work, wider reading or practice, completion of assessment tasks, or revision

How you’ll be assessed

We use a wide range of engaging assessment methods, including simulations, business challenges, investigating briefs, group pitches and video presentations.

The course involves a variety of assessment methods which call on students to propose solutions to real case studies in groups, alone and under short time limits in the case of the ‘hackathons’.

Presentations and essays are also included in the course content, but it's the focus on practical resolutions to real problems and the encouragement of analytical skills and creativity that make this an attractive course. For example, we encourage a reflective learning journey report following the consultancy or work project undertaken in the placement organisation.

In the following graph you'll find an indication of what you can expect (data from the academic year 2024/25). Changes to assessment weights may be made in response to feedback and in accordance with our terms and conditions. Assessments typically fall into two broad categories:

• Practical: examples include presentations, podcasts, blogs
• Coursework: examples include essays, in-class tests, portfolios, dissertation