Why choose the EMBA programme?
All part-time MBA programmes are demanding – on your time, your energy and your mental processes. Lancaster is no different – which is what you’d expect from a management school that has achieved top rankings in the UK for teaching and research for more than a decade.
What makes the EMBA programme special, though, are its concept of learning through action and its dual focus on both personal development and organisational development.
"Our current project to focus upon strategic expansion has been aided immeasurably by my learning experience on EMBA."
Eliot Powell
Executive MBA, 2007
Bring fresh insights and approaches to your company
As a potential EMBA student, you’ll doubtless already be grappling with various organisational and business challenges in your professional working life.
Looking at these anew, and exploring how management theories and tools can help you resolve them, is a central part of what the programme aims to help you do – through practical work-based assignments which you tailor to the needs of your job. And it's why the programme develops – and benefits – not only participants but their organisations, too.
Develop your managerial and leadership skills
The EMBA modules and electives will give you a wider knowledge of business functions, processes and strategies – opening up new avenues and perhaps new career directions. They will also expose you to many new ideas and concepts, and challenge you to re-examine aspects of your own practice and your personal management style.
Beyond that, EMBA will also hone your thinking skills, and your capacity to reflect on what works, and why. In practical terms, the work you do – both for your own organisation and, through the Consultancy Challenge, for a client organisation – will take you into new areas. It will fine-tune your consultancy skills and your teamwork, hone your research skills, and perhaps reveal unexpected areas of competence.
Access other minds, experiences and professional expertise
You’ll have access not only to an extensive range of tools, concepts and academic resources but also – just as vitally – to the experience and fresh perspectives of your fellow students, faculty member and tutors. The debate and discussion, both in classroom sessions and in the ongoing tutorial groups, is ideal for testing out ideas and can be a powerful source of professional advice.
"Dedicated time away to study, learning in a safe but concentrated environment, worked really well for me and my employer."
Phillippa Williamson
Executive MBA, 2007
Modular format – balancing organisational and personal life
Short but intensive modules away from the workplace can give that ‘breathing space’ which is so hard to achieve under day-to-day pressures, and free you up to engage with complex ideas and problems.
To find out more about how some of our EMBA graduates have used the programme to shape their own careers and the growth of their organisations, read our Alumni Profiles.
