The Lancaster full-time MBA

A year in the UK on the Lancaster MBA – your chance to change yourself and your way of managing
 

Specialist facultyIntellectual development

The Lancaster MBA is an intensive and rigorous programme which recruits highly motivated, experienced managers from across the world. It provides access to cutting edge knowledge across a full range of business and management subjects, taught by world-leading faculty.
 

Action LearningAction learning

Thanks to Lancaster’s ground-breaking work on how organisations and managers learn, our MBA has a dual focus on action learning and critical thinking. You don’t simply absorb theories and models and evaluate them in the classroom – through a series of consultancy assignments you take them out into the workplace, to test out their strengths and weaknesses and your own effectiveness in applying them.
 

Skills and toolkitsSkills enhancement

The programme modules and the allied Career Management Programme develop your skills for all kinds of management career – be it general management, consultancy, or a new business start-up. Tailor your electives to your preferred career route or keep your options open.
 

InternationalInternational experiences

Through its global mix of students, international exchanges and a series of client-based projects, the programme helps you to improve your international management effectiveness and your understanding of different cultural contexts.

World recognition

The Lancaster MBA is accredited by the Association of MBAs and is in the FT and Economist Intelligence Unit’s global top 100. In 2009 it was ranked 27th in the world by the FT, and 16th in the world by Forbes magazine.

Find out more about what makes the Lancaster MBA special…

> Our difference: the action dimension
> The Lancaster MBA programme content

Outward Bound with the Lancaster MBAOutward Bound with the Lancaster MBA

The new academic year got off to a flying start in October 2008, when students from the Lancaster MBA took part in a day of intensive team-building activities with Outward Bound, in the English Lake District. Find out more in this video.

Key Facts

Duration: 12 months, full-time

Starts: October

Designed for: managers and professionals interested in significant career change

Features: action-orientated, including three consulting opportunities with UK companies, and an emphasis on leadership and international business

Intake: 75-90 students

Entry requirements: honours degree or equivalent; GMAT 600+; IELTS 7.0 or TOEFL-CBT 250 if first language is not English >> more information

Work experience: at least three years needed

Fees: £19,800
Scholarships available for exceptionally qualified or experienced applicants >> more information

MBA Programmes

There are two other variants of the Lancaster MBA:

Executive (part-time) MBA
(taught at LUMS)

Global MBA
(part-time and country-specific)

Accreditation

AMBA logo

Programme accredited by the Association for MBAs

Graduate Profiles

Behind the scenes is a team of loyal, experienced, supportive people from academia and outside who guided my year through a life-changing experience of immense quality.

Ben Harper
MBA (Full-time), 2008
EQUIS AACSB Association of MBAs