The Lancaster Full-time MBA

Offering a truly transformational experience, the Lancaster full-time MBA is a one-year programme in the UK, in which you live and study alongside experienced and ambitious professionals from all over the world. We work with you to help you understand your purpose, values, motives and interests and uncover your talents and potential.

Through a mix of learning opportunities – in the classroom and in organisations – you find yourself exploring what it really means to be a strategic leader.

At the end of the year, you emerge more aware, more confident and more capable, ready for the next step in your career. Not only that, you will have made bonds with lecturers and fellow participants from around the world that will last a lifetime.

Key features

  • A world-class MBA, taught by internationally respected faculty and experienced business practitioners

  • An internationally diverse and close-knit campus community, with a busy social calendar, including cultural events, sports fixtures and a popular MBA Ball

  • Our unique Mindful Manager module which develops your cognitive and collaborative skills and your judgement and decision-making ability

  • Learning Through Action, where consulting projects give you practical real-world exposure to three live business challenges

  • A dedicated Career Advancement Programme to help you achieve your ambitions

  • An international module where you examine how business is done in a part of the world you are unfamiliar with. Recent destinations: China, India, the Czech Republic and Turkey

Find out more about the programme curriculum, including Study Abroad options – and read our Graduate Profiles to discover where the Lancaster Full-time MBA has taken some of our students.

Award-winning | World-ranked | Triple-accredited

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Lancaster MBA in London:
Saatchi & Saatchi visit

In December 2012 the Lancaster Full-time MBA class visited worldwide advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi in London, in preparation for the contributions to the teaching programme by Saatchi & Saatchi's CEO Kevin Roberts.
  
  

 

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Business School of the Year

Scholarships available

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: Approx 50 students

Entry requirements: honours degree or equivalent; GMAT 600+; IELTS 7.0 or TOEFL iBT 100 if first language is not English >> more information

Work experience: at least three years needed

Fees 2013/14: £26,000
Scholarships available for exceptionally qualified or experienced applicants >> more information

Deadline: We run a rolling admissions process with a deadline of 31 May >> more information

MBA Programmes

There are two other variants of the Lancaster MBA:

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

Global Executive MBA
(part-time and country-specific)

Triple Accreditation

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The Lancaster Full-time MBA is accredited by the Association of MBAs and shares the Lancaster University Management School accreditation by AACSB and Equis.

A triple-accredited business school Association of MBAs | AACSB | EQUIS