Three Distinctive Variants

Lancaster offers three MBA programmes. All are international in focus, but the mode of study varies, enabling you to study either full-time, part-time or in a country outside the UK.

Full-time MBA

The Lancaster Full-time MBA is an intensive 12-month programme for managers with at least three years' professional experience and looking to make significant career changes.

It has a strong action orientation – providing three opportunities for consulting experience with UK companies – and an emphasis on leadership and international business.

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Executive MBA

The Lancaster Executive MBA (EMBA) is a two-year part-time programme. Designed for experienced managers, it allows you apply your learning from the programme direct to your own work environment via consultancy-style assignments.

Teaching is delivered in 5-day residential modules at Lancaster.

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Global MBA

The Lancaster Global MBA is a new two-year part-time modular Masters programme for aspiring senior managers, taught outside the UK and in collaboration with international partners.

The programme is currently offered in Jordan, Zambia and Singapore.

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MBA Graduate Profiles

The MBA Career Management programme gave me a wide range of skills, through practice interviews and CV review sessions, which really helped me in my subsequent job search.

Kunj Sheth
MBA (Full-time), 2011

MBA News

Fresh look for the Lancaster Executive MBA

30 May 2012

A new design for the Lancaster Executive MBA. The programme's recently appointed Director, Dr Marian Iszatt-White, explains the thinking behind the new programme features.

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Lancaster MBA reaches semi-finals of MBAT football tournament!

30 May 2012

The Lancaster MBA team reached the semi-finals of the MBAT football tournament in Paris in May 2012, beating teams from ESADE, Oxford and HEC Paris before losing to London Business School in the semi-finals.

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Systems Colloquium in honour of Professor Peter Checkland

8 May 2012

Over 80 Lancaster students, alumni and invited guests came together on 20th April to honour esteemed LUMS colleague Professor Peter Checkland and to celebrate the 30-year programme of action research which Peter led at Lancaster.

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Lancaster MBA team wins Procter & Gamble Sustainability Challenge

4 May 2012

A team from the Lancaster Full-time MBA has retained the P&G Sustainability Challenge trophy, beating MBA teams from Warwick, Strathclyde and Newcastle business schools.

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LUMS in Brief

As one of the UK's leading business schools, LUMS is recognised worldwide for the quality of its teaching and research. With around 950 postgraduate students and 150 members of Faculty, drawn from many nations, we are also one of the UK's largest schools.

LUMS provides research-led education at undergraduate, Masters and doctorate level as well as tailored executive programmes and other consultancy services for public and private sector organisations. For more information on our work with companies, see our Executive and Leadership pages.

Where do our students come from?

Rankings

ForbesThe Lancaster MBA is ranked 7th in the world and 3rd in the UK in the Forbes 2011 ranking of the best non-US MBA programmes.

The Lancaster MBA is ranked in the top 10 in the UK in the 2012 FT ranking.

Triple Accreditation

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Lancaster MBA programmes are accredited by the Association of MBAs and share the Lancaster University Management School accreditation by AACSB and Equis.

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