MBA with Advanced Practice

The MBA with Advanced Practice is a general management course aimed at aspiring and established middle managers from a range of business sectors. The Advanced Practice element offers students the opportunity to gain valuable workplace environment experience.

The course has been designed to account for current (local, regional and international) market trends and has recently been updated to provide additional flexibility, choice and the opportunity and to help apply taught management skills.

The overall objective of this course is to educate and develop individuals as managers and business specialists, adding value through an integrated, applied and critical understanding of management and organisations, as well as the development of professional, transferable and intellectual skills that are essential for successful general and strategic management in private, public and third sector organisations.

Students will have the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and insight in the following areas:

• Develop multidisciplinary and international perspectives, concepts and issues in the major management disciplines
• Gain an understanding of relevant toolkits and techniques for analysing business and management issues
• Cultivate the ability to analyse, synthesise and apply knowledge and understanding to solve management problems critically, rationally and rigorously
• Gain an appreciation and application of contemporary management and information systems to aid strategic decision making in business and management
• Develop an appreciation of appetite and responsibility for lifelong learning and personal development
• Develop skills for leadership and transformational roles in business in the changing external context within which they are likely to operate
• Develop strategic thinking, innovation and entrepreneurial skills
• Improve interpersonal and group-working skills

Academic requirements

• A 2:2 (second class) honours degree or International equivalent
• In addition, applicants would normally have 2 years of relevant work experience

English language requirements

Applicants must satisfy our general entry requirements as well as meeting specific requirements.

• You will need to provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English (GCSE grade 4 – previously grade C – or equivalent).

The general entry requirements are any of the following:

• IELTS 6.0 with no band score less than 5.5, or equivalent
• HKDSE English Language – Grade 4 overall with no less than 3 in any of the 4 sub-skills
• Indian Standard XII English – Minimum of 70% (in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) or Indian Certificate in Secondary Education (ICSE) only)
• WAEC – C6

If you do not have the required IELTS, you may be eligible to study on our Pre-Sessional programmes.

• If you have IELTS 5.5, with a maximum score of 5.0, you may be eligible to study on our Pre-Sessional Standard programme.
• If you have IELTS 5.0, with a maximum score of 4.5, you may be eligible to study on our Pre-Sessional Plus programme.

The course places a strong focus on enhancing the employment prospects of its graduates. Previous Ulster University alumni have secured positions within large multinational organisations such as Diageo, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and KPMG as well as small to medium-sized enterprises. Others have used the programme as a valuable springboard to gain a thorough understanding of business and management principles before starting up their own business.