M.B.A from Cardiff University

The Cardiff MBA is delivered in immersive blocks designed to stimulate your curiosity, inform your process of enquiry and strengthen the application of your learning. You’ll find that each block of learning involves a rich variety of activities including company visits, industry speakers, time-limited challenges, role-play and simulations.

You’ll benefit from small group work and block teaching allowing you to master specific interdisciplinary approaches before an opportunity to develop a specialisation via our accelerator project. The programme concludes with a capstone module bringing together the segments of expertise acquired over the course of your MBA experience.

The diversity of student cohort and the academic staff is a real asset. Opportunities to collaborate with peers, academics and practitioners to challenge your existing knowledge structures, assumptions, values and skills will help you to reconsider your current understanding and to explore issues from different perspectives.

Our MBA is designed to tackle real-world challenges, and this is reflected in our assessment of your work. Reflecting the workplace, you’ll work individually and as part of a team to complete assessment tasks spanning strategy, personnel, consultancy, innovation and crisis.

The MBA is an internationally recognised and respected qualification for managers. Applicants are from both the public and private sectors in the UK and abroad. 

The teaching programme is aimed at those who are looking to develop their careers and at 'high flyers' that need an understanding of all the major functions of business providing generalist knowledge for prospective leaders. 

In addition to enhancing successful students' career prospects, the course aims to encourage independent and creative thinkers. This is done by following the UK Quality Assurance Agency guidelines in giving students a 'strong practical and professional orientation' differentiating it from other masters programmes.

This intensive, one-year MBA will help you develop key theoretical concepts, learn how to adapt and use your skills in a practical business environment, and stand out in the competitive job market. This course is 4^th best in the UK market. 

The University of South Wales's MBA Global programme is a two-year MBA that offers you the opportunity to gain up to ten months work experience with companies in the UK and overseas.

The MBA Global offers specialist pathways in Finance, HRM, Supply Chain Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship. It builds on a strong ethos of helping managers and leaders solve complex business problems while developing professionals who will make a strategic difference within the context of their organisations.

It will develop your leadership and strategic thinking skills, including the ability to  build successful teams and navigate growth within an uncertain, resource-constrained and competitive business environment. You will gain insights into how to prepare, plan and react efficiently to a rapidly changing business world.

During the course you will enjoy an extracurricular programme – Global Choices - that includes masterclasses with leading figures from the spheres of business and government. In recent years, our guests have included Lord Jonathan Evans, former Head of MI5; Lord George Robertson, former NATO Secretary General; Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia, and Sir Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister. You will also be able to learn from the experience of entrepreneurs and business leaders in Wales, forging links we hope you will take into your future careers as MBA Global alumni.

You will also be offered workshops and simulations on core skills and competencies which are designed to support the development of your high-level awareness of the challenges facing not only business but also societies across the world.

• Ranked #97 in the Financial Times Top 100 for full time MBAs 2023.
• Ranked in the top 10 in the UK Financial Times for full time MBAs 2023
• Access the latest research – as a research-led business school, we give our students access to the latest trends, data and knowledge within the global banking and finance industry.
• Ranked #29 for Career Progression in the Financial Times for full time MBAs 2023. The programme will equip you to move into more senior management positions, either in your own organisation or moving elsewhere.
• Accredited business school – We hold the prestigious ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), AMBA (Association of MBAs) and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System).
• Boost your employability prospects - The 4th most targeted university of top UK employers (High Fliers Research 2022)
• Ranked #98 in the Which MBA? 2022 for the full-time MBA
• In the top 50 in Europe in the QS Global MBA rankings 2023
• Ranked #31 for value for money for full time MBAs in the Financial Times 2023

Applicants should meet one of the following:

- Possess, or expect to obtain, a minimum of a second class lower division (UK 2:2 classification) degree from a recognised university;

- Have a minimum of five years relevant management experience;

- Hold a professional or other qualification which is deemed acceptable for admission .

• Admission to the full-time MBA requires at least three to five years of post-graduation full-time work experience that includes some management experience.

• A minimum UK second-class honours degree or recognised international equivalent qualification.
• Relevant managerial experience is preferable and all applicants would be considered on an individual basis. 

• A good Honours degree (or equivalent), or equivalent professional qualification
• Five years of work experience with evidence of extensive managerial experience or professional responsibility. Three years exceptional work experience meeting this criteria will also be considered