Management, employment and organisation
Requirements
- A copy of your degree certificate and transcripts which show you have achieved a 2:1 honours degree, or an equivalent international degree. If your degree certificate or result is pending, please upload any interim transcripts or provisional certificates.
- A copy of your IELTS certificate with an overall score of 7.0 with 6.0 in all subskills, or evidence of an accepted equivalent. Please include the date of your expected test if this qualification is pending. If you have alternative acceptable evidence, such as an undergraduate degree studied in the UK, please supply this in place of an IELTS.
- A reference from your employer and/or previous employers to evidence that you have three years of relevant work experience. References should be signed, dated and less than six months old at the time you submit your application.
- An up-to-date CV which includes your full academic and work history.
- If you do not have a degree in a relevant area, your application may be considered on the basis of your professional experience. Please provide additional evidence to support your application such as signed and dated employer references.
The Cardiff MBA is structured around a series of six challenge-focussed modules, based on cross-functional and action-based scenarios typically found in the workplace. A number of themes will provide integration across the modules. These may include Responsible Leadership, Digital Transformation and The Future of Work. Choice and specialisation is embedded in modules. For example, the ‘Confronting Grand Challenges’ module will provide you with the opportunity to focus on a challenge that has particular relevance for your future career.
The learning required to engage with the challenges is experienced in immersive blocks designed to stimulate your curiosity, inform your process of enquiry and strengthen the application of your learning.
This approach provides an enriched opportunity for:
- the use of multiple and extended activities to enhance understanding
- student interaction to support shared sense making
- guided in-depth inquiry
- collaboration between students and the programme team
- frequent review of insights and development
- focussed learning rather than the distracting demands of multiple modules
- structured independent learning
Challenges include a business strategy simulation, a time-constrained solution to a brief from a senior management team, the development of an innovative business solution and a complex multi-stakeholder challenge. The Accelerator Project is a real-world project carried out in partnership with a corporate client to develop solutions to a significant strategic issue. The concluding module then uses a crisis management simulation to consider the multiple facets of current leadership challenges. It also anticipates the future landscape and transformative change this requires.
This immersive challenge-based structure will enhance your capability in four interrelated areas. You will:
- develop a holistic understanding of core business areas and processes, drawing on contrasting functional, disciplinary and contextual perspectives;
- integrate theory and practice to promote critical thinking and problem solving;
- engage with the complex, dynamic and ambiguous nature of strategic decision-making;
- gain enhanced insight into your personal potential and develop advanced leadership skills.
Running throughout the programme is a supporting package of activities provided by the MBA’s Leadership Development Programme. These directly address the personal and professional skills needed for you to perform effectively in each challenge, and in the next stage of your career. There will be a particular focus on being resilient, resourceful, responsible and relational.
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