The Bradford Executive MBA in Dubai
For over a decade, Bradford University School of Management have been running an executive MBA programme in Dubai. The programme is open to managers working for our corporate partners AND for managers who work for other organizations or who wish to self fund.
Where sponsorship is involved, it typically takes the form of financial, time or work assistance.
Our current corporate consortium partners are: Emirates Airline, Dubai Holding, Tecom, DUBAL, Emirates Bank, National Bank of Dubai and ENOC.
EACH YEAR WE ARE ALSO PLEASED TO ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM MANAGERS WHO WORK FOR OTHER ORGANIZATIONS OR WHO ARE HAPPY TO SELF FUND.
Dubai MBA - The Specifics
- The programme starts in September of each year and runs for 24 months.
- Teaching - each module is taught on a block basis over three days, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. This reduces the number of work days needed for study. Blocks run every 5 - 6 weeks, with a longer break during the summer. Teaching is typically between the hours of 8am and 4pm.
- Please request our full Information Pack for details of current programme timetables
- Our Dubai location is Knowledge Village in Dubai Internet City.
- All teaching is undertaken by Bradford's experienced faculty who fly in to teach each module.
- We do not restrict ourselves to teaching on site. Each module is introduced through set pre-reading exercises, and students keep in contact with tutors and other students and have access to all sorts of information through our virtual learning Blackboard site and highly comprehensive on-line library.
- Assessment is typically through an individual project on a topic which can be applied directly into the workplace
- Completing an MBA requires the student to gain 180 "credits". These are made up as follows:
| ACTIVITY | CREDITS | |
| STAGE 1 | Nine Foundation Modules - each accounting for 10 credits | 90 |
| STAGE 2 | Three Advanced taught Modules - each accounting for 10 credits Two Advanced Distance Learning Modules each accounting for 10 credits |
50 |
| STAGE 3 | 15,000 word Management Project | 40 |
| 180 Credits in total |
Programmes Studied
The following core (foundation) modules are studied and are complemented with three advanced modules studied during the second year of the programme:
- Personal Development
- Business Economics
- People and Organizations
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Business Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Business Research
- Strategic Management
Personal Development
- To develop an independent and reflective style of learning, helping you during your MBA but more importantly in your working life in general.
- Working together with a Skills Development Co-ordinator a skills audit is completed.
- During your MBA studies, you gather evidence from personal transferable skills identified in all taught modules which contribute to filling the gaps identified within the skills audit.
Business Economics
- Provides an understanding of economic concepts relevant to management planning, decision-making and growth strategies within the economic environment.
- Economic theory is used to help provide solutions to real business problems.
- Topics include elasticity of supply and demand, production costs and the theory of the firm, industrial policy and competitiveness, inflation, unemployment and exchange rates.
- Enables you to gain a critical understanding of the factors that affect human behaviour in organizations including motivation, satisfaction, team working and leadership.
- Investigates the relationship between organizational behaviour, organizational theory, organizational development and human resource management.
- Ultimately enables you to work and manage more effectively.
- Provides an introduction to the concepts and principles of marketing and their applications within the context of an organization's overall business.
- Central to the module is the importance of customers and competitors.
- You will learn about the overall marketing process and the development of marketing plans.
- Topics covered include consumer and business behaviour, segmentation, marketing communications and distribution.
- We concentrate on concepts and techniques associated with the production of products and services.
- Every organization, whether manufacturing or service, needs to understand the processes involved in efficient and effective production.
- Topics covered include quality, capacity planning, scheduling and operations planning.
- Introduces the fundamental concepts and techniques in finance and management accounting.
- Helps in exercising management control and guiding decision-making.
- Includes cost and management accounting, interpretation and analysis, interpreting financial statements and budgetary control.
- To consolidate and develop your knowledge of financial decision-making and to promote an understanding of how capital markets operate, how companies are valued and how markets shape the (financial) manager's operating context.
- Topics covered include investment and financing decisions, shareholder value analysis, valuation of companies, both quoted and unquoted, short-term and long-term finance and working capital management.
- Helps you to develop critical awareness of the quality of business research.
- It improves your ability to design, carry out and present such research, and apply statistical techniques to business problems.
- Topics include the research process, research design, questionnaire design, quantitative and qualitative research.
- Covers the external and internal variables that shape and drive the business environment.
- A very important part of the module is the discussion of the concepts of competitive advantage and appropriate use of internal resources.
- Topics covered include environmental analysis, understanding of competitive advantage and methods for choosing appropriate corporate and business strategies and then controlling them.
Current Advanced Modules
- A framework for a critical understanding of the issues associated with managing change in organizations
- Opportunities for reflecting on real change in organizations
- Content includes the nature of change, cultures for change, drivers of change and people issues including reactions to change and leading change.
International business strategy
- Develops a comprehensive understanding of the major strategic issues that businesses are confronted with when operating in international markets
- Includes assessment of the management implications of international business environment and the major theories and empirical evidence on international business strategy, including issues connected to technology transfer
- Also covers the process of internationalisation and the choice of foreign market entry and the increasing demand to develop corporate social responsibility policies (CSR).
- Develop a thorough understanding of the innovation process and an overview of technological change and a knowledge of the dynamics involved
- Determines the meaning and value of design and technological innovation in global competition and explores the relationship between design, technological innovation, marketing, strategic management and organisational behavior
- Examines the means of gauging the relative success or failure of new products and services at different levels in the organisation environment.
Distance Learning Modules
Students also study two electives by Distance learning. Choices include:
Entrepreneurship
Strategic Information Systems
M&A
Management Leadership
Corporate Marketing
Managing International Business in Emerging Economies
Project Management
Management Project
The last part of the MBA is a 15,000 word management project. This is a real opportunity to apply learning from the MBA back into the sponsoring company. The project is based on a current and significant organizational issue, one that is actionable in the workplace and is of strategic importance to the sponsoring organisation. This allows the participant to demonstrate clear understanding of learning and its application.
Eligibility
- You need to provide proof of a good first degree or sponsor's proof of ability to undertake the MBA
- If you do not have a first degree we will ask you to take our on-line Bradford Test to demonstrate your suitability for the programme
- You need demonstrable ability to study for a post graduate qualification in English
- This can be through:
- English as home language
- 6.5 IELTS score
- Evidence of use of English in your current employment
- You need at least 3 years of relevant business or management experience
- You need to provide two references including one from your current employer.
- We will undertake a telephone interview with all candidates
Applications
Application forms can be downloaded.
Reference forms can be downloaded.
Applications should be made to: Recruitment Office, Dubai MBA, Bradford University School of Management, Emm Lane, Bradford, BD9 4JL, UK.
We recommend that you scan your completed Application and Reference forms and email them to mba@bradford.ac.uk.
Please write DUBAI MBA at the top of your application form.
If you would like further information, please email dubaienquiries@bradford.ac.uk for our full Information Pack. You can telephone us on +44 1274 234415, Monday - Friday, 09.00 - 17.00 UK time (four hours behind Dubai time).
Cost
The cost of the MBA is £14,000
For SELF FUNDERS we have a very attractive instalment payment system:
- A deposit of £1,000 is payable in or before September of year one.
- A further 21 equal instalments is payable each month from November of year one.
Fees include all materials (excluding text books); teaching; access to our virtual university Blackboard system and on line university library.
THESE FEES REPRESENT EXCEPTIONAL VALUE FOR A GLOBALLY RECOGNISED MBA PROGRAMME
Early Application Discount
We are able to offer the following discounts for students who enrol early.
| Application approved Deposit received |
By 30 April 2010 | £750 reduction in fee |
| Application approved Deposit received |
Between 1 May and 30 June 2010 | £450 reduction in fee |
Working with our sponsors
We work closely with a consortium of sponsors. Benefits of formally sponsoring a number of students on to our programme includes:
- Input into programme content
- Opportunity to take part in special briefings for line managers of students
- Free annual executive education master classes run in Dubai
- Public demonstration of working with a globally recognised school of management
- Confidence that the Bradford Dubai MBA is highly focused on work place application of learning.
We are always happy to talk to potential new sponsors. Please contact Julian Rawel (J.S.Rawel@bradford.ac.uk) in the first instance.
Find out more
For more information on our Dubai executive MBA and a detaiIed information pack , please contact us by email (Dubaienquiries@bradford.ac.uk).
University of Bradford Middle East Regional office
Block 13, G39
Dubai Knowledge Village
P.O.Box 501723, Dubai
Tel: +971 4 439 3694