The Dubai MBA, Bradford University School of Management
Our Dubai MBA programme has now been running for more than a decade. The executive programme is open to managers who work for our corporate partners. Also eligible for the Dubai MBA are managers who work for other organisations or those who wish to self fund.
Sponsorship of a Dubai MBA student typically takes the form of financial, time or work assistance.
Bradford's current corporate consortium partners are: Emirates Airline, Dubai Holding, Tecom, DUBAL, Emirates Bank, National Bank of Dubai and ENOC.
Dubai MBA - Overview
- The Dubai MBA programme begins every September and runs for 24 months.
- Each module is taught on a block basis over three days: Thursday, Friday and 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 typically takes place between the hours of 8am and 4pm.
- PPlease request our full Information Pack for details of current Dubai MBA 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 MBA module.
- We do not restrict ourselves to teaching the Dubai MBA onsite. Each module is introduced with pre-reading exercises. Students remain in contact with tutors and other students and have access to all sorts of information through our virtual learning Blackboardsite and highly comprehensive on-line library.
- Assessment is typically through an individual project on a topic which can be applied directly into the workplace.
- Download the Dubai MBA brochure (PDF)
Programmes Studied
The following core (foundation) modules are studied and are complemented with three advanced modules studied during the second year of the Dubai MBA programme:
- Personal Development
- Business Economics
- People and Organizations
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Business Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Business Research
- Strategic Management
Personal Development
- Aim: 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 Dubai 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
- Aim: to provide 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.
- Aim: to gain a critical understanding of the factors that affect human behaviour in organisations including motivation, satisfaction, team working and leadership.
- Investigates the relationship between organisational behaviour, organisational theory, organisational development and human resource management.
- Ultimately enables you to work and manage more effectively.
- Aim: to provide an introduction to the concepts and principles of marketing and their applications within the context of an organisation's overall business.
- Central to this Dubai MBA 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 organisation, 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.
- Aim: to introduce 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.
- Aim: 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.
- Aim: 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 organisations.
- Opportunities for reflecting on real change in organisations.
- 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
- Aim: to develop 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).
- Aim: to develop a thorough understanding of the innovation process, 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 behaviour.
- 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
Dubai MBA 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
Dubai MBA Management Project
The last part of the Dubai MBA is a 15,000 word management project. This is a real opportunity to apply learning from the Dubai MBA back into the sponsoring company. The project is based on a current and significant organisational 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.
Assessment
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 |
Entry Requirements
- You need to provide proof of a good first degree or sponsor's proof of ability to undertake the Dubai 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 Dubai MBA 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
Download a Dubai MBA application form
Download Dubai MBA reference forms
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 Dubai MBA 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 Dubai MBA is £14,000.
We have a very attractive instalment payment system for Dubai MBA self funders:
- 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 the Dubai MBA's virtual university Blackboard system and online 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 Dubai MBA 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 Dubai MBA sponsors
We work closely with a consortium of Dubai MBA sponsors. Benefits of formally sponsoring Dubai MBA students on our programme include:
- Input into programme content
- Opportunity to take part in special briefings for line managers of Dubai MBA 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 MBA and a detailed information pack , please contact us at Dubaienquiries@bradford.ac.uk
Download the Dubai MBA brochure (PDF)
Block 13, G39
Dubai Knowledge Village
P.O.Box 501723, Dubai
Tel: +971 4 439 3694