Primary Education

The Higher Education Management MBA will develop your understanding of the key concepts in the academic literature and in the field of professional practice relevant to higher education management. It will increase your capacity for critical reflection on your own professional practice, drawing on a range of theoretical and practice-based perspectives.

This programme will give you insights into new areas of management, enabling you to effect a change of career orientation and to become part of a senior higher education management network.

All students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of four core modules (90 credits) and either two optional modules (30 credits) and a dissertation (60 credits), or four optional modules (60 credits) and a report (30 credits).

Core modules

• Higher Education Institutions as Organisations: Their Strategic Management
• The Management of Teaching and Research in Higher Education
• The Management of Financial Resources in Higher Education (Part 1)
• The Management of Financial Resources in Higher Education (Part 2)

Optional modules

• An Independent Study in Higher Education Management
• Institutional Governance in Higher Education
• Internationalisation in Higher Education
• Managing the Physical University: Space and Place in Higher Education
• Managing People in Higher Education Institutions
• Managing Knowledge Exchange and Engagement in Higher Education
• Managing the Student Experience
• Marketing in Higher Education

Dissertation/report

All students submit either a 20,000-word dissertation on a topic relevant to the programme, or a 10,000-word report on successful completion of a consultancy project in an HEI.

Teaching and learning

Teaching methods include lectures, tutor and student-led seminars and discussions, critical engagement and discussion of relevant literature and syndicate group work. Assessment is by presentations, essays, the successful completion of a consultancy project in an HEI, or a dissertation on a topic relevant to the programme.

A minimum of a second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, together with at least four years of relevant professional experience of management in an HEI setting. It is also possible for applicants with appropriate experience but without a degree to be accepted on the basis of an interview, a qualifying essay and/or a portfolio and reflective statement, depending on their prior qualifications. European or international applicants are expected to have qualifications at an equivalent level.