MBA

Our MBA provides a solid grounding in the major business disciplines and core business skills. Our faculty are world-class experts in their fields and they develop courses based on up-to-date best practice and the latest academic research.

Underpinning a rigorous programme of courses is an extended and strengthened talent development programme. All of our MBA students will be offered professional coaching and a suite of optional courses to help define your interpersonal, communication and team work skills. 

A top ranked programme embedded in a world class university

One of the most striking things about the world today is how interconnected it is. Business, politics, technological change and society do not exist in isolation but are perpetually influencing each other. To succeed in business you need more than business skills and the Oxford MBA bursts the business bubble. Our programme draws on expertise from different disciplines in other parts of the University. In our elective courses and a new range of integration modules, we introduce approaches to thinking about the human condition and leadership and the broader business environment from a range of perspectives, drawing from philosophy, literature, politics, law, sociology and the sciences. Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford (GOTO ) is also an inherently interdisciplinary endeavour, providing its audience with expertise perspectives on world-scale challenges such as big data, demographic change and water scarcity.

Tackling world-scale issues

Our MBA programme is built around three cross-cutting themes that relate to the world-scale challenges shaping today’s business environment: global rules of the game, entrepreneurship and responsible business. You will focus on these themes specifically in three taught integrative modules, but you will also see how they resonate within other parts of the course, and indeed with guest speakers, non-course events and student-run conferences and competitions.

The one-year MBA programme at Oxford comprises an intensive series of:

• stimulating lectures
• energetic seminars
• intensive small group work
• team project work

A key aim of the programme is to develop your ability to think logically, laterally and independently that will take you anywhere in the world.

MBA launch

This three-week residential programme is designed to introduce you to the worldclass business school community at Saïd Business School and to college and University life at Oxford. During MBA Launch, you will be introduced to talent development through soft skill training and coaching. You will start to build fundamental skills to support the core courses, particularly in Business Finance, Accounting and Analytics. MBA Launch also includes the start of the Leadership Fundamentals course and a one-day workshop with a guest speaker to introduce each year’s GOTO topic.

Michaelmas term

During this term you will start to build the foundations of business by completing core courses. You will also have access to support courses and will begin working on your talent development plan. The first integrative module takes place during Michaelmas and focuses on Entrepreneurship. You will also begin working on your GOTO tutorials. 

Hilary term

During Hilary you will continue to work on core courses as well as choosing your elective courses. The Entrepreneurship Project takes place during this term as well as the second integrative module, Global Rules of the Game, is taught during Hilary.

Trinity term

Throughout Trinity you will work on further elective courses and continue to work on the last integrative module, Responsible Business.

Summer

During the summer there is a choice of options:

• a four to six-week strategic consulting project
• summer electives
• an internship of up to 8 ~ 9 weeks

Capstone

The course ends with a student developed final session of lectures, workshops and celebrations during the first two weeks of September.

Core courses

• Accounting
• Analytics
• Business Finance
• Firms and Markets
• Leadership Fundamentals
• Strategy
• Technology and Operations Management
• Marketing

Elective courses

• Applications of Game Theory
• Asset Management
• Business in China
• Cases in Finance and Investments
• Consulting in Practice
• Corporate Turnaround & Business Transformation
• Corporate Valuation
• Digital & Social Media Strategy
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Financial Crises and Risk Management
• Financial Market Trading
• Global Strategy
• Leadership: Perspectives from the Humanities
• Lean Six Sigma
• Leveraging the Power of Networks
• Marketing Analytics
• Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructuring
• Negotiations: Strategy and Practice
• Political Economy for Business Leaders
• Private Equity
• Project Management
• Real Estate
• Reputation and Leadership
• Rethinking Business
• Social Finance
• Strategy & Innovation
• Supply Chain Management
• The Nature of the Corporation
• Understanding and Innovating in the Collaborative Economy

1. An undergraduate degree
2. Relevant professional experience detailed in a 1-page CV
3. GMAT or GRE score
4. English test (if required)
5. Two professional/academic References
6. Mandatory essays: 
   • How do you fit with Oxford Saïd's mission? (Maximum 500 words)
   • Is there anything not covered in the application form which you would like the Admissions Committee to know about you? (Maximum 250 words)
7. A completed online application form along with a £150 application fee

• Saïd Business School scholarships
• Global Education
• Hill Foundation Scholarships