Online MBA

Programme options include:

MBA

Become a responsible, reflective, and resilient global business leader for the future whilst also balancing your career interests with an integrative learning experience on the Birmingham online MBA. Pathway options include:

• Marketing
• International Business and Strategy
• Innovation and Business Transformation

MBA with Clinical Leadership

Respond to the growing challenges facing healthcare and empower yourself to lead smarter, more effective healthcare systems. By uniquely focusing on both health service management and business leadership, this specialism will equip both clinical and non-clinical professionals with the ability and confidence to lead clinical experts and effect change.

MBA with Engineering Leadership

Harness your engineering expertise and integrate it with responsible business practices to set yourself apart as a leader who can make a lasting impact on both your organisation and society. You’ll become polished in entrepreneurial and systems thinking, analysis, and self-awareness.

If you’re unable to commit to the full MBA qualification, there are alternative qualification routes. You can exit with one of the following credentials:

• Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip): 120 credits
• Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert): 60 credits

Inconvenient online modules, you’ll engage with a small, diverse group of peers to gain global insights and varied perspectives on modern business topics. Study a modern curriculum that emphasises curiosity, thought leadership, and responsible business skills while preparing you for career advancement opportunities.

Module highlights

• Responsible Business
• Purposeful Leader
• Strategy in a Complex and Uncertain World
• People Management and Organisations
• MBA Company Project

• Online MBA ranked 9th in the world (Financial Times 2024), including:
  • 2nd for MBA careers services
  • 4th for value for money
  • 5th for global mobility
• Online MBA ranked 11th in the EMEA region (QS 2024)
• World leading ‘Top 100’ university (QS 2025, THE 2025)
• Russell Group member university

Learning outcomes

• Practise purposeful and inclusive leadership.
• Set direction, vision, and governance and provide a clear sense of purpose for organisations.
• Work collaboratively or in partnership with a variety of stakeholders to influence key decision-makers as appropriate and meet sustainable development objectives.
• Apply business frameworks and data intelligence for ESG to develop more responsible business practices.
• Assess social, economic, and technological trends and developments relevant to different areas of expertise and wider organisation and promote innovation to address changing requirements.
• Generate business improvement through promoting ethical, inclusive, innovative, entrepreneurial, and supportive processes and culture.