MBA in Business Management
Course Overview
The MBA in Business Management at the London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a one-year UK MBA for experienced managers stepping into director-track general management — heads of function preparing for a general-management remit at UK corporates, senior operators inside SMEs, or family-business successors preparing to take over. Sitting in the Business & Management faculty, the MBA combines strategy, corporate finance, operations at scale, leadership and change with a substantial live consulting project.
The MBA runs one year full-time (two years part-time via online or distance routes). Students complete a sponsor consulting project with a UK business, sit under executive-coach-supported leadership work, and defend a strategic-management capstone in front of a working panel. Delivery is on-campus in central London, fully online with cohort calls scheduled across UK and APAC time zones, and by distance learning.
Key Features
- Curriculum reviewed against CMI Chartered Manager competency framework and AMBA-tier MBA reference points.
- Three study modes — central London campus, fully online with UK/APAC cohort calls, or distance learning.
- Live sponsor consulting project with a UK business.
- Executive-coach-supported leadership work throughout the year.
- Strategic-management capstone defended in front of a working panel.
- Structured executive-application coaching in the final term.
What You Will Learn
The MBA organises general management around the working questions a UK director actually owns: where the strategy lives, where value comes from, where the team breaks, and where the board's attention needs to be next quarter.
- Strategy at director level — hypothesis-driven strategy, war-gaming, portfolio choices.
- Corporate finance for directors — DCF, WACC, capex governance, capital structure.
- Operations at scale — footprint, sourcing, digital, resilience.
- Marketing at director level — CIM strategy, brand equity, marketing ROI.
- Leadership — executive presence, coaching, chief-of-staff dynamics.
- Change and transformation — Kotter, ADKAR, sequencing at scale.
- UK governance — Corporate Governance Code, board effectiveness, section 172.
- Data-informed decision-making — hypotheses, structured evidence, weight of argument.
- Ethics and Institute of Business Ethics guidance at director trade-offs.
- Applied consulting research on a sponsor-led UK client problem.
Who This Course Is For
- Experienced UK managers targeting director-track corporate roles.
- International managers seeking a UK MBA credential recognised in home markets.
- Founders and COOs of UK scale-ups formalising a general-management credential.
- Family-business successors preparing to take over senior responsibility.
- Career switchers with senior technical or specialist experience moving into general management.
Career Pathways
Graduates typically progress into director-track and senior general-management roles across UK corporates, SMEs, scale-ups and consultancies. The MBA supports applications but does not by itself guarantee job offers or visa outcomes.
- General Manager
- Head of Function (senior)
- Operations Director (junior)
- Strategy Director (junior)
- Managing Director (SME)
- Chief of Staff
The MBA is a strong signal for CMI Chartered Manager application, IoD director development programmes and executive coaching career tracks.
Entry Requirements
- A UK 2:2 honours degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent international qualification. Applicants with three years of substantive management experience may apply on a portfolio route (which the MBA specifically welcomes).
- GCSE English Language at grade 5/C (or equivalent) for domestic applicants; international applicants meet the language rule below.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- A short statement of intent (600 words) explaining research or applied interests, plus two references (one academic, one workplace or professional-body) — applicants with CMI, IoD or professional-body membership should mention it on application.
Why Study at LSIBM
The London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a specialist business-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. Postgraduate cohorts run in small tutor-visible groups, are shaped by working senior practitioners (partner-level at a Big Four firm, Fellow-level at CIM or CIPD, CFA charter-holders in investment routes) and close with a substantial dissertation, sponsor consulting project or applied capstone defended in front of a working panel.
London puts the City, Canary Wharf, Whitehall, Companies House, the FCA, the Bank of England, the West End and the major consulting, banking and multinational headquarters within a short tube ride of every classroom. LSIBM postgraduates attend a fortnightly senior-practitioner clinic and a structured executive-application coaching programme in the final term.
Apply for the MBA in Business Management
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