MBA - Business Excellence

Course details

The Middlesex Unuversity MBA programme has six taught modules each worth 20 credit-points in addition to and followed by a 60-credit dissertation. Four of the taught 20-credit modules are core and common across all pathways of the MBA. These relate to the core areas of competence which business professional need to effectively manage their workplace responsibilities. These four core modules are:

• Executive Leadership;
• Business Strategy;
• Finance and Economics;
• Marketing Management.

Two further 20-credit taught modules offer students the opportunity to emphasize their studies on their chosen area or discipline. The Business Excellence specialisation provides an in depth understanding of organisational learning and quality management and its link to attaining business excellence. The two specialist Business Excellence modules are:

• Organisational Excellence and Learning: students will critically assess and apply a range of theoretical frameworks and models to explain organisational learning and learning organisation concepts. 
• Business Excellence and Quality Management: provides a deep understanding of the international quality frameworks like the Deming Model, Malcolm Baldridge Model and EFQM model. This module will equip students to evaluate organisations across sectors, conduct self assessment and suggest actions to rectify any gaps.

What is Distinctive About the Middlesex MBA?

• Internationally recognised London degree, completed here in Duba• A multi-cultural cohort that work in a range of industries and businesses
• Outstanding full time faculty with industry experience based in Dubai
• Opportunity to choose an area of emphasis in either Business Excellence, Finance, International Business, Marketing or Operations and Logistics or alternatively choose a more generalist approachf
• Four Applied Learning Experiences and Four Executive Skills Development activities - away from the classroom
• International experience with a well-established international field trip. Past field trips have been to Milan , Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Madrid and other cities depending on the business theme for that year.
• A project-based MBA means that you undertake a significant practice-based project at the end of your taught content. 11 Exemptions for CIMA Advanced Qualification

Entry requirements

• Applicants will be expected to have three or more years of relevant business experience and hold at least a second class honours degree from a UK university or a degree of equivalent standard.
• Holders of graduate-level professional qualifications may also be admitted and are encouraged to apply.
• Applicants who do not possess either an honours degree or professional qualifications are also considered, but normally only if they supply a GMAT score of at least 550 points.

English Language Requirements

• Applicants whose undergraduate degree was not taught and examined in English must have one of the following English language qualifications: IELTS (written and spoken 6.5 or higher, and (preferably) listening 7.0) or TOEFL 600 (paper based) or 250 (computer based) or 100 (internet based) score.