menu icon
Global Business Administration (Financial Services Management) MBA

Global Business Administration (Financial Services Management) MBA

Different course options

Full time | Oxstalls Campus | 1 year | SEP-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-25

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MBA - Master of Business Administration

Subject areas

Financial Services Business Administration

Course Summary

This flagship two-year Global MBA offers you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of business, engaging with some of the most contemporary challenges faced by global business leaders.

Supported by our Global Leadership Development Programme and 12 month industry placement, you will be offered the opportunity to develop the most in-demand skills needed to confront the challenges and unlock the opportunities of a dynamic and unpredictable economic environment. You’ll also explore significant issues including business resilience and crisis management as a key part of the course.

The Financial Services Management specialism aims to equip students with a deep and broad critical knowledge, conceptual understanding and competence in the increasingly complex and fast-moving world of international financial service.

Modules unique to this specialism include:

  • Financial Markets and Regulation
  • Financial Engineering

This applied MBA will provide you with the knowledge foundations of business before offering the unique opportunity to specialise in your chosen industrial field, allowing the flexibility to shape your study based on your career aspirations. It is designed to develop creative, flexible and aspirational leaders of industry.

You will be immersed in fundamental business principles. These core foundations of business integrate cross-cutting themes relating to the global challenges shaping today’s business environment, including technological change, the global political and economic context, social and demographic change and environmental crisis.

Modules

The purpose of this module is to allow the student to carry out a self-managed piece of work that integrates the knowledge and skills acquired during the previous study within an employability and career development focused framework. It provides students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to the development of a business plan for the launch of a new business ventureor to the analysis and resolution of the kinds of business and management problems that are encountered in developing a viable and business case. It also provides the opportunity for students to communicate proposed solutions and the underpinning rationale to an audience of potential investors, peers, business professionals and academic mentors.
Financial Engineering (Derivatives) (FT7204)
Financial Markets and Regulations (FT7104)
Global Leadership Challenges: Leadership by Design (BM7200)
International Trade Law (LW7014)
Strategic Management (FT7208)

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£11,925

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£18,700

Entry requirements

A 2:2 honours degree or equivalent, or a comparable professional qualification and ideally a minimum of two years management / supervisory experience. Applicants with significant work experience but without a formal Level 6 qualification will also be considered. We will consider a comparable professional or postgraduate qualification.

University information

University of Gloucestershire (UoG) is a diverse, vibrant university with campuses across Cheltenham and Gloucester, in the southwest of England. A research-driven institution, it’s ranked top 15 in the UK for postgraduate study (WhatUni Student Choice Awards, 2023) with a wide range of excellent postgraduate courses. There are over 1,000 postgraduate students at the university, forming a diverse and creative community that supports each...more