MBA in Governance and Risk Management

Course Details

MBA in Governance and Risk Management

Our Master of Business Administration in Governance and Risk Management (MBA in Governance and Risk Management) will develop your business management and leadership skills, while the governance focus will include compliance, ethical oversight, sustainability and risk management. Designed with an emphasis upon meeting industry developmental needs, you’ll learn how to be:

• A business management professional, expert in the advanced study of organisations, their management and the changing context in which they operate, both nationally and internationally, as well as the critical oversight necessary for top management.
• A critically aware learner who can identify how to fast-track business opportunities in a corporate or entrepreneurial venture.
• A confident manager and leader who can convert theory into practice from a detailed and informed perspective, to advance the effectiveness of an organisation.

The 2-year version 'with Professional Practice' will give you the opportunity in your second year to showcase your practical experience by choosing to undertake either a paid placement in a company, a dissertation, a business project, a consultancy project or a business plan.

Take a look at the other programmes in our MBA suite:

Master of Business Administration (MBA), this is a general business and management MBA, with an emphasis on leadership and managerial skills.
MBA in Tech Leadership, designed to educate individuals as general managers in the fast-paced and constantly evolving tech industry.

Why study an MBA with us?

• Our Careers and Employability Service: You’ll benefit from 1:1 executive coaching for 3 semesters and develop a PDP (Personal Development Plan) tailored to your career goals and unique skills.
• Professional Networking: Through our heritage and connections in law and business, you’ll benefit from our combined networks, supplemented by an annual residential networking week (for online and on-campus students). Our teaching methods and extra-curricular employability activities promote ongoing relationships between students throughout the programme.
• Unique teaching methodology: You'll work on real-life business scenarios and benefit from peer-to-peer learning in the classroom, moderated by industry specialists.
• Our ‘MBA Challenge’ modules ensure that you practice and develop the vital business skills you learn across other modules in an integrative manner, better reflecting the complexities of the real world.
• Flexibility of study: Decide whether to study full-time, part-time, on-campus or 100% online. General MBA programme electives include options focused on different industries, including healthcare, professional services, technology and business legal issues, and we also offer specialised programmes in Tech Leadership and Governance & Risk Management.
• Integrating Business and Law: Focused on impact, employability and future outcomes, our MBAs provide you with solid foundations on Business subjects, as well as including aspects of the Law that are pertinent to organisational managers and leaders. MBA Tech Leadership specialty has a Legal Tech module, and the Governance and Risk Management has an IP module that is half law content.

In order to study this course you are required to have an Undergraduate degree with a minimum of a 2:2 or above or equivalent qualifications, plus 3 years of relevant professional/managerial experience, and successfully pass an interview that assesses suitability to the course. We also offer a non-standard route requiring a qualification at Level 6 or above combined with 5 years of relevant professional/managerial experience and two professional references. You will be required to pass the same interview as the standard route.