MBA in Tech Leadership Online

Course Details

MBA in Tech Leadership Online

Our Master of Business Administration in Tech Leadership Online (MBA in Tech Leadership) is focused on developing your business management and leadership skills with a significant emphasis on cutting-edge and developing technologies, their application in the business world, and the legal challenges and risks.

Teaching strategy is student centred and is driven by intense case analysis, simulations, practical application of business tools and group activities. The aim is to bring the real world of business into the classroom to prepare students for what they might encounter in the working world. 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 unique challenges of tech industries.
• 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.

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. Full-time online students benefit from 8 hours per week of live webinars, allowing real-time engagement with peers and lecturers.
• 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.