The Manchester MBA is an incredible journey. You will push yourself beyond your comfort zone and achieve more than you thought possible. The experience will be rigorous, intense and life-changing. But you will be reaping the rewards during the programme and long after graduation.

The Manchester MBA - who will you become?

Since our inception in the 1960’s, MBS has developed a worldwide reputation for providing exceptional business and management education. Today, our intensive 18 month Full-time MBA delivers the competitive edge, international experience and added value other shorter programmes simply cannot match.

Our applied, practical approach ensures you get a thorough grounding in business theory, then the opportunity to put it into practice with international projects, live consultancy work and internships with high-profile, global companies.

Our unique hands-on approach to learning means you will get up to six months of client-facing hours during the programme - providing you with an opportunity to test your theories immediately in real world situations and ensuring you won't feel completely removed from the commercial world.

The 18 month programme includes:

• Not-for-Profit Project with real client in NFP sector
• Mergers & Acquistions Project
• UK Consultancy Project with real client in business sector
• Internship (optional, usually paid)
• International Exchange Programme (optional)
• Electives
• International Business Project with real client

MBS is consistently ranked as one of the World's leading schools. We score particularly highly in rankings which show the value we can bring to your career:

• Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2012: Overall ranking 31st in the World
• Business Week Return on Investment Ranking 2010 (ROI): 3rd in the World
• Forbes ROI Ranking 2011: 2nd in World for ROI 5 years after graduation (for non-US programmes of more than one year)

The Manchester MBA is transformational. Not only do we prepare you to become outstanding business leaders/entrepreneurs, we also place an important emphasis on people and how to manage and motivate them successfully. We achieve this through our intellectually stimulating classroom teaching combined with real-life client projects and the development of management/leadership skills.

In the important UK government Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), MBS is ranked first of all UK universities for research power in Business and Management and Finance and Accounting. Our original research is transferred to our MBAs through the quality of our teaching particularly in the MBA electives. The Financial Times ranks our PhD programme 1st in the World (Jan 2012).

The Manchester MBA programme is truly global in all aspects: class participants, teaching, company projects and alumni network. Request a brochure