Master of Business Administration MBA

Overview

As a busy and ambitious professional, you may want the range of skills and expertise that an MBA can provide, but do not have time to accommodate the schedule of a less flexible MBA programme. Firm on standards and quality, the EBS MBA programme allows you to tailor your study route to meet your own specific requirements.

The EBS Master of Business Administration programme is specifically designed to provide an intellectually demanding and rigorous programme that enables you to study when and where you wish and to take examinations anywhere in the world.

You work towards your MBA on a course-by-course basis. After completing three courses, you are eligible for a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration, and after six courses for a Postgraduate Diploma. The certificate and diploma awards are formal recognition of your progress; they can also be used as exit awards. Specialist awards are available at diploma and MBA level depending on your choice of courses.

Programme duration

Approximately 200 study hours per course.

Programme content

You must complete the seven core courses, and two electives.

The courses can be studied through self-managed distance learning, through an Approved Learning Partner or as the Executive MBA on campus in Edinburgh (see Study options). EBS also offers 4-day seminars and 2-day revision seminars in certain courses on campus in Edinburgh (see Study options).

Core courses

• Accounting
• Economics
• Finance
• Marketing
• Organisational Behaviour
• Project Management
• Strategic Planning

Elective courses

• Alliances and Partnerships
• Competitive Strategy
• Consumer Behaviour
• Corporate Governance
• Credit Risk Management
• Derivatives
• Developing Effective Managers and Leaders
• Employee Relations
• Employee Resourcing
• Financial Risk Management
• Human Resource Development
• Human Resource Management
• Influence
• International Marketing
• Leadership
• Making Strategies Work
• Managing People in Changing Contexts
• Managing People in Global Markets
• Managing Personal Competencies
• Marketing Channels
• Marketing Communications
• Marketing Research
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Negotiation
• Performance Management
• Practical History of Financial Markets
• Principles of Retailing
• Quantitative Methods
• Research Methods for Business and Management
• Sales Force Management
• Services Marketing
• Strategic Negotiation
• Strategic Risk Management

Entry requirements

Executive MBA programme

Entry onto the Executive MBA programme is by application and admission. Students are expected to have:

• A first- or second-class honours degree, or a qualification deemed to be equivalent, or passes in three of the MBA courses (one of which must be a core course).
• A minimum of 4 years' post-qualifying full-time work experience of a responsible nature.
• Evidence of competence in the English language (where English is not the first language of the applicant), in the form of an acceptable IELTS or TOEFL score.

Tuition fees

Fees for this programme can be found on the EBS website.

Scholarships & bursaries

• African Scholarship Programme (EBS)
  Applicants from all over sub-Saharan Africa. Further information and application form from the Canon Collins Trust
• Alumni Scholarship Scheme
  Heriot-Watt Alumni
• British Chamber of Commerce in Germany Foundation Scholarship (German students)
  German nationals
• Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursaries
  Applicants must be Scottish by birth, have at least one parent born in Scotland or have been continuously resident in Scotland for a period of three years for the purpose of secondary or tertiary education.
• Chevening Scholarship
  Non UK
• Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
  International (Commonwealth citizens)
• Department for International Development (DFID) Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme
  Commonwealth citizens
• East Lothian Educational Trust
  Applicants must be a resident of the old county of East Lothian (ie excluding Musselburgh, Wallyford and Whitecraig.)
• Edinburgh Business School Scholarship for On-Campus Programmes (EBS)
  Awarded on the basis of prior academic achievement, financial hardship and the use to which the qualification will be put.
• Entente Cordiale Scholarships
  French nationals aged 35 or under.
• Football Bursaries
  All students
• Japan Scotland Association Scholarship
  Japanese nationals planning to enter a postgraduate course at Masters level at a Scottish University.
• Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust
  Restricted to residents of the UK who are a son, daughter, spouse, widow or widower of a commercial traveller, chemist or grocer.
• Local Education Authority Awards
  Various
• Mexican Scholarships
  Mexican applicants
• Music Scholarships
  All students
• Part-time Fee Grant (SAAS)
  See SAAS residence conditions.
• Postgraduate Student Allowance Scheme (SAAS)
  EU and UK applicants who meet the SAAS criteria on eligible courses
• Remission of Fees (families of staff)
  Spouses/civil partners and children of members of staff, also retired members of staff of the University
• Royal Caledonian Schools Trust
  Applicants must be of Scots parentage (conditions apply - see below)
• Scotland's Saltire Scholarships
  Citizens of Canada, the People's Republic of China, India or USA (2 awards for each country)
• Sports Bursaries
  All students
• Sports Scholarships
  All students
• Staff Scholarships
  Employees of Heriot-Watt University
• West Lothian Educational Trust
  Individuals must have originated in West Lothian or have lived there for the last 3 years.

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