Master of Business Administration

The Aberystwyth MBA is taught through a balanced curriculum, including theory, workshops, and case studies taken from the international arena. An important objective is to provide relevant analytical training in the latest strategic managerial and organizational developments in both the public and private sectors. You will collect and analyse relevant information across a range of areas pertaining to a current situation, synthesise the information into a form appropriate for evaluation of decision alternatives, and engage with people from different cultural backgrounds in order to raise the level of organizational awareness and thinking.

As a participant in the MBA programme, you will study current management theory and acknowledged best practice in areas such as leadership, operations, corporate governance and sustainability. The programme includes coverage of human resource management and organizational behaviour. The study of financial analysis and decision making emphasises the uses of financial and accounting data to inform and improve strategic decisions and operations. The coverage of business economics emphasises the external context, as well as the economic foundations, for business decision-making across a range of functional areas.

Aberystwyth Business School measures itself and excels against the service delivery and product excellence "gold standards" of the UK university sector. We are not the type of business school where your lectures will be with hundreds of other students and you are unknown to the taff throughout your time at university. Class sizes at Aberystwyth are small, and you will be known to us personally within the first few weeks of joining us. We have a great mix of the UK and international students from many different countries, and you will find it easy to mix and make friends with other students from a broad range of backgrounds and cultures. The result: Aberystwyth is regularly voted in the Top 5 Universities in the UK for student experience and student satisfaction.

Teaching and Learning

Aberystwyth Business School is renowned for the quality of teaching and learning and the cultural experience of studying management and finance. Staff are drawn from academia and the private sector to give students a cutting-edge view of business theory and practice. Whilst we delight in being small, and punching above our weight, our staff are very proud of what they consistently achieve. Our students recognise the benefits of curriculum flexibility and highly focused discipline coverage - we don't teach you peripheral subjects, we focus on the absolute fundamentals; those fundamentals that will deliver the outcomes that are important to you: contemporary understands, outstanding professional competence, and employability.

Learning Resources

With electronic access to all the learning resources you’ll ever need, over 1400 networked PCs, and a wireless internet connection in every room, you’ll never struggle to find the information you want when you are trying to complete an assignment. £4.5 million has been spent renovating the teaching facilities in the past year, creating world-class learning facilities. If you like turning the pages of real books you’re in luck too. Aberystwyth Business School is located next to the Hugh Owen Library where all the University's books and journals are held. Less than five minutes walk from the Penglais Campus is the National Library for Wales, a copyright library that holds an edition of every book or periodical published in the United Kingdom (6 million +).

Employability

We understand that studying a degree is part of a longer-term professional career. As well as achieving your degree, for the best start in the business world, you need to have the most up-to-date skills and techniques. Our teaching covers the fundamentals of management and finance, with an emphasis on applied knowledge supported, where relevant, by accreditation from professional bodies. Graduates have gone to work for numerous prestigious establishments, including multinational organisations, SME’s and public sector employers. Students are supported by a careers officer, an alumni network and professional classes throughout their degree to make the transition to a fulfilling career.