Colchester,
United Kingdom
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
Master of Business Administration - The Essex MBA in Colchester United Kingdom | University of Essex
University of Essex
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Colchester United Kingdom
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Qualification
Masters Degree (Taught)
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
GBP
25,000
(c. USD33,480.25)
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
12 months
The Essex MBA is designed to nurture socially conscious entrepreneurs who drive sustainable business practices. Our students bring talent, ambition, and vibrant energy, coupled with an entrepreneurial mindset that we foster throughout their journey. Essex MBAs strive to make enduring positive impacts on their lives and communities, empowering them to shape the future they envision.
This program is tailored for business professionals seeking to push their boundaries, enhance their expertise, and accelerate their careers.
You'll explore diverse business disciplines, covering strategic marketing, sustainable operations, and financial management.
Essential to The Essex MBA, our Director's Workshops feature intensive one or two-day sessions at pivotal program stages. These may involve industry expert talks, collaborative exercises, and engagements with business incubators. The workshops bridge classroom learning with real-world challenges while honing professional competencies. Past topics have included personal branding, startup strategies, ethical decision-making, risk assessment, data analytics for SMEs, value proposition crafting, and consulting methodologies.
The program launches with a skills-building week focused on networking, teamwork, and agile thinking, culminating in a Capstone project. Here, you'll select either a dissertation, detailed business plan, or consultancy initiative aligned with your career aspirations.
Flexible learning options accommodate working professionals, with January and October intake options available.
Destination of Study
Subjects of Study
Language Requirements
English
IELTS 6.5
Qualification Requirements
A 2:2 degree. You are also expected to have an absolute minimum three years of good quality, relevant, professional work experience, post-graduation, at the course start date. You must also evidence that you have experience managing people, projects or budgets, that you have been able to progress in your career so far and/or that you have been involved in additional entrepreneurial or community focused activities. Once you have applied your experience will be assessed individually against these criteria before a decision is made whether your application will be progressed to the interview stage.
If you are a non-standard applicant (which is typically an applicant who has an undergraduate degree below a 2:2, or an applicant who does not have an undergraduate degree at all) we require at least five years of relevant managerial experience. You will also be required to write an essay (2000 words) outlining a range of business situations that you have experienced and identifying what you have learnt from them, linking this to how your MBA studies will support you in similar situations in the future.
All MBA applicants must submit an up-to-date CV. For each professional role, your CV should include: company name, job title, dates of employment, details of your role and responsibilities and an outline of the skills required or learnt in the role. You must also submit a personal statement which is specific to The Essex MBA programme, tells us why you think it the right programme for you and how your work and other experiences will help you to succeed on the MBA.
You dont need to have completed GMAT to apply for the Essex MBA but we particularly welcome applicants with a GMAT score of 600 and above. If you have completed GMAT, please submit your score as it may strengthen your application and your chances of securing a scholarship.
IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum component score of 6.0
TOEFL IBT - 88 overall with minimum component scores: Listening: 24 Reading: 24 Writing: 24 Speaking: 24
If you are a non-standard applicant (which is typically an applicant who has an undergraduate degree below a 2:2, or an applicant who does not have an undergraduate degree at all) we require at least five years of relevant managerial experience. You will also be required to write an essay (2000 words) outlining a range of business situations that you have experienced and identifying what you have learnt from them, linking this to how your MBA studies will support you in similar situations in the future.
All MBA applicants must submit an up-to-date CV. For each professional role, your CV should include: company name, job title, dates of employment, details of your role and responsibilities and an outline of the skills required or learnt in the role. You must also submit a personal statement which is specific to The Essex MBA programme, tells us why you think it the right programme for you and how your work and other experiences will help you to succeed on the MBA.
You dont need to have completed GMAT to apply for the Essex MBA but we particularly welcome applicants with a GMAT score of 600 and above. If you have completed GMAT, please submit your score as it may strengthen your application and your chances of securing a scholarship.
IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum component score of 6.0
TOEFL IBT - 88 overall with minimum component scores: Listening: 24 Reading: 24 Writing: 24 Speaking: 24
Tuition
GBP
25,000