KEY FACTS
Faculty:
School of Business
Study Options:
Full/Part Time
Start Date:
Sept 2023
Level:
Postgraduate
Course Length:
1/2 Years
Fees:
Home Full-time: £12,500 per annum
Home Part-time: £6,250 per annum
International and EU: £14,500 per annum
(For 2023, international and EU fees will be the same as Home fees)
Apply:
5th December 2022 to 3rd July 2023
ABOUT THE MBA
The University of Gibraltar Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a contemporary and career-focussed management programme that aims to challenge and inspire you. Whether you are seeking to boost your career prospects or change its direction, an MBA is an elite professional qualification that will provide you with the business management skills that will set you apart from the competition.
A CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM
The University of Gibraltar MBA has been developed in close consultation with industry. This
ensures you will benefit from a contemporary, relevant curriculum that prepares you for future
challenges.
Semester 1
Accounting and Reporting**
This module examines accounting from a holistic perspective by examining not only financial and management accounting topics, but also those sources of value that include the social, environmental, and governance impacts of business activities.
Marketing Management
This module offers a conceptual basis for making marketing decisions in a fast-changing business environment where organisations face competitive, social and environmental challenges in delivering customer value and achieving their business objectives. Marketing management requires a broad understanding of consumer behaviour and contemporary marketing strategies related to product development and management, pricing, distribution and communication, to enable decision making that reflects an understanding of their ethical, social and sustainability impacts.
Managing New Technologies
This module provides the theoretical framework that will allow students to gain a critical understanding of the importance of management information systems in an organisation and explore its application in their own business environment. They will also be introduced to dynamic new technologies and will examine the possibilities that new technologies would bring to their own organisations.
Managing People
This module concentrates on how people are managed as a resource, and how best to leverage the important resource they provide, while also behaving responsibly and ethically. The module also includes a focus on written skills, as this is key to most business settings where HR and other managers must compete for limited resources.
Semester 2
Leadership & Managing Change
This module focuses on responsible leadership of change which is leadership that not only anticipates, plans and implements change efficiently and effectively but does so in an environmentally sustainable way, with a high regard for ethical principles and due care for the interests of stakeholders.
Managerial Finance**
In this module, we provide a framework for firms to make optimal decisions to achieve the firm’s objective. Conventionally, we regard this as being to maximise the value of the firm, but very early in the module, we critically discuss the limitations and implications of this assumption in light of corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
Business Law
The module initially provides students with an overview of legal systems as well as theoretical and policy frameworks for the regulation of business and government activity, with a view to enhancing students’ legal risk management skills.
Strategic Decision Making
This module focuses on strategic management as a dynamic process that deals with the challenges posed by the highly turbulent and global environment of the 21st century. It is designed to sharpen students’ ability to think strategically, to evaluate organisational situations from a strategic perspective and to reach sound strategic decisions.
Semester 3
Capstone Project*
The aim of this module is to consolidate students’ learning acquired throughout their MBA into a single Capstone Project. Students will carry out an independent study on a topic of their choice. They will have the opportunity to apply the comprehensive theoretical knowledge, understanding and skills that they obtained throughout the MBA to an area of interest within either their own workplace setting, an organisation of their own choosing or a company quoted on the New York or London Stock Exchange.
* Students can choose a project that has a general focus or a more specialist focus such as Fintech, New Technologies, Events, Tourism & Hospitality or Gaming.
**Qualified accountants will be eligible to apply for exemption from these modules.
MBA VALEDICTORIAN (2021)
Thanks to our knowledgeable lecturers and their teachings, we are now able to incorporate areas of the topics covered into our working lives with confidence, with the aim of bettering not just our and our colleagues’ working environments and practices, but also their impact on the wider society."
Alfred Charles Pizarro, Finance & Administration Director at the Gibraltar Electricity Authority
QAA Global Accreditation
The University is delighted to have achieved global accreditation from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), the UK’s independent quality body and a global leader in quality assurance for higher education.
“In achieving QAA’s global accreditation, the University has displayed its compatibility with international best practice.”
Vicki Scott, UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Chief Executive.
BUILD YOUR NETWORK
Undertaking an MBA takes dedication and ambition.
The University of Gibraltar’s elite programme attracts dynamic, big thinkers all of whom bring their own unique experience to the table. Our students build relationships that live long beyond the classroom.
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Luke Kou
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
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"It has been a good experience to understand different perspectives in the workplace and we’ve had an insight into how the government works for example, as well as speaking to people from private companies, and it makes for interesting conversations."
Agata Zwan
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
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" I chose the MBA to gain knowledge to obtain a wider knowledge of business practices in general which would hopefully assist me in running my business."
Eamon Bermingham
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
AN EMPLOYER'S PERSPECTIVE
From an employer’s perspective, it is great to have access to this course locally. The quality of the MBA is evident, having already seen the application of what has been covered in the classroom taking hold in the workplace. What’s more, the savings when compared to flight and hotel costs for a similar course in the UK are significant. For all these reasons and more I’m happy to support staff looking to further their business education at the University of Gibraltar."
Gerry Kelly, Group CEO, Sovereign Group
Entry Requirements
Typically, all applicants will:
- Possess a good first degree awarded by a UK university or overseas equivalent.
- Be able to communicate ideas effectively in writing, in discussions and presentations. Basic IT skills, such as word-processing, email and Internet are expected.
- Have work experience; we value diversity of experience in our student body, therefore we welcome applications from recent graduates who have undertaken meaningful placements as well as those with all levels of work experience. We are more interested in the impact that you have had in your workplace than the length of time spent.
If you do not meet our entry requirements, you can still apply, as all applications are considered.
English Language Requirements:
- An overall IELTS test result of 6.5, including a minimum of 6.0 in all sub-tests. Equivalent awards will be considered (e.g. Pearson’s Test of English, Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English, Duolingo English Test, City & Guilds International ESOL 8984, or the TOEFL- IBT test of English proficiency).
Offers are based on a combination of qualifications or predicted grades, the applicant’s personal statement and references. For guidelines on personal statements and references please click here.
Fees
| Programme | Fee (per annum) | Years |
| Home Full-Time | £12,500 | 1 |
| Home Part-Time | £6,250 | 2 |
| International and EU | £14,500 | 1 (For 2023, international and EU fees will be the same as Home fees) |
Note: the above fees are for the Academic year 2023/24 and are subject to indexation.
Apply
Applications open: Monday 5th December 2022
Applications close: Monday 3rd July 2023
*Applications for visa requiring students close: Monday 29th May 2023
All applications are reviewed on a monthly rolling basis. Once you submit your application, it will be reviewed at the beginning of the following month, with an interview being scheduled for later that same month.
E.g. any applications submitted during the month of December will be reviewed at the beginning of January, with interviews being scheduled later in January.
Contact us via the enquire button for more information.
Business Innovation Scholarships
The Business Innovation Scholarships were designed to support the further education of business professionals. These competitive scholarships are intended to advance post-pandemic recovery of the global economy by educating future business leaders and decision makers. Business Innovation Scholarships will be awarded to 10 MBA students and are worth a maximum of £3,000.
We are no longer accepting Visa-requiring international applications for this programme.
Applications close 26th August 2022 for non-visa requiring students.
Bursaries and Scholarships
The University of Gibraltar hosts or directly offers a limited number of scholarship programmes to support your studies. These scholarships are highly competitive; they are available to support undergraduate, Master’s degree and PhD programmes and are made available to students based on certain criteria.
In addition, if you have been resident in Gibraltar for more than five years then, once you receive your offer letter from the University of Gibraltar, you can apply to the Department of Education for funding.
The University of Gibraltar MBA focuses on the application of theory to practical work situations. Students will gain the knowledge and skills they will need to assist them to navigate the complex business decisions that are ever present in the ongoing business environment.”
Áine Panter, Head of School (Business)
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