The strength of the Durham Executive MBA programme is its relevance to you and your employer; we believe in sound, practice-oriented education and our Executive MBA programme is designed to allow you to put your new knowledge to use immediately.

We don´t pretend that the Durham MBA is anything other than challenging and demanding, as we believe that this is what you and employers expect. The two-year Durham Executive MBA Programme requires significant commitment; our ethos however is one of support and we encourage you to base your assignments and projects on real work issues, thus offering benefits to both you and your organisation. Relating the MBA to your organisation in this way can lead to a return on investment: we are not talking just about cost savings, but primarily added value, e.g., quality improvements, innovations and new ideas for organisational and business unit strategy, gained from exchanging experiences with colleagues, tutors and lecturers.

The Durham Executive MBA also equips you with a broad range of management skills including the ability to develop practical solutions and improve methods of working, enabling your organisation to achieve a competitive edge. If you are willing to bring enthusiasm, we offer you the benefits of an excellent teaching programme and a highly valued qualification.

The key assets of the programme are its participants, who come from a wide range of managerial backgrounds in both private and public sectors, and include an above average number of women managers. Our recruitment is designed to attract experience and diversity and a central theme to our recruiting is welcoming experience and encouraging diversity within the student body.

Programme Structure
Teaching on this two-year, part-time Executive MBA programme will take place over 4-day blocks (normally Wednesday to Saturday) approximately every 6 weeks. The programme is structured into three consecutive stages:

• Seven core modules which provide a foundation of managerial knowledge: Managing People; Managing in the Competitive Environment; Managing in the Global Environment; Managing Finance; Managing People; Modelling and Analysis for Business; Strategic Management; and Methods of Inquiry
• Five electives chosen from a wide selection, which allow you to either tailor your MBA to a particular specialism or take a more generalist route. For a list of electives currently on offer, please visit www.dur.ac.uk/dbs
• 15,000 word dissertation or business project, which provides an opportunity to work on a management topic of personal interest, utilising knowledge and theory acquired throughout the programme.

In addition to excellent academic teaching, Durham provides you with additional activities that add value to the experience and to your MBA:

The Continual Professional Development (CPD) Programme runs alongside the taught academic programme and ensures that Durham MBA graduates possess the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to excel in the academic and the business world. It is modelled upon those skills sought by leading MBA recruiters.

A key part of the core programme is the Boardroom Activity, an experience unique to the Durham MBA programme and linked to CPD activity, which integrates academic learning from the core modules into a live boardroom situation.

Included in the cost of the programme is an international study experience of around a week. The experience will include a mixture of company and organisation visits, lectures and cultural events, providing you with the opportunity to learn about, and immerse yourself in, the business environment of another country.

As part of the Durham MBA´s focus on developing global managers, students on the Full-Time MBA study a new language, timetabled for two hours each week over the teaching year, and run in the Business School by Durham University´s Language Centre.

To balance theory and practice, Durham Business School offers an extensive schedule of guest speakers and guest seminars. The speakers, all pre-eminent in their fields, include senior executives from regional, national and international businesses.

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