Full-time MBA career development
Giving you the tools you need to drive your career forward.
We give you the edge with our focus on practical experience. Our dedicated MBA Careers Team will help you unlock your potential. This is so important to your future we’ve made it a core part of the Bath MBA.
You will:
- enhance your essential business skills
- work with expert coaches and mentors
- explore post-MBA options
Your career support
Whether you know what path you want to take or not, we know you want to grow as a leader. We can help you get there. And we’ll be there for you after you graduate. Our MBA Careers Team will be happy to support you as you progress through your career.
Drive your career forward with our Business Career Accelerator
Personal and professional development is so important to your future we’ve made it a core part of the Bath MBA.
You will:
- enhance your essential business skills like communication, presenting and financial data analysis
- work with expert coaches and mentors on your personal and professional development
- explore post-MBA options with our dedicated MBA Careers Team
Coaching
Work one-to-one with an expert executive coach throughout your MBA. You’ll be able to discuss your professional and personal development with an independent and fully-accredited coaching expert. Over your time with us you’ll meet regularly with your coach, set goals and reflect on your progress.
These confidential sessions are a great way to focus your personal and professional development. You’ll also get help with any current challenges you’re facing.
Mentoring
Our MBA graduates work all over the world in almost every sector you could imagine. They include successful executives and entrepreneurs from a range of backgrounds. And they love helping our students be their best.
As an MBA student, you’ll have access to our pool of mentors. You’ll be able to get advice from people with relevant skills and experience who have been through it all before.
A lot of our mentors are Bath MBA alumni. And once you graduate you might be able to help mentor the next generation of MBA students.
Careers advice and guidance
The MBA Careers Team are on hand for advice, guidance and information throughout your year at Bath. With their experience and resources, you’ll have all the tools you need to plan your career.
Support after you graduate
Your MBA doesn’t end when you graduate. Our MBA Careers Team will be available to you after you finish.
Whether you want introductions to other MBA graduates in our network, a review of your CV or a career planning chat, we’ll be happy to help. We want to be there with you as your career grows.
CV coaching
Develop a CV/résumé that will help you stand out from the crowd with one-to-one career coaching and feedback.
Interviews and assessments
You’ll have the opportunity to practise one-to one interviews and mock assessments with our MBA Careers Team and visiting consultants. You will receive personalised feedback and tips to help you improve your interview technique.
Workshops and webinars
We hold a range of workshops throughout the year, delivered by experts from academia and industry. These include themes like:
- CV writing
- cover letters
- searching for jobs
- psychological safety
- project management
- advanced networking
- video interviews
- salary negotiation
- case study success
- psychometric testing
Graduate career data
Discover the career destinations of our latest graduating class (2022-23).
Salary uplift
The average salary increase from before starting an MBA to three months after completing it
- Advertising and marketing - 14%
- Architecture and property services - 14%
- Healthcare - 14%
- Management consulting - 14%
- Manufacturing - 14%
- Banking and finance - 10%
- Distribution, logistics and storage - 10%
- Environmental and conservation - 10%
Graduate industries
Industry after the full-time Bath MBA
Employment data is based on the employment outcomes of the class of 2023 within three months of completion. Percentages are for those for who we hold data and are rounded to the nearest whole number.
Post-MBA employment locations
Where will the Bath MBA take you? Full-time MBA employment locations 1989-present
Recent recruiters
Some of the organisations our full-time MBA graduates of our 2022-23 class have gone on to work for.
Amazon
Bloomberg
Cellular Agriculture Limited
EY
Medtronic
Nestlé
Publicis Groupe
Rotork
We've had several employees come through the Bath MBA and that's really helped us shore up our capabilities as a management team. The breadth of experience you get from the MBA and the understanding and capabilities you grow from it enable us to be able to think differently as a management team.
Content and structure
Find out more about the full-time MBA’s modules, our Multi-Project Suite and how we teach the programme.