The Bath MBA programme content and modules
Explore the core and optional modules you’ll study and how you’ll apply your learning through the Multi-Project Suite.
The Bath MBA combines contemporary management insight with practical application. Through integrated modules, collaborative learning and applied projects, you’ll develop your understanding and use it to address real organisational and business challenges.
Please note that the modules and course information below relate to the 2027/28 full-time MBA programme.
How the Bath MBA is structured
Your learning is organised around integrated core modules, optional modules and four applied projects.
Core modules
Build your understanding across connected areas of business, leadership and organisational decision-making.
Optional modules
Optional modules let you tailor your MBA to your career interests and ambitions.
Multi-Project Suite
Complete four applied projects alongside your taught learning, giving you many opportunities to put ideas into practice.
Core modules
We’ve designed our integrated core modules to give you a thorough understanding of key leadership, business, and personal and professional development areas.
Optional modules
After completing your core modules, you’ll choose optional modules to personalise your MBA. These will allow you to expand your learning and explore more content in areas which are important to you, helping you to make the MBA your own.
Availability of optional modules is subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes and timetabling factors, as well as a student’s ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
Multi-Project Suite
With our distinctive Multi-Project Suite, you’ll complete four different projects instead of doing a final project focusing on one topic.
The Multi-Project Suite gives you four opportunities to apply your learning to real organisational and business challenges.
You’ll work in teams across social action, consulting and change management, and entrepreneurship, before bringing your learning together in a final consolidating project.
You will:
- develop your research, project and consultancy skills
- work collaboratively on real business situations
- gain exposure to different organisations and challenges
- build practical experience to add to your CV or résumé
Social action project
Work on a challenge with a not for profit organisation to create meaningful social value.
Consulting and change management project
Build valuable project and consulting skills by working with an external client to help solve a real organisational or business problem. Work through the different dimensions of a complex change initiative and apply your learning in practice.
Entrepreneurship project
Develop an entrepreneurial mindset by exploring the viability of a new business idea which you’ll pitch to a panel of investors and entrepreneurs.
Consolidating project
The Consolidating Project brings together your learning from across the MBA. You’ll integrate the knowledge, skills and perspectives you have developed and apply them to a substantial business or management challenge.
Choose between:
- working as part of a consulting team, typically with a corporate client, to address a significant business challenge
- an individual project on a business or management topic of your choice
"A distinctive feature of the programme is the hands-on engagement with actual clients. We had the opportunity to tackle real-world challenges faced by organisations."
How you learn on the Bath MBA
Integrated modules and Learning Teams
Our core integrated modules combine business subject areas. We teach these together to reflect how modern organisations work. You’ll be able to take what you learn in the classroom and apply it to real business situations.
Enhance your MBA with collaborative learning. When you start your MBA, you’ll join a Learning Team with other students. Together, you will be colleagues for study and team-based assessments.
Our MBA students come from varied backgrounds and sectors. You’ll share:
- your individual experiences
- information about your culture and backgrounds
- thoughts on topical leadership challenges
- perspectives on international markets and business models
Over the year you’ll work across different Learning Teams. This means you’ll be able to work with a diverse range of professionals.
Responsibility, sustainability, collaboration and innovation
The Bath MBA is shaped by the University’s core values. We want to develop thoughtful, responsible leaders ready to make a meaningful impact.
The course provides an experience that will develop the way you learn, think about and approach business. You will:
- embrace sustainable, responsible leadership principles to have an impact on business – and the way business impacts the world
- use the power of collaboration to develop a deeper understanding of business disciplines and the confidence to challenge and inspire others
- enjoy a culture of innovation, helping you to generate new ideas and solutions
- go beyond the theory and apply what you learn to get practical business experience
Interact with industry
The Bath MBA brings you together with business leaders and organisations.
Business is at the core of the Bath MBA. You will engage with our business partners from early in the course. Gain insights into different industries and build your network.
Guest speakers
Hear from leaders from a range of sectors. Our guest speakers share their experience of various business settings.
Recent speakers have included experts in:
- digital and social media
- management consulting
- data analytics
- branding
- global trading platforms
- private equity
- entrepreneurship
Company visits
Visit a range of companies and find out how they manage in a competitive global environment.
Further information
Information about how we deliver the Bath MBA and additional costs.
Teaching and learning
Occasionally we make changes to our course in response to, for example, feedback from students, developments in research and the field of studies or the requirements of accrediting bodies.
You will be advised of any significant changes to the advertised course, in accordance with our terms and conditions.
You’ll learn from academics who are experts in their fields and develop a firm and practical understanding of key areas in leadership and business. Their leading research keeps the content fresh and relevant, enriching your learning experience. You’ll be able to take what you learn in the classroom and apply it to real business situations.
The Bath full-time MBA is a campus-based programme. Most modules are taught in-person, on campus. Occasionally, we may offer guest speakers, individual lectures and/or workshops online. If circumstances mean we have to move to blended or remote learning, we will let you know of any changes in advance.
You will benefit from a variety of learning and teaching activity across the course, both within the classroom and outside. You’ll be challenged by a range of exercises, case studies and activities.
Delivery of the MBA will be in-person, via classroom sessions, learning team discussion/work and project engagement. Classroom-based sessions will involve a variety of activity, including interactive lecture delivery, case discussion, presentations, film and breakouts.
Methods of assessment
You’ll experience a variety of individual and team-based assessments designed to support your development and reflect the practical, applied nature of the MBA. These assessments are both formative (to support learning) and summative (to evaluate progress), and include:
- written essays and reports
- case study analysis
- in-person and video presentations
- scenario planning exercises
- reflective portfolios
- in-class tests
These methods are designed to assess your:
- understanding of subject-specific content
- ability to integrate learning across modules
- application of theory in practice
- critical reflection on personal and professional development
Additional costs
Your tuition fee covers tuition and academic materials. Other aspects (e.g. social activities, networking and events) are provided at the University’s discretion and are not part of the tuition fee.
The fee includes the cost of the following digital course materials:
- essential textbooks
- case studies
- journal extracts and readings
We provide all course materials in digital format.
There may be opportunities for optional trips/visits away from the University campus. You may need to pay some or all of the costs on such trips.
Regulator
This course is regulated by the Office for Students.
Information about the recognition of professional qualifications.
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