Become a leader in your field
Nottingham Business School’s online MBA is an online modular programme comprising 180 total credits and 1,800 learning hours.
The curriculum consists of nine core modules (total 100 credits) and a project module (worth 40 credits). You can then choose one of the following:
- 4 x MBA modules (worth ten credits each) OR
- 4 x Fashion Management modules (worth ten credits each) OR
- 4 x Data Analytics modules (worth ten credits each)
The time to completion is three years.
Core MBA modules
The core MBA course modules you will study on all versions of our MBA are:
Core Modules
Responsible Leadership
The purpose of this module is to allow students to develop the insights, capacities and skills to create and maintain responsible and sustainable business practices.
Learn moreThe Values-Led Organisation
This module will help you to critically understand and evaluate the ethical responsibilities and sustainability dimensions of business practices.
Learn moreGlobal Marketing Management
This module will enable students to reflect critically on the nature of marketing and its continuing relevance to the 21st-Century global business world.
Learn moreOperations Management
This will help you to develop a wider understanding of operations management regarding characteristics, performance and strategy.
Learn moreOrganisations and People Management
This module draws upon insights from organisational behaviour (OB) to develop knowledge, insights and skills relevant to the management of people in organisations.
Learn moreFinancial Management
This module is designed to critically evaluate internal and external financial information and to use this to appraise corporate performance and strategy.
Learn moreBusiness Information and Decision Making
The Business Information and Decision-making module introduces learners to the nature of data and information within and externally to organisations, and how information informs operational and strategic decision-making.
Learn moreStrategic Change Management
The extent, pace, and often the scale of changes with which businesses have to cope, have grown significantly over recent years. Anticipating and responding to change with appropriate initiatives is a major challenge of modern management.
Learn moreBusiness Research Project
The purpose of this module is to equip students with a theoretical grounding in research methods and its practical application.
Learn moreProfessional and Leadership Development
The Professional and Leadership Development module (PLD) comprises a series of personal and professional post-experience workshops and activities which run alongside but are connected to the academically assessed curriculum.
Learn moreMBA modules
Customer Engagement
Customer engagement is a topic which represents a fundamental component of any effective business and or marketing strategy and impacts both private and public sector organisations.
Learn moreManaging Creativity and Innovation
This enables you to analyse the product development process and the parts played by design and creativity within it.
Learn moreReconfiguring the Human Resource Management Function
This specialist module will explore the socio-economic, demographic, and technological trends and developments that are radically reconfiguring the role of the human resource management function.
Learn moreAdvanced Strategic Management
This will help to further develop students’ understanding of the changes taking place in the global economy, based on their recently obtained knowledge from prior modules.
Learn moreData Analytics modules
Statistical Approaches to Data Analysis
The aim of this module is to provide students with an introduction to the statistical principles and statistical methods required for the analysis of large datasets.
Learn moreFundamentals of Big Data and its Infrastructure
This module introduces you to the processes, techniques and technologies businesses use to develop their infrastructure so that they are able to manage big data and transform it into useful business intelligence.
Learn morePractical Machine Learning Methods for Data Mining
The digital revolution has made data easy to capture digitally and inexpensive to store. The rate at which data is being stored is growing at a phenomenal rate with databases typically doubling in size every 20 months. As a result, many businesses are struggling to analyse and make sense of this vast collection of data.
Learn moreDeriving Business Value from Data Science
This module moves you beyond the hype of big data and introduces you to a number of methods and techniques that enable businesses to identify the most strategically important data.
Learn moreFashion Management modules
Fashion Branding and Communications
This module will explore how successful brands are built, managed, and sustained in an increasingly overcrowded and competitive global fashion market.
Learn moreFashion Buying and Merchandising
Fashion buying and merchandising functions are critical areas of all fashion businesses, and key for them to accomplish the correct marketing mix.
Learn moreFashion Forecasting
This module aims to provide an understanding of how fashion forecasting is an essential driver for growth in the fashion industry, by fuelling product creativity, providing coherence across diverse fashion sectors, and underpinning fashion consumption.
Learn moreFashion Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
This module seeks to enable you to be effective mangers of this complex sector of the industry.
Learn moreStart your journey with NTU today
To learn more about our online Master of Business Administration course, please complete our online form or call the admissions office on 0800 032 1180 (UK) or +44 (0)115 941 8419 (International).