MBA (Online)

MBA Part-time flexible

Course Overview

UCAS code:
Duration: From 18 months to 2 years
Study type: Part-Time Flexible
Napier code: 39641MM

In a rapidly changing global business and commercial environment you need to ensure that you have the appropriate skills to enable you to respond to the demands of the market.

Our Edinburgh Napier MBA has been designed to further develop your personal and professional skills in pragmatic thinking and critical analysis through independent and reflective learning. Visit the Global Online MBA microsite for full details about the course.

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This course will appeal to leaders and managers from a range of backgrounds and experience in public, private and voluntary sectors, and is suited to graduates or business professionals with a number of years of work experience. It is also suited to individuals looking for a formal qualification to consolidate their experiential knowledge. Our MBA students have traditionally come from a range of backgrounds including health, social care, engineering, police, GPs, business consultants and those who have decided to take a career break or who wish to change career direction.

Most important for today’s business and commercial climate, this course provides a vehicle for you to continue your personal and professional development. Many potential MBA students find it impossible to step out of their career to continue studies, this online course has been designed to fit your needs by offering the opportunity to study at a time, place and pace that fits in with your personal and professional commitments.

The Online MBA's innovative teaching technologies enable it to be 100 per cent online and mobile technology compatible.

Our MBA will further develop and enhance your specific business competence in all areas of study. It will develop your ability to examine and analyse the impact of the constantly evolving environment both at national and international level. The course will further enable you to respond timely and appropriately at operational and strategic level. This in turn will enable you to develop insights, critical thinking and the skills necessary to function effectively within your role, and to widen your perspective beyond the limitations imposed by your own experience.

Our MBA is designed to promote the development of intellectual capability, research skills and creative thinking in order that you can generate original solutions to management problems, and also provide you with the platform to continue your personal and professional development.

What's it like?

Pillars of wisdom in challenging times.

Career prospects

We are one of the top universities in Scotland for graduate employability, with over 93% of our graduates in jobs or further study six months after graduating.

MBAs are designed to provide a general management education, but they can provide specialist hooks and industrial or commercial application through the Research Project component.

Edinburgh Napier MBA students will engage in a Research Project – which should ideally be aligned with a specific need within their work – to consolidate their knowledge gained on their studies. This can only but help with progression in the student’s organisation and with their career, though it may also be seen and used as an opportunity to make a career change.

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Modular learning

Our courses are structured by modules which gives our students a flexible learning programme. Modules covered by this course:

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Requirements at a glance

Entry to the course

International students

Full-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study

The number of modules studied is dependent on the exit that you wish to achieve, for example:

  • A Grad Cert is 60 Credits (3 modules)
  • A Cert HE/Grad Dip/ HND is 120 credits (6 modules)
  • A Dip HE credit is 240 credits (12 modules)
  • A Degree is 360 credits (18 modules)
  • An Honours Degree is 480 credits

Please note that some part-time courses give modular exemptions for previous study and vocational experience. Advice is available during application.

Fees Table

Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.

Funding your study

We have a selection of funding opportunities available such as the UK postgraduate tuition fee loan (Scottish & EU) and specific scholarships aimed at student from India and across Africa. Visit our funding pages to find out what you could be eligible for.

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