MBA Master of Business Administration (MBA) (Full-time)
Page last updated 10 September 2025
This course is open for applications
Introduction
Unlock your full potential with the UWE Bristol MBA. Enhance your leadership, communication and innovation skills through strategic partnerships, consultancy projects and live simulations. Transform your career and drive ethical, sustainable business practices in a dynamic global environment.
Why study this course?
The redesigned UWE Bristol MBA integrates academic excellence with practical application, tailored for professionals with a minimum of three years of management experience. Leverage strategic partnerships with start-ups and SMEs, gaining invaluable hands-on experience through consultancy projects and live simulations.
This course cultivates leadership by enhancing teamwork, communication and innovative thinking. Designed around contemporary business challenges, it equips you with the skills to navigate and lead in a dynamic and competitive global environment. Graduate with a prestigious academic qualification, practical expertise and the capability to drive ethical, sustainable and innovative business practices.
Why UWE Bristol?
Designed in collaboration with employers, the MBA at Bristol Business School is delivered by industry experts, many of whom are active in business management-related research. Our practitioner-led teaching approach and curriculum is continually updated to reflect the fast-moving environment in which modern businesses operate.
We know it's not where you start but where you finish that matters. With this in mind, we've designed a skills and aspirations audit on arrival. This will help you identify gaps in your knowledge, including digital literacy, and guide you in choosing the right career path. Throughout the course, you'll receive tailored support to develop your skills and track your personal and professional growth. This feeds into the Careers Catalyst module, which enables you to reflect on your aspirations, build a relevant skillset and develop your personal unique selling point.
You'll also enjoy access to and dialogue with business leaders, debating current, relevant topics at our popular annual Masters' Business Conference.
Read more about the speakers you can hear from at the Business School.
Where can it take me?
The UWE Bristol MBA can transform your career. With continuous hands-on learning and guidance from industry professionals, you'll gain critical skills in leadership, innovation and organisational change, preparing you for executive positions, consulting roles and entrepreneurial success.
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Content
You'll study:
- MBA Project: Project Implementation
- MBA Project: Feasibility Study and Project Proposal
- Transformation, Innovation and Growth
- Operational Organisation
- Leadership, Governance and Management of Change
- Career Accelerator.
The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we'll inform you.
Learning and Teaching
The UWE Bristol MBA is offered as a one-year intensive course of study, which will particularly appeal to those students who want to gain a postgraduate qualification, graduate and progress their career within 12 months.
You'll learn through formal lectures, seminars, group work, mentor meetings and further independent study to consolidate your learning.
The course is designed so that the different modules interrelate allowing you to build your knowledge and skills.
Support is available in a variety of formats both in person and online. You're expected to conduct independent study and to prepare for each session to be able to engage in meaningful discussions.
See our glossary of teaching and learning terms.
Study time
The course starts in September and the duration is 12 months.
Assessment
The skills you'll need to succeed in your assessments are the same skills you'll need to succeed in your business management career. These include:
- collaborative teamwork
- evidence-based discussion
- advanced communication skills
- information processing
- strategic decision-making
- deadline management.
All assessments are designed to enable you to develop a range of skills and insights which can be applied in a future career. We encourage you to reflect through your journey, on the skills that you're learning and how they might be useful in the future.
Learn more about our assessments.
Features
Placements
On this MBA course, you'll engage in both classroom and business environments, putting everything you learn into practice.
You'll have the opportunity to collaborate closely with a technology company in Future Space, embedding yourself within their organisation through projects or placements. This hands-on experience will enable you to build valuable industry networks and address challenges aligned with your professional growth.
Fieldwork
The UWE Bristol MBA course offers excellent fieldwork opportunities. These include interactions and project work with over 60 high-tech SMEs in Future Space, growing SMEs in the Health Tech Hub and Bristol Robotics Lab, and start-ups in our Launch Space incubator. You may also engage with other world-leading partner organisations affiliated with UWE Bristol and its Business School to enhance your practical experience and professional network.
Study facilities
While studying with us, you'll have access to a wide range of facilities to enhance your learning experience. This includes:
- facilities at Bristol Business School, including our collaborative learning rooms, computer labs, and Bloomberg trading room (the same trading platform used by the city investment banks).
- the University library which is open 24 hours a day.
- access to specialist business software related to areas such as finance and project management.
Take a personalised virtual tour of the Business Management facilities and experience what a typical day could look like here for you.
Learn more about UWE Bristol's facilities and resources.
Stimulating speakers and contacts
We organise the Bristol Distinguished Address Series, regularly inviting distinguished experts from industry and professional bodies to speak at UWE. This opportunity provides students with insight into the challenges and decisions being made at the highest level of strategic leadership.
Speakers include: Anne Jessopp, Chief Executive of The Royal Mint, Mike Haigh, Executive Chair of Mott MacDonald, Dr Darren Henley OBE, Chief Executive of the Arts Council England, Theresa Wise, CEO, The Royal Television Society.
Bristol Business School is also actively involved in other events including the Bristol and Bath Women in Business Awards, which pay tribute to the women whose determination and success are helping to drive the local economy.
These occasions also provide a valuable opportunity for students to tap into our professional networks and connections and start building their own.
Life
Postgraduate support
Our support includes access to fantastic facilities, study tools and career consultants, plus practical help to access everything from funding to childcare.
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Campus and facilities
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Careers
Careers / Further study
Our award-winning careers service helps you develop your employment potential through career coaching, a vacancy service for internships, placements, jobs, global opportunities, volunteering and community activity plus support for entrepreneurial activity, and access to employer events.
Read more about where our graduates go onto after studying with us.
Fees
Full-time
Supplementary fee information
Fees can be paid in full at the start of your course or in installments.
See our funding pages for more information.
See details of scholarship opportunities for international students.
Entry
Entry requirements
You'll need:
- an honours degree of a minimum 2:2 or above from a recognised higher education institution or equivalent from a recognised overseas institution, and;
- three years post-graduation relevant management/organisational experience.
Post-graduation experience is vital on the MBA programme. We draw on students' professional experience within our sessions but also within the assessments on the programme. Students learn a great deal from their peers gaining valuable insights into different industries, cultures and experiences. The MBA is as much about professional development as it is academic.
If you do not meet the above requirements but have at least three years management experience and equivalent qualifications, we will consider you on an individual basis.
Personal statement
You're required to complete a personal statement for this course. Please read the personal statement guidance carefully and make sure that you answer the questions on the postgraduate application form within the personal statement tabs, keeping to the advised word count.
UWE Bristol's International College
International students who do not meet the academic or English language requirements to study this course can qualify by completing preparatory study at our International College.
English language support
If you meet the academic requirements but require additional support to take your language skills to the required level, you may be able to attend one of our pre-sessional English courses. Students who successfully complete the pre-sessional course can progress onto their chosen degree course without retaking an IELTS or equivalent.
Read more about our Pre-Sessional English Programme.
Deferred entry
We are not able to offer deferrals for this programme. However, we appreciate there may be extenuating circumstances to consider and therefore we will consider requests on a case by case basis.
English Language Requirement
International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).
*The University accepts a large number of UK and international qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you'll need in our English Language section.
How to apply
Apply now
Read more about postgraduate applications.
Read more about international applications and key international deadline dates.
For further information
- Email: Admissions@uwe.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 83333
