Ashridge Business School

Ashridge combines the best of a business school with an innovative organisational consultancy. Ashridge faculty work with thousands of executives from over 800 clients across the globe each year to develop leadership potential at the highest level.

Ashridge is a leading international business school based in Hertfordshire, England. It has been a place of executive learning and development for over 50 years, having been founded in 1959 by visionary leaders from organisations including Shell, Guinness and Unilever. The site of Ashridge itself dates back to 13th Century when a monastery was established.
Ashridge combines the best of a business school with an innovative organisational consultancy. Ashridge faculty work with thousands of executives from over 800 clients across the globe each year to develop leadership potential at the highest level.
Ashridge runs an MBA and Executive MBA. In addition, it also provides specialist Masters programmes in Management, Sustainability and Responsibility, Executive Coaching, Organisation Change and a Doctorate in Organisation Change plus a Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Coaching and Organisation Development Supervision.
Ashridge is a member of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) and is one of the few business schools in the world to be accredited by all the main executive education bodies:
• AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)
• EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System)
• AMBA (Association of MBAs)
One of the world’s most stunning campuses, Ashridge is only 30 minutes from London.
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Take the Ashridge MBA and your world will become a different place.
On the Ashridge MBA you will discover how to find real answers to the real challenges that you will face in business today. Our insights, gained from research and hands-on experience as business owners and leaders, will enable you to see the bigger picture, so you make better decisions, even in unpredictable circumstances.
We don’t believe in creating MBA clones. For us – and you – it’s all about finding ways to think differently and to feel confident taking brave decisions. So you can make a real difference, both to yourself and your organisation. This MBA is the real thing. The real MBA.
The Ashridge MBA is one programme that offers two different pathways to achieving your MBA: the one year accelerated MBA and the two year executive MBA.
Both pathways result in the same degree. Classes are smaller than average, interactive and international. You benefit from the same faculty offering a teaching and learning philosophy which believes in combining theory and practice and emphasising the application of learning.
You remain in your group throughout the year and are joined in each module by those on the alternative pathway to ensure that group discussion remains engaging and to maximise the individual networks of each member on the programme.
Both programmes require a minimum of 1800 hours of learning, of which approximately 500-550 will be contact hours.
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One year Accelerated MBA
Accelerated students are usually full-time, self-sponsored and are seeking to broaden their horizons and accelerate their careers.
While all projects and assignments are aimed at embedding and applying the learning, Accelerated MBA students use the assignments and project to develop their abilities in new settings. This programme is full time and starts in September.
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Two year Executive MBA
Executive MBA students are usually part-time, employer-sponsored and looking for growth within their existing organisations and sectors.
Executive MBA students undertake their assignments and project within the context of their organisation representing a significant payback to their employer. This programme consists of 1 week blocks of study once every two months and starts in September and March.