Southampton Business School

QualityThe University of Southampton School of Management is internationally renowned for academic excellence and is recognised as one of the UK's leading centres for management education. The School received a grading of 'excellent' for its teaching quality from the national Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. The School achieved a final score of 23 out of a possible 24. Our excellent teaching and research reflects the commitment of the School to provide the highest quality of education and training to students from all around the world. We currently have over 800 students from a variety of countries and backgrounds enrolled on our programmes.FacilitiesThe School is located in excellent accommodation on the University's attractive Highfield campus, where students have access to all services including, libraries, computing services, students' union and sports facilities. The School itself has specially equipped postgraduate teaching , dedicated MBA facilities, and study areas, as well as a number of individual computer workstations for postgraduate use.LocationSouthampton is the UK's home of ocean sailing and is a vibrant and multi-cultural city on the South Coast of England. The University is ideally located close to Southampton airport and to all the major road and rail networks. London is only 75 minutes away by train and continental Europe can be reached by air, sea or by the Eurotunnel which are all close by.The Distinctive ProgrammesThe School’s AMBA accredited MBA is available on a full-time route for those students with at least 4 years’ post-graduation work experience and an part-time route which is designed for students with at least five years managerial work experience. It is a high quality programme that offers both theoretical rigour and practical relevance. The compulsory core consists of ten modules which cover the main functional areas of any organisation i.e. marketing, financial management, human resource management, operations management, strategy, and a module that addresses the skills required of an effective manager. From 2013 an additional residential module in Maastricht will expose students to the realities of business. During the residential students will visit up to five organisations, hear from practitioners and academics from across Europe. In addition to the core modules, students can choose option modules from a list that are offered each year. Specialist options in entrepreneurship, project management, finance, and marketing are available.Group work is used extensively in the MBA programme, both informally and as part of the assessment regime. This allows knowledge and expertise to be shared amongst the participants, as well as developing team-working skills.