Master of Business Administration Business Scale ups (full award)
Entry requirements
- an undergraduate degree
- a minimum of two years' relevant workplace experience
- to attend an interview
- a demonstrable ability to study at this level
- IELTS 6.0 (minimum 5.5 in each component)
- The programme leader will sometimes set a GMAT score and request references if a candidate cannot attend interview
- Credits may be awarded for learning already undertaken in the University or elsewhere for which you have received qualifications or certificates. You may also submit a claim for recognition of unaccredited prior learning (RP(E)L). This may be for work you have accomplished in a professional, paid or voluntary capacity. This has to be submitted via an RPL form with supporting evidence. You will also be liable to pay an administration fee and charge per credit.
- All RP(E)L claims must be applied for at the point of admission and cannot be considered at a later stage
Months of entry
January, September
Course content
Enhance your business or contribute to organisational growth by learning responsible scale up approaches on this Business MBA from LJMU. This programme aims to transform participants into confident business professionals capable of scaling up a business.
- Learn about the key factors that enable business growth
- Study on a course designed in response to government and local ambitions for business growth
- Start your studies in September or January
- Delivered in blocks for extra flexibility and to fit studies around existing commitments
- Relevant for those with responsibility for leading strategy and change, managing a budget and developing staff to ensure continued and responsible growth
- Benefit from course content and teaching informed by proprietary business research and academics' close links to business
- Learn alongside others experiencing similar challenges and discuss leadership and strategy in the context of Scaling-Up
A 'scale-up' is an enterprise that has experienced significant growth rates in employees and turnover over a number of years.
Nationally, scale-up businesses have been identified as a priority area, recognised by the appointment of a scale up champion in Government who aims to increase the number of businesses maximising opportunities to reach their growth potential. This will feed into the Government's industrial strategy.
MBAs equip managers with a broad and rich understanding of business, enabling them to manage effectively. This scale up MBA focuses on the key areas a business would need to investigate to assess scale up potential. The course combines key management disciplines from the key QAA and CMI benchmark statements with recent national research on the drivers of business scale up.
The programme is structured in three phases. The first phase provides an intensive focused range of interventions aimed at realising the potential of growth within businesses. Stages two and three then draw on these areas to analyse ideas and develop them further to plan and enable accelerated growth. Finally, a strategic project builds the evidence base for scale up strategies, and addresses a significant and strategic area for your business.
Information for international students
Fees and funding
Please see the course page or more information.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MBA
- part time24 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Liverpool Business School
- busadmissions@ljmu.ac.uk