Overview
Available to study on campus in either Glasgow or London.
This MBA course has been designed around our commitment to the Common Good and the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). This distinctive MBA course is designed for enterprising and socially-minded individuals with aspirations to become professional managers with an instinct for creating sustainable businesses in a socially responsible manner.
This practical and applied course provides insight into the everyday challenges confronting leaders within a range of business and third-sector organisations across the globe. We emphasise the role, contribution and integration of the key business functions to enhance your ability to design and deliver effective organisation-wide strategies.
Dynamic and challenging, the MBA requires energetic participation. Like you, your peers will be ambitious, highly motivated and determined to succeed. We look forward to welcoming you onto the course and into our global alumni network of socially responsible leaders.
The Global MBA course addresses the global environmental changes and challenges with a socially responsible, research underpinned and innovative curriculum. All modules on the course are strongly underpinned by the UN PRME and Common Good principles and reinforce the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ensuring that when you graduate, you are prepared appropriately for the global business environment, placing emphasis on responsible leadership, ethics and sustainability.
Through its Transnational Education partnerships (TNEs), the course provides opportunities to broaden GCU’s global network and to build a truly global learning environment for the Global MBA students, beyond the students’ campus of study.
Distinctiveness
- A strong and clear focus on the UN PRME and Common Good principles, responsible leadership, sustainability and UN’s SDGs, which underpin all its modules.
- Active and experiential learning combines with theory application maintaining focus on ethics, sustainability, responsible leadership and global perspectives of business, enabling reflection upon local/international/global contexts.
- The course's global network, through its various TNEs, allows learning and teaching synergies, knowledge exchange across campuses, and student exposure to an international learning environment.
- The various electives on offer utilise local campus expertise and it has various modes of delivery; such as blended learning for its full-time cohorts, combining pre-recorded lectures, and practical on-campus seminars, supplemented with guest lectures and masterclasses from practitioners.
Recognition
The Global MBA has been recognised as a global leader in the Corporate Knights 2024 Better World MBA Rankings for its clear focus on sustainability and its alignment with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The course ranked 16th in the world (the third UK university on the list) in 2024, identifying your full-time MBA program as one of the top courses in the world for instilling holistic purpose in leaders.
Business and management studies research
Two-thirds of GCU's research impact for business and management studies courses were rated as outstanding or very considerable (Research Excellence Framework 2021). Find out more.
International partnership
From May 2024/25, this course will also be offered at our International TNE Partner Educare Global Academy (EGA) in Singapore, delivered in both English and Mandarin language.
What you
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