Preparing you for global leadership - with tutors who will get to know you and your ambitions
Overview
Unlock your potential and supercharge your career in a close-knit, nurturing learning environment
A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is more than just a qualification – it gives you the confidence to transform your career and learn what it takes to lead. It marks an important milestone in your development as a manager or aspiring director, and brings together the key skills and knowledge you will need to lead people and deliver results.
This is a hands-on and practical course, and you will explore and work on a business idea or be thinking about a new career trajectory during the programme. By the end of your time with us, you will have a clear idea of your next steps.
At Chichester, you’ll experience personalised mentorship and academic attention in a nurturing, close-knit environment – where every student’s growth is championed through small class sizes and a guidance-rich learning culture.
You’ll also benefit from our global connections and partnerships with international brands including Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Johnson & Johnson, Marriott Hotel and Disney.
Prepare for your next step
Our Master of Business of Administration (MBA) full time course provides you with the confidence, knowledge and skills to begin your next step towards securing a more senior or strategic role, start a business or become a consultant.
You will learn to:
- See the bigger strategic picture
- Cultivate your own practical approach to leadership
- Undertake business consultancy and research projects
- Consider the factors that influence practical decision making
- Communicate powerful ideas through pitches, business cases and conversation
- Master a range of tools, creative processes, problem solving techniques and sources.
Gain vital employability and business skills such as:
- Problem solving
- Presenting skills to groups
- Critical thinking
- Writing with an audience in mind
- Teamwork
- Digital skills
- Leadership.
Reflect on your experiences to deepen your personal development
Through deep reflection and hands-on consultancy work, you will uncover your unique strengths, learn how to deal with obstacles and discover what you can achieve in your career and beyond.
Learn to build the relationships of the future
As the world evolves – from AI to climate challenges – the leaders who will succeed will be those who build authentic, adaptive relationships. You’ll develop the entrepreneurial mindset and fresh thinking needed to forge meaningful connections that drive real change.
On this course you will:
- Appreciate the importance of innovation and creativity
- Evaluate whether past solutions will be fit for tomorrow
- Understand the ethical choices at play and their consequences
- Work to select and deploy appropriate tools, methods and resources
- Learn to apply your knowledge and experience to a focused problem or opportunity
- Develop the practice of reflection from feedback of faculty, peers and one’s own experience
- Make valuable business connections with your course peers and wider network.
Aleksandra
The Course
Learn the intricacies and skills of effective leadership
See the bigger picture – and your place in it
Great leaders don’t just manage departments; they understand eco-systems. You’ll learn to see beyond the silos and appreciate how organisations really work – as living, dynamic communities connected to stakeholders, suppliers and the wider world.
Develop your overarching inquiry of personal development
Early in the course you will be encouraged to develop an idea of an inquiry that you will work on throughout the MBA.
This could be:
- A business idea for the future
- A career you may want to move into
- An experience or inspiration you wish to explore further.
Three phases
The MBA is split into three equal phases, each with a different but overlapping emphasis that builds your knowledge, practice and skills.
Phase One
The first phase focuses on the essential elements of studying an MBA, understanding the self and our impact on others, strategy development and implementation, accountancy and finance.
Phase Two
The second phase builds upon the foundations you will have developed during the first, with an additional focus on growth and opportunity, as you study adapting to the future, leadership, change and creativity, operations and information systems, and strategic marketing and sales.
Phase Three
Phase three shifts your learning towards 1-to-1 tutorial supervision and peer-to-peer action learning of your Management Consultancy or Business Research Project.
The right programme for you
Our Graduate MBAÂ is ideal if you have just graduated with an undergraduate degree or equivalent and/or a professional qualification at graduate level in a relevant field, or after a year or two in your first post.
We also offer an Executive MBA programme designed for those with at least two years of managerial experience.
Teaching and Assessment
Feel the support of our expert and experienced staff
Close learning community
Our focus on group learning provides a strong platform for you to share your experiences with others and learn from your peers in a comfortable and close-knit environment.
Interactive face-to-face learning sessions
Our in-person workshops take place on our historic Bishop Otter campus in the heart of Chichester and are run in the spirit of conversation and exploration, with expert input and guidance from University faculty and guest speakers.
Building on your own knowledge
You will be encouraged to learn how to confidently navigate the fast-moving knowledge terrain to create actionable, timely and reliable insight. Clearly books and academic journals have their place, but social media, blogs and AI are becoming increasingly important for how we and others see the world.
Across the programme you will work individually and in groups to gather, make sense of and curate insights that enable effective decision making for a sustainable future.
Meet Professor Rob Warwick
Professor Rob Warwick
Dr Rob Warwick is Professor of Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester. Rob switched to academia from a career in organisational change and development. He has a doctorate in healthcare policy, focusing on the interaction between policy and frontline practice.
This was gained whilst working as Head of Strategic Change for a large NHS organisation where he worked on a national healthcare initiative.
Discover assessment methods that reflect the professional world
Our approach to assessment reflects the organisational world that you will encounter in professional environments, with a move away from traditional, academic-focused formats and towards methods that support your development as senior leaders and managers.
Experience
Discover a close student community within a supportive and collaborative environment
Close community
Our commitment to a friendly and close-knit student community contributes to a high degree of success for our graduates.
Expert staff
Learn from academics with industry experience who can help you develop and grow.
Guest speakers
Gain vital insights from guest speakers and lecturers from within the professional world.
Learning Resource Centre
The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) contains the library, a café, IT/teaching rooms and the Support and Information Zone (SIZ).
Library
Our campus library holds more than 200,000 books and over 500,000 eBooks.
Make the most of our partnerships and connections
Here at the University of Chichester, our Business School and Careers Team have built relationships with many global brands, through hosting visits, apprenticeships, work placements, one-year industry roles or summer internships.
Our valued partners include:
- Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
- Eaton
- Elekta
- Continental
- Airbus
- Johnson & Johnson
- SharkNinja
- Gatwick Airport
- Marriott Hotel
- Disney.
Careers
Realise your potential as you take the next step in your career
An MBA is an investment in your future career, giving you the skills, knowledge and networks to achieve your ambitions.
By the end of the programme, you’ll be in a strong position to:
- Step into senior leadership roles
- Launch a successful business
- Pivot to consulting, advising organisations on strategy, change management and innovation
- Move from operational roles into strategic positions.
Supporting you on your journey
This course will build upon your existing knowledge and experience to enable you to see what you want to achieve, as well as the steps and confidence needed to get there. Personal goals might include moving into a senior strategic role in an organisation, starting a business or becoming a consultant.
You will be able to:
- See the bigger strategic picture and its real-world implications to influence practical decision making
- Generate knowledge and insight through business consultancy
- Research through a range of tools, creativity, problem solving and sources
- Communicate powerful ideas to drive commitment, for example pitching ideas, writing business cases and conversation
The programme also aims to develop your more ‘rounded’ softer skills such as problem solving, presenting, critical thinking, writing with an audience in mind and digital skills.
Kerem
Course Costs
Course Fees 2025/26
UK fee
International fee
For further details about fees, please see our Tuition Fee page.
For further details about international scholarships, please see our Scholarships page.
University of Chichester alumni who have completed a full undergraduate degree at the University will receive a 15% discount on their postgraduate fees.
To find out about any additional costs on this course, please see our Additional Costs page.
Entry Requirements
- An Honours degree (minimum 2:2) in a relevant field.
An important part of the admission process is a conversation with a member of the faculty. This is an opportunity for the participant to gauge if the programme is suitable for them. The conversation is likely to cover academic track record, previous leadership experience and ambitions for the programme and beyond.
You should be aware that the University of Chichester actively promotes equality and diversity and positively welcomes applicants regardless of race, gender, disability, sexuality, age, religion or social class.
EU:
As above.
International:
In addition to the above, applicants need to meet the minimum English language requirement of an IELTS score of 6.5 overall with no component below 6.0, or an equivalent recognised test. English medium of instructions is not accepted as an alternative. Visit our English Language Requirements page for more information.
International students who don't meet the entry requirements
If you are an international student and do not yet meet the entry criteria for this course, you may be eligible for our International Premaster’s Programme. This is a one-semester programme that allows you to progress onto a master’s course at the University of Chichester.
Apply
Apply for a February 2026 start date:
