Central Saint Martins Birkbeck MBA

Course summary:

What happens when you mix an arts school with a business school? The Central Saint Martins Birkbeck MBA is a different kind of MBA that places creative approaches and social engagement at the heart of future management and leadership.

The course challenges the orthodox business school approach to education, and instead focuses on cross-disciplinary collaboration. You will become a new type of business graduate: one who can combine genuinely creative thinking and innovation with core financial and strategic management skills.

This course is part of the Culture and Enterprise programme.

Great reasons to apply:

• Our MBA's radical approach lies in its philosophy: deep research and analysis leading to real, root-and-branch, change. This course places tools and concepts in context, combining design thinking and creative problem solving with rigorous academic content
• Benefit from the combined strengths of two highly regarded institutions, in the central London locations of King's Cross and Bloomsbury, offering graduates access to an expansive and supportive international network
• A cross-disciplinary approach to prepare you for complex and ever-changing business environments allowing you to develop critical thinking, decision-making, emotional intelligence, negotiation and creative cognitive flexibility
• Embracing the different perspectives of your cohort comprising students from a variety of professional industries and international cultures. Your colleagues will reframe problems and challenge the status quo
• Enabling you to pursue your studies part-time while continuing in your full-time career.

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Course details:

The Central Saint Martins Birkbeck MBA takes a unique and radical approach, placing ethics, creative thinking and social engagement at the heart of modern business education. This course develops future leaders with compassion, resilience and the ability to adapt to an increasingly complex world. Students benefit from the combined strengths of two specialist institutions in central London, as well as their expansive and supportive international networks. Combining rigorous academic standards and the core elements of a traditional MBA with applied projects for innovative organisations, our students advance their critical thinking, emotional intelligence, decision making and creative cognitive flexibility. The course has been specifically designed to allow students to continue with their careers alongside studying.

Consisting of four Units, the MBA is delivered via a blended Part-Time/Distance Learning pathway, online and through 12 intensive study weekend “Sprints” at alternating Central Saint Martins and Birkbeck campuses. Each Sprint runs all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, at regular five week intervals and is accompanied by three online sessions (a pre-Sprint Webinar, a post-Sprint Wrap up and a Segue to link the outgoing and incoming topics) of 1.5 hours each. Students are also expected to engage in self-study (including assignments and reading) of between two and three hours per day.

Fees & Funding:

• Home/EU fee

University of the Arts London (UAL) is Europe’s largest specialist art and design university. Its unique creative community is made up of six renowned Colleges, each with its own world-class reputation: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

UAL is the world’s sixth best University for Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings 2018. Offering an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts, UAL is the main talent pipeline to the UK’s creative industries.

Home to a diverse community of over 18,000 students from 129 countries, UAL has a track record for launching and furthering careers. Our graduates can be found in every part and at every level of the creative and cultural sectors, from heads of global business to self-employed practitioners, and on shortlists for awards ranging from the Turner Prize to the Oscars.

Building on UAL’s association with some of the most original thinkers in the arts, students and staff are inspired to challenge convention, generate new ideas and nurture talent. Home to award-winning staff and students for more than a century, UAL’s Colleges are at the forefront of learning, creativity and practice in their specialist subjects. This close-knit College structure offers opportunities for learning and enquiry for people at all stages of their creative development.