Royal Holloway School of Management

University of London

MBA in International Management - Full-time or Part-time

Directors Welcome

You have decided – after a good deal of discussion and deliberation –that an MBA in International Management is your ‘next big challenge’.

It will quench your thirst for knowledge. It will introduce you to like-minded people from different business sectors and cultures. It will expand your intellect. Your thinking will be more strategic; more international. Your decision-making more informed. You have made an important decision. It is the University's job to ensure you make the most of it.

Generations of Royal Holloway postgraduate students have entered this MBA programme with ambitions of career shift and corporate advancement. Many of them, as you will witness in this prospectus, are proving that they have the commitment and ability to achieve these goals.

Commitment is an important word at Royal Holloway. From the outset, it is important to understand that this MBA programme is hard work. It will challenge you physically and mentally. Your workload will be heavy and your time will become a precious commodity. On the plus side, you will learn how to organise yourself; how to deal with pressure; how to make sense of different forms of intellectual stimuli. These are inherent parts of the MBA test – all of which are designed to make you a wiser and more rounded individual.

The ability to ‘think beyond the box’ – a characteristic sought by any forward-thinking organisation – underpins the structure and content of this MBA programme. Indeed it has formed the course’s part academic/part practical construction. The University has deliberately combined elements of intellectualism and particles of pragmatism to help sharpen your ability to analyse. To think laterally. To upgrade your on-the-job skills.

The hybrid nature of the course will help shape you as an ideal general manager. It will provide you with an in-depth understanding of business functions; how they work in tandem; and how to apply them in the larger strategic, global context. Armed with this knowledge and experience, you will be able to identify where money is lost; where value is added; where profit is made.

The Royal Holloway MBA graduate will be able to thrive in any world-class corporation and in the competitive international business environment. With this in mind – and with MBA qualifications becoming more widely available – you will need to consider the reputation and the quality of available programmes to ensure that your qualification adds genuine value to your career and carries weight with employers.

I encourage you to apply to this programme and look forward to welcoming you to the Royal Holloway community.

Sincerely

Dr Romano Dyerson

MBA Director