Program Overview
This 100% online MBA program in Entrepreneurship prepares individuals to launch new businesses, grow start-ups, and manage innovation in various industries. It combines comprehensive knowledge in the entrepreneurial process with essential skills in creativity, innovation, and business management. The program's flexible design allows students to study at their own pace and connect with fellow students from around the globe, fostering a collaborative learning environment. With a focus on employability, the program boasts industry-led content and connections with leading employers.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This 100% online MBA Entrepreneurship is designed to prepare aspiring entrepreneurs and ambitious, bold and creative professionals for a wide range of exciting career opportunities. From launching new business ventures, to growing and developing start-ups and small companies, to managing innovation in larger companies, this MBA programme is for individuals who want to become entrepreneurs, creators and leaders. The highly flexible online programme provides a comprehensive understanding of the entrepreneurial process and develops entrepreneurial and management skills including innovation, creativity and design. It also develops a breadth of knowledge and skills that are key to making businesses successful, including strategy, marketing and human resource management. This carefully calibrated Master of Business Administration (MBA) Entrepreneurship degree gives individuals who want to turn a business idea into a new entrepreneurial venture the unique ability to equip yourself with the capabilities and knowledge required to successfully do so without taking time out from your current career, continuing to work full-time and earn whilst you learn. You will study entirely online, any time, anywhere, on any device – at your convenience. This MBA with the Entrepreneurship specialism will build core competencies in business management, entrepreneurship and innovation, developing skills that can be applied to the real-world of work. The programme develops key skills required of entrepreneurs and innovators, including:
- Entrepreneurial thinking
- Creativity and innovation
- Development of new business ventures
- Marketing strategy creation
- Financial management
- Communication skills
Outline:
The program is structured into 15-credit modules, with the following module titles:
- Entrepreneurial Thinking
- New Venture Creation
- Creative Change & Innovation
- Implementing Strategies
- Finance Insights & Business Intelligence
- HRM in Context
- Emphasising the Environment
- Integrated Communications
- Research Methods
- Research Proposal The aim of the module is to allow you to both build and understand the entrepreneurial mind-set and develop the capability to identify and create entrepreneurial opportunities through the creation, development and exploitation of new ideas, products, services and processes.
New Venture Creation:
This module develops a comprehensive understanding of the entrepreneurial process and the development of new business ventures. It explains the stages of business planning, survival, venture growth and exit, in the context of private, public and third sectors. It explores the key phases of start-up: from the identification of a potential opportunity; intellectual protection; identifying an appropriate business model and strategy; meeting statutory demands; marketing; and financial planning.
Creative Change & Innovation:
Provides a critical insight into the enduring nature of change and creativity for organisational survival and growth. This module encourages recognition of the organisational tensions and performance fluctuations linked to the generation and application of change and new ideas.
Implementing Strategies:
This module encourages you to independently explore and research the diverse contribution that strategic practices make to business performance. It develops analytical techniques and judgements based on theoretical models and contextual trends that impact on strategic implementation. This contributes to the sustainable financial wellbeing of commercial or non-profit institutions that are faced with disruptive competition. The aim of this module is to increase credibility in the field of HRM and develop frameworks to support and underpin the evolving nature of work that will integrate with other HR strategies and functions and support human capital and business performance. It develops analytical techniques and judgements based on theoretical models and contextual trends that impact on reward management across strategic business functions.
Emphasising the Environment:
This module examines the complex relationship between business practices and the impact on the global environment. It considers ways in which business can contribute positively to global environmental concerns and policies.
Integrated Communications:
This module is designed to develop your ability to apply effective communication planning and brand management concepts. It provides insights into the contribution to organisational performance made by enhancing sustainable stakeholder relationships and delivering customer value.
Research Methods:
This module provides insights into the nature and make-up of academic research methods that align with common research frameworks. It introduces analytical techniques and approaches to sampling along with research ethics in order to provide you with direction that will enable you to investigate and solve your research questions.
Research Proposal:
This module supports you in identifying a contemporary business or management problem that is sufficiently complex to warrant investigation as a means of identifying possible solutions. It will provide insight into the nature of academic research, together with methodologies and analytical techniques. You will develop and submit your research proposal based on a focused literature review. The problem identified in this module will be researched in your dissertation.
Dissertation:
In your dissertation, you will investigate and report on your chosen contemporary business or management problem. Your research and writing will be carried out under academic supervision.
Careers:
This MBA Entrepreneurship is industry-led and career-focused, reflecting the culture and capabilities of North Wales Management School, and of Wrexham University. Our business school’s deep relationships with major employers have fed into the programme content and have helped shape an MBA that is built for career enhancement across a wide range of sectors in the modern-day work environment. It is this approach that has seen us ranked in the top 10 UK universities for employability for part-time students.
Other:
More than half of our students study part-time and as a result we have considerable expertise in flexible study. This completely online MBA Entrepreneurship programme has a flexible design enabling you to study at your own pace, on your own terms. Learning in an innovative online learning environment, you will connect with fellow MBA students from across the globe in forums and will boost your studies by sharing and discussing relevant case studies and ideas for your own business. With six starts per year, you can start within weeks. Top 10 university in UK for employability for UK-based graduates from part-time first degrees (Source: HESA PI E1b 2015/16) 1% were in employment or further study 6 months after completing their studies (Source: HESA PI E1b 2015/16) QAA-assured, industry-led programmes, incorporating deep knowledge and expertise of employer partners and tailored to the needs of the modern job market Close links with leading local and regional employers, including Toyota, Kellogg’s, Brother Industries and the BBC Expertise in flexible learning – more than half of our students study part-time Dedicated Student Success team supports you every step of the way – from enrolment right through to graduation International university of many cultures Programmes suitable for a wide range of academic backgrounds 10% fee reduction for graduates of Wrexham University
Total programme fees £6,000 Per 15-credit module £500
