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Programme overview

The One-year MBA provides an opportunity to refresh and evolve your existing knowledge. This programme creates the space for you to think more deeply about challenges that affect businesses and business leaders today. You will be immersed in enriching and diverse classroom experiences through core and elective courses, complemented by extensive experiential learning opportunities.

Programme curriculum

Pre-term Online	Term One - Part One August - September	Term One - Part Two October - December	Term Two January - March	Term Three April - June
Asynchronous Pre-programme Modules	Orientation Week	Core Courses	Core Courses	Electives
Finance Management Science and Operations Strategy and Entrepreneurship Organisational Behaviour Economics Marketing Accounting	Orientation Away Day Programme Networking	Activating the Entrepreneurial Mindset (Block Week) Strategy for the Data Era (Block Week) Perspectives on Business Ethics	Conscious Consumerism (Block Week)	Global Experiences
Career Centre Summer Support	Core Courses	Electives	Electives	Capstone and Congregation
	Becoming Impactful Leader Data Science and Climate Change Corporate Transparency for Sustainable Business Economic Challenges and Opportunities Applied Corporate Finance		Global Experiences
	Career Centre and Professional Development Workshops		LondonCap (optional)
	Career Centre Support
	Professional Development Courses
		Language Programme (optional)

Pre-programme course

You will start preparing over the Summer with an exciting pre-programme course to brush up your existing knowledge. The pre-programme course will equip you with the tools to step into the next 11 months. It will blend faculty introductions and videos with learning materials needed to bring you up to speed before your core learning starts.

Core course themes

Navigating the New Business Environment
Rethinking Corporate Purpose
Individual Agency and Entrepreneurship
Explore your responsibility to act as a positive agent of change in the business world, whether you work for large companies, not-for-profits, or start your own business. You’ll gain the tools you need to better understand the entrepreneurial mindset and how to become an impactful leader.

Your Masters in Management or equivalent, combined with your high-quality work experience, the pre-programme and core courses, brings you to the same academic standard seen at the end of year one in our 15-21 month MBA programme.

Programme highlights

Career Centre support

Capture your capabilities, chart your professional development journey, and make the most of leadership training.

LondonCAP (London Core Application Practicum)

Grow your network and add value to select London organisations in our project-based LondonCAP module.

Global experiential courses

Our transformational global experiential courses challenge you to apply your learning in new and unfamiliar contexts, and to have responsible real-world impact on the communities and businesses you encounter. Our unique approach to experiential learning provides a cornerstone of students’ lifelong learning and allows our student community to have impact on a global scale.

Student Leadership Incubator

One of the ways students can develop their leadership skills at LBS is by leading a club or initiative. The Student Leadership Incubator strives to support these leaders by creating a reflective space so they can move forward as well-equipped leaders in a complex and uncertain world.

The Leadership Incubator is a platform for student leaders to discover, develop and practice their leadership competencies. Now in its eighth year, the Leadership Incubator is a partnership between three teams at LBS: Experiential Learning, the Leadership Institute, and the Career Centre.

Student Clubs

There are over 80+ clubs to be found at LBS, and between them over 1000+ initiatives are hosted annually. Each club offers students a platform to connect with those with similar interests and cement a network outside your immediate cohort. Find out more here.

Programme content FAQs

What are the term dates?
There will be online pre-programme materials that will be completed in the Summer before the programme commences. The programme will begin in early August at our London Campus with Orientation. Students will then go into a specially designed programme of orientation briefings to support the transition into the programme and the specialised core courses.

This is followed by three study periods: Autumn term (August to December), Spring Term (January to March), and Summer Term (April to July). Exams take place throughout the year, and these may be scheduled over weekends.

Core courses run Monday - Friday and you will also spend time throughout the week in a variety of classes, tutorials and personal and professional development sessions. You will have access to the elective portfolio from the Autumn term where you will build your own learning journey, choosing electives around your professional goals. In addition, there are a number of block weeks, where you will be brought back into your cohort group to complete core courses. Students may also be required to complete a range of exams, assignments and project work over the break periods.

We recommend you see your study at London Business School as a continuous period of education from August through to July, with vacations involving consolidation, preparation and project work.
How many hours a week will I need to study?
Does the teaching have a practical orientation?
As well as pursuing research in their own fields of interest, members of faculty often act as consultants and advisers to industry and government. Many hold directorships in a range of organisations or in some cases run their own businesses.

These activities help to maintain the practical relevance of the School's teaching and research. Much of the School's research is supported in some form by donor organisations with which the School maintains especially close relationships. For example, in the finance and accounting area these include BAA, Bank of England, Barclays, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Solomon Brothers International, Tokai Bank and SG Warburg Group.

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+44 (0)20 7000 7511

oneyearmba@london.edu

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