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Why choose the Graduate School of Business
Our business and management courses rank 4th overall in the UK in their subject field, with top 3 rankings for teaching, student engagement, sense of community and organisation (PTES, 2024).
Flexible courses designed to accommodate your work and life commitments with block delivery and different entry points through the year.
Assessments linked to live projects where you engage with industry professionals and find real business solutions.
About the course
This full-time, 12-month MBA with a specialism in hospital and health services management accelerates your career growth by developing your leadership and strategic management skills. It provides you with an up-to-the-minute understanding of this fast-evolving modern business environment. Core units cover professional practice, resource management and strategy while specialised units explore contemporary healthcare management and managerial perspectives in health informatics. With six entry points through the year, the point at which you join the course determines the order of the units you study.
For further course information, contact Emma Buick at emma.buick@beds.ac.uk
Facilities and specialist equipment
- Access our state-of-the-art data lab, equipped with top-tier business analytics software and platforms, including Vensim simulation software, allowing hands-on learning and exploration
- Benefit from a range of learning resources, such as Harvard Business simulations to support you on your learning journey
Your student experience
The course is tailored for students with a passion for healthcare management, equipping you to navigate organisational change in a global context.
Learn from our highly experienced academic team of industry experts engaged in consultancy, business involvement and social impact.
Learning supported by extensive Harvard Business Publication simulations.
Acquire essential professional skills aligned with bodies like the Chartered Management Institute.
Join our Global Guest Speaker series, featuring academics, industry leaders, and professionals from organisations like Luton Borough Council, the European Commission, and bodies such as the Association of Project Management (APM).
Gain first-hand industry insights in field trips to exhibitions like the Great Business Exhibition and Tech Show London as well as industry visits to companies like TUI.
Solve real-life problems working with the University’s Research and Innovation Service (RIS) where you can assist local businesses and SMEs to up-skill and innovate.
What will you study?
Contemporary healthcare management
A comprehensive overview of the field, ensuring you are equipped to navigate and lead in an evolving healthcare landscape. You develop your broader understanding of the context in which healthcare services operate while exploring in the latest research in the field of healthcare management.
Managerial perspectives in health informatics
An in-depth exploration of how informatics may be used in contemporary healthcare. You gain the knowledge and understanding to navigate the intersections between technology, data and healthcare, for effective management and delivery of healthcare services.
Responsible leadership and sustainable management
Develop a skillset that merges theoretical knowledge and practical application, positioning you as a valuable asset in any professional setting. This unit will empower you to effectively address the diverse demands of today's business environment.
Strategy analysis and practice
Build skills that are highly valued by modern organisations including critical thinking, effective communication, adaptability and ethical decision-making.
MBA applied project
All students on taught MBAs participate in the applied project as the culmination of your course. It is designed to support your employability and transition into the professional work environment through the application of management education to management practice, integrating the best available scientific, organisational and experiential evidence.
How will you be assessed?
The underpinning philosophy of all assessments is to develop both your knowledge and skills to enter employment as a confident manager with a strong base from which to meet your own aspirations. This requires consideration of your own personal capabilities as well as looking outward at the business world. The aim is for you to become an independent and self-directed lifelong learner. Apart from the formal assessments there will be an emphasis on self peer and group assessment. Tutors will provide feedback on formative assessments to support your development of good academic practice. All assessments are rooted in authentic and practical workplace scenarios to enable the integration of theory and practice in dynamic `real world work contexts. Exams are kept to a minimum. To facilitate learning for all students a range of assessment methods are used throughout the course including:
- Business Reports to demonstrate contextual insight and professional practice;
- Project Plans to demonstrate project planning skills;
- Seminar Papers to develop critical analysis skills;
- In-class tests of your knowledge of core concepts in context;
- Project Report integrates learning throughout the course independently applied in practice;
- Business simulation where you demonstrate the impact of your strategic decision making.
The focus is on the impact of management education to management practice and later assessments require greater complexity and integration through independent study to support your successful transition into work. This is exemplified by two units at the dissertation stage: Management Practice and the Theory into Practice Project. These help you to consider your personal and professional development and the complexity of applying management education in practice once in employment.
Careers
On completing your MBA you will be well placed to fill a wide range of positions particularly within the health sector. Your team-working skills analytical abilities and understanding of management will be attractive to employers. You would be expected to enter into mid-level management careers in SMEs and larger organisations or start your own business.
If you wish at a later point in your career you may pursue a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA).
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Fees for this course
UK
The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £15,400. This is the cost of the whole course.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International
The 2025/26 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £18,000.
For more information on our MBA fees, please see international fees
If you have any questions around international fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Fees for this course
UK
The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £15,400. This is the cost of the whole course.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International
The 2025/26 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £18,000.
For more information on our MBA fees, please see international fees
If you have any questions around international fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Fees for this course
UK
The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £15,400. This is the cost of the whole course.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International
The 2025/26 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £18,000.
For more information on our MBA fees, please see international fees
If you have any questions around international fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Fees for this course
UK
The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £15,400. This is the cost of the whole course.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International
The 2025/26 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £18,000.
For more information on our MBA fees, please see international fees
If you have any questions around international fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Fees for this course
UK
The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £15,400. This is the cost of the whole course.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International
The 2025/26 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £18,000.
For more information on our MBA fees, please see international fees
If you have any questions around international fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Fees for this course
UK
The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £15,400. This is the cost of the whole course.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International
The 2025/26 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £18,000.
For more information on our MBA fees, please see international fees
If you have any questions around international fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
