Master Business Administration MBA
Epsom
Course overview
If you are seeking a top-level career within the creative industries, UCA's Master of Business Administration course will accelerate your progression within the industry sector of your choice.
As a student at our Business School for the Creative Industries at UCA Epsom, you will gain an understanding of how global corporations operate as you examine and evaluate real-life case studies and form a strong foundation of theoretical knowledge.
You will learn the key skills expected of those in senior positions in organisations, and will be encouraged to explore entrepreneurism and develop your capacity as a future leader.
Independent learning is at the core of this course - you will be expected to identify, develop and manage your own business project based on your chosen specialist area of the creative sector. Through a proactive relationship with your tutor, you will lead your project work and be supported by staff and through engagement with industry connections.
Every course within our Business School portfolio is taught with a global perspective, giving graduates the skill set required to pursue a creative business career anywhere in the world. Our teaching programmes are all project-based, combining knowledge from both business and the creative industries to ensure that you graduate as a well-rounded, highly employable professional with a highly-regarded qualification.
Please note this course has previously been titled International MBA.
An intensive one-year course of advanced study of business practices, usually taken after you have gained professional experience rather than moving straight from an undergraduate degree.
A year-long preparatory course of study to ready you for your Master’s, developing your specialist skills, research acumen and confidence in working autonomously.
A year-long preparatory course of study to ready you for your Master’s in the UK, developing your English speaking and writing together with your specialist skills, research acumen and confidence in working autonomously.
Course details
The content of the course may be subject to change. Curriculum content is provided as a guide.
Get ready for your chosen postgraduate course with this preparatory year of specialist study. With a mix of online and face-to-face learning, UCA’s Integrated Pre-Masters is designed to give you insight into the study skills required to complete a Master’s, within the context of your creative subject. You’ll build skills in autonomous learning, forming your own targets and goals, honing your research skills, time management and professional practice.
For our students coming from a non-UK educational background, UCA has launched an Integrated International Pre-Masters year, this is based at UCA Epsom and delivered by UCAIC.
On this course you’ll prepare for postgraduate study with a mix of online and face-to-face learning that will give you the study skills required to complete a Master’s, and you’ll also improve your English for academic study.
Creative Industries: Global Industry and Futures and Creative Industries: Leadership
These units are delivered in parallel, through an integrated series of guest lectures, inter-active presentations, fireside chats and engaging PechaKucha sessions scheduled across 45 weeks of programming.
The focus of the series is your individual development providing rich insights applicable to your personal transformational learning journey and provides a holistic view of the global creative industries context and foresight for future trends.
Postgraduate Bootcamp 1: Creativity & Orientation
Bootcamp 1: Creativity is designed to introduce you to the Business School for the Creative Industries highly effective learning community and professional global network orientation. Through a series of exciting and engaging fast paced workshops, tasks and peer sessions you will access resources, build relationships and develop a vision of the function of business for the creative industries.
Business Economics
This unit provides students with an understanding of economics and to apply the various principles taught to real world problems.
Creative People & Organisations
This module is designed to provide an insight into the complex theories and contemporary management practice within the creative industries both in the UK and globally.
Global Creative Industries
This unit provides you with the opportunity to gain comprehensive knowledge of current theories and practices for managing business and process in a global context in the creative sectors. There is a strong focus on contemporary business and marketing concepts enabling you to position themselves within this constantly changing and demanding landscape.
Marketing, Design & Communications
By examining concepts and developing research and practice, there is an opportunity to not only understand and broadly examine Marketing, Design & Communications but to also consider and apply appropriate solutions to current global issues facing brands in a meaningful, focused and professional way.
Creative Industries: Global Industry and Futures and Creative Industries: Leadership
These units are delivered in parallel, through an integrated series of guest lectures, inter-active presentations, fireside chats and engaging PechaKucha sessions scheduled across 45 weeks of programming.
The focus of the series is your individual development providing rich insights applicable to your personal transformational learning journey and provides a holistic view of the global creative industries context and foresight for future trends.
Bootcamp 2: Forecasting & Predictive Analysis
Through examples from empirical research, you will have an overview of main concepts, statistical models, methods, tools and underlying principles used to improve business decision-making. You will learn fundamentals of exploratory data analysis and how to aggregate and visualize datasets.
Operations & Risk in the Creative Industries
This unit will explore sources of potential operational risks within creative organisations by identifying contemporary features embodying or characterising these risk factors within a range of creative organisational contexts. You will also explore diverse risk management models that can effectively be used to manage operational risk occurrences.
Strategy & Decision Making
Throughout this unit you will be expected to critically examine the strategic management process as it applies to internationally oriented organisations in order to remain competitive and sustain competitiveness within the ever-changing and demanding international and industrial environments.
Strategy: Analysis & Evaluation
Throughout this unit you will be expected to critically examine the strategic management process as it applies to internationally oriented organisations in order to remain competitive and sustain competitiveness within the ever-changing and demanding global environments and landscapes.
Human-centred Innovation & Design
You will learn how to design and develop systems by applying HCD and innovation principles and techniques through various relevant activities in planning and management to satisfy user needs and requirements in business, social and global contexts.
Creative Industries: Global Industry and Futures and Creative Industries: Leadership
These units are delivered in parallel, through an integrated series of guest lectures, inter-active presentations, fireside chats and engaging PechaKucha sessions scheduled across 45 weeks of programming.
The focus of the series is your individual development providing rich insights applicable to your personal transformational learning journey and provides a holistic view of the global creative industries context and foresight for future trends.
Bootcamp 3: Competitive Intelligence & Research
Bootcamp 3: Competitive Intelligence Research is designed to familiarise you with the gathering and analysis of competitors, customers, distributors, technologies, and other relevant stakeholders and features in the environment for proactive decision making in the face of threats and opportunities.
Global Logistics & Supply Chain Management (Elective A)
This unit examines the processes of supply, production, and distribution that transcend organisational boundaries to make other strategic objectives possible in a globalised marketplace. This goes beyond the traditional notion of a linear sequence of operations organised around the flow of materials from source of supply to their distribution as finished products to final users and includes the sources of material resources, and the organisation of processors, distributors, and users in a complex global network.
Augmented & Synthetic Experiences (Elective A)
This unit aims to holistically approach the subject of “experience” within technological contexts; looking to the practical, critical and theoretical positions that surround this subject. The unit begins by outlining some of the origin stories for technology – and their intersection with notions of the “synthetic” or “augmented”.
Trends & Forecasting (Elective A)
This unit will require you to engage in both perceptive and analytical approaches to trends research. You will be introduced to the key theories of prediction and forecasting alongside the fundamental framework of trend research (recognise, analyse, and translate).
Business Analytics (Elective A)
This unit explores how to acquire, process, analyse and interpret data to provide meaningful value for creative organisations. It will look at how data is used in the creative industries, how AI and machine learning are advancing this area, and what the future may look like for the creative industries.
Creative Business Start-up (Elective B)
This unit will explore the concept of developing creative businesses and the new paths for start-ups. It will analyse the evolution of business structures and explore the new market opportunities and challenges arising from geo-politics, trade relations and the global pandemic.
Strategy & Planning (Elective B)
This unit first focuses on defining strategy, looking at the process of strategy formulation and describing the role of management within that process. It instructs how to craft vision and mission statements, how to identify and manage external strategic influences, and includes discussion on corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
Investment in the Creative Industries (Elective B)
This unit covers the various means of investment in the creative industries: investing in the companies, ideas, and entrepreneurs that will drive the evolution of the creative industries.
Masters Project
The Masters Project is an opportunity to create value for yourself at the highest strategic level in a tangible and measurable way as a culmination of your learning experience. It requires you to approach a real problem or opportunity, analyse it and develop a recommended strategy and implementation plan, while applying some relevant concepts and frameworks from your studied programme. You will have the opportunity to also select a project applicable to your company that might be working already in order to find solution to a real business problem.
Tuition fees - 2022 entry
UK students:
- Integrated Pre-Masters course - £10,500
- MA course - £13,900
EU students:
- Integrated International Pre-Masters course - £10,500 (see fee discount information)
- MA course - £13,900 (see fee discount information)
International students:
- Integrated International Pre-Masters course - £17,500
- MA course - £18,500
Additional course costs
In addition to the tuition fees there may be other costs for your course. The things that you are likely to need to budget for to get the most out of a creative arts education will include books, printing costs, occasional or optional study trips and/or project materials. These costs will vary according to the nature of your project work and the individual choices that you make. please see the additional course costs for September 2021 and February 2022 entry. The details for September 2022 will be available here in due course.
Further information
For more detailed infomation about our course fees and any financial support you may be entitled to please see our fees and finance pages.
The fees listed here are correct for the stated academic year only. Costs may increase each year during a student’s period of continued registration on course in line with inflation (subject to any maximum regulated tuition fee limit). Any adjustment for continuing students will be at or below the RPI-X forecast rate.
To support our students and alumni to progress to the next level of study, we have developed a new range of fee discounts across a range of courses.
Course specifications
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change in line with our Student Terms and Conditions for example, as required by external professional bodies or to improve the quality of the course.
Facilities
The business courses at UCA Epsom have a baseroom with networked computer facilities and you also have access to our extensive range of campus facilities, including: print studios with extensive screen printing facilities, photography studios, 3D workshops, media store for borrowing film and photography equipment. There is also a modern library with a wealth of books, journals, special collections and online resources.
Business School, UCA Epsom
Business School, UCA Epsom
Business School, UCA Epsom
Business School, UCA Epsom
Entry requirements
MBA course
- A good Honours degree or equivalent qualification in the subject or a related discipline
And
- Two years' relevant work experience, demonstrating your ability to study at postgraduate level.
Consideration will also be given to applicants who can make a strong case for admission in relation to a particular project and can demonstrate their potential to satisfactorily complete the course.
MBA course with Integrated Pre-Masters course
MBA course with Integrated International Pre-Masters course
A recognised bachelor degree or 3 year diploma with a strong portfolio in a relevant subject.
To view the equivalent entry requirements for your country please select it in the list below.
Don't meet the international entry requirements or English language requirements?
You may be able to enter the course through the following entry courses:
Pre-sessional English courses in the UK or China
MBA course
MBA course with Integrated Pre-Masters course
MBA course with Integrated International Pre-Masters course
These courses don’t require a portfolio.
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