Aberdeen University MBA

I am a student of MBA course at Aberdeen University .Will you please give here syllabus for MBA program offered by Aberdeen University?

[Kiran Chandar]

Aberdeen University January offers MBA one year full-time management program this program covers the main disciplines of business management.

MBA program :

Entry requirements:
Good first degree or above in any discipline.

IELTS Academic/TOEFL / iBT /PTE Academic, or Cambridge Advanced/Cambridge Proficiency test score

Syllabus :

FIRST SEMESTER

Strategic Marketing
Marketing management and strategic planning. Marketing in a range of organisational settings, including consumer, industrial, service and voluntary sectors. Systems perspective on key marketing techniques. Relationship between marketing and other management functions in modern organisations.

Managing People At Work
Management of people as a key element for organisational success. People as the most complex of all organisational resources to manage. Theoretical and practical issues of people management in the contemporary competitive economic environment. Managing Change and Innovation - This course will enable students to understand the context of innovation and change by examining a number of key topics, including the development of new products (goods and services), developing the business case for innovation and delivering change.

Leadership & Decision Making
investigates the underlying theories which underpin the popular views about Leadership. It will examine the trait and situational theories, among others, so that students begin to recognise the basic assumptions which are used by writers in professional journals and quality broad sheets alike.

SUMMER SCHOOL

Students are required to undertake three elective modules. There are a selection of electives run each year, examples of which are: Essential Human Resource Practices /Internationalisation /International Marketing /E-Commerce.

There is then a compulsory module in New Venture Creation

The aim is to equip students with an understanding of key aspects of new venture creation, including business planning, pitching new ideas to investors and managing growth. This is a capstone course, by bringing together a range of different concepts.

FINAL SEMESTER

Accounting & Finance For Managers
Provides an understanding of accounting information and financial reporting and introduces key aspects of financial analysis and enable students to undertake: interpretation of accounts; ratio analysis and user-group specific tools, e.g. Z scores and credit ratings; accounting information and the stock market; forecasting and valuation.

Operations Management
Introducing the core concepts in the management of operations producing products and services. These include the management of capacity and inventory, production planning and control, project management and the management and improvement of quality.

Business Economics
This module will equip students with the basic knowledge of business economics and examine the ways in which economic theory may be applied to solve real business problems, focussing on aspects of economics vital to a student of business. This module aims for students to be comfortable with the tools of economic analysis as applied to the international, economic and business environments in which modern day businesses and policy makers have to operate.

Business Strategy
Drawing mainly on microeconomics theories and applications in order to introduce students to theories, concepts and techniques of analysis that are close to many typical business situations.

Contact detail :
University of Aberdeen
The Hub
King's College
ABERDEEN AB24 3TU
Tel: +44 (0)1224 272090 / +44 (0)1224 272091
Fax: +44 (0)1224 272576
Email: sras@abdn.ac.uk