Go beyond conventional business thinking

The full-time Newcastle MBA programme offers you a carefully structured, immersive experience that will support you to push beyond your boundaries, and to focus on developing the capabilities you need to be competitive and successful in any industry or entrepreneurial venture.

Immersive business experiences

Through the programme we offer you a 12-month intensive journey of immersion and practical application. We start by building your core skill set and understanding across the range of management and business disciplines. Then, we strengthen your ability to contribute to the key challenges of business in the 21st century, while three electives offer you a wide-range of routes to personalise your Newcastle MBA to your own interests and aspirations. Throughout the year, carefully structured practical activities and projects present you with challenges, from real businesses that develop your consulting skills, enhance your own self-understanding, and show you how to integrate and apply your MBA learning to make a real difference both to business and to your own post-MBA career development.

Leadership development

By honing your skills in leadership, critical thinking, self-reflection, consultancy and communication, you will work to improve your performance while gaining universally applicable business knowledge and skills that you can apply immediately to your own career progression.

A hands-on approach to learning

Studying our MBA is a challenging, yet rewarding, experience and requires significant personal commitment. Using a balance of traditional study and realtime action learning, this programme will prepare you to become a business leader of tomorrow. By combining intensive experiential learning with a solid foundation in business and management knowledge, it will equip you for higher positions in management and leadership.

Shape your leadership journey

Through a mixture of lectures, business challenges, case studies, workshops and consultancy-style projects, you will expand and develop your business acumen in our engaging learning environment, while a range of electives enable you to personalise your MBA to your interests and needs.

The core

Our range of core modules offers you the opportunity to strengthen your management fundamentals, develop your global perspective, and integrate your learning.

• Accounting and Finance
• Business Analysis for Decision Making
• Business in Action
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Entrepreneurship
• Individual Project
• Management Consultancy Project
• Organisations and People Management
• Personal and Professional Transformation
• Projects, Progammes and Operations Management
• Marketing
• Strategic Management
• Transitions in the Global Economy

The specialisation 

Our programme offers you significant scope to customise your MBA journey by choosing from a wide range of elective modules throughout your year of study. This offers you more scope to align your learning experience with your individual career objectives.

• Digital Business
• Emerging Economies: Challenges and Opportunities
• Finance and Investment
• Leading Organisational Change
• Managing Innovation
• Strategic Human Resource Management

Class profile

• Increase in registrants from 2021-22: 14%
• Gender split (male:female): 19:21
• Average age: 34
• 11 nationalities represented in cohort. Countries include:
  • India
  • Nigeria
  • Thailand
  • China
• Industry backgrounds include:
  • Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals
  • Engineering
  • Marketing
  • Technology
  • Finance and Banking

Admissions process

We welcome applications from exceptional candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds who can demonstrate motivation, drive and ambition to embark on a journey of development.

The admissions process is competitive and places are limited on our MBA programme. We recommend you submit your application early to avoid disappointment and to ensure you can choose a convenient time for your interview with our MBA Programme Team. Each application will be considered on an individual basis. Candidates who have narrowly missed the academic or experiential requirement may be considered at the discretion of the MBA Programme Director.

Entry requirements

Academic requirements

• You should hold a minimum upper-second class Honours (2.1) degree or international equivalent.

Work experience requirements

An equivalent of three years (minimum) significant, full-time, post-graduation work experience. Your experience, presented in your CV and personal statement, should demonstrate managerial responsibilities that could include oversight of one or all of the following:

• budgets
• products
• projects
• people

Exceptional applicants without the required academic qualification may be considered if you have more than five years of significant, full-time, post-graduation work experience and are able to demonstrate significant career progression.

English language requirements

English language test score (for non-native English speakers)

• IELTS: 6.5 overall  (with a minimum of 6.0 in all sub skills) or equivalent

How to apply

Apply online for our Full-time MBA. There is no application fee for our programme and you will be offered support and one-to-one contact throughout the process.

Request a prospectus

Discover your leadership journey at Newcastle University Business School and download our 2024 MBA prospectus today.

Funding opportunities

Our global academic reputation, graduate employability record and low cost of living mean an MBA from Newcastle is a sound financial investment. We recognise that undertaking an MBA is a life-changing decision and want to ensure that you’ve considered how to finance your programme before you start.

Tuition fee

The fee for 2023 entry is £27,600.

MBA scholarships

Each year, we offer a range of scholarships to MBA students from all over the world. For 2023, we’ll be awarding a number of full and partial scholarships for exceptional candidates.