Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics) MBA

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Overview

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MBA

  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 13080 per year. For Industrial Placement Year 2 fee is £3,500.
  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 2180 per 30 credit module
  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 18060 per year. For Industrial Placement Year 2 fee is £3,500.
    International applications are closed for 2024

MBA with Placement Year

  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 13080 per year. For Industrial Placement Year 2 fee is £3,500.
  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 2180 per 30 credit module
  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 18060 per year. For Industrial Placement Year 2 fee is £3,500.
    International applications are closed for 2024

MBA

  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 13080 per year. For Industrial Placement Year 2 fee is £3,500
  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 18060 per year. For Industrial Placement Year 2 fee is £3,500.

MBA with Placement Year

  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 13080 per year. For Industrial Placement Year 2 fee is £3,500.
  • MBA Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics), international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 18060 per year. For Industrial Placement Year 2 fee is £3,500.

What makes this course different

Placement

You can opt to have a placement year to gain hands-on experience in the real world and effectively connect what you will have learnt at university to the industry

Innovation

Gain knowledge and understanding of business innovation through data science, creativity, intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial behaviour and enterprise development

3rd in London for teaching satisfaction

UEL is joint 21st nationally and 3rd in London for teaching satisfaction in the Guardian University Guide 2025.

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

Your future career

The business magazine, Forbes, has calculated that successful MBA graduates pay back the cost of their qualifications within four to five years on average - with lifetime earnings greatly enhanced thanks to the qualification.

Studying for your MBA with us should enhance your employability and earning power and develop your ability to approach business problems in a strategic manner. As part of the course, you'll study a specialised 'Professional Development' module that is specifically designed to help you boost your career prospects and make the most of your MBA in the employment market.

Employers see candidates with an MBA as potentially more effective and therefore valuable as they examine business issues with a fresh pair of eyes. With our help, you will develop the analytical and problem-solving skills that will benefit you throughout your entire career.

MBAs are welcome in any sector anywhere in the world, and the course’s accreditation with the Chartered Management Institute will enhance your employability even further. 

You will also be able to take advantage of the worldwide MBA Alumni Network, and UEL's superb careers guidance.

The qualification will enable you to go into any sector, anywhere in the world. Or if you have your own business idea and want to start up a company of your own, the knowledge, skills, and qualities you develop on the entrepreneurship module will really help - and you can receive support from the University to assist your entrepreneurial ambitions.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

 Stefan Nielsen MBA
I'm very glad that I chose the path that I did and have the MBA. UEL's MBA gave me an invaluable depth of knowledge in global business and the roles each department plays within an organisation. Those tools have opened up doors for me globally and were a factor in my success - achieving my dream job. I'd recommend it to anyone looking to improve their career path and skills."
Stefan Nielsen

MBA Graduate

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and Entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

What you'll learn

You'll develop competencies and abilities in the field of data science applied by the business industry.  Learn to distinguish the internal and external sources of Big Data and strategic information required to modelling organisational performance. Determine the best analytic tools and practices to be used in specific scenarios such as learning machines, statistical learning, mining, social media analysis, Internet of Things, cloud, and simulation. Design prescriptive organisational models and solutions using inferential statistics and informatics software such as R and Python.

Solve complex problems using appropriate decision-making techniques including identifying, formulating, and solving business problems. Develop critical thinking skills and reflect on the ways in which organisational processes produce enormous volumes of data and the multidisciplinary techniques that can be used to manipulate the data to generate analytics and business solutions.

The programme will also offer you an optional placement year, enabling you to gain professional experience and put your university learning and experience into practice.

We consistently review and develop our courses and modules to ensure they are up-to-date with sector and industry graduate skills demands. Course structure, modules, and options are subject to change.

How you'll learn

You are able to move from full-time to part-time study and vice-versa to accommodate any external factors such as financial constraints or domestic commitments. Many of our students make use of this flexibility and this may impact the overall duration of their study period. 

Knowledge is developed through guided reading, knowledge-based activities with feedback, and online discussions and activities. Thinking skills are developed through reflective activities with feedback and online discussions and activities. 

Practical skills are developed through IT activities with feedback and research skills-based activities with feedback. Skills for life and work (general skills) are developed through planning activities with feedback and project work.

Students on the MBA (Business Analytics) with Placement route will be expected to undertake a 30-week work placement. The placement is worth an additional 120 credits. UEL will assist you in finding a placement and will advertise opportunities on the UEL Employment Hub. However, it is ultimately the student's responsibility to source a valid placement. Further details on placement are contained in the placement handbook.

How you will be assessed

Knowledge is assessed by:

  • Coursework
  • Essays
  • Examinations

Thinking skills are assessed by

  • Coursework
  • Examinations
  • Project work

Practical skills are assessed by

  • Practical reports
  • Portfolio completion

Skills for life and work (general skills) are assessed by

  • Project work
  • Group work


Students with disabilities and/or particular learning needs should discuss assessments with the course leader to ensure they are able to fully engage with all assessments within the course.

Campus and facilities

Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD; USS campus - University Square Stratford

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by the Royal Docks School of Business and Law

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.