Despite the global economic downturn, professionals in developed and emergent economies are continuing to invest in postgraduate qualifications. And with competition for senior jobs fiercer than ever, employers are searching for experienced, highly educated managers who can help steer them through the challenges ahead.
Increasingly both individuals and organisations are turning to higher education and professional development to ensure they stay ahead of the game. As such, the UK's leading business-facing university - the University of Hertfordshire - is well placed to satisfy their requirements, particularly with the innovative and stimulating MBA programme.
Although the MBA can be studied throughout the world, Hertfordshire have developed an exceptional programme that is of tangible value to professionals and prospective employers which includes innovative modules and international collaborations with the likes of the USA and India.
Hertfordshire MBA students are benefiting from genuine international connections as they collaborate with students from New York's Fordham University for a pioneering joint project for US company Argington, which is looking to bring its children's furniture brand to the UK. Fordham students visited in April to meet their UK counterparts and conduct market research, with the Hertfordshire team heading across the Atlantic to present their report to the company. This project is now complete and due to its success, Hertfordshire will be working with Fordham in 2009-10.
Integrating academic excellence with business relevance is key to the Hertfordshire MBA, and by collaborating with small companies through to multinationals, the MBA programme is based on the necessities of leading businesses. By developing key local, national and international partnerships our current students are benefitting from working with organisations such as IBM, Harmon International, AstraZeneca and Q Training. These partnerships are crucial for nurturing the knowledge and valuable leadership skills sought after in today's business world.
But it isn't just external resources that benefit the Hertfordshire MBA student; students are also supported by first-class facilities, including our virtual learning environment, StudyNet, which provides access to other students, lecture notes and over 100,000 e-books and e-journals. And as a student you will also benefit from teaching and supervision by our expert research-active staff, several of whom are world leaders in their field and act as consultants with leading organisations such as Roche, Camelot and BDO Hayward.
About the University of Hertfordshire:
With our ambitious, business-facing approach, we are proud to be a new model institution, truly engaged with business, the community and international partners. This is highlighted in The Independent's latest Good University Guide, where the University of Hertfordshire was the highest climber, and ranked second among all new universities. All this reflects the major investment we have been making. In fact, we have invested more money in our facilities - contemporary campuses, state-of-the-art Learning Resources Centres and a multimillion-pound sports village - than any other UK university.
The University of Hertfordshire has a student community of 23,000, including more than 2,000 international students from over eighty five countries, and a global network of over 160,000 alumni. We have over 3,000 postgraduate students studying one of more than 100 taught degrees, or undertaking cutting-edge research at the University of Hertfordshire.
Most recently, however, the research carried out within the Business School received significant recognition in the Government's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) carried out in December 2008, with 80% of Business and Management Studies research being rated as internationally recognised, excellent or world-leading. But are strengths are not just in our research: many of our 250-strong academic staff have extensive experience as business practitioners themselves, bringing a valuable real world perspective to your studies.
Ambitious, entrepreneurial and distinctive, the University of Hertfordshire Business School is constantly developing innovative approaches to teaching and has been teaching Business and Management for over forty years. The campus not only has all the contemporary facilities you need, but it benefits from being in an ideal location: it is half an hour from London by train and close to the M25 and A1(M) motorways and within an hour's drive of three London airports - Heathrow, Luton and Stansted.
To find out more about our MBA programme, visit www.go.herts.ac.uk/mba
