Key Facts
Duration: 24 months, part-time
Starts: October
Designed for: experienced managers, professionals and executives
Features: 5-day modules every 2 to 3 months, with related workplace assignments and an emphasis on developing project, consulting and leadership skills
Intake: 25-30 students
Entry requirements: honours degree or equivalent; IELTS 7.0 or TOEFL-CBT 250 if first language is not English >> more information
Work experience: at least five years needed
Fees: £17,500
EMBA offers 10% discounts to CIMA members.
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The Lancaster Executive MBA
Study part-time to develop yourself, your leadership abilities and your management knowledge – and take your company forward
The Executive MBA at Lancaster is a two-year part-time programme for experienced managers. Its highly practical and action-oriented approach combines intensive modular input in five-day blocks with real business projects and close tutorial support.
Action-oriented
The programme design, with its work-based assignments in which you apply your learning, ensures that as your abilities grow, your organisation reaps the benefits.
Focus on leadership development
EMBA is geared to developing your knowledge of business functions and their interactions, and to building your ability to manage and lead in complex organisational situations.
Its emphasis on practical thinking processes to underpin and drive purposeful action will develop your capacity to become an effective agent for change within your organisation, and give you fresh perspectives on challenging issues.
The programme’s pedigree
- The Lancaster EMBA is a part-time MBA accredited by the Association of MBAs
- Executive education at Lancaster is rated in the Financial Times Top 50 Global Custom Executive Education providers (6th in the UK in 2008)
- The School's full EQUIS accreditation from the European Foundation of Management was reaffirmed in 2008 and AACSB accreditation was awarded in April 2008.
Outward Bound with the Lancaster MBA
The new academic year got off to a flying start in October 2008, when students from the Lancaster Executive MBA took part in a day of intensive team-building activities with Outward Bound, in the English Lake District. Find out more in this video.
Alumni Profiles
The Lancaster Executive MBA has been a fantastic learning experience. Through having the opportunity to step back and look at Airbus through a more strategic perspective it's really strengthened my understanding of the key challenges that companies face.
Penny Dickinson
MBA (Executive), 2005
More Alumni Profiles:
- Kerry Anderson
MBA (Executive), 2006 - Phillippa Williamson
MBA (Executive), 2007 - Chris Sivers
MBA (Executive), 2003


