Online MBA: career outlook
MBA careers: thrive in a global business environment
Drawing on insights and expertise from our partnerships with leading international businesses, Birmingham Business School’s online MBA has been recently ranked 2nd in the world for it’s careers services by the Financial Times (2024). It offers a gateway to a number of new career paths or perfect training for progression within your current company.
This exposure to world-class teaching and research will inform your understanding and capacity to advance sustainable, responsible business strategies in an increasingly competitive global business market.
As well as providing one-to-one MBA careers advice, we offer contemporary industry insights through online lectures from distinguished business leaders, and optional on-campus workshops. These unique learning experiences not only equip you with the necessary business knowledge, they challenge you to thrive.
Since the programme is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), you can be confident that employers will recognise your qualification as the gold standard certificate for business excellence.
- #2 in the world for mba careers services with regard to career counselling, personal development, networking events and recruitment (financial Times 2024)
- #5 in the world for global mobility (financial times 2024)
- Bespoke in-house MBA careers advice from professionally qualified consultants at Birmingham Business School
- Free access to helpful resources, such as linkedin learning and amba career development
- access to industry links and corporate partners including deloitte, pwc, kpmg, hsbc and earnst & young
- TOP targeted University by employers (HIgh Fliers Research 2024)
Salary information
$136,926/year
This is the average salary of our Online MBA students three years after graduation (Financial Times 2024). This equates to an average annual salary of £108,380 per year (Mar. ’24).
Job titles of recent graduates include:
- Director, partner or CEO
- Managing director, vice president or executive director
- Head of department
- Chief financial officer or director of finance
- Regional service manager or global lead
- Business co-founder
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Programme outcomes
When you complete this programme, you will be able to:
- Apply your specialist subject knowledge in practice
- Draw on critical awareness of business and leadership strategies
- Explain theoretical and contemporary business issues
- Expand your horizons to understand global business
- Tailor management methods and techniques to business cases
Career support
Your relationship with the University of Birmingham will continue long after your graduation. To make the most of your future career prospects, we will help you gain the skills, knowledge and attributes that employers are looking for.