Uk UNI:Lancaster University

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Lancaster University


About LUMS
Located on Lancaster University’s green parkland campus, Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) combines the passion for knowledge and ideas you would expect of the UK’s top research-led business school with the distinctive human qualities of a supportive and vibrant community.
Since the University’s founding over 40 years ago, LUMS’ faculty and students have worked at the boundaries of knowledge and practice, challenging conventional wisdom and contributing to future best practice. The faculty is rated second to none in the UK, whilst our graduates are influential in every sector and every country around the world.
LUMS is a diverse school, combining both general and specialist undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes in business, management, accounting, finance and economics, with a large doctoral programme. We also deliver innovative customised executive and leadership education for large organisations around the world, in addition to bespoke services for SMEs in England’s North West and beyond.
The learning and living environment at Lancaster is excellent. LUMS’ benefited from the completion of the £10m Lancaster Leadership Centre in 2005, comprising postgraduate teaching rooms and substantial social and break-out areas for all students, staff and guests, and a focus for out-reach activities. This striking building is part of a £200m transformation of Lancaster’s campus that few UK universities can match.
Source: Masters programmes in business and management

 

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Re: Uk UNI:full-time MBA

The Lancaster full-time MBA
A year in the UK on the Lancaster MBA – your chance to change yourself and your way of managing
Intellectual development
The Lancaster MBA is an intensive and rigorous programme which recruits highly motivated, experienced managers from across the world. It provides access to cutting edge knowledge across a full range of business and management subjects, taught by 6-star faculty.
Action learning
The programme design is informed by Lancaster’s ground-breaking work in how organisations and managers learn. The result is a dual focus on action learning and critical thinking. You don’t simply absorb theories and models and evaluate them in the classroom – through a series of consultancy assignments you take them right into the workplace to test out their strengths and weaknesses and your own effectiveness in applying them.
Skills enhancement
The programme modules and the allied Career Management Programme develop your skills for whatever management career you have in mind – be it in general management, consultancy, or a new business start-up. Choose a portfolio of electives to match your preferred career route or keep your options open.
International experiences
Through its global mix of students, international exchanges and a series of client-based projects, the programme helps you to improve your international management effectiveness and your understanding of different cultural contexts.
World recognition
The Lancaster MBA is accredited by the Association of MBAs and is in the FT and Economist Intelligence Unit’s global top 100. In 2008 it was ranked by the FT as 22nd in the world.

 

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Re: Uk UNI:The Lancaster Executive MBA

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.