Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Business Administration (Global) (N10079)

This is the January-start route into DMU’s Global MBA, delivered over 18 months from Leicester Castle Business School, which occupies the restored medieval Great Hall site in the city centre. The longer January structure covers the same core as the September intake — strategic management, leading people, marketing in a global context, accounting for decision-makers, and operations — but spreads the taught blocks so the final project lands in the summer of the second year.

The distinguishing element of the Global MBA is its applied strand: a live corporate challenge module in which teams work a real brief from a partner organisation, plus workshops on negotiation, consultancy practice and leadership diagnostics. Assessment leans on business reports, boardroom-style presentations and the final management project rather than closed exams, and the 18-month calendar leaves room for an extended in-company project where students secure one.

Leicester itself keeps the budget manageable for an 18-month stay: shared housing commonly runs £400–£550 a month, well under southern-England rates, and the campus sits ten minutes on foot from the railway station with direct London trains in just over an hour. The MBA scholarship recorded in the CourseFinder export is £3,500, the largest single award in this sheet, which softens the £20,300 fee meaningfully for January joiners.

Applicants should weigh the market honestly. UK employers treat an MBA from a modern university as a management-conversion qualification, not a fast track to senior roles, and the salary uplift comes mostly to those who arrive with meaningful experience. As a taught master’s the course confers Graduate Route eligibility — note carefully that an 18-month January 2027 cohort will finish in mid-2028, after the rule change, so post-study permission will be 18 months rather than two years — and dependants are not permitted on taught study visas. Budget for that shorter runway when planning the job search.