Information for Gulf Students
The Hull MBA
offered in the Middle-east through MDCI Ltd is exactly the same as that offered
on-campus apart from some minor organisational arrangements. This introductory section describes those
arrangements but for further information, or to apply, please contact
MDCI's offices in
Bahrain or
The Sultanate of Oman.
Induction
The Hull MBA in the Gulf begins with an induction programme at the start of
the first module. The modules that follow are taught in comfortable
executive conference facilities of major hotels over Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday - every six weeks or so. Class contact time for each
module is 36 hours and involves a variety of teaching styles including
lectures, group discussions and presentations. Students will also be
involved in problem solving and teamworking exercises.
Course
structure
For the distance taught MBA in the Gulf there are no optional modules, the
course structure is as follows:
Thirteen
modules
Management and Personal Development
Human Resource Management
Marketing
Accounting and Finance for Managers
Operations Management
Management Decision Making: A Systems Approach
The Business Environment
Strategic Management
Business Project
Consultancy and intervention
Corporate Leadership and Change Management
International Business
Research
Methods
During the remaining 6 months period you
undertake a supervised dissertation, with the support of one of the
academics from the business school.
Start
dates and duration
The programme starts in Muscat and Bahrain approximately every six months.
The taught part of the programme runs for around eighteen months. During
that time, MBA students complete thirteen modules each worth ten credits
together with the research methods element of the dissertation.
The following
six months are spent working independently with expert academic supervision
on the MBA dissertation.
Please note
that the information that follows describes the MBA as delivered at the Hull
campus, and potential Gulf based students should therefore read the
information in conjunction with the notes provided above.
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