Pre-Masters in Business and Management - Continue to Master of Business Administration (MBA)

At the postgraduate level, Brunel University London Pathway College provides the highly acclaimed Pre-Master's programme leading to an excellent range of Brunel University London Master programmes in business and management, computing, engineering & design and arts. After successfully completing the programme students will advance to their chosen progression degree.

A postgraduate pathway will give students valuable insight into postgraduate-level studies in the UK. Most importantly, It will equip students with the appropriate knowledge and skills they need to excel in their chosen taught master's degree.

The educational aims of the programme element are to:

• Develop in students fundamental knowledge and understanding of business and its internal and external operating processes, inclusive of planning and strategy, growth, marketing, products/services, finance and accounting systems, information systems, and the management and development of human resource within organisations. • Develop in students an appreciation and desire to learn based on competent intellectual and practical skills that build to a set of transferable skills that will support them in all aspects of their onward academic studies/careers and support their decision making in an informed manner. • Ensure that students have attained the prescribed level of inter-disciplinary language competence. • Prepare students for postgraduate study to meet the required academic standards.

Business Administration MBA

The General Management MBA specialisation can help students become a more accomplished manager all-round. From finance to international strategy, harnessing technologies and marketing, this course will help students with senior management decision-making and solving business issues. Brunel University London supports their students in identifying their strengths and weaknesses and working with them to help them progress. The Career Development Programme is an integral part of professional development while students are studying their MBA. Landing a top job after completing their MBA is, of course, a key objective, and the Career Development Programme is designed to provide the tools to help students achieve their ambitions. The programme will help students define their career goals and create a personalised career action plan. Students will have access to one-to-one careers coaching to help students understand what makes them stand, out whether it’s their particular management experience and skills or specialist knowledge. Brunel University London will also help students with their CV, LinkedIn profile, and a professional portfolio as well as providing support in building a career plan, job-hunting, writing applications that get noticed, and brushing up on interview techniques. As part of the MBA course, Brunel provides an innovative series of Leadership Masterclasses. Sessions will help students with effective ways to present their ideas, the best methods for managing change, negotiating better and resolving conflict, as well as giving students deeper insight into cross cultural issues and corporate responsibility. The Brunel Business School has links to many leading organisations such as Barclays, British Airways, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, IBM, Iraq Energy Institute, Jaguar, Johnson and Johnson, Microsoft, and Xerox. MBA students undertake regular visits to company head offices and representatives from these companies often visit campus as part of the MBA Guest Speaker Series, Let’s Talk Business. The Brunel MBA is one of a distinguished group of MBA programmes worldwide to have achieved accreditation by both the Association of Masters of Business Administration (AMBA) and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).