MBA (Engineering Management)

Develop your managerial skills and gain the necessary expertise in engineering management needed to take on senior roles.

Overview

The Edinburgh Napier MBA (Engineering Management) appeals to people with a wide range of backgrounds and experience; be they recent graduates or business professionals with perhaps many years’ experience, or specialist managers who are looking for a formal qualification to consolidate their experiential knowledge. It has equal relevance to those in the public, private and third sectors.

Course details

This programme will provide you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate problem solving at a strategic level, as well as your knowledge and understanding of leadership skills and management theories applied in practice; and to develop your practical, critical and analytical skills and attributes.

You will study organisations, focusing in particular on the role of leaders and managers in determining the organisation’s mission, vision and strategic direction.
You will develop critical reflection and engagement skills to understand, apply and challenge the relevance of academic theories in a rapidly changing business context.

You will to widen your perspective beyond the limitations imposed by your own experience and develop insights, critical thinking and the management skills necessary to function effectively in a management role.

You will enhance your interpersonal, cross-cultural, and complex problem-solving skills, enabling you to work more effectively with key stakeholders.

You will develop your knowledge and skills across specialist routes congruent with your career and professional development plans and goals.

You will apply subject specific knowledge to a range of practical problems in line with organisations overall strategic objectives.

Careers

On successful completion of this programme you will have the necessary knowledge, understanding and skills to gain postgraduate-level employment in a senior management/leadership role within engineering management, in the global business environment. Alternatively, you will be eligible to progress to doctoral- level study at the University or to seek entry to doctoral-level study at another higher education institution.

The MBA (Engineering Management) Programme is designed to offer students a general management education with the ability to specialise in engineering management.

Students on the Programme have used it to either consolidate their knowledge and progress in their organisational/industry career ladder or have used it as an opportunity to change career.