Cardiff University

Master in Business Administration

Cardiff, United Kingdom Taught in English Open to international students

Introduction

Cardiff University, established in 1883 and located in the capital of Wales, is a research-led institution with a global reputation for high-quality, innovative scholarship. Home to more than 33,000 students, including over 9,000 international students from more than 100 countries, the university offers a vibrant, multicultural campus within a dynamic city. Teaching is informed by cutting-edge research, ensuring students learn from academic leaders who are active in advancing knowledge and addressing real-world challenges.

The university provides a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs across faculties, with roughly 266 programs available that span the arts, sciences, engineering, business, and health disciplines. Cardiff emphasizes a student-centered approach, offering strong academic support, opportunities for study abroad, and industry partnerships that help students gain practical experience. Many undergraduates benefit from international exchanges and placements that enhance employability and global perspective.

Cardiff’s civic mission prioritizes community engagement, sustainability, and public good, with initiatives that contribute to regional health, wealth, and wellbeing. The campus environment supports extracurricular involvement, research internships, and student societies that enrich campus life. For international applicants seeking a research-intensive university in a welcoming capital city, Cardiff combines academic rigor, global connections, and extensive support services to help students thrive.

About the Program

! Content unavailable How to watch this video Video disabled icon ### **Content unavailable** This content is not available because your cookie preferences do not allow it. In order to view this content, you will need to allow cookies that: - help with our advertising and marketing - enable useful features Enable cookies Or view the content on Youtube ! Close Tackle leadership challenges and consider the economic, social and environmental impact of global business on our flexible, part-time MBA programme. people Leadership development Assess your leadership capability, craft a personal development path and build key leadership skills on our bespoke, wrap-around programme. structure Cardiff connections Become part of our capital business community through networking events, access to business leaders and alumni. tick Accelerator project Consolidate your learning and professional experiences as you respond to a complex, multi-faceted problem posed by a business client. star A Cardiff welcome Springboard into the programme and learning community with a custom-made orientation and team building programme. rosette AACSB-accredited Awarded to less than 5% of the world’s business schools, AACSB accreditation is a hallmark of business school excellence. rosette AMBA-accredited Our MBA is accredited by the Association of MBAs, one of the world’s leading authorities on postgraduate business education. Are you an ambitious professional looking to progress to senior leadership and drive positive business change? If this sounds like you then the part-time Cardiff MBA is a great next step for you. Whatever your managerial background, we offer a challenging experience that will stretch and support you, developing your business knowledge, increasing your self-awareness, and sharpening your ability as an effective and inspiring leader along the way. Take this opportunity to thrive alongside like-minded, experienced professionals as you consider the wider commercial, social, and environmental impacts of decision-making on global business. _The business of changing the world is ours. Together we can make a difference._ We believe that effective learning is founded on two things: your involvement in diverse and challenging experiences and the way you make sense of these experiences, individually and with others. With that in mind, the Cardiff MBA is delivered in immersive blocks designed to stimulate your curiosity, inform your process of enquiry, and strengthen the application of your learning. Flexibility is built in, with monthly, 3-day intensive in-person teaching sessions supported by a range of online resources. This allows your studies to fit around your existing responsibilities. And you’ll find that each block of learning involves a rich variety of activities including industry speakers, time-limited challenges, role-play, and simulations. You’ll benefit from small group work and block teaching allowing you to master specific interdisciplinary approaches before an opportunity to develop a specialisation via our accelerator project. The programme concludes with a capstone module bringing together the segments of expertise acquired over the course of your MBA experience. The diversity of our student cohort and our academic staff is a real asset. Opportunities to collaborate with peers, academics, and practitioners to challenge your existing knowledge structures, assumptions, values, and skills will help you to reconsider your current understanding and to explore issues from different perspectives. Our MBA is designed to tackle real-world challenges, and this is reflected in our assessment of your work. Reflecting the workplace, you’ll work individually and as part of a team to complete assessment tasks spanning strategy, personnel, consultancy, innovation, and crisis. ### Accreditations - Association of MBAs (AMBA) - Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Where you'll study

Tuition in Context

This program's tuition is about the same as the typical master's in the United Kingdom.

Median tuition for that cohort is 24,625 USD, across 12,153 programs in our catalog.

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