The University of Manchester - Dubai

The Manchester Global MBA is a part-time MBA for working professionals, taught in Dubai in a blended format and leading to the same qualification the University awards in the UK. The branch's study page calls it "our largest MBA programme", with intakes at five global locations. The standard route takes 24 months, with up to five years allowed, at around 20 hours of study a week, and combines online classes with 31 teaching days across five workshop residencies and a business project. Students take six core courses, choose three electives that can be taught in Dubai, Hong Kong, Manchester, Shanghai or Singapore, and complete a Live Business Project. The branch says the degree, faculty, accreditation and academic content are the same as on the full-time MBA, while the electives and mode of learning differ. Applicants need at least three years of postgraduate work experience, and people from any field are welcome, including non-traditional business sectors such as healthcare, the military, law and the creative arts. An 18-month Global Finance Accelerated route for accountancy-qualified professionals is run alongside it.

The MA Educational Leadership in Practice is a two-year, part-time master's for teachers and other education professionals who want to take on leadership, whether in schools or in wider educational organisations. Written for a time when standardisation and teach-to-test approaches put heavy pressure on educational leaders, it builds the intellectual and practical confidence to lead, work at more senior levels and influence change, along with transferable skills and knowledge of education and social policy. It is taught mainly online, so students keep working and use their own workplace as a live learning context, with a three-day workshop in Manchester at the start and the option of a workshop at a centre of their choice in year two. Students complete four taught units in year one and two taught units plus a research project in year two: five core units on research, models of leadership, networks and partnerships, educational change and education policy, one optional unit on digital technologies or on leading international schools, and a 60-credit research stage. The programme has a strong international focus, including the multilingual and multicultural settings of the UAE and the Gulf. Applicants must currently work in an education-related role, and the next intake is September 2027.

The Global Finance Accelerated MBA is an 18-month route to the Manchester MBA for professionals who already hold a professional accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or ACMA. The branch describes it as the Global MBA curriculum in a shorter timeframe that recognises the technical grounding these candidates already have, and its published course plan does not include the Business Accounting and Finance core course. The University's own page says students study alongside the Global MBA cohort, with exemptions from finance courses and reduced fees, and can keep a finance focus or explore new areas. It is part-time and blended, at around 20 hours of study a week, with 27 teaching days across five workshop residencies. Students take the other core courses, choose three electives that can be taught in Dubai, Hong Kong, Manchester, Shanghai or Singapore, and complete a Live Business Project. Entry needs a strong degree, at least three years of work experience with strong career progression and an admissions test score. Intakes are in January and July, and it leads to the same MBA as the 24-month Global MBA.

The Manchester Global Executive MBA is an 18-month accelerated pathway of the Global MBA for a closed cohort of senior leaders: senior managers, high-level executives and experienced entrepreneurs who already shape their organisation's strategy. It aims to help them lead through uncertainty, find chances to innovate as the business landscape changes and solve the complex problems of a senior role; where the Global MBA develops emerging leaders, this programme deepens strategic leadership and executive decision-making among peers at the same level. The programme page asks for at least eight years of professional experience, significant managerial expertise and profit-and-loss responsibility. It is part-time and blended, at around 20 hours of study a week, with up to five years allowed to finish. The cohort takes its core workshops together in Manchester, Dubai and Hong Kong, then chooses two electives at any of the University's five global centres, across five workshop residencies over 32 days. Alongside the core courses, students complete a live capstone project, and an optional elective can be taken after graduation. The University's own page profiles the cohort at an average age of 43 with an average of 19 years of work experience, 21 nationalities and 21% women. Assessment is continuous, through individual and group projects rather than exams, and graduates receive the same University of Manchester MBA as the UK programme.

The MSc Financial Management is a two-year, part-time, blended master's in finance for people who want to build financial management skills, or move into financial services, while they keep working. It is aimed at fresh graduates from any background, professionals with no finance experience who want to switch into financial services, people who need stronger finance skills to progress in any sector, and finance professionals looking to advance. Most study is online, with optional six-day face-to-face workshops twice a year in Dubai. The eleven course units cover accounting and financial decision-making, corporate finance, global financial markets, financial statement analysis, international financial management, data analysis and quantitative methods, venture capital and private equity, and business models and financial strategy, ending with a Group Research Project. Assessment is by coursework, with no exams. Intakes are in March and September, the next in March 2027, and students have up to five years to finish.