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Public Service Management
MBA (PGCert PGDip)

  • Course summary and entry requirements

    Course duration Help

    Full-time: 2 years

    Part-time: up to 6 years

    About the course

    The Public Service Management MBA will enhance career progression into senior managerial positions in a variety of public and non-profit organisations. Students include managers from the health, police, prison and fire services, the civil service, the voluntary sector, non-government organisations and local authorities.

    The MBA provides a sound understanding of leadership and management, as well as developing analytical and critical capability. It introduces the disciplines which underpin strategic thinking in organisations, and develops participants' skills as organisational analysts and consultants by developing strategic capability. There are plenty of opportunities to conduct work-based projects.

    Typical entry requirements Help

    The entry requirements listed here are for students starting their course in 2013. Individual offers may vary

    For non-native speakers of English:
    In order to benefit from, contribute to and enjoy the course, a good command of spoken and written English language is required. If English is not your first language, you will need English language proficiency equivalent to an overall IELTS score of at least 6.5, with 6 in the written test.

    Degree and/or experience:
    The standard entry qualifications are a degree or professional qualification equivalent to a degree, plus at least three years' relevant management experience or appropriate professional work experience. Applications will also be considered from managers with at least five years' experience who do not hold a degree or equivalent qualification.

  • Course content

    Syllabus

    - Induction
    - Managing in a Dynamic Public Service Environment
    - Managing People and Organisations
    - Service Planning and Commissioning
    - Accounting
    - Leadership and Ethics
    - Information Systems Management
    - Sustainable Joint Working, Communication and Marketing
    - Developing Strategic and Change Capabilities

  • Fees and costs

    The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2012-13. Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and may be subject to small increases, in line with inflation.

    The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full- or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

    What's included in the fee?

    When costs such as health or criminal record checks, field trips or use of specialist materials are incurred as a mandatory requirement of the course they are included in your tuition fee.

    You may incur additional costs depending on the optional modules or activities you choose. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. Before you apply please check with the school that provides your course using the contact details on the left of this page for advice about what is included and what optional costs you could face so you can budget accordingly.

    Our website www.brighton.ac.uk/money provides advice about funding and scholarships as well as further information about fees and advice on international and island fee paying status.

    MBA (PGCert PGDip) Public Service Management

    Please contact us directly for exact tuition fees for this course.

     

  • Location

    Location Help Moulsecoomb

    Located to the north of Brighton city centre, the Moulsecoomb campus offers students an excellent learning environment and a wide range of facilities. It is the largest of our five campuses with over 8,000 students.

    View campus maps and directions

    Living in Brighton

    Brighton’s rich mix of historic architecture, lively arts scene, varied shopping and cosmopolitan community make it a vibrant, enjoyable place to live. It is no wonder that many Brighton graduates choose to stay here.

    Social scene

    Alongside the traditional seaside attractions, Brighton is famed for its exciting social scene with a wide choice of pubs, clubs and restaurants.

    Music event on the beach

    Arts

    The highlight of the city’s cultural year is the Brighton Festival. The event is held each May and is England’s biggest arts festival, which showcases arts and performance from around the world. Brighton is also home to the UK’s oldest working cinema, the Duke of York’s, which shows alternative and mainstream films. The city is also well known for its exciting music scene and hosts The Great Escape music festival.

    Burning the Clocks winter solstice festival

    Sports

    Whether you take your sport seriously or just want to keep fit, Brighton offers all kinds of sports opportunities and facilities, on and off campus. You can also make the most of the location, and play volleyball, basketball and windsurfing down by the beach. The seafront is also the finishing point for the famous London – Brighton bicycle ride and the quirky veteran car run.

    Playing volleyball on the seafront

  • Staff profiles

    Tove Sorensen-Bentham, Course Leader

    Tove has worked in senior management in the public and independent sectors since 1982. She has an LLM in Law and an MSc in Social Policy.

    She was a non-executive director of a local Health Authority from 1996 to 2002, a non-executive director of a Primary Care Trust from 2002 to 2006 and is currently a school governor for a UK secondary school and an associate mental heath manager.

    She also undertakes management consultancy work for the NHS and is working closely with the University's Health Faculty on post-graduate leadership and management courses. She is particularly interested in quality, leadership, strategy, change, management development and governance in public services.

  • Student views

    Tracey Rose, Operational Manager, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust

    Since joining the Public Service Management MBA I have appreciated the peer support from student colleagues and have used this networking to continue to get ideas on how to resolve difficult issues at work. As peers we use the knowledge gained on the MBA to challenge each other and provide advice and guidance to take back to our work.

    I have gained a significant amount of knowledge and developed my skills to the extent that I have the confidence to leave an organisation that I have worked for for 10 years and embark on a new challenge within a new organisation during a time of uncertainty but interesting challenges within the public sector. The knowledge I have gained has enabled me to embrace change and given me confidence in my abilities.

    I owe my professional development to the MBA and I am grateful to my lecturers who have provided learning in a supportive but challenging environment. I would recommend the MBA programme to all managers within the public sector.

    I do believe that I would not be in the fortunate position of having four job offers with increased remuneration during a period of austerity had I not studied for the MBA. 

  • Career opportunities

    Employers of recent full-time graduates include Total Oil Marine (UK), Fuji Bank (Japan), Price Waterhouse (Beijing), Ericsson (Sweden), Proton Cars (Malaysia), Hewlett Packard (Germany), Microsoft (Mexico) and PepsiCo (India). Sponsors of part-time students include Lloyds TSB, American Express, Police and Fire Services, Health Trusts, the Body Shop, TRANSCO and BOC Edwards.

    MBA graduates are eligible to transfer to one of the university's PhD or DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) research degrees.


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01273 642197
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+44 (0)207 250 6749
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The MBA is the most widely recognised management qualification in the world.
It enables practising and potential managers worldwide to develop themselves and their organisations.

 

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