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"LBS showed me how the experience would help me thrive professionally and personally. I thought I would expand my horizons, but it's taken me further than I ever anticipated."

Nasi Rwigema

MBA2020, Founder, Umwuga, South African

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Take control of your learning and your future career

Immerse yourself in our customisable MBA, with all the advantages of a two-year programme plus the benefit of flexible exit points after 15, 18 or 21 months of study.

In the classroom
Real-world business immersion

Tailor our MBA to suit your academic needs, your career requirements and your timeframe.

Study in a dynamic global environment and redefine your cultural boundaries
Learn from our highly-respected faculty - who consult to financial institutions, corporations and government agencies worldwide - and benefit from world-class research and advanced business thinking
Take charge of your personal and professional development and access a wide range of practitioners on your Leadership Launch journey
Gain confidence and get to know your new study group in a range of team-building exercises
Experience our innovative Tailored Core - cater to a specific area of interest or maintain a general management overview
Benefit from flexible delivery formats in our portfolio of 100+ electives
Enjoy a dedicated commitment to academic excellence - our MBA is robust and designed for maximum career impact.

63 nationalities

in the current MBA class

Global experiential courses

Our Global Experience courses challenge you to apply your learning in new and unfamiliar contexts, and to have responsible real-world impact. For one intensive, immersive week, you will expand your global mindset and network. Alongside your peers in Graduate Masters, MBA and Leadership programmes, travel to destinations such as Johannesburg, Lima and Riyadh. Each Global Experience is led by expert faculty and explores a topical theme, offering an in-depth view of a country's business culture. You will have the opportunity to interact meaningfully with members of the local business ecosystem, faculty, alumni, fellow students and others in the LBS global community.

LondonCAP

Experience first-hand the real benefit of our London location – home to major multinationals, tech start-ups, luxury and high fashion retail and NGOs, and a dynamic, real-life classroom in which to apply your skills. Our innovative LondonCAP (London Core Application Practicum) module capitalises on our connections with the London business community.

Implement newly developed skills, developing business solutions across a range of different sectors on an extended group project
Create value and concrete deliverables for dynamic London-based organisations and engage with businesses to cement your learning. You’ll extend your personal and professional network, making new contacts and developing existing relationships.

Most recently, MBA students worked on projects with leading organisations such as HelloFresh, Nike, Penhaligon’s, Checkatrade, Google, British Red Cross, Mastercard, and Peloton.

Experiential Learning at LBS

We challenge our students to apply their learning through transformational experiences and to have responsible, real-world impact. What’s your legacy? What impact do you choose to have?

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Sharpen your global perspective with an international exchange

Broaden your horizons and your network taking part in one of the world’s largest and most prestigious business school exchange programmes.

Join the 30% of second-year students who spend a term abroad at one of 29 highly-regarded partner schools worldwide
Grow your global network and immerse yourself in a new culture
Develop your global business perspectives
Take courses worth up to four elective courses.

Your choice of school can be influenced by location, language, length of course, and elective availability or your desire to move your career to a particular country after graduation. Students completing the programme in 15 or 18 months will have limited exchange opportunities. Please note exchange school placements are competitive.

Australian Graduate School of Management, Australia
China Europe International Business School, China
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Hong Kong University, China
Hitotsubashi University, The Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Japan
Indian School of Business, India
Melbourne Business School, Australia
NUS, Singapore
Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, China
Columbia Business School
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Leonard Stern School of Business, New York University
MIT Sloan School of Management
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business (GSB)
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
McCombs School of Business, University of Texas
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Yale School of Management

Develop the leadership skills for career success

Assess your existing skill set then chart a personalised leadership development journey.

GLAM (Global Leadership Assessment of Managers)
Leadership Launch skills sessions
Digital and business writing skills
Languages

Leadership Launch develops hard and soft skills in line with your career objectives.

Increased digital and communication skills target the core competencies recruiters demand, while optional language study widens your cultural understanding.

Set the development agenda for your Leadership Launch - complete pre-sessional questionnaires to assess your skills, and nominate 'raters' to provide 360-degree insight into your strengths and key development areas
Attend in-class sessions developing the skills, knowledge and attributes for global business success
Develop an in-depth awareness of your own skill set and an individualised Personal Development Plan.

Summer options

How you spend the summer of your first year can enhance your career, so make it count.

Internships
Entrepreneurship Summer School

Accelerate your career progression through a summer internship. Find new strengths and explore unfamiliar industries
Engage in multiple internships - try a structured blue-chip internship then use the second year to investigate other opportunities
Work abroad. Develop new skills and expand your cultural understanding
Boost your earnings - students on internships average £1,080 per week*
Access Career Centre’s strong network - from start-ups to large structured corporate programmes - or use the School's broad network of students, alumni and industry contacts.

*Income earned is dependent on your skills and your choice of industry. See internship earnings in our latest employment report.

Our MBA programme tests your initiative, stimulates your creativity, and demands your energy, intellect and enthusiasm.

Learning experience FAQs

In the first year you will join a study group of five or six people who you work with throughout the Business Fundamentals core. The group is a microcosm of your class, combining a diversity of nationalities and different professional and undergraduate backgrounds.

In the Tailored Core and in Year Two you have the chance to work with other groups, from across all London Business School programmes. Successful group working is at the heart of the London Business School experience. Up to 30% of your marks on a given course can be for group performance. It is therefore very important to make your group work well. There is plenty of emphasis on techniques for successful group work in GLAM and through the various skills courses.
As well as pursuing research in their own fields of interest, members of faculty often act as consultants and advisers to industry and government. Many hold directorships in a range of organisations or in some cases run their own businesses.

These activities help to maintain the practical relevance of the School's teaching and research. Much of the School's research is supported in some form by donor organisations with whom the School maintains especially close relationships. For example, in the finance and accounting area these include BAA, Bank of England, Barclays, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Solomon Brothers International, Tokai Bank and SG Warburg Group.

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