• The French Foundation for Management Education.
In 2008/9 students from over 200 different countries came to the UK to study business and management, from Azerbaijan to Zambia, with students from China, India, Nigeria, Germany and France the most numerous.
Business and management statistics:
Business and management continues to be the most popular subject area of study for undergraduates and continues to increase at a faster rate than the sector as a whole.
Finance and hospitality are two particular growth areas at all levels of study, with Marketing and Management both proving increasingly popular at
postgraduate level.
• 1 in 8 undergraduates chose business and management.
• 1 in 5 postgraduates chose business and management.
• 1 in 4 international students. • £2bn estimated contribution to UK export earnings.
• £7.5bn estimated contribution to regional economies. Source: HESA Student/Staff/Finance records 2009/10
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Transmission. My bosses saw how much I was developing because of my MBA studies and they promoted me. This was because they saw my change in thinking, saw that I was no longer a technical specialist in engineering, but had developed many managerial qualities. They saw I understood their language, the language of profits and business vision, I understood how to motivate staff, about the needs of employees, about what was driving the company.
CASE STUDY Amer Sakkijha MBA
Amer Sakkijha, Director of Radio Transmission at DU in Dubai, graduated with an MBA from Edinburgh Business School in June 2012. Here he talks about his experiences studying for an MBA with EBS.
I studied for my MBA with Edinburgh Business School part-time online which worked for me as I was also working full-time at DU in their radio transmission department. It took me two years to complete the nine modules. It was tough to balance full-time work with studies and family. My wife and I have no family support networks here in the UAE, as we are both from Jordan, and we have a baby son, so juggling everything was difficult, but I’ve always wanted to do an MBA so I kept going.
The Edinburgh Business School MBA has changed my life. For many people, having an MBA is good for the CV, but for me – once I started studying it – I realised it was so much more than that.
I was promoted at work because my managers could see that I had started to think differently. I was no longer just a specialist engineer. They could see I was thinking bigger than this. I was asking the right questions. I had the right attitude. And this was entirely down to the fresh perspective my MBA studies had given me. I have worked for DU for four years, and I was recently promoted to the position of Director of Radio
Technical specialists tend to be only concerned with the technical aspect of their work and this is natural, but studying for an MBA opens up a new world. Now I can see how all departments within the company affect the business model at DU, whereas before I was only concerned with my role as a senior manager.
When you study for an MBA you learn how to play the game of economics, and what you learn is there before you at work. It’s fascinating. Working and studying is actually very good because what you are learning is being played out where you work and you become more connected with your job and you enjoy your work more because you understand the reasons and the strategy behind decision-making at work. This is a good thing. This knowledge gives you confidence in your work-life and in your personal life.
I have wanted to do an MBA for a long time, but I wanted to go with a strong solid university. I looked around. I wanted to go with a university that had a long and successful history, a global university with a strong reputation. EBS is part of Heriot-Watt in Scotland and it has been there since 1821. This gave me confidence. I wasn’t disappointed.
EBS MBA was also very flexible and I needed that.
My advice to anyone thinking about doing an MBA is this: think about it as so much more than just another qualification to add to your CV. It has an enormous impact in all areas of your life. It gets you to look at things logically, to remove emotion or illogical thinking, it changes your thinking so you understand so much more about the world, and this builds self-esteem and confidence. Yes the letters on your CV are great, but it’s so much more than that.
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