Global Healthcare Management and Leadership MBA
City of London, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Enhance your existing skills, knowledge and understanding of leadership and management in a healthcare organisation, to help you tackle the needs of modern twenty-first-century healthcare.
Course Overview
The MBA in Global Healthcare Management and Leadership is an exciting, vibrant, intensive course that aims to prepare you for a successful career in multi-discipline, healthcare leadership, and management roles globally.
Responding to global market trends, the healthcare economy, and constant change, this course addresses the needs of a new generation of healthcare business leaders.
- Study on a contemporary, CMI-accredited course reflecting the latest developments in healthcare management and leadership theories and inspiring and nurturing knowledge, aptitude and skills, which are needed to advance your career in healthcare.
- Develop an analytical understanding of global healthcare business in the context of an increasingly changing environment, through the critical analysis and evaluation of new concepts and managerial practices in addressing today’s macro and micro business environment.
- Take advantage of business simulations and apply the acquired personal and professional skills to real business situations, evaluating the results and developing solutions.
- Experience career-relevant teaching and learning, which maximises your exposure to the corporate world (e.g. employer workshops and periods of work experience).
Why you should study this course
- CMI accreditation
Study on a course with professional accreditation from one of the UK’s leading professional management bodies, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Take the opportunity to obtain the CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice. - Real-world application
The course has been structured to allow you to embrace and integrate knowledge and skills from the fields of health, social care, leadership, and management, influencing and impacting the provision of future health and social care services across the globe. Through online and on-campus discussions, you will have collaborative learning opportunities to apply leadership theory to healthcare settings and critically analyse and discuss case studies with your fellow students. - Industry insight
You will be taught by helpful, supportive and highly qualified academics with extensive career experience. Current members of staff are PhD holders, Fellows in HEA, or industry-trained (staff subject to change). They will apply their experience to illustrate your learning, and they will aim to use their extensive network of industry contacts to create networking opportunities for students. You could also hear from guest speakers from academia and healthcare services across the UK (subject to availability). - London location
Our campus is based in the heart of the City of London, close to some of the world’s leading healthcare organisations. - Prepare for your future.
You may have the opportunity to mix with employers and build your CV. Should you wish to start your own business, we can offer business start-up advice and support through our Enterprise Hub (subject to availability). MBA students also have the opportunity to take part in our Professional Development Programme, developed in collaboration with corporate learning and development specialists to help them develop key industry competencies.
Admissions
Curriculum
This course aims to equip you with integrative thinking combining intuition, analytic reason, and creativity, recognising, and enhancing your leadership capabilities within healthcare systems. The curriculum is designed to help you develop key competencies and capabilities integrating a range of perspectives. The programme develops abilities to work effectively with others within health systems, organisations and services taking a systems approach, to think broadly and deeply about challenges in healthcare, and to reflect critically on one’s performance, the performance of others, and the influence of global healthcare contexts.
Courses
Postgraduate Certificate in Global Healthcare Management and Leadership
A student who obtains 60 credits overall including at least one course-specific mandatory module at FHEQ Level 7 will be eligible for the award of a Postgraduate Certificate in Global Healthcare Management and Leadership.
Mandatory modules:
- Leadership: Towards Mastery of Leading Self & Global Cultures
- Marketing in a Global Age
- Risk Governance and Patient Safety
- Global Strategic Management
Postgraduate Diploma in Global Healthcare Management and Leadership
A student who has achieved 120 credits overall at FHEQ Level 7 will be eligible for the award of a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Healthcare Management and Leadership.
Mandatory modules:
- Leadership: Towards Mastery of Leading Self & Global Cultures
- Marketing in a Global Age
- Risk Governance and Patient Safety
- Global Strategic Management
- Managerial Finance
- Leadership: Towards Mastery of Leading Change and Inclusivity
- Resource Management in Healthcare
- Transforming Healthcare Services
- Research Methods
MBA in Global Healthcare Management and Leadership
A student who has achieved 180 credits overall at FHEQ Level 7 will be eligible for the award of an MBA in Global Healthcare Management and Leadership.
Mandatory modules:
- Leadership: Towards Mastery of Leading Self & Global Cultures
- Marketing in a Global Age
- Risk Governance and Patient Safety
- Global Strategic Management
- Managerial Finance
- Leadership: Towards Mastery of Leading Change and Inclusivity
- Resource Management in Healthcare
- Transforming Healthcare Services
- Research Methods
Final Project options
Choose one from the following:
- Dissertation
- Internship Consulting Project
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Enter or return to the health and social care sector with the knowledge and skills to enhance the efficiency and quality of service provision in your area.
- Explore careers in related fields such as public and community health management, medical sales or third sector organisations, outpatient care and public health, executive roles in support services and a variety of roles in business and health.
If you exit the course at the Postgraduate Certificate level, you will have demonstrated original and critical application of knowledge and integrative management thinking within health services and organisations. Those of you who exit the course at the Postgraduate Diploma level will have demonstrated original and critical application of leadership skills and integrative management thinking within health services and across health systems.
This is more than a management course. Managers are responsible for planning, organising, leading, and controlling functions within an organisation. But not all managers are leaders. This course will help you develop the skills needed to be a leader – such as communication, motivation, providing inspiration and guidance, and encouraging employees to rise to a higher level of productivity. You will graduate with a leadership qualification in the healthcare sector, offering you the possibility to work for the NHS, private healthcare organisations or academic institutions.
Upon successful completion of the course, you should feel confident about entering or returning to the health and social care sector with the knowledge and skills to enhance the efficiency and quality of service provision in your area. You may also want to look at careers in related fields such as public and community health management, medical sales or third-sector organisations, outpatient care and public health, support service executives and many more roles in business and health.