Strand Campus
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Overview
To succeed in business today, you need to combine leadership skills with an awareness of wider social and environmental challenges. It’s not enough to simply understand finances and expect to be profitable. You need to adapt to society’s changing attitudes about the very purpose of business.
The two-year Executive MBA at King’s Business School gives you the mastery of practical business skills you’d expect from a business course. But it adds the same level of rigour we demand from all our students and researchers. You’ll see how purpose-led branding can bring new business opportunities. Discuss solutions to the obstacles your business faces in meeting its ESG goals, and explore what it means to be a leader and how you can drive change across your organisation and beyond.
You’ll come away equipped to respond to complex challenges, with confidence in your management abilities, and a support network that will last a lifetime.
Key benefits
- We want to support outstanding talent at King's Business School, so we have multiple scholarships available for our Executive MBA.
- Acquire an in-depth knowledge and critical understanding of the theories, tools and methodologies relevant to a senior business leader.
- Learn to identify, suggest and incorporate theories, frameworks and ideas from multiple subject areas to consider complex problems and provide interdisciplinary solutions that have a positive impact on business and society.
- Acquire analytical and problem solving skills in a variety of scenarios and cultural contexts and other transferable skills involving communication of complex ideas, recommendations and data effectively and persuasively in both written and verbal contexts.
- Learn to lead, motivate and manage people and teams to achieve a positive outcome and impactful change, role modelling the behaviours of a responsible, ethical business leader.
The King’s Executive MBA is designed to equip you with the tools, insights, and experiences needed to tackle the business challenges of tomorrow. In a world where change is constant, and the demand for capable, responsible leaders is greater than ever, our EMBA offers a practical and forward-looking approach to leadership development.
Dr Gilllian BrooksDirector of the Executive MBA
Course essentials
During your studies at King’s Business School you will master the fundamental tools of leadership (financial and people management, economics, decision making, marketing and strategy) in an integrated and interdisciplinary way. The course will bring together these overarching themes and detailed toolkit to provide opportunities for you to integrate and practice your learning on real business problems, organisational and societal challenges.
Course aims
- Become an expert in key business areas like strategy and finance, learn the tools and theories to be a successful leader.
- Solve problems by drawing on diverse ideas from other areas, assessing contrasting views, and conducting your own research.
- Develop a strong awareness of cultural issues that will improve your decision making and become a true leader, capable of managing and motivating others and driving impactful change.
- Understand some of the biggest challenges facing businesses today and develop the skills to steer your organisation through them.
- Take advantage of opportunities and lead your organisation towards a better way of doing business.
Key Information
Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
Blended
Study mode:
Part time
Duration:
2 years
Credit value:
180
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026
Taught in
Administrative bodies
Regulating body
Application closing date guidance
We encourage you to apply as early as possible so that there is sufficient time for your application to be assessed. We may need to request further information from you during the application process.
There will be five application rounds for the single starting point of October 2026. The deadlines for these application rounds are detailed below; on these dates, the programme will close at 23:59 (UK time).
- Round 1 Deadline: 31 January 2026
- Round 2 Deadline: 9 March 2026
- Round 3 Deadline: 26 May 2026
- Round 4 Deadline (final application deadline for overseas fee status): 25 July 2026
- Round 5 Deadline (final application deadline for home fee status): 25 August 2026
If the programme becomes full before the final deadlines stated above, we will close the programme to further applications.
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