Strand Campus
Strand Campus sits along the Thames at London's cultural heart. Alongside world-class teaching spaces, students enjoy access to the pedestrianised Strand Quad, with Somerset House and iconic landmarks just steps away.
Overview
Our Executive Master in Business Administration (EMBA) provides a rigorous, interdisciplinary education supporting you to develop, critique, and enhance your leadership skills to lead “better businesses for a better world”. You will explore the complex and rapidly evolving challenges and context of society and global business to develop your thinking and response.
Key benefits
- You will acquire an in-depth knowledge and critical understanding of the theories, tools and methodologies relevant to a senior business leader.
- You will 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.
- You will 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.
- You will 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.
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.
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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 2027. The deadlines for these application rounds are detailed below; on these dates, the course will close at 23:59 (UK time).
- Round 1 Deadline: 31 January 2027
- Round 2 Deadline: 9 March 2027
- Round 3 Deadline: 30 April 2027
- Round 4 Deadline: 26 May 2027
- Round 5 Deadline (final application deadline for overseas fee status): 25 July 2027
- Round 6 Deadline (final application deadline for home fee status): 25 August 2027
If the course becomes full before the final deadlines stated above, we will close the course to further applications.
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