The MBA degree in Leadership develops your talent and potential as a creative, innovative, and enterprising leader.
The MBA Leadership course offers executive leadership education and professional career development for individuals with existing management experience.
Created and delivered through close consultation and collaboration with employers, the course is designed to ensure that you’ll graduate with the leadership skills that organisations need in an ever-changing business environment.
The MBA Leadership supports the development of strategic leaders who can work effectively in a range of roles, drawing on a broad mix of transferable professional skills and experience.

What you will learn
The MBA Leadership is designed to further develop your understanding of theoretical and practical knowledge and expertise in business, management and leadership.
The course enables you to take an international perspective about business, management and leadership to deepen your understanding of the impact of globalisation on business, societies and the environment.
It supports your professional leadership development through scholarly enquiry, peer discussion and networking, evaluation, work-based learning and reflective practice.
And it challenges you to further develop leadership and management expertise that is relevant to your chosen career path and develop the lifelong learning skills crucial to your ongoing personal professional development.
What does the course cover?
- Develop your theoretical understanding and professional expertise in strategic management and leadership
- Engage with current debates on the issues and challenges facing managers and leaders today
- Learn to manage complexity, diversity, and change, and develop innovative approaches to the challenges facing teams, organisations, and sectors
Course Modules
Level 7
- Leading Change and Innovation
- Governance and Risk Management
- Corporate Financial Management
- Professional Development Portfolio
- Leading, Managing and Developing People
- Strategic Management
- Strategic Marketing
- Project Management
- Leadership Project

How you are assessed
You’ll be assessed by a variety of methods that may include some or all of the following across the various modules on the course:
- Reports
- Case studies
- Business plans
- Proposals for work-based projects / consultancy project
- Reflective learning, professional career development and work-based experience portfolio
- Project evaluations
- Presentations.

Bath Spa University
Known for its commitment to creativity, sustainability, and community, Bath Spa University offers an enriching environment where traditional academic excellence meets modern innovation. Their courses, delivered through FSB, are crafted to inspire, challenge, and prepare you for a changing world.
With our partnership, FSB students gain access to unique perspectives and methodologies that blend creativity with critical thinking, setting the stage for a transformative educational experience.
Entry requirements
- • Bachelors degree with honours in any subject. Minimum classification 2:2.
• If not a UK degree, ECCTIS (formally NARIC) will be used to establish equivalence to UK degree.
• If degree not delivered in an English majority speaking country, then the applicant will also need to provide an English language test showing an equivalence to IELTS 6.5 (min. 5.5 in each component). Information on the variety of tests we accept can be found here.
• Each applicant will need to provide a 300 word statement of purpose, specifically setting out why they want to do the MBA Leadership and how it will further develop their leadership skills and business and management expertise.
• Minimum of two years professional work experience in a managerial or supervisory role.
• Professional reference required.
Get in touch
Please contact our Admissions Team for more information
Fees and Funding
FSB’s programmes are delivered under franchise agreements with partner universities who are registered Approved Providers with the OfS.
Therefore our students are eligible to apply for student finance from the Student Loans Company to cover the cost of their tuition fees, as well as maintenance grants to help with the cost of living.
Please get in touch with our Admissions Team for more information.
