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The Essex MBA

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Advance your career

We are Essex, an AMBA accredited business school. Studying at Essex Business School provides you the opportunity to build-up a truly global network whilst studying alongside your peers. The Essex MBA is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) placing us within the top 2% of business schools in the world, and we have an excellent record of success.

Our MBAs go on to achieve their professional objectives, start their own businesses and make positive impacts on their future. The Essex MBA has been designed to give you the tools to advance your career.

Our unique carbon neutral building offers a serene backdrop to your time spent with us. Located an hour away from London, you can study in a timeframe that suits you, whether that be full-time or part-time. We recognise that potential MBAs come from all walks of life and from differing professional backgrounds. Whatever your experience and whatever your goals, we are here to support your professional growth.

Join our world-class MBA programme.


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How to apply to The Essex MBA

If you think you are ready to apply to the Essex MBA to upgrade your professional toolkit, make sure you read our advice and guidance on how to make a successful application and impress in your MBA interview.

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Your MBA, your way

Full-time MBA
Immerse yourself in our intensive one-year programme.
Part-time MBA
Part-time study gives you the flexibility to complete your MBA over 2-3 years alongside employment or while running your own business.
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Business as usual?
Not at Essex.

Our Essex MBA is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA)
AMBA accreditation places Essex Business School in the top 2% of business schools in the world
Apply your learning and hear from business leaders during our Director’s Workshops
Be considered for a scholarship to gain a tuition fee discount
Join a diverse, global community and grow your network of prospective business contacts
Become a socially responsible entrepreneur with support from Essex Startups
Top 2% business school in the world
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Download the Essex MBA prospectus

Whatever your experience, find out how the Essex MBA can accelerate your career. Download the MBA prospectus and register your interest in our MBA programme.

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Meet our MBA Director

The Essex MBA Director, Dr James Fowler teaches management and business strategy at Essex Business School. 

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"MBAs are experienced, motivated and resilient. We want to build on their experience to assist them in seeing new ways of applying their existing skills, as well as augmenting their current capabilities. We want them to go into the world confident about who they are, clear about what they stand for and excited about what it is they can contribute sustainably to any organisation."
Dr James Fowler MBA Director
Our MBA Community
Our students and alumni are champions of sustainable business and ethical management. They are practitioners, innovators and inspirational leaders who think differently in order to do better business.
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From Essex MBA student to company President

Alba Sarmiento graduated from The Essex MBA in 2018. Since then, she has been promoted to President of Omni Metal Finishing and credits her MBA experience for building her professional confidence.

Read her story

MBA Faculty Team

Dr James Fowler
Lecturer (R) and MBA Director, EBS - Management and Marketing
Research interests: Corporate Strategy; The Management of Organisational Information; Business, Organisational and Management History; The Value of Hybrid Organisations
Dr Ricardo Malagueno De Santana
Reader, EBS - Accounting
Research interests: Management Accounting; Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs); Performance Management; Information for Decision-making
Siân Savage
Postgraduate Research Student, Essex Business School
School Administrator, Essex Business School
Ask me about: The MBA at Essex Business School.
Professor Nicolas Forsans
Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing
Professor Peter Bloom
Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing
Dr Stefano Filomeni
Lecturer, EBS - Finance
Research interests: Information Transmission in Banking; Relationship Banking; Bank Lending; Islamic Banking; Securitization
Professor Henry Agyei-Boapeah
Professor, EBS - Accounting
Research interests: Financial reporting and corporate finance; Corporate governance and accountability; Environmental reporting and sustainability; and Mergers and acquisitions and corporate diversification
Dr Charlie Smith
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management
Dr Hardy Thomas
Lecturer, EBS - Finance
Research interests: Corporate control, governance systems & political economy of risk; Valuation of assets; Real option portfolios and investment appraisal; Investment cash flow sensitivities and frictions in credit channels; Market microstructure and high frequency trading behaviours
Dr Abhisek Kuanr
Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing
Research interests: Consumer Behaviour, Anti-consumption, Influencer Marketing, Body Image, AI & Chatbots, Wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT)
Dr Marcia Christina Ferreira
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing
Dr Martin Harris
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing
Dr Pasi Ahonen
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing
Research interests: Management of diversity and difference in organisations; History, memory and temporality in and of organisations; Leadership, power and ways of leading; Organisations, the media and representation and mediatisation of organisations
Chris Tanner
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Creating effective learning environments; Psychoanalytic perspectives on organisational dynamics; Executive coaching and consultancy practice in organisations; Leadership development-psychodynamic perspectives; Compassionate care in health and social care
Dr Osamuyimen Egbon
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting
Research interests: Social/Environmental/Sustainability Reporting; Accounting in the public interest; Accountability of multinational corporations in emerging economies; Corporate-community relations; Sustainable development goals; Public sector accountability in developing economies; Water accounting
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