University of Westminster - Westminster Business School

The University of Westminster offers an innovative MBA designed for ambitious business professionals, and recent graduates from any discipline, to take the first steps towards their management career. By starting your development early instead of waiting until you have extensive work experience or have adopted the mindset of a particular employer or sector, we nurture multi-skilled, digitally competent graduates with a sophisticated understanding of business and its changing context.

The Westminster MBA offers a practically oriented, cross-disciplinary, advanced education in modern business: it combines academic rigour, accelerated study, stimulating teaching approaches and practical business leadership experiences. With the option of a three-month ‘Management in Action’ internship or project at home or overseas, a week-long international consulting project with a client company and live case studies, simulations, role-playing workshops and hackathons, students boost their CVs and become business ready.  

You will benefit from the excellent facilities on offer at our Marylebone campus, including a dedicated MBA Boardroom, digital classrooms and our state-of-the-art Bloomberg virtual trading room. Because we recognise the growing importance of technology, and want to prepare our students for careers in a digital world, we’ll examine some of the latest developments, including blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, cloud technology, AR/VR, disruptive innovations, the growth of ecosystems and the sharing economy.

All of this will help to set you apart in a competitive job market; you’ll graduate with direct experience from the three-month internship alongside the holistic business knowledge, global outlook,  capabilities and cutting-edge digital expertise which are sought after by today’s employers. We expect our MBA graduates to go on to secure management and leadership roles in corporates, start-ups, SMEs, the public sector and non-profit organisations.

The University of Westminster is a vibrant international education institution with a distinguished history dating back to 1838. With three campuses in the heart of Central London (Cavendish, Marylebone and Regent) and one in Harrow, it is home to almost 19,000 students from over 160 countries, with over 4,000 postgraduate students among them. 

The first polytechnic in London, the University of Westminster continues to build on this reputation by offering practical, rounded education to students from a wide range of backgrounds. Our academic research is recognised in academia, with two-thirds of our work being awarded world-leading or internationally excellent scores in the Research Excellence Framework. Most importantly, our work has a positive impact on our communities and the wider economy.

Based at our Marylebone Campus in the heart of the capital’s political, media and financial services, Westminster Business School has excellent industry links and global partnerships. 

Our academic experts provide consultancy, applied research and thought leadership across the public, private and third sectors, including the NHS, and we work with local, national and multinational companies.

As well as being our campus, London is home to leading national and multinational companies, and organisations in almost every sector. Our practical teaching draws on and relates learning to the real world with guest speakers, field trips and live projects. Outstanding facilities include a state-of-the-art Bloomberg-powered Financial Markets Suite, and Digital Marketing Lab. 

We develop graduates with the relevant skills and mindset needed to  become responsible leaders and managers, able to respond proactively, creatively and responsibly to contemporary business challenges in a changing world.

The Westminster MBA teaching team is made up of staff with expertise in strategic management, entrepreneurship, design, innovation, marketing, consumer insight, social media, operations, digital business, psychology, human resources, organisational behaviour, economics, finance, management accounting and leadership. 

Staff who currently teach on this course have extensive professional experience, covering roles such as:

• a senior management consultant for McKinsey & Company
• a manager in Savoy Hotel Group
• export manager for Labaronne-CITAF
• deputy general manager of QSR Franchise Development Group
• an equity and structured finance analyst for Bergstrom Capital

The entire teaching team is passionate about helping our MBA students to develop excellence in attributes aligned with innovation, personal agility, adaptability and resilience, with our exciting, intensive, practically oriented, advanced education in modern business methods and capabilities.

We have an international, active alumni network of more than 180,000 Westminster graduates in over 180 countries. We offer a range of exclusive benefits for our alumni, including ongoing careers support for up to three years after graduation, exclusive social, careers and networking events with Alumni across the world and a 15% discount on further postgraduate study. 

A minimum of an upper second class honours degree (2:1) in any discipline. Work experience is not required but is welcome. Successful students will demonstrate in their personal statement an ambition and capability to excel in management positions within large corporate organisations, small medium enterprises (SMEs), or their own start-up enterprise. We may also interview applicants either in person or via Skype.

Applicants are required to submit one reference. 

If your first language is not English you should have an IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.5 in writing and speaking.

Applications can be submitted directly through the University of Westminster website via the ‘apply’ button on the course page. You will need the following documents as part of your application:

• Copies of your qualifications (certificates and/or transcripts where you have met, or are expected to meet, the entry requirements)
• If English is not your first language, you'll need proof of your English language level
• International students who need a Student visa to attend the university will need a copy of their passports
• A personal statement
• Details of referees (refer to the entry requirements on the course page for specific requirements)

For most of our September-start postgraduate courses, you should try to apply by 1 August. 

We advise you to apply as soon as you can, as some courses are highly competitive. You can start applying a year before the course starts. For further application guidance, please visit our website.

Tuition fees for the September 2021 and January 2022 intake are £16,500 for UK students and £19,000 for International students. 

At the University of Westminster, we offer a range of scholarships to help students financially during their studies. To apply for a scholarship, you need to have applied for and been given an offer for a place on a course. 

For detailed information about the scholarships available, including eligibility criteria, please visit our website.

The Westminster MBA is taught at our Marylebone campus in central London, home to Westminster Business School. Directly opposite Madame Tussaud’s and Baker Street Station, the central location means students benefit from close proximity to London’s political, media and financial services headquarters. 

Westminster students can choose from a range of accommodation options. Whether you want a place in our University halls of residence or are looking for help finding  private rented  accommodation, our accommodation team can help you find the right place. 

You can view our accommodation options here and we also have a list of trusted landlords to help you find suitable accommodation around London.

Our central location means that students benefit from so much more than just our passion for teaching and excellent industry links. London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, and studying right in the heart of the action means there’s plenty to explore, with more than 200 museums and 800 art galleries, over 6000 restaurants and 4,500 pubs and bars. 

We are proud to be one of the top 100 most international universities in the world, allowing you to study alongside a diverse cohort of students and expand your horizons while making friends from all over the world. 

The University of Westminster Students’ Union (UWSU) offers an exciting array of over 100 sports teams and clubs. Alongside the usual sporting activities such as football, rugby, running and rowing, we have societies in everything from anime to musical theatre and yoga, so you can enjoy yourself and meet like minded people no matter where your passion lies.