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Careers
The MBA programme offers a number of ways to help you achieve your career goals.
Consultancy Week, an integral part of the Glasgow MBA, gives you consulting experience with a partner organisation.
Events held throughout the year offer a chance for networking with Adam Smith Business School alumni and partners.
Support such as the College of Social Sciences Employability Officer, the University's Careers Service, and the Adam Smith Business School's own Postgraduate Support Officer all work together to ensure you are prepared to embark of life's next challenge.
Consultancy Week
An important part of the Glasgow MBA is the Consultancy Week - an opportunity for you to put the theories you’ve learned during the programme into action.
During Consultancy Week projects, you will complete a project for a real company - answering a company’s business problem.
We know that career prospects and the development of transferable skills are important factors in choosing your MBA, particularly in the current economic climate. That’s why we have developed Consultancy Week. Whether you want to change fields, advance in your current role, or move into consultancy, the Consultancy Week projects help you cut your teeth in new areas while providing tangible benefits to local organisations.
Previous participating organisations include Grant Thornton, Amazon, BAE Systems, Lynnet Leisure Group, McGhees Bakeries, as well as small to medium size enterprises and charitable organisations. Projects have involved creating business plans, reviewing training provisions, conducting market analyses, looking for ways to improve productivity, improving customer relationship management activities, operational project planning, producing a distribution analysis and resource management.