Postgraduate study

MBA (Master of Business Administration)

Join our prestigious AMBA-accredited MBA. We are featured in the Top 100 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2026 and recognised as a Tier One programme by CEO Magazine’s Global MBA Ranking 2026. Develop the leadership skills you need to thrive in today’s global business environment. Study in the dynamic city of Glasgow. Engage in hands-on projects with real-world impact, and immerse yourself in the rich culture of Scotland. Take advantage of dedicated career support, global networking opportunities, and a range of scholarship options to support your journey.

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Why this programme

  • Develop as a values-driven leader, focusing on the 3 Es: Enlightened, Engaged, and Entrepreneurial.
  • Gain practical experience through real-life industry projects*, outdoor activities, and company visits that prepare you for the business world.
  • Stay ahead with insights from top industry leaders on themes such as AI, digital transformation, sustainability, and innovation through interactive sessions.
  • Achieve a coaching qualification from the Association of Coaching and participate in dedicated peer support groups.
  • Master the Case Consultancy Method. Compete for a chance to participate in global case competitions. Apply your knowledge in real business scenarios.
  • Apply business knowledge to real world problems from the start of the programme. Make an impact and engage with the Scottish business community.
  • Benefit from extensive networking opportunities, personalised alumni mentoring and being part of a small, diverse cohort.

Adam Smith Business School is triple accredited

Programme structure

The Glasgow MBA starts with core leadership training. Then, you specialise in finance, marketing, or strategy, or explore areas like entrepreneurship and sustainability. You will participate in a team consulting project to tackle real business challenges, and finish with a dissertation. You can choose from research, industry, or start-up pathways to work on your project from June to August.

Core courses

Optional courses

Strategy

Finance 

Marketing

Research project

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Core teaching staff

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Programme alteration or discontinuation
The University of Glasgow endeavours to run all programmes as advertised. In exceptional circumstances, however, the University may withdraw or alter a programme. More information: Student contract.

Career prospects

As a Glasgow MBA graduate, you’ll join a network of global professionals making a difference. Our MBA Development Manager will help you plan and compete in the job market. Many graduates land senior roles or start their own businesses. Recent alumni have joined top firms like Amazon, Barclays, Deloitte, Diageo, and in many smaller businesses in Glasgow and throughout Scotland.

Professional Development and Employability Award

We prioritise your career success through our concentrated Professional Development weeks and our regular employability events, featuring alumni mentorship, group exercises, guest speakers, and workshops.

Our alumni stories

Hear how some of our alumni turned their Industry Projects into career opportunities.

“It was the cherry on top of the cake when I got to know that the client wanted to extend my contract and work with me.” — Jaskaran Khatri, Glasgow MBA 2023 -2024

Hear more about Jaskaran’s experience

This project offered me an insight into how to develop strategy in a more practical manner and what working in the UK would look like.” — Jasneet Arora, Glasgow MBA 2023 -2024

Hear more about Jasneet’s experience

Fees & funding

Tuition fees for 2027-28

MBA

Home & RUK

  • Full-time fee: £41,100

International & EU

  • Full-time fee: £41,100

Fee status

Deposits

International and EU applicants are required to pay a deposit of £2000 to secure a place on this programme.

Deposits: terms & conditions

The following guidelines will apply in determining whether a deposit will be refunded. Where the deposit is refunded, a 25% administration fee will be deducted unless otherwise stated. 

a: Deposits WILL be refunded to applicants under the following circumstances:

  1. Where the University is unable to offer you a place on the programme as specified on the offer. A full refund will be issued in this case.
  2. Death of a close family member (parent/guardian, grandparent, sibling, spouse, child/dependent). Official evidence (signed and stamped) must be provided.
  3. SERIOUS ill health of the applicant or a close family member (parent/guardian, grandparent, sibling, spouse, child/dependent). Official evidence (signed and stamped) must be provided.
  4. Applicant does not meet conditions of offer. This may be academic or language test requirements. Satisfactory evidence must be uploaded to the student’s applicant self-service to prove that they have not met the conditions of their offer (note that applicants who do not meet the language condition of their offer must show reasonable attempt to meet this, i.e. they must provide at least two language tests which were taken after the date the deposit was paid).
  5. Visa / ATAS refusal: we will only consider a refund if the visa / ATAS refusal was based on matters outside of the applicant’s control.
  6. If a refund request is received within 14 days of the deposit being received a full refund will be issued under the Consumer Protection Regulations.

b: Deposits WILL NOT be refunded to applicants under the following circumstances:

  1. An applicant decides not to attend the University for any reason not outlined above.
  2. Personal financial constraints / unsuccessful scholarship application.
  3. Applicant has decided to defer – in this situation the University will retain the deposit and hold it against the applicant’s account to secure their place for the following year of entry. You may defer twice. After the second deferral standard conditions will apply.
  4. There is still time to meet the English language test requirement before the final upload date. Please see section a) 4.
  5. Visa / ATAS was applied for too late. Please see section a) 5.
  6. Any documents used for admission are proven to be fraudulent. We work in partnership with Qualification Check to check academic qualifications. English language qualifications are verified with the provider.
  7. The refund request is received more than 30 days after the official course start date as outlined in your offer email.

Timeframe for requesting a refund

Refund requests must be received no later than 30 days after the official course start date as outlined in your offer email. As per section b)7 above the request will be denied.

Receiving a refund

  1. To comply with Money Laundering Regulations, the University will pay all refunds to the original payer using the source payment details. This is known as a “return to source” payment.
  2. All appropriate documentation and evidence relating to the original payment must be provided, when requested.
  3. All payments and refunds are in GBP currency - the University is not responsible for any exchange rate fluctuations or beneficiary bank charges associated with the refund.
  4. Where University approved payment methods have not been used, this may cause significant delays or prevent payment altogether.
  5. We will aim to issue the deposit refund within 8 weeks of receipt of information per point 2 above. At peak times this may be longer.

How to request a deposit refund

Please go to our enquiry form and select 'Fees and Deposit' as the enquiry reason and then 'Can I have a deposit refund?'.

Please upload all supporting documentation to your applicant self-service portal before submitting the above request.


Application fee

A fee of £25 per application must be paid by all applicants to this programme. The application fee will be requested when you apply online and it can be paid using your credit or debit bank card.

Application fee: Terms and conditions

The application fee is non-refundable so it is important that you check any specific entry requirements for the programme you are applying to.

If you are applying with qualifications from outside the UK then you should check the postgraduate taught entry requirements for your country.

Applicants who are sponsored may have the application fee waived at the point of applying online. However, if the sponsorship status changes before the student registers with the University and the student is self-funded the University reserves the right to invoice the student for the initial application fee.


Additional fees

  • Fee for re-assessment of a dissertation (PGT programme): £370
  • Submission of thesis after deadline lapsed: £350
  • Registration/exam only fee: £170

Funding opportunities

The scholarships shown are relevant to this programme. For more funding opportunities search the scholarships database


Entry requirements

Honour Degree (or non-UK equivalent) in any subject and a minimum of three years of professional work experience.

A personal statement and a detailed CV describing your work experience with specific emphasis on your role and responsibilities. Senior/mid-level work experience should include and highlight responsibility for planning business aims/objectives and prioritising workload to deliver these.

If your application successfully passes through the first stage of the admissions process, you will be invited to take part in an interview by MS Teams. The interview is relatively informal, lasts around 30 minutes and seeks to evaluate your suitability for the Glasgow MBA, as well as discuss your application and expectations. The interview will enable the MBA team to get to know you and provide you with an opportunity to understand how the Glasgow MBA works. Focus will be on the following competencies: motivation, commercial and business awareness, team working, project management, creativity, resilience and flexibility, business ethics and communication.

English language requirements

 

For further information about English language requirements, please contact the Recruitment and International Office using our enquiry form

For applicants from non-majority English speaking countries, as defined by the UK Government, the University sets a minimum English Language proficiency level.

Accepted English Language Tests

We accept a wide range of English language tests for entry to this programme. Tests must have been taken within 2 years 5 months of programme start date, and requirements must be met using a single test.  

IELTS Academic/IELTS Academic for UKVI/ IELTS Academic online

  • 6.5 overall with no subtest less than 6.0 
  • IELTS One Skill Retake Accepted
  • We do not accept General Training

TOEFL iBT (including MyBest and Home Edition)

Test taken up to 20 January 2026

  • 90 overall with no subtest less than Reading 20; Listening 19; Speaking 19; Writing 21 

Tests taken from 21 January 2026

  • 92 overall with no subtest less than 4.5

PTE Academic (test centre only)

  • 65 overall with no subtest less than Reading 60; Listening 60; Speaking 65; Writing 60
  • We do not accept the online PTE Academic

Cambridge C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency

  • 176 overall with no subtest less than 169

Oxford ELLT

  • 7 overall with no subtest less than 6

LanguageCert Academic/Academic SELT/ Academic Online

  • 70 overall with no subtest less than 65

Password Skills Plus

  • 6.5 overall with no subtest less than 6.0

Trinity College Integrated Skills in English II

  • 96 overall with no subtest less than 90

Kaplan Test of English

  • Any two subtests at 480 or higher, and any two subtests at 450 or higher

PSI Skills for English

  • B2 Pass with Merit

Duolingo English Test

  • 120 overall with writing at 120 and no subtest less than 110

Oxford Test of English Advanced

  • 140 Overall with any two subtests at 126 or higher, and any two subtests at 136 or higher

Alternatives to English Language test

Degree from majority-English speaking country (as defined by the UKVI including Canada if taught in English)

  • students must have studied for a minimum of their final year at Undergraduate level, or 9 months at Master's level, and must have completed their degree in that majority-English speaking country within 6 years of programme start.

TNE degree from UK university taught at a campus outside of the UK

  • students must be awarded the degree by the UK university and must have completed the degree within 6 years of programme start.

Pre-sessional courses

The University of Glasgow accepts evidence of the required language level from the English for Academic Study Unit Pre-sessional courses. We would strongly encourage you to consider the pre-sessional courses at the University of Glasgow's English for Academic Study (EAS) Unit. Our Pre-sessional courses are the best way to bring your English up to entry level for University study and remain valid for 2 years following date of successful completion.

Our courses give you: 

  • direct entry to your University programme for successful students (no need to take IELTS); 
  • essential academic skills to help you study effectively at University; 
  • flexible entry dates so you can join the right course for your level.

For more detail on our pre-sessional courses please see: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/eas/pre-sessionalcourses/

We can also consider the pre-sessional courses accredited by the below BALEAP approved institutions to meet the language requirements for admission to our postgraduate taught degrees:

  • Heriot Watt
  • Kingston Upon Thames
  • Middlesex University
  • Manchester University
  • Reading University
  • Edinburgh University
  • St Andrews University
  • UCL
  • Durham 

International students

We are proud of our diverse University community that includes students and staff from more than 140 different countries.

How to apply

To apply for a postgraduate taught degree you must apply online. We cannot accept applications any other way.

Please check you meet the Entry requirements for this programme before you begin your application.

Documents

As part of your online application, you also need to submit the following supporting documents:

  • A copy (or copies) of your official degree certificate(s) (if you have already completed your degree)
  • A copy (or copies) of your official academic transcript(s), showing full details of subjects studied and grades/marks obtained
  • Official English translations of the certificate(s) and transcript(s)
  • One reference letter on headed paper
  • Evidence of your English language ability (if your first language is not English)
  • Any additional documents required for this programme (see Entry requirements for this programme)
  • A copy of the photo page of your passport

You have 42 days to submit your application once you begin the process.

You may save and return to your application as many times as you wish to update information, complete sections or upload supporting documents such as your final transcript or your language test.

For more information about submitting documents or other topics related to applying to a postgraduate taught programme, see how to apply for a postgraduate taught degree

Guidance notes for using the online application

These notes are intended to help you complete the online application form accurately; they are also available within the help section of the online application form. 

If you experience any difficulties accessing the online application, see Application System Help.

  • Name and Date of birth: must appear exactly as they do on your passport. Please take time to check the spelling and lay-out.
  • Contact Details: Correspondence address. All contact relevant to your application will be sent to this address including the offer letter(s). If your address changes, please contact us as soon as possible.
  • Choice of course: Please select carefully the course you want to study. As your application will be sent to the admissions committee for each course you select it is important to consider at this stage why you are interested in the course and that it is reflected in your application.
  • Proposed date of entry: Please state your preferred start date including the month and the year. Taught masters degrees tend to begin in September. Research degrees may start in any month.
  • Education and Qualifications: Please complete this section as fully as possible indicating any relevant Higher Education qualifications starting with the most recent. Complete the name of the Institution (s) as it appears on the degree certificate or transcript.
  • English Language Proficiency: Please state the date of any English language test taken (or to be taken) and the award date (or expected award date if known).
  • Employment and Experience: Please complete this section as fully as possible with all employments relevant to your course. Additional details may be attached in your personal statement/proposal where appropriate.

Reference: Please provide one reference. This should typically be an academic reference but in cases where this is not possible then a reference from a current employer may be accepted instead. Certain programmes, such as the MBA programme, may also accept an employer reference. If you already have a copy of a reference on letter headed paper then please upload this to your application. If you do not already have a reference to upload then please enter your referee’s name and contact details on the online application and we will contact your referee directly.

Application fee

A fee of £25 per application must be paid by all applicants to this programme. The application fee will be requested when you apply online and it can be paid using your credit or debit bank card.

Application fee: Terms and conditions

The application fee is non-refundable so it is important that you check any specific entry requirements for the programme you are applying to.

If you are applying with qualifications from outside the UK then you should check the postgraduate taught entry requirements for your country.

Applicants who are sponsored may have the application fee waived at the point of applying online. However, if the sponsorship status changes before the student registers with the University and the student is self-funded the University reserves the right to invoice the student for the initial application fee.


Application deadlines

For entry in September 2027

All applicants

  • 31 July 2027
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