The Cardiff MBA
Developing leaders who drive positive business change
Our AMBA-accredited MBA programmes are challenging and formative experiences. We’ll support you in developing your business knowledge, building essential business and management skills, and increasing your self-awareness. We’ll help you, through action and reflection, to reveal and sharpen your leadership style and vision.
Our programmes
The Cardiff MBA (1 year full-time)
The Cardiff MBA (2 years part-time)
The Cardiff MBA with Artificial Intelligence (1 year full-time)
Choosing an MBA is an investment in your future and the route to accelerating your career. Are you ready to take the next step?
Next start date: September 2025
In-person at Cardiff Business School
£19,200 for home students / £31,950 for overseas students
Why choose Cardiff University for your MBA?
A career-changing education taught by leading experts and innovators in the fields of business and management.
Challenge-led
We give you the knowledge and skills you need to become a senior leader who can tackle worldwide challenges. You’ll explore real world case studies while sharing and debating transformative ideas to solve complex scenarios.
Real-world application
The Accelerator Project is one of a range of practical opportunities to test and inform your creative and innovative thinking. You’ll complete a project in partnership with a business client, developing solutions to a significant strategic issue.
Community learning
We’re a diverse and international community, rich in different perspectives and experiences. This enhances the learning environment, while guest speakers, company visits, workshops and social gatherings allow for greater engagement with your MBA cohort and other networks.
Meet our students and alumni
Where will you study?
Cardiff is a capital city with a rich business heritage, lively cultural scene, and reputation for resilience, innovation and creativity.
Cardiff Business School is situated in the heart of the city. It offers excellent study and social facilities and draws on established relationships with local, national, and international business networks.
In this short video, Professor Eleri Rosier gives you a tour of Cardiff Business School’s Postgraduate Teaching Centre, a building tailored to our MBA and postgraduate community.
Wales’ only member of the Russell Group of leading research-led universities
2nd most affordable university city in the UK
(NatWest Student Living Index 2023)
Cardiff voted ‘best city in the UK’ and ‘friendliest city in the UK’
(Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards 2023)
Ways to fund your course
MBA Public Value Scholarships
A tuition fee reduction of £7,500 is available to all who enrol as a student in any of our MBA programmes.
Alumni Discount
If you’re a Cardiff University graduate, you’ll benefit from a 20% fee reduction. This is automatically applied when you start your studies.
UK Government Master’s Funding
You may be able to apply for UK Government postgraduate funding to support your study at Cardiff University.