100% online MBA Entrepreneurship

Turn your idea into a business with a 100% online MBA Entrepreneurship from the career-focused university

  • Apply By: 24 April 2025
  • To Begin: 05 May 2025

180 credits

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2 years part-time

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£6,000 total fees

Key benefits

  • 100% online MBA within 24 months
  • Study anytime, anywhere, on any device
  • Earn while you learn
  • £6,000 total fees, option to pay per module
  • Top 10 in the UK for ‘Teaching Quality’*
    *The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2024

This 100% online MBA Entrepreneurship is designed to prepare aspiring entrepreneurs and ambitious, bold and creative professionals for a wide range of exciting career opportunities. From launching new business ventures, to growing and developing start-ups and small companies, to managing innovation in larger companies, this MBA programme is for individuals who want to become entrepreneurs, creators and leaders.

The highly flexible online programme provides a comprehensive understanding of the entrepreneurial process and develops entrepreneurial and management skills including innovation, creativity and design. It also develops a breadth of knowledge and skills that are key to making businesses successful, including strategy, marketing and human resource management.

Equip yourself for success with an entrepreneurial skill set

This carefully calibrated Master of Business Administration (MBA) Entrepreneurship degree gives individuals who want to turn a business idea into a new entrepreneurial venture the unique ability to equip yourself with the capabilities and knowledge required to successfully do so without taking time out from your current career, continuing to work full-time and earn whilst you learn. You will study entirely online, any time, anywhere, on any device – at your convenience.

This MBA with the Entrepreneurship specialism will build core competencies in business management, entrepreneurship and innovation, developing skills that can be applied to the real-world of work.

The programme develops key skills required of entrepreneurs and innovators, including:

  • Entrepreneurial thinking
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Development of new business ventures
  • Marketing strategy creation
  • Financial management
  • Communication skills

Specialists in flexible learning

More than half of our students study part-time and as a result we have considerable expertise in flexible study. This completely online MBA Entrepreneurship programme has a flexible design enabling you to study at your own pace, on your own terms. Learning in an innovative online learning environment, you will connect with fellow MBA students from across the globe in forums and will boost your studies by sharing and discussing relevant case studies and ideas for your own business.

With six starts per year, you can start within weeks. There are flexible payment options and, for those that are eligible, there are postgraduate government loans to cover the full programme cost.

Career-centric Entrepreneurship MBA for today’s world of work

This MBA Entrepreneurship is industry-led and career-focused, reflecting the culture and capabilities of North Wales Management School, and of Wrexham University. Our business school’s deep relationships with major employers have fed into the programme content and have helped shape an MBA that is built for career enhancement across a wide range of sectors in the modern-day work environment. It is this approach that has seen us ranked in the top 10 UK universities for employability for part-time students.

Entry requirements for home and international students

  • You should have or be about to complete an undergraduate degree in any subject with a minimum grade of 2:2 (or equivalent qualification). We will also accept master’s degrees or equivalent.
  • We may also accept applicants who do not have these qualifications based on two or more years of relevant work experience.
  • If you earned your undergraduate degree outside the UK, you should check that it is equivalent to a 2:2.

English language requirements

  • If English isn’t your first language, you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept:
    • IELTS at 6.0 overall with no individual component below 5.5
    • TOEFL overall minimum 60
    • PTE Academic overall minimum 50
    • Cambridge (CAE & CPE) overall 169 with minimum scores of 162 in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
    • A degree qualification taught in English
    • Evidence that you work in a company where English is the first language
    • High school qualifications in English
    • Completion of a Duolingo test with an overall score of 105 with no subscore less than 95 in the language section.

Fees

North Wales Management School’s online MBAs are designed to be affordable, saving time and money. Tuition fees are calculated per eight-week module. You can enrol in and pay for each consecutive session as your studies progress. Payment is accepted through the online student portal and must meet the payment deadline.

  • Total programme fees £6,000
  • Per 15-credit module £500

Modules

Modules
Entrepreneurial Thinking

This module gives you an understanding of entrepreneurship and how individuals in all types and sizes of organisation can use entrepreneurial practices to solve problems and create value. The aim of the module is to allow you to both build and understand the entrepreneurial mind-set and develop the capability to identify and create entrepreneurial opportunities through the creation, development and exploitation of new ideas, products, services and processes.

New Venture Creation

This module develops a comprehensive understanding of the entrepreneurial process and the development of new business ventures. It explains the stages of business planning, survival, venture growth and exit, in the context of private, public and third sectors. It explores the key phases of start-up: from the identification of a potential opportunity; intellectual protection; identifying an appropriate business model and strategy; meeting statutory demands; marketing; and financial planning.

Creative Change & Innovation

Provides a critical insight into the enduring nature of change and creativity for organisational survival and growth. This module encourages recognition of the organisational tensions and performance fluctuations linked to the generation and application of change and new ideas.

Implementing Strategies

This module encourages you to independently explore and research the diverse contribution that strategic practices make to business performance. It develops analytical techniques and judgements based on theoretical models and contextual trends that impact on strategic implementation.

Finance Insights & Business Intelligence

This module develops your abilities to analyse business and financial data and glean key insights that can influence strategic decision making. This contributes to the sustainable financial wellbeing of commercial or non-profit institutions that are faced with disruptive competition.

HRM in Context

Enables you to independently explore and develop your skills and knowledge as an HRM practitioner via contemporary and constructive debates, using information and understanding of HRM across the strategic and operational business environment and related management functions. The aim of this module is to increase credibility in the field of HRM and develop frameworks to support and underpin the evolving nature of work that will integrate with other HR strategies and functions and support human capital and business performance. It develops analytical techniques and judgements based on theoretical models and contextual trends that impact on reward management across strategic business functions.

Emphasising the Environment

This module examines the complex relationship between business practices and the impact on the global environment. It considers ways in which business can contribute positively to global environmental concerns and policies.

Integrated Communications

This module is designed to develop your ability to apply effective communication planning and brand management concepts. It provides insights into the contribution to organisational performance made by enhancing sustainable stakeholder relationships and delivering customer value.

Research Methods

This module provides insights into the nature and make-up of academic research methods that align with common research frameworks. It introduces analytical techniques and approaches to sampling along with research ethics in order to provide you with direction that will enable you to investigate and solve your research questions.

Research Proposal

This module supports you in identifying a contemporary business or management problem that is sufficiently complex to warrant investigation as a means of identifying possible solutions. It will provide insight into the nature of academic research, together with methodologies and analytical techniques. You will develop and submit your research proposal based on a focused literature review. The problem identified in this module will be researched in your dissertation.

Dissertation

In your dissertation, you will investigate and report on your chosen contemporary business or management problem. Your research and writing will be carried out under academic supervision.

Choose North Wales Management School

  • Top 10 university in UK for employability for UK-based graduates from part-time first degrees (Source: HESA PI E1b 2015/16)
  • 99.1% were in employment or further study 6 months after completing their studies (Source: HESA PI E1b 2015/16)
  • QAA-assured, industry-led programmes, incorporating deep knowledge and expertise of employer partners and tailored to the needs of the modern job market
  • Close links with leading local and regional employers, including Toyota, Kellogg’s, Brother Industries and the BBC
  • Expertise in flexible learning – more than half of our students study part-time
  • Dedicated Student Success team supports you every step of the way – from enrolment right through to graduation
  • International university of many cultures
  • Programmes suitable for a wide range of academic backgrounds
  • 10% fee reduction for graduates of Wrexham University