Evening Executive MBA
Key information
Duration: 24 months
Attendance mode: Part-time: Tuesday and Thursday evenings
Location: Finsbury Square
Start of programme: 2 September 2025
Application deadline: Rolling applications
Entry year: Showing course information for 2025
An exciting two-year journey of growth and transformation.
Overview
Who is the Evening Executive MBA for?
Ideally suited for executives with leadership or management experience, looking to continue your successful career while studying part-time.
You’ll be based in London and focused and dedicated to study in the evenings.
Study alongside a driven and ambitious cohort of senior executives, leaders, and entrepreneurs. Representing a diverse range of professional backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities, fostering a rich and dynamic learning environment.
Course objectives
The Bayes Evening Executive MBA will equip you with advanced leadership skills, strategic thinking, and a global perspective, enabling you to navigate complex business challenges and drive meaningful immediate impact in your organisation.
Apply new theory, frameworks, and skills to your current role immediately and witness the direct impact your learning can have on both your organisation and the broader business landscape. The programme will help you understand the bigger picture and drive impactful change.
Engaging in continuous learning and development through career-enhancing opportunities on the Executive MBA will prepare you with the skills and knowledge needed to advance professionally, stay competitive, lead effectively, and navigate complex business environments.
Offered 2 evenings a week (Tuesday and Thursday) the evening format allows you to balance your career, personal commitments, and studies. If this format isn’t right for you, why not consider the modular (monthly weekend) format.
Delivered in person, allowing you to take advantage of London's spirit of innovation and creativity.
A transformative two year part-time Executive MBA
- Triple Crown accredited business school in London.
- Gain the ability to see the bigger picture, enabling you to understand how various business elements interconnect and impact overall organisational success.
- Study alongside an exceptional cohort from a wide range of, industries, backgrounds, experience, and seniority, allowing you to benefit and learn from their unique perspectives.
- Continue learning with annual alumni access to one free elective per year.
Programme content
A high touch programme offering an immersive experience focused on face to face and experiential learning. The evening format is delivered in person:
- Twice weekly (Tuesday and Thursday) teaching sessions focus on face-to-face conversations and group discussions allowing for real-time sharing of experiences and knowledge.
- On campus teaching focuses on a combination of theory, class-based discussions, case studies and group work. It is also an opportunity to develop your connections and network with your and other cohorts.
- The in-person sessions are designed to be provide a more immersive learning environment.
The EMBA curriculum is current and reflective of today’s rapidly changing technological landscape. It’s designed to build on your current expertise, to develop new skills in management and core business principles, empowering you to lead with confidence and make informed, strategic decisions.
We place a strong emphasis on enhancing self-awareness and professional skills needed for senior leadership through workshops and one-to-one support. Throughout the two years you will benefit from our careers and professional development curriculum specially tailored for seasoned executives and professionals.
Course structure
Pre course
Pre-programme activities
Once you have accepted your offer this is the first step that officially makes you part of the Bayes Business School Community.
Pre-study modules covering mathematics and stats will be available to you prior to the start of the programme. This ensures all students have the basic knowledge and skills required for the start of the programme.
There is also a range of pre-programme activities for you to complete including pre-reading and other useful information to help you prepare for student life.
Career accelerator course
The online career accelerator course provides early access to insights and resources, preparing you to maximise the careers and professional development curriculum once you start the programme.
Induction
You want to make the most of every moment of your Executive MBA. We have designed induction comprising of three evenings and a weekend to let you do just that.
You will spend the evenings getting to know your fellow classmates and discover the resources available to you as a student of the MBA and wider University. You will meet your Course Director, faculty and start to get to grips with the case method – a core learning tool in your Executive MBA. At the weekend, you will focus on careers and professional development activities such as increasing your executive presence.
Induction sets you up for the academic challenges that lie ahead and ensures that you and your classmates have a strong and shared knowledge base.
Core modules
Principles of Marketing
Exposes you to both traditional and newer techniques and concepts. Demonstrates the usefulness of marketing knowledge and concepts in analysing and developing markets and products within the context of the whole business operation.
Organisational Behaviour
This module will introduce you to key concepts and understanding of the behaviour of individuals, groups, and the dynamics of culture, politics and structure in organizations. This will enable you to sharpen your skills in managing individuals, teams and change processes.
Operations Management
This module will introduce you to a range of operations related decisions. The focus will be on ‘how to’ skills and applications and the value of an interdisciplinary approach to operations management.
Accounting & Financial Reporting
Gain the ability to understand and interpret financial information, a fundamental skill for an effective manager in today’s business environment. Understand how accounting tools can be used to manage and evaluate business performance.
Learning outcomes:
- Main accounting statements
- Accounting for assets and sources of finance
- Cash flow statements
- Financial statement analysis
- Cost behaviour
- Budgeting
Strategic Leadership
Strategic leadership is the perspective most often required of an Executive MBA graduate in order to handle a wide range of perspectives and not only from the viewpoint of one specialist discipline. The module is concerned with strategic decision-making and the long-term successful direction of the organisation.
Analytics for Business
The aim of this module is to introduce you to some of the most important statistical tools used in business analytics, focussing on descriptive and predictive analytics. The focus is on application and interpretation of the tools and results.
Human Resource Management
The focus is on specific human resource management practices and policies, their effectiveness as well as skills necessary for their implementation. The course is designed for line managers and it is not intended to meet the detailed technical requirements of full-time HR professionals.
Business Economics
A practical understanding of the tools and language used by economists to analyse individual and organisational behaviour (microeconomics), and the functioning of economies and networks as a whole (macroeconomics).
Financial Markets and Instruments
Provides a basis for investment and financing analysis and decisions. The module comprises three complementary parts - capital budgeting and investment decisions; financing instruments and markets; and, the weighted average cost of capital used for discounting and valuation purposes.
New Venture Creation
This module equips you with the knowledge you require to develop and refine your business creation strategy and provides an academic underpinning to the process.
The aim of this module is to provide you with the broad knowledge and understanding of the entrepreneurial and innovation agenda, the need for innovation and all aspects of the new venture creation process including feasibility testing, marketing financial forecasting and securing finance.
Corporate Social Responsibility
This module equips you with a comprehensive understanding of the social responsibilities of a modern business organisation.
Digital Technologies & Business Innovation
The Digital Technologies and Business Innovation component of this module explores the impact of new powerful digital technologies on the way businesses are organized and compete.
Corporate Finance
In this module you will examine the long-term financial decisions taken by companies including the cost of capital, debt and equity, and why mergers and acquisitions occur.
Corporate Strategy
Discuss central themes in corporate strategy and management, with a particular focus on culture, identity, brand and reputation that affect value creation and hold together large multi-business corporations.
Leadership and Performance
This module covers the latest evidence on why leadership is crucial and how someone can be a more successful leader. The module draws on modern research about leaders and managers and also focuses on why and how this body of evidence can help you in the future. We will examine how leaders influence productivity, trust, and job satisfaction and worker engagement. You will reflect on your past leadership journey, learn from your peers’ experiences, and consider how to navigate your future.
Professional development
Achieving your potential weekend
Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience, active experimentation and reflective observation.
Run over the course of a weekend and purposefully held off campus, this event takes students away from a typical working or study environment, giving EMBA students the opportunity to:
- Think in detail about potential career transitions: defining where are they now, where do they want to be and how are they going to get there?
- Take ownership for career transitions; set specific goals to support their achievement
- Discover / re-discover strengths and how they can be harnessed to enable / accelerate personal and professional development
- Consider energy and how to manage this purposefully in a career context.
International consultancy week
This module is the integrating element of the Executive MBA core teaching, bringing together the theoretical elements of the programme so far in a practical experience, enabling you to draw out the principles from the core modules. You will be asked to apply your classroom learning to some very demanding problems often in a challenging business consultancy environment.
Consultancy is undertaken to bring added value to the client and the temporary nature of the field trip projects stands in contrast with class room teaching and as such requires the development of distinct research skills, organisation and interpersonal skills.
The projects typically focus on developing solutions for business development strategies, marketing, HR, finance or operational challenges. Throughout the data collection and analysis stages you will have the opportunity to test your MBA learning in the real world by applying it to real business problems as well as reflect on your own skills as a consultant, leader and team player in a new market, unfamiliar industry and culture.
You have one week to work with the company face-to-face and then a further four weeks to provide a full set of recommendations to the company which is assessed.
Electives
You can choose to study a wide range of electives or focus on a concentration in one specific area. These modules are offered from across our Executive and Full-time MBA portfolio of classes, some electives will run in the evenings and over weekends as well as during the day.
This list of electives is only an indication of the range of subjects on offer and is subject to change. Note that international electives are subject to a specific allocation process, which will be explained during the programme.
Business Mastery Project
During the second year you will draw on the many elements of the programme in the Business Mastery Project, a major piece of self-managed work. It is an opportunity to demonstrate expertise and a skill set gained during the programme and transition into the next stage of your career.
It can be presented in multiple ways; a research project on your organisation; address a strategic problem for a specific industry; a business plan. All geared towards you taking the next positive step in your career path, you tap into the Bayes Business expertise from our faculty over 9-12 months and deliver an industry specific project.
Recent projects have included:
- An exploration in Blockchain and syndicated lending operations
- How to create shareholder value performance through strategic mergers and acquisitions
- Undertaking an empirical analysis of capital structure and Government debt in Europe
- Focusing on cleantech in European and U.S. venture capital: a comparison of investments and exits across industries and countries
- The impact of digitisation and insurtech on the London insurance market
- Understanding ‘ethical political leadership’ in Mauritius
- Comparing sectors commitment to renewable energy
- Entrepreneurship culture and co-working spaces.
Faculty
Taught by world leading faculty, bringing cutting-edge research, industry expertise, and real-world insights to enrich your learning experience and enhance your leadership capabilities.
Paulina Roszkowska
Area of expertise: Corporate finance, fintech, capital markets, and ethics in finance
Faculty
A wide range of academics teach on the Full-time MBA including:
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Professor Costas Andriopoulos, Professor of Management and Associate Dean, MBA Programmes
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Dr Aneesh Banerjee, Reader in Management
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Joelle Evans, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour
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Dr John Forth, Reader in Human Resources Management
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Professor Santi Furnari, Professor of Strategy
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Professor Jean-Pascal Gond, Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility
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Dr Martin James, Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour / Human Resource Management
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Dr Arthur Kraft, Reader in Accounting
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Dr Canan Kocabasoglu Hillmer, Reader in Operations and Supply Chain Management
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Professor Gianvito Lanzolla, Professor of Strategy
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Professor Meziane Lasfer, Professor of Finance
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Dr Yusuf Oc, Senior Lecturer in Marketing
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Dr Dimitris Paraskevopoulos, Reader in Operations and Supply Chain Management
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Professor Stephen Thomas, Professor of Finance
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Dr Sujata Visaria, Reader in Finance.
Your MBA timeline
| Year 1 | Module |
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| July | (Pre-programme activities) |
| September | Induction |
| Core Module 1: Organisational Behaviour | |
| Core Module 2: Principles of Marketing | |
| October | Core Module 3: Operations Management |
| Core Module 4: Accounting and Financial Reporting | |
| Core Module 5: Strategic Leadership | |
| December | Core Module 6: Analytics for Business |
| January | Exams (covering topics from modules 1 to 6) |
| January / February | Core Module 7: Human Resource Management |
| Core Module 8: Business Economics | |
| February / March | Core Module 9: Financial Markets and Instruments |
| March | International Consultancy Week |
| March/ April | Core Module 10: Digital Technologies and Business Innovation |
| Core Module 11: New Venture Creation | |
| Core Module 12: Corporate Social Responsibility | |
| May / June | Core Module 13: Corporate Finance |
| Core Module 14: Corporate Strategy | |
| June | Exams (covering topics from modules 7 to 14) |
| July | Core Module 15: Leadership and Performance |
| Year 2 | Module |
| September | Achieving your potential weekend |
| September - July | Electives |
| Business Mastery Project | |
| January | Graduation |
Careers impact
From the start of term, the Careers Team will be available to support you throughout your journey at Bayes. Through one-to-one coaching, professional development workshops, and the 'Achieving Your Potential' weekend, we'll work with you to explore and achieve your goals.
Our team brings invaluable expertise to your journey, drawing from their real-world experience in diverse commercial backgrounds such as recruitment, occupational psychology, coaching, and leadership across various industries.
Our support is tailored to your individual needs and career aspirations. Through our self-assessment sessions, we help you evaluate your strengths, motivations, and values, aligning them with your professional development objectives.
Based on this assessment and your interests, you can select from a variety of workshops, sector overviews, online resources, and coaching sessions to tailor your experience and develop key skills. Additionally, you can meet with our career coaches to refine your future career plans.
What our alumni are saying
I’m grateful to the Careers and Professional Development Team for helping me identify my strengths, improve my personal branding, and explore new career paths like consulting. Their support went beyond day-to-day learning, offering significant value to my professional growth. I highly recommend every student take full advantage of the Careers Team—there’s so much more to gain beyond the classroom. The network and personal development are where the real gold is!
Carina Ratcu, Evening Executive MBA 2022
Alumni stories
Career management workshops
Our wide range of workshops form the backbone of any serious career strategy. They provide opportunities to develop invaluable employability skills in a highly focused, professional environment.
Some of the professional development workshops you can expect on the MBA course include:
- Increasing Executive Presence
Discover the essence of Executive Presence and its significance in your career journey. Unlock the secrets to standing out and making a lasting impression in any professional setting. Learn to elevate your personal impact and master the art of managing your impressions and relationships through effective communication with words, voice and body. Delve into strategies for navigating status and power dynamics, and gain experience in implementing all you have learned. - Achieving Your Potential Programme
Escape the typical work or study environment with our off-campus programme. Explore the 'Science of Happiness at Work' and discover strategies to boost performance, productivity, and unlock your potential. Learn to align your energy, strengths, and motivations with your career aspirations whilst gaining insights into defining your purpose, understanding your calling, and 'job crafting'. Consider potential career transitions by reflecting on past experiences, where you want to be and how to manage the journey. - Deploying strengths for career and team success
Discover how to leverage your strengths and practical strategies to achieve your career goals, build productive habits and maximise personal performance. Learn how to focus on adopting a more positive, solutions-based mind-set to help you learn faster, feel more engaged and energised at work. Additionally, develop insights into understanding the strengths and risks within your project team, learning how to effectively use team strengths while mitigating potential risks. - Advanced Presentation Skills
Delve into a range of techniques designed to increase your confidence and elevate your presentation skills. Explore the psychology of 'profiling' an audience and methods to maximise attention. Receive personalised coaching on voice, including cadence, tenor, emphasis, modulation, breathing, and pace. Understand key messaging concepts such as content cascade, burden of proof, use of advocacy, and subliminal messaging to enhance persuasion. - Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Positive emotion produces amazing results in the workplace and emotionally intelligent leaders know how to get the best out of others, even in the toughest situations. The challenge is to understand the difference between reaction and response. Develop your emotional literacy, agility and ability to cope with demanding people and contexts. Learn to understand and analyse components of EI such as, self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.
Fees & funding
Tuition fee for September 2025
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Evening Executive MBA tuition fee:
£55,700
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Fee structure
- Application fee: £100
- Full tuition fees: £55,700
- Deposit: £5,000 (Paid to secure your place)
- First instalment: £8,925 (Fees excluding deposit, to complete registration in August 2025)
- Second instalment: £13,925 (Paid in January 2026)
- Third instalment: £13,925 (Paid in August/September 2026 in order to complete your re-registration)
- Fourth instalment: £13,925 (Paid in January 2027)
The above applies to self-funding students. Please note fees are subject to change.
Paying your deposit
If we make you an unconditional offer, your offer letter will contain a personalised link which will enable you to accept your offer and pay a deposit of £5,000 by the deadline stated in your offer letter. Your place on the Executive MBA will not be secure until we have received your deposit. This can be paid by credit or debit card, or by bank transfer, and is deducted from your first instalment. If you are 100% sponsored by your company, we can normally waive the deposit on receipt of a completed sponsorship form.
Scholarships
Bayes Business School offers a range of financial awards and scholarships to talented individuals with a strong potential for career advancement.
View our scholarships and awardsOther funding opportunities
There are several funding options we recommend from
- Prodigy Finance Ltd: Founded by three MBAs providing loans for students through contributions sourced from the University, alumni and friends of the School
- US Federal Loans: William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (Direct Loans) can provide funding to cover your tuition fees and living expenses, subject to approval by the Student Centre
- RBC Royal Bank Royal Credit Line is route for Canadian students to manage their cash flow and supplement the money they receive from the Canadian government through the Canada Student Loan Program
- Postgraduate Masters loan: A postgraduate loan is available from the UK Government to help cover the cost of postgraduate study. You must be a UK national or have settled status in the UK (other T&Cs also apply)
We also offer a 20% tuition fee reduction to City, University of London alumni and University of London alumni who achieved 2.1 or above in their Bachelor’s degree, or a Master’s degree.
View other funding optionsAdmissions
At Bayes we look for ambitious executives or entrepreneurs from culturally diverse backgrounds, who are looking to become business leaders of the future.
Professional experience
- A minimum of five years’ full-time professional experience, gained after graduation.
- We are looking for continuous career progression alongside clear examples of leadership capability, strong team and communication skills through personal and professional experiences.
Academic requirement
- A good university degree (equivalent to an upper second-class honours degree (2:1) or above) or equivalent professional qualification. Alternatively, at least six years' relevant business experience if you do not have a degree.
GMAT/GRE
Most applicants will not be required to take GMAT/GRE. If we need further information on your academic capacity for the programme, or your current motivation to study, we may request that you take GMAT/GRE.
English language requirement
You will need excellent English language skills in order to succeed on the Bayes Modular Executive MBA. If English is not your first language, you will need to provide a score from one of the following tests as part of your application.
These are our minimum requirements, and successful applicants typically demonstrate higher levels of achievement. We will assess your competency in English throughout our selection process.
IELTS Academic
We require a minimum, well balanced score of 7.0, with no less than 6.5 in each individual section. We also accept the IELTS Indicator and IELTS online tests with the same minimum scores as well as IELTS One Skill Retake. Please note that we accept IELTS Academic tests taken at test centres that are not included on UKVI's SELT list. We do not accept IELTS General.
TOEFL iBT
TOEFL iBT can be taken in-person or online. We require an overall score of 100 with a minimum of 25 in Writing and no less than 23 in any other section. Scores must be achieved within a single test (not MyBest scores) and made available to us using Institution Code 0870. We do not accept TOEFL Essentials or TOEFL ITP Plus for China.
Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic
We require an overall score of 69 with a minimum of 62 in Writing and no less than 60 in any other section in the in-person test. We do not accept PTE Online or PTE General.
LanguageCert International ESOL - C1 Expert
We require a Pass in all components of the in-person or online test (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking).
We also accept scores from other tests such as Trinity College and Cambridge English. Please contact us for further information if you have taken one of these tests.
If English is not your first language but you have worked or studied in an English speaking country for over a year, we may be able to waive our requirement to take an English language test. Please contact us for more information.
Apply
The application form is completed online and is designed to allow you to complete it over several sessions, allowing to submit your application when you are ready.
As soon as you submit an application it will be processed and there is no need to wait until the next deadline.
Once your application is complete and meets our entry requirements, it will be reviewed by the admissions panel and if successful you will be invited for an interview with a member of faculty.
The whole process from complete application to final decision typically takes 4 - 6 weeks.
Key dates
| Round | Deadline Date |
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| Round 1 | 20 October 2024 |
| Round 2 | 1 December 2024 |
| Round 3 | 26 January 2025 |
| Round 4 | 2 March 2025 |
| Round 5 | 27 April 2025 |
| Round 6 | 1 June 2025 |
| Round 7 | 20 July 2025 |
| Round 8 | Rolling Admissions* |
*Rolling applications will only run if there are still places available
Evening Executive MBA - Admissions process
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1. Start your online application
- Apply via our online application form
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2. Prepare your personal statement
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3. Upload supporting documents
- Upload your CV
- Contact details of two professional referees
- Copy of your university documents or equivalent
- English language test results (if applicable).
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4. Check if you need a visa
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5. Pay the application fee
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6. Submit your completed application
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7. Interview if shortlisted
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8. Admissions decision
View our full application guide
Admissions guide
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