Shipping and Logistics MBA

Why choose an MBA in Shipping and Logistics at Middlesex?

With this course, you'll get the chance to immerse yourself in major topics, such as maritime administration, ship finance, risk management, maritime economics and trade, maritime law, international marketing, logistics and supply chain management, project mastery, and many more.

The Masters of Business Administration in Shipping and Logistics is offered by Middlesex University Business School in conjunction with Lloyd's Maritime Academy. The course curriculum has been designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to further your maritime leadership and management career.

Online delivery means you can study without having to travel to attend lectures or seminars. Our state-of-the-art learning portal provides access to online written materials, complimented by audio/visual content, group interaction and networking opportunities.

What you will gain

As a student, pursuing an MBA can bring about numerous benefits that can significantly advance your career. Firstly, it can give you the confidence to operate across all areas of your industry. Additionally, it can enhance your capabilities to lead, think and act more strategically. You will also gain awareness of your personal strengths and opportunities for improvement, and the ability to apply knowledge as you learn it in real-time and in the real world.

Pursuing an MBA can also provide you with an understanding of the challenges in other sectors, industries, and locations, and a demonstrable ability to meet the challenges of a senior management role. Furthermore, you will acquire academic skills and intellectual habits to continue personal development after completing the MBA, and networking and support opportunities through lifelong alumni membership.

What your employer will gain

Pursuing an MBA can also benefit your employer in numerous ways. Firstly, it can significantly enhance your capabilities across a range of areas such as business management, people management, project management, strategic thinking, innovation, and change. Additionally, it can improve your ability to operate at a more strategic level and contribute beyond your own functional specialism.

Pursuing an MBA can also provide an opportunity for a cost-effective management development program, allowing the flexibility to study and participate without being absent from the workplace. Finally, it presents the opportunity to gain value for your organisation through your Business Transformation Project, providing significant research into a relevant business issue.

The MBA can significantly advance your career by giving you:

• The confidence to operate across all areas of your industry
• Enhanced capabilities to lead, think and act more strategically
• Awareness of personal strengths and opportunities for improvement
• The ability to apply knowledge as you learn it in real time and in the real world
• An understanding of the challenges in other sectors, industries and locations
• A demonstrable ability to meet the challenges of a senior management role
• The academic skills and intellectual habits to continue personal development after completing the MBA
• Networking and support opportunities through lifelong alumni membership.

The MBA can benefit your employer by:

• Significantly enhancing your capabilities across a range of areas such as business management, people management, project management, strategic thinking, innovation and change
• Improving your ability to operate at a more strategic level and contribute beyond your own functional specialism
• Providing an opportunity for a cost-effective management development programme
• Allowing the flexibility to study and participate without absence from the workplace
• Presenting the opportunity to gain value for your organisation through your Business Transformation Project, providing significant research into a relevant business issue.

Accreditations

This course has been recently accredited by the Nautical Institute. The Nautical Institute is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with consultative status at the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

About your course

The design and content of this MBA provides an integrated balance of management theories with their underlying practical application in the maritime sector.

The MBA begins with a compulsory two-week induction providing students with the opportunity to access and familiarise themselves with our state-of-the-art online learning portal and other resources available throughout the course. There are some compulsory short exercises during this period to allow introductions to the subject, the faculty and fellow peers.

The course consists of eight intensive core modules delivered online over two years. You'll get the chance to immerse yourself in major topics such as maritime administration, ship finance, risk management, maritime economics and trade, maritime law, formulating business strategy, human resource management, executive leadership, international marketing, brand establishment, logistics and supply chain management, project mastery and innovative practice.

To find out more about this programme, please download the MBA Shipping and Logistics course specification (PDF).

Student support

We offer lots of support to help you while you're studying including financial advice, wellbeing, mental health, and disability support.

Additional needs

We'll support you if you have additional needs such as sensory impairment or dyslexia. And if you want to find out whether Middlesex is the right place for you before you apply, get in touch with our Disability and Dyslexia team.

Wellness

Our specialist teams will support your mental health. We have free individual counselling sessions, workshops, support groups and useful guides.

Work while you study

Our Middlesex Unitemps branch will help you find work that fits around uni and your other commitments. We have hundreds of student jobs on campus that pay the London Living Wage and above. Visit the Middlesex Unitemps page.

We’ll carefully manage any future changes to courses, or the support and other services available to you, if these are necessary because of things like changes to government health and safety advice, or any changes to the law.

Any decisions will be taken in line with both external advice and the University’s Regulations which include information on this.

Our priority will always be to maintain academic standards and quality so that your learning outcomes are not affected by any adjustments that we may have to make.

At all times we’ll aim to keep you well informed of how we may need to respond to changing circumstances, and about support that we’ll provide to you.