Your Future Career
The Exeter MBA
Careers Programme
The Exeter MBA will help you to achieve the career you desire.
Our Careers Programme has been designed to give you a full understanding of yourself as a successful and innovative professional in today’s global business landscape.
The programme will kick-start your personal transformation process by exposing you to the wide-ranging career development resources at your disposal, whilst developing self-reflection on your personal competencies and experiences.
Workshops are delivered by career-change professionals, including sector specialists focussed on growing your expertise in internationalisation and employability, helping you decide where you want to take your MBA.
Your MBA Consultancy Project will be a key piece of the jigsaw enabling you to move from your pre-MBA role, organisation or sector onto your new career path. Your Careers Consultant will help ensure that your Consultancy Project supports your career aspirations.
Through our active support we will:
Match you with an experienced professional to gain one-to-one careers advice through our Career Mentor scheme.
Provide personalised one-to-one Careers Coaching with our experienced, fully-qualified Career Consultant.
Provide access to a range of careers fairs and events.
Connect you with successful alumni working in a sector of your choice to further develop your contacts and professional impact.
“As a part of the Exeter MBA, I received continuous support for my career development. I connected with our Career Coach in the first week of the programme, and this connection lasted even after I graduated. Creating a career plan and executing it with the support of our Career Coach was a crucial part of my getting my dream job.”
Komal, Consultant, Digital Advisory – Avanade, London.
Work with Global Organisations
You will benefit from our strong links and partnerships with a range of progressive organisations, working closely with them on Corporate Challenges and Consultancy Projects throughout the year.
Each student can choose a project with an organisation that will help to enhance their future career in areas such as entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation, marketing, international business, sustainability, finance and general business.
The MBA’s corporate partners include some of the world’s most enlightened NGOs, start-ups and global brands who place purposeful leadership, sustainability and innovation at the heart of their business strategies.
In 2023, Business School students worked with the following organisations:
Arcadis
Avanade
David and Charles
Devon Mental Health Alliance
Domino Printing Sciences
DS Smith
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Farms for City Children
Fashion Revolution
FlexSea
IBM
Leavewell
Lego
MAKE Southwest
Marks & Spencer
McCain Foods Ltd
Met Office
Oakdene Hollins
Overgang Ltd
Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise
ProAmpac
Remit Zero
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery
SAP
Studio Skein
Unilever
Volans
World Fair Trade Organization
Our corporate partners work alongside the MBA’s teaching team to co-deliver several modules, support and mentor students, and help perfect interview skills. They also provide opportunities to address their companies’ real-life business challenges through assignments, case study analysis and projects.
‟Our long-standing partnership with the University of Exeter Business School has seen us explore the societal impact of emerging technologies through MBA consultancy projects. Avanade collaborates with the Exeter MBA to help the next generation of business leaders learn resilience and appreciate the power of open innovation – be that as part of MBA consultancy projects around the circular economy, and digital trust, to sponsorship of our own employees to develop their own responsible leadership skills.”
Chris Lloyd-Jones, Head of Open Technologies, Avanade.
Here is what our students have to say about their work experience:
Anusri
“This project gave me an invaluable experience, confidence and the network for me to start my career in this field I am passionate about.”
Alexsandra
“This project linked up very symbiotically with my career objectives. I came to this MBA to try and see where my skills are best suited to do some good in the world and by getting laser focus that helped me actually expand my viewpoint of the problem.”
Pav
“Being able to come to the MBA and take education in leadership and understand what makes a good leader, what the traits are of a good leader, gives you that confidence to go back and handle those situations better.”
Graduate Success
Exeter MBA graduates have a proven track record of going on to lead on a global stage, with graduate destinations including:
AI and Data Science Platform Specialist, Power Systems at IBM.
Business Chief Executive Officer, Year Out Group.
Business Development Manager, Ars Vitae – Hotels Representing Company.
Business Operation Auditor, Kansai Airports.
Communication & Change Management Specialist, Aramco.
Consultant, Insight and Strategy (Innovation) at PA Consulting.
Consultant, McKinsey & Company Group.
Head of Environment, Kier Group.
Data Account Manager, Asimetrix.
Digital Strategy Manager, Accenture.
Director of Funding, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity.
European Commission, Task Force Rural Africa.
Global Sustainability and Engagement Manager, McCain Foods.
Head of Circular Economy Business Development, Oakdene Hollins.
Head of Engagement, Augmentum Fintech.
Head of Sustainability, Bunzl Catering Supplies.
Master Project Manager, EMEA at Cino, Inc.
Project Manager, Computershare UK.
Refil & Reuse Strategy Lead, Unilever.
Sanctions Risk and Controls Manager, Financial Crime at Royal Bank of Scotland.
Senior Associate, PwC.
Senior Manager, Central Planning, Transformation at BT Consumer.
Senior Manager, Public Policy, Environmental Sustainability and Social Impact at The Coca-Cola Company.
Services Consultant, Automated Intelligence.
Vice President Services, Amfori.