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.
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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:
Job titles:
AI and Data Science Platform Specialist, Power Systems
Business Chief Executive Officer
Business Development Manager
Business Operation Auditor
Communications and Change Management Specialist
Consultant
Consultant, Insight and Strategy (Innovation)
Data Account Manager
Digital Strategy Manager
Director of Funding
Global Sustainability and Engagement Manager
Head of Circular Economy Business Development
Head of Engagement
Head of Environment
Head of Sustainability
Master Project Manager
Project Manager
Refill & Reuse Strategy Lead
Sanctions Risk and Controls Manager
Senior Associate
Senior Manager, Central Planning
Senior Manager, Public Policy, Environmental Sustainability and Social Impact
Services Consultant
Vice President Services
Organisations:
Accenture
Amfori
Aramco
Ars Vitae
Asimetrix
Augmentum Fintech
Automated Intelligence
Bunzl Catering Supplies
Computershare UK
EMEA at Cino, Inc
Royal Bank of Scotland
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity
IBM
Kansai Airports
Kier Group
McCain Foods
McKinsey & Company Group
Oakdene Hollins
PA Consulting
PwC
The Coca-Cola Company
Transformation at BT Consumer
Unilever
Year Out Group