The London School of Business & Finance (LSBF) has developed a diverse portfolio of programmes available in distance learning format via InterActive. Discover all available programmes below and click on the programme of your choice to find out more information:
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is an internationally recognised business degree and a valuable qualification for those aiming to become global business leaders. It is academic in nature, yet provides practical preparation for individuals in business and management.
The online MBA programme will enable you to gain a strategic and holistic perspective on business management, enabling you to:
Develop a strategic, integrated and holistic perspective on organisations
Prepare for a career in senior management through the development of enhanced personal and interpersonal skills
Understand the concepts and current and pervasive issues in business and management
Develop the analytical and research skills needed to make logical arguments and creative contributions to improve business and management practice
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on finance and investment management subjects.
Specialisation Module 1: Risk Management
The Risk Management module looks at changes in the financial market and managing risk as a result. The module will give you a firm understanding of market risk, investment risk, credit risk as well as an understanding of how to consider legal, accounting and tax issues.
Specialisation Module 2: Equity and Fixed Income Investment
This module introduces you to the characteristics of equity and fixed income investment. The module focuses on valuation techniques which include; the dividend discount model, the free cash flow model and the residual income model and you will learn how to judge when the use of each module is appropriate.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on accounting subjects.
Specialisation Module 1: Performance Measuremensts & Control
The aim of this module is to help you to develop your knowledge and skills in how to apply management accounting techniques. The module covers modern techniques, decision making, budgeting and standard costing, concluding with how a business should be managed and controlled.
Specialisation Module 2: Analysis of Financial Reporting
This module will provide a basic understanding of financial reporting and give you the ability to interpret the accounts and financial statements of companies and financial institutions. You will learn how to define an organisations earning power through the analysis of its financial reporting. You will also learn about the regulatory principles designed to maintain financial stability in major financial markets, the practical application and effectiveness of these principles, and whether self-regulation is effective.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on finance and banking practices of the Islamic world.
Specialisation Module 1: Fundamentals of Islamic Banking and Finance
This module provides an introduction to the specifics of the financial instruments, practices and approach of the Islamic Finance as well as comparison of conventional versus Islamic Banking.
Aim of this module is to build on the practical skills and techniques for portfolio selection within Islamic Finance and Banking framework. Module will address both the theory and practice of portfolio management with emphasis in Islamic world practices. The theoretical part of this module will involve the topics of constructing an investment portfolio, and adjusting its composition through time to ensure its performance. It will also consider the use of derivatives in managing risks. The practical part will provide students hands-on experience of constructing and managing a portfolio.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on marketing and communication within global competitive environment.
Specialisation Module 1: Global Marketing
This module develops your understanding of international marketing environments, global strategies and the components of global marketing plans. You will be able to appreciate issues around global marketing and develop an understanding of the decision-making processes within various organisations.
This module is designed to develop critical appreciation of the importance of marketing communications strategies for businesses, non-profit-making organisations and government institutions.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on project management issues and best practices.
Specialisation Module 1: Project Management
The aim of this module is to increase your knowledge of project management and understanding of the relationship between corporate and project strategy as well as general management principles and techniques. You will improve your decision making skills in a project orientated environment and be able to apply project management principles to complex business situations.
Specialisation Module 2: Virtual Teams Management
The module is designed to equip you with the techniques for building, leading, managing, and motivating teams that reside in multiple locations. You will analyse virtual team structure, effective multi-cultural communication, motivation and performance techniques; knowledge sharing and knowledge management in a virtual, distributed team. This will help you understand and master the challenges of leading a virtual team with members in various geographical locations, including satellite and global offices and telecommuters
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on human capital management and coaching within organisation.
Specialisation Module 1: International Human Resource Management
The aim of this module is to equip you with the necessary tools for applying human resource management concepts across a number of cultures, investigating the various factors that arise when managing people and applying people management strategies on an international level. You will look at variations in employee relations systems, practices and policy areas from country to country, and compare and contrast them.
Specialisation Module 2: Coaching and Mentoring for Leadership
This module will help you to develop your skills and understanding of coaching and mentoring, increasingly important in the role of professional and managerial development. You will be given the opportunities to develop an understanding of theoretical models, skills and frameworks to underpin coaching and mentoring practice.
This module is designed to give you an insight on the development of the sales function e.g. as influenced by growing competition, market-saturation and up-scaling. You will look at the relationship between the sales objectives and the business objectives and the strategic choices that take priority. This module places a particular emphasis on sales planning and prognosis as well as managing a sales team.
Specialisation Module 2: Key Account Management
Key Accounts are the most valuable commercial asset of an organisation. This module is dedicated providing you with the effective and efficient key account and sales management skills. . You will also aim to maximise customer satisfaction as well as the profitability of the company.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on business management, finance and competition in globalised world.
Specialisation Module 1: Global Marketing
The aim of this module is to increase your understanding of international marketing environments, global strategies and the components of global marketing plans. You will be able to appreciate issues around global marketing and develop an understanding of the decision-making processes within various organisations. It will give you the confidence to prepare and respond to the effects of globalisation on an organisation.
Specialisation Module 2: International Financial Markets & Institutions
This module will provide you with an insight into the economic market and ethical contexts in which financial institutions operate. You will be able to apply general valuation methods to stock, money, bonds (fixed-income securities), foreign exchange and derivatives markets.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on online business model strategies.
Specialisation Module 1: E-Commerce
This module will give you an overview of the current and next generations of e-commerce. The module emphasises the three major driving forces behind e-commerce: technology change, business development, and social marketing concepts. You will gain an in-depth understanding of the issues related to running an e-business including, modern technology, the Internet, economics, marketing, IT, privacy, intellectual property, equity and governance.
Specialisation Module 2: Internet and Digital Marketing Communications
The module is designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of Internet and Digital Marketing communication strategies, and elements of law that particularly apply to digital media. It aims to explain the importance of evaluating search engine optimisation reports to facilitate the improvement of pages within an organisation’s website.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on travel and hospitality management in an international context.
Specialisation Module 1: Strategic Planning for Travel & Hospitality Management
This module will allow you to express the rationale for visitor industry planning, utilise and evaluate standard techniques and approaches to strategic visitor industry developments. You will be equipped with the necessary tools and skills to apply the principles and practice of marketing at the strategic level, drawing upon a range of approaches when formulating appropriate strategies.
Specialisation Module 2: International Hospitality Management
This module is designed to develop your managerial skills and business acumen to ensure you have the required understanding and insight to be able to contribute significantly to the role of your choice within the hospitality and tourism industries.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on management, strategies and competitive environment in the IT industry
Specialisation Module 1: Innovation& Planning Strategies for IT Environment
The module is designed to combine a broad theoretical background of strategic innovation and planning with practical implications to the way modern high tech companies are run and the market conditions in which they operate. It will equip you with the tangible skill sets to innovate and plan strategies for the high tech environment which then can be practically adapted to real world situations.
Specialisation Module 2: International Competition in IT
The module is designed to give you a new perspective and thorough understanding of the competitive advantage of nations; both natural and artificial. You will explore industrial policies; assess how governments engage with industry to devise a national high- tech strategy and identify the role of capital markets in developing high tech capability.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme with concentration on public relations communication, corporate social responsibility and reputation management with overview of new opportunities created by web 2.0 environment.
The module is structured as to help you develop the necessary skill set to perform public relations management, evaluate the nature of corporate communications and public relations process, anticipate the opportunities and threats presented by the rapid developments of the Internet and technology.
Specialisation Module 2: Internet & Digital Marketing Communications
The aim of this module is to explore the rise of the Internet and its impact on marketing around the globe. It builds on the main strengths of the digital media discipline - the communications opportunities offered, allowing you to examine and master advanced theoretical frameworks.
The MSc in Finance is designed with a practical focus, maximum flexibility and international perspective in mind. It provides a strategic perspective on finance and investment management, meant to be tailored to students’ education needs.
The online MSc in Finance programme will enable you to:
Develop a strategic, integrated and holistic perspective on organisations
Prepare for a career in senior management through the development of enhanced personal and interpersonal skills
Understand the concepts and current and pervasive issues in business and management
Develop the analytical and research skills needed to make logical arguments and creative contributions to improve business and management practice
Master of Science in Finance programme with concentration on securities management and trading on global financial markets.
Specialisation Module 1: Trading: Money and Capital Markets
The module is structured as to develop an intellectual and practical understanding of the principles governing the valuation of fixed income securities and their derivatives, the main problems and issues relevant in the management of interest rate risk, and the organisation and structure of debts markets.
Specialisation Module 2: Securities and Options
This module provides a rigorous foundation in the study of options, futures and other derivative securities and their role in risk management. Students will be able to select the appropriate derivative security for different risk management applications, and determine the payoffs to risk management strategies and arbitrage pricing discovered in the market.
Master of Science in Finance programme with concentration on performance measurement and advanced reporting practices.
Specialisation Module 1: Performance Measurement and Control
The module is designed to help you develop knowledge and skills in the application of management accounting techniques. It covers modern techniques, decision making, budgeting and standard costing, concluding with how a business should be managed and controlled
The aim of the module is to provide a basic understanding of financial reporting, developing your ability to interpret the accounts and financial statements of companies and financial institutions from a financial analyst point of view. Students will be able to interpret a company’s sustainable earning power by analyzing its financial report.
Master of Science in Finance programme with concentration on current take-over strategies and M&A decision making toolbox.
Specialisation Module 1: Corporate Valuation and Restructuring
This module aims to provide you with a strong understanding of companies’ valuation and corporate restructuring, giving you a firm grip in different valuation models and valuing different types of companies in the importance in this module. You will be able to choose the suitable approach for corporate restructuring operations.
The module is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which Excel spreadsheets can be used to assist finance professionals in analysis of data, application of financial models, decision support, and effective presentation of information for reports. It will introduce you to the range of tools and techniques available for a range of financial applications.
Master of Science in Finance programme with concentration on investment management and analysis subjects.
Specialisation Module 1: Equity and Fixed Income Investments
This module facilitates the understanding of the characteristics of equity and fixed income investment. The focus is on the valuation techniques including dividend discount model, free cash flow model, residual income model. You will be able to critically judge the appropriateness of these models, as well as gain an insight on real estate investment.
Specialisation Module 2: Derivatives Application
This module will provide you with knowledge on how to use various derivatives including forwards, futures, options and swaps to manage risks in financial trading. You will understand the features and appropriation of use these derivatives and the combination of them to hedge risks in complex circumstances.
Master of Science in Finance programme with concentration on investment and fund management.
Specialisation Module 1: Equity and Fixed Income
This module facilitates the understanding of the characteristics of equity and fixed income investment. The focus is on the valuation techniques including dividend discount model, free cash flow model, residual income model. You will be able to critically judge the appropriateness of these models, as well as gain an insight on real estate investment.
Specialisation Module 2: Fund Management
The module focuses on the practical administration aspects of fund management, rather than delivering investing techniques. It will close the gap between the techniques studied in the classroom and practical administration issues in the work placement.
Master of Science in Finance programme with concentration on multiple dimensions of risk as well as how to best manage risk to gain a competitive advantage.
Specialisation Module 1: Risk Management
This module aims to provide you with a thorough understanding of market risk, investment risks, credit risk, and also the issues relating legal, accounting and tax consideration. You will be able to prepare and act within a financial market which changes constantly and at an incredible rate.
Specialisation Module 2: Actuarial Science
The module is designed to provide sound mathematical application skills in insurance and pension industries. You will be able to understand the commonly used models and critically assess the models studied.
This module is structured as to give you a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which Excel spreadsheets can be used to assist finance professionals in analysis of data, application of financial models, decision support, and effective presentation of information for reports. It will equip you with a range of tools and techniques available for a range of financial applications.
Specialisation Module 2: Trading: Capital and Money Markets
The module looks into the issues involved in understanding the investment market and the process of financial intermediation, constructing an optimum investment portfolio, evaluating the performance of that portfolio and adjusting its composition through time to ensure that its performance remains optimal.
Master of Science in Finance programme with concentration on international perspective of the banking side of finance and global transactions.
Specialisation Module 1: Fundamentals of Islamic Banking and Finance
This module provides an introduction to the specifics of the financial instruments, practices and approach of the Islamic Finance as well as comparison of conventional versus Islamic Banking.
Aim of this module is to build on the practical skills and techniques for portfolio selection within Islamic Finance and Banking framework. Module will address both the theory and practice of portfolio management with emphasis in Islamic world practices. The theoretical part of this module will involve the topics of constructing an investment portfolio, and adjusting its composition through time to ensure its performance. It will also consider the use of derivatives in managing risks. The practical part will provide students hands-on experience of constructing and managing a portfolio.
The MSc in Marketing is a highly innovative, industry focused programmes that emphasises on marketing and customer management practices for building a sustainable business strategy.
The online MSc in Marketing will enable you to:
Develop a strategic, integrated and holistic perspective on organisations
Prepare for a career in senior management through the development of enhanced personal and interpersonal skills
Understand the concepts and current and pervasive issues in business and management
Develop the analytical and research skills needed to make logical arguments and creative contributions to improve business and management practice
Master of Science in Marketing programme with concentration on digital marketing strategies and communication mix.
Specialisation Module 1: Internet & Digital Marketing Communications
The module is designed to help you understand Internet and Digital Marketing communication strategies, and elements of law that particularly apply to the digital media. It will equip you with knowledge and ability to work with all the relevant and up-to-date techniques and information to ensure maximum return from search engine activities.
The aim of the module is to help you gain an appreciation of the digital metric, analysis tools and methods available to report digital marketing performance. The module will also require students to evaluate and report on the trends they see, and use the various software interfaces to present their findings.
Master of Science in Marketing programme with concentration on managerial aspect of the marketing function.
Specialisation Module 1: Operations Management
The aim of this module is to allow you to develop an understanding of the way in which the operations function is critical to the success of an organisation. You will gain competencies in determining the nature and complexity of externalities and developing strategies that will allow organisations to implement and manage change.
Specialisation Module 2: Project Management
The aim of this module is to increase your knowledge of project management and understanding of the relationship between corporate and project strategy as well as general management principles and techniques. You will improve your decision making skills in a project orientated environment and be able to apply project management principles to complex business situations.
Master of Science in Marketing programme with concentration on global marketing strategies, cross-border communication and brand management.
Specialisation Module 1: Global Marketing
This module develops an understanding of international marketing environments, global strategies and the components of global marketing plans. Students will be able to appreciate issues around global marketing decision-making processes within various organisations
Specialisation Module 2: International Advertising & Brand Management
This module focuses on the challenges associated with building global brands and managing international marketing communications campaigns. The module will make emphasis on cross-cultural management and research as well as studying best practices and failure cases of companies working in the field.
This module is designed to give you an insight on the development of the sales function e.g. as influenced by growing competition, market-saturation and up-scaling. You will develop your ability to understand the strategic sales management function within organisation and interrelation between business marketing and sales objectives
Specialisation Module 2: Key Account Management
The module aims to combine a broad theoretical background of strategic innovation and planning with practical implications for the modern concepts of account management. An important objective of the module is to provide learners with tangible skill to plan and manage relations with the key accounts, which then can be practically adapted to real world situations.
Master of Science in Marketing programme with concentration on market research and information management.
Specialisation Module 1: Marketing Research
The aim of the module is to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies to understand and interpret consumer behaviour to use the insights in future marketing management. You will develop an understanding of the impact of consumer psychology related issues on the development and implementation of marketing strategy.
Specialisation Module 2: Managing Information
The aim of the module is to increase learners’ understanding of information management issues facing the contemporary organisation and how systems can be utilised to ensure organisational efficiency and effectiveness.
Master of Science in Marketing programme with concentration on advertising and brand management in the global marketplace.
Specialisation Module 1: Advertising Management
This module focuses on the challenges and business practices associated with strategic advertising, brand management and managing integrated advertising campaigns. The module will make emphasis on adverting planning, development and media selection by studying best practices and failure cases of companies working in the field.
Specialisation Module 2: International Advertising & Brand Management
This module focuses on the challenges associated with building global brands and managing international marketing communications campaigns. The module will make emphasis on cross-cultural management and research as well as studying best practices and failure cases of companies working in the field.
Master of Science in Marketing programme with concentration on public relations communication, corporate social responsibility and reputation management with overview of new opportunities created by web 2.0 environment.
The module is structured as to help you develop the necessary skill set to perform public relations management, evaluate the nature of corporate communications and public relations process, anticipate the opportunities and threats presented by the rapid developments of the Internet and technology.
Specialisation Module 2: Internet & Digital Marketing Communications
The aim of this module is to explore the rise of the Internet and its impact on marketing around the globe. It builds on the main strengths of the digital media discipline - the communications opportunities offered, allowing you to examine and master advanced theoretical frameworks.