Lead Change: MBA Leadership and Sustainability from Beijing, China

Build the skills to lead with purpose while continuing your life and career in Beijing. The MBA Leadership and Sustainability is delivered online through the exclusive partnership between the University of Cumbria and Robert Kennedy College. It offers an opportunity to explore leadership and sustainability ideas that can be applied across industries and internationally.

Earn an internationally recognised British degree

Graduating with a British degree from the University of Cumbria gives your achievement an international identity. Whether your ambitions lie in Beijing or beyond, the qualification can help you communicate your commitment to advanced management study.

The programme brings leadership and sustainability together, helping you consider how organisations can pursue performance while responding to long-term challenges. It is a foundation for conversations that increasingly cross borders, sectors and disciplines.

Complete your MBA 100% online in as little as one year

You can study the programme entirely online, without relocating or putting your plans in Beijing on hold. For students able to follow an intensive pace, completion is possible in as little as one year.

That flexibility can make a significant goal feel more achievable. You can keep building your professional experience while working towards a degree that supports your next step.

Study on your schedule

The programme does not require you to be online at specific times or on specific dates. Instead of arranging your day around a live class, you can engage with your studies when it works for you.

That freedom is valuable when meetings run late, responsibilities change or your work spans time zones. You can make room for learning alongside the commitments that already matter to you.

Take your learning wherever you go

Study from Beijing, elsewhere in China or anywhere your travels take you. The online format lets you stay connected to your academic goals even when you are away from your usual desk.

Through the mobile app, you can download study materials and watch lectures offline. A journey or a quiet moment between appointments can become an opportunity to keep learning.

Apply ideas through open-book assessments

Rather than relying on classical question-and-answer exams, the programme uses open-book assessments. This approach invites you to work with ideas and resources as you develop your responses.

It is an opportunity to practise the kind of thoughtful analysis that leadership demands: weighing information, making connections and explaining your decisions clearly.

Learn with internationally educated faculty

Your tutors and faculty bring academic backgrounds that include world-renowned institutions such as Oxford, Harvard, EPFL, the University of Basel and Washington University in St. Louis.

Learning from educators with varied academic experiences can broaden the perspectives you bring to leadership challenges. Their guidance can help you examine familiar questions in new ways.

Join a community spanning more than 130 countries

Studying alongside people from more than 130 countries can bring new viewpoints into every discussion. For a student in Beijing, that international community offers a chance to consider how leadership and sustainability questions are understood across different settings.

Alumni work for international organisations including SAIC, DHL, CK Hutchison, BASF, Nestlé, Unilever, Daimler, BMW, Audi, GM, Louis Vuitton, Tencent, Sinopec, JKFZ Cambridge International School, RYB Educations, CNOOC, PetroChina, AIA, ICBC Standard Bank, ICBC Bank, the United Nations, Google, ICRC, the World Bank, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, Siemens and Sony.

Plan ahead with monthly instalments

Programme fees can be paid in up to 18 monthly interest-free instalments. Spreading payments over time can help you plan for your studies alongside your other commitments.

With a clearer payment schedule, you can focus on making the most of the learning experience and the goals that brought you to it.

Bring new perspectives to Beijing’s industries

Beijing’s technology and digital-services sectors offer a compelling setting in which to apply leadership and sustainability theory. Graduates can bring a broader perspective to questions of responsible growth, organisational change and the long-term effects of business decisions.

As a centre for finance, professional services and major corporate organisations, Beijing also presents opportunities to think about how strategy and sustainability work together. The programme’s ideas can help graduates frame decisions that consider both immediate priorities and lasting value.

Beijing’s research, education and public-sector communities add another dimension. Whether collaborating across institutions or leading teams through change, graduates can draw on internationally applicable theory to ask better questions, engage different perspectives and pursue purposeful outcomes.

Ready to explore what your next chapter could look like? Request our course catalogue.