Career prospects

Where It Takes You

• The MBA programme is rated second in the UK for opening up career opportunities (The Economist ‘Which MBA?’ 2017 Ranking)
  
• 97% of MBA graduates surveyed who were actively seeking employment received a job offer within 3 months
• The average salary increase of those students surveyed was 74%

FIMBA is at the centre of one of the best existing global networks in the football industry, with alumni working for the top football/sports clubs, governing bodies, media and commercial organisations in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa.

Some of our most recent graduates are now working in:

• UEFA
• AEG Europe
• Asian Football Confederation
• The [English] Football League
• Scottish Professional Football League
• Chinese Football Association
• Manchester City FC
• Celtic FC
• Liverpool FC
• Santos Laguna [Mexico]
• BATE Borisov [Belarus]
• FC Bayern Munich
• FC Seoul [South Korea]
• FC Colo-Colo [Chile]
• Gremio FBPA [Brazil]
• Nike
• Adidas
• Octagon
• European Broadcasting Union
• Rugby Football Union
• England Netball
• NBA

Read our alumni stories.

Dedicated MBA careers support

Whatever your experience as a manager and whatever your professional ambitions, you’ll be supported with your future career planning from the very first week.

Work experience opportunities

We've been able to organise work-based placements for many of our postgraduate students. These are generally linked to your dissertation project and are extremely valuable as a result. We work hard to make sure students and hosts get the maximum from the placement.

Here are just some of the organisations we work with:-

• Airbus
• American Marketing Association
• Caterpillar
• Chartered Management Institute
• Chiron Vaccines
• CIPSI
• CMI
• EURAM
• Everton FC
• Getrag-Ford
• Hewlett Packard
• HSBC
• Institute of Exports
• Jaguar
• KPMG
• Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
• Liverpool FC
• Professional Liverpool
• Sky Television
• UEFA
• Unilever
• Vauxhall
• YKK