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