University of Surry Employer Partnership Scholarship: Surrey Executive MBA 2025

Employer Partnership Scholarship: Surrey Executive MBA is designed to make university-quality professional development more accessible to employers and their staff. This scholarship allows the Surrey MBA to match employer contributions towards the tuition fee up to 40%. For example:

• Employer Contribution: 30%
• Surrey Contribution: 30%
• Student Contribution: 40%.

The full fee (minus the Surrey scholarship) is split evenly over the two years of study. 

• Employers will be invoiced once per year.
  • This is usually late October/early November once they have registered.
• Students (the employee) will have the following fee structure
  • Deposit (£2,000)
  • First year
    • 1st Instalment Oct/Nov
    • 2nd Instalment Jan/Feb
  • Second Year
    • 3rd Instalment Oct/Nov
    • 4th Instalment Jan/Feb.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirments
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineOctober 13, 2025
• Study Level
• SponsorUniversity of Surrey
• City to studyLondon

Benefits

Employer benefits

• Weekend only (Sat/Sun) teaching minimising impact on the work week
• Employees can begin to immediately apply what they’re learning to their role benefitting the organisation from the start.
• Commitment to staff development promotes employee satisfaction often reducing staff turnover
• Possible consultancy project collaboration.

Employee benefits

• Employer investment and support in your professional development
• You can apply what you are learning and put it in to practise straight away, making it much easier to include in your day-to-day practise.
• A network of peers to bounce ideas off of, providing new perspectives.
• Reduced stress surrounding the financial burden often associated with undertaking an MBA.

Requirements

Candidates must:

• Hold a lower second-class degree or equivalent. If you do not hold a degree alternatives may be considered, please see entry criteria for more information.
• Be a UK, EU or International student (EU/Int will require the right to study in the UK without requiring a student visa. Please contact our International team for more information)
• Be self-funded (this can include a PG Loan) and hoping to receive partial sponsorship from your employer (ie. If they are fully funded via another scholarship or sponsorship they cannot be considered.)
• Be intending to study our Executive (part time) MBA.

IELTS requirements:

EU and International students must comply with the English language requirements (IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall grade with 6.0 in each element or equivalent)

Application Deadline

How To Apply

In order to apply for this scholarship all applicants need to complete a programme application for one of our MBA programmes and undergo an informal interview (standard process for all MBA applicants). We would be happy to arrange a discussion with yourself and/or your employer prior to application.

Terms and conditions (docx)

For more details, visit University of Surry Scholarship webpage