Cranfield Full-time MBA Student Internships

Host a Cranfield Full-time MBA student

The Cranfield MBA is one of the oldest and most recognised MBA programmes in the UK. Our quadruple-accredited programme is now over 50 years old, with a strong track record of excellence. The Transformation MBA has been ranked in the Top 100 MBAs in the Financial Times Global MBA 2024 rankings.

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Benefits to your company

Deep-dive into business challenges – Cranfield MBA students offer high-quality, evidence-based insight into areas that you may not have the time, resources or expertise to address independently.
Access a rich pool of talent – a chance to see strong candidates in action assessing their fit as permanent hires and potential future leaders in your organisation.
Gain new perspectives – the diversity of Cranfield’s MBA cohort and industry experience stimulates creative ideas and innovative solutions that they can bring to your business, alongside freshly gained industry knowledge.
Develop existing talent – managing and mentoring an intern offers an opportunity for existing employees to boost their leadership skills, and retain employees looking for progression.

Timeline and key dates

Each year, we seek real business projects for our MBA candidates to be conducted during a two-month period.
The projects will be released on 16 February and 28 March 2024 for students to apply to; after this, new projects are still advertised on an ad-hoc basis to those students that are still available.
Earlier batches will benefit from a larger pool of talent.
All projects must run from July – August. Longer periods might be considered.

Student profiles

Every class is special and the Cranfield full-time MBA class of 2023/24 stands out as having one of the highest sector diversities. Our students come from a diverse range of professions and industries from consulting to financial services, technology, healthcare, energy, automotive, hospitality, consumer goods and retail.

With an average age of 32 and nine years of professional experience, we have a rich variety of global talent representing 15 nationalities and a wide range of cultures, who already have management and leadership experience.

Our MBA students are in high demand, typically around 90% of students are employed three months after graduation. Most of our students change their country of work after graduation, with 92% of students on our latest course securing a job in Europe.

Director’s message

At Cranfield School of Management, we believe in transformation, it’s at the heart of everything we do. Our business school was founded in 1965 and was one of the very first institutions in the UK to offer a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA).

Our triple-accredited MBA programme is now over 50 years old, with a strong track record of excellence and deep-rooted heritage in relationships with industry. We are consistently ranked among the top in the world and are proud to have one of the largest alumni networks across any other ranked business school.

The MBA encapsulates Cranfield’s mission to be a place where learning embraces practice, so that knowledge leads to action. Therefore, the Cranfield MBA is a course that delivers a practical, purposeful and powerful learning experience, helping to transform today’s high-potential individuals into the responsible leaders of tomorrow.

Professor Leila Alinaghian
Professor of Business Relations and Impact and Director of Full-time MBA