The course has been proposed by the National Outsourcing Association (NOA), which claims current MBA and project management qualifications don't equip executives to deal with increasingly complex outsourcing arrangements.
Martyn Hart, NOA chairman, said businesses are struggling to manage portfolios that include a range of best of breed outsourcing service providers and often an offshore element as well.
He told ZDNet Australia sister site silicon.com: "There's another skill in managing outsourcing contracts. It's not just project management."
The NOA is hoping the as yet unnamed universities will be able to offer an accredited outsourcing MBA from next October, using a combination of existing MBA modules and ones developed with the NOA.
Hart said: "It might help to reduce the risk of outsourcing failure and that's good for UK Plc."
Figures provided earlier this year showed two out of three outsourcing deals fail because organisations are only paying lip service to the contractual details in the rush to make cost savings.
