Business Management

The MSc in Business Management will give you the skills and insight needed for a successful business career, as well as the qualifications and confidence to lift you above other candidates in the job market.

To succeed in today's management environment, you need to understand and react to the implications of financial, operational, strategic and organisational changes, as well as being able to manage and motivate people. The course will help you link theory and practice relevant to today's organisations, giving you the personal tools to create, implement and progress the most effective management policies.

You will gain a solid grounding across all the main business disciplines, while also having the opportunity to tailor the course towards your specific areas of interest with modules covering everything from the strategic and financial, to sustainability, innovation, leading people and managing change.

Many of our tutors have worked in industry, as well as being active researchers in the field of business and management. This combination of practitioner-led teaching, backed by the latest research, means you can look forward to insightful, up-to-the-minute teaching that will equip you to take your management career to the next level.

If you opt for the full-time course, you'll attend the University for 12 months, with between eight and ten hours of teaching scheduled a week during both teaching terms and supervised study during the dissertation term.

The Postgraduate Certificate is made up of four modules. You will need to choose at least two of the four core modules below. You can also choose up to two option modules.

Core modules

Managing Finance covers the principles and techniques of information management and looks at how to manage finance to support decision making in a global context.

Meeting Customer Needs introduces you to how organisations are transformed to better identify and satisfy the needs of their customers.

People and Organisations provides you with a critical and enquiring understanding to be able to deploy a variety of perspectives for analysing organisations and people.

Strategic Analysis introduces you to the terminology of economics and strategy to develop your understanding of strategic analysis and practice.

Option modules

The Postgraduate Diploma is made up of the four core modules above, plus four optional modules from a selection which will typically include:

• Managing Change
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Innovation, Creativity & Enterprise
• Management Consulting Project
• Customer Relationship Management
• Global Marketing
• Sustainable Procurement

Masters

Dissertation

In addition to these modules, your dissertation gives you the chance to research an area of management of particular interest to you and of relevance to your career or company. Previous dissertation topics include:

• How does engagement with Corporate Social Responsibility relate to performance?
• Working towards empowerment within a manufacturing team environment a first person and reflective study
• Examination of work-life issues in a small family business
• An exploration of dynamic capabilities and the operating environment of a local aviation company
• Opportunities, barriers and challenges faced by refugee community organisations in Bristol
• The value of mergers and acquisitions an examination of post integration success and failure

You will need:

• A good honours degree (normally minimum 2.2) or equivalent business professional qualification

or

• An HND in Business Studies or equivalent business professional award at NVQ 4, plus two years' relevant work experience

or

• At least two years in a management role with in-house management education/development (part-time route only). You may be interviewed prior to acceptance.