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Bristol Business School
MSc Business Management
MSc Business Management

MSc Business Management

  • ID:UWE440559
  • Level:Master's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

You will need:

  • A good honours degree (normally minimum 2.2) in any subject, or equivalent business professional qualification

or

  • A management role with in-house management education/development, plus sufficient appropriate work experience (part-time route only). It is unlikely that anyone with less than two years' work experience will be able to demonstrate sufficient appropriate work experience.

    You may be interviewed prior to acceptance.

English requirements

  • (IELTS) overall score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component.

Course Information

Please note this course is closed to new International and EU applications for September 2022 entry.

We remain open to Home, Home EU and Home offshore applicants.

This course has earlier application acceptance and deposit( for International and EU students) deadlines due to high interest in the programme. For more information please visit Early application deadlines.

  • The manager's role has become increasingly challenging with intense competition, increasing expectations, sustainability, innovation, technology change and alliances all making managers' tasks ever more complex and demanding. Yet with the ability to deal confidently with challenges like these, you can look forward to a rewarding future in virtually any organisation.
  • The MSc in Business Management will give you the skills and insight needed for a successful business career in a variety of different industry sectors, as well as the qualifications and confidence to lift you above other candidates in the job market, whatever your background or UG degree subject area.

The tools to take you to the next stage

  • 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.
  • This 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.

Flexible, practitioner-focused teaching

  • 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.

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Content

The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.

You will study:

Core modules

  • 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.
  • Meeting Customer Needs introduces you to how organisations are transformed to better identify and satisfy the needs of their customers.
  • 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.
  • Personal and Professional Development (Business and Management) is a spine module that applies a practice-focused teaching and learning approach. Emphasis is placed on the relevance and applicability of knowledge to your own individual professional and academic development with respect to your future career. You will also develop your interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Management Dissertation and Research Methods or Consultancy Project Dissertation provides the option to choose between a traditional dissertation or consultancy/client-based project (subject to project availability and meeting client needs). The dissertation gives you the chance to research an area 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.

Optional modules

You will study three optional modules from*:

  • Leadership
  • Managing Change
  • International Project Management
  • Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Global Marketing
  • Management Consultancy
  • Sustainable Procurement
  • Emerging Markets: The New World Order.

*subject to availability.

This structure is for full-time students only. Part-time students study the same modules but the delivery pattern will be different.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

The MSc in Business Management at Bristol Business School will give you the broad-based skills and insight needed for a successful career in business or management, with the opportunity to work anywhere in the world, and in any sector.

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Insurance-Single: 300 GBP/year

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