MSc Management Programs

For graduate students without experience of working in Business and Management, but with a desire to study in this area at postgraduate level, there are full-time MSc courses in Management combined with Business, Finance, Human Resource Management or Marketing.

It also offers you the chance to study business in an internationally diverse community of students.

MSc Management Program Options:

• MSc - Business Management
• MSc - Management & Finance
• MSc - Management & International business
• MSc - Management & Marketing
• MSc - Management & Human Resource Management

What will you gain?

The MSc facilitates a substantial programme of study and enquiry, including an element of research, at a level demanding more advanced and intensive study, and the application of knowledge, skills and understanding in a more sophisticated manner than a first degree.

Having successfully completed the course, students should have developed a range of appropriate knowledge, values, skills and competencies which are sufficient to enable them to operate and manage effectively in the business environment.

The suite of MSc programmes aims to provide learners with:

• An introduction to the study of business and management
• A progressively higher level of understanding and critical awareness of the main issues in strategic management
• A global holistic perspective of management and business administration
• A range of intellectual skills and management competencies required for effective management practice
• The opportunity to link the programme of general management studies with study to an advanced level of a specialist pathway which complements and broadens understanding of business and management
• For those whose first language is not English, the opportunity to develop higher levels of proficiency in the international business language of English
• A means to progress to doctoral study in the UK

Career Development Tutorials

As part of our student-centred approach, BCU Business School has developed Career Development Tutorials which support participants who wish to reflect on their learning achievement in order to plan for their personal and career development. Individual goals may include seeking employment oppor-tunities in an international market outside their countries; pursuing further scholarship through MPhil/PhD study, and the development of individual enterprises at home or abroad.

Career Development Tutorials consist of two main components:

Tutorials will empower participants to develop reflective, adaptive and collaborative learning; facilitate effective self-management and be able to plan and motivate self-starting, individual initiatives and enterprise culture development.

Workshops on specific issues such as the development of individual profiles, career goals assessment and the development of CVs. They will facilitate the development of personal effectiveness by learning from, and interacting with, others with life-long practical and scholarly experiences.

Structure of the MSc Management program:

The course is run over four terms, the first three consisting of 12 weeks each and the fourth lasting for 8 weeks. Exit points are available at the PG Certificate and PG Diploma stages.

Term 1 - Postgraduate Certificate in Business Management 
             2 modules

Term 2 - Postgraduate Diploma in Named Pathway
             4 modules

Terms 3 & 4 - MSc in Named Pathway 
                     1 module and dissertation

Management Research Methods:

This module is designed to introduce and provide students with a basic know-ledge and understanding of the major theoretical perspectives, strategies and other issues associated with different methods in business and management research.

The module also aims to provide students with skills required to devise an appropriate research proposal for their dissertation. This development of basic knowledge and skills of how to plan, organise, structure and implement an MSc dissertation is further developed under guided super-vision of a tutor.

Individual Dissertation:

The dissertation project is a major piece of work which demonstrates the students’ ability to qualify for the award of MSc.

It provides the practical and theoretical focus for the MSc and makes significant contribution to the professional and intellectual development of the student.

It enables course members to demonstrate their capacity for sustained independent thought and innovative and creative learning in a major piece of work.

The project must be related to the students’ pathway. However, the topics that are interdisciplinary in nature and are cross pathway in orientation will be allowed to proceed.

Career Development Tutorials:

These tutorials will help participants to assess their qualification, their career goals and how an MSc degree can help to achieve these goals. They provide a mechanism for students to participate in the development of clear goals for their future careers in business and manage-ment in private as well as public sectors.

The service is available in the final two terms (April-September) and aims to increase support and add value to the student.

- an English language qualification for anyone who studied at undergraduate level outside the UK:


minimum PBT TOEFL score - 575
or
minimum CBT TOEFL score - 232
or 
a minimum IELTS score of 6.5
or
a minimum of 6 in all bands of IELTS