UWE Bristol - MSc Business Management

UWE Bristol

MSc Business Management

Whatever your background or UG degree subject area, this course will equip you with a wide range of practical business skills, from market research and strategic analysis tools, to techniques for motivating individuals in the workplace in a variety of different industry sectors.

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 undergraduate degree subject area.

You can study MSc Business Management which provides you with a solid grounding across all the main business disciplines or you can choose to study one of three different pathway programmes in International Human Resource Management, Digital Management or Supply Chain Management. You can access information on these courses at the top of this page.

Entry Requirements

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

If English is not your first language, you will be required to meet the UK Border Agency and Universities minimum English Language requirements such as the International English Language Test (IELTS) overall score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component.

Career Prospects

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.

If you are studying the course alongside your current employment, the skills and qualification you gain will help you improve your performance in your current role, while also enhancing your future prospects.

You will have access to careers support while you are studying with us (and for three years after you graduate) through the University's careers service.

Our award-winning careers service helps you develop your employment potential through career coaching, a vacancy service for internships, placements, jobs, global opportunities, volunteering and community activity plus support for entrepreneurial activity, and access to employer events.

Course Details

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.

Dissertation topics

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
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.

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