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MSc PG Dip Business Information Management

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    MSc: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time PgDip: 9 months full-time

Course Description

Our MSc Business Information Management programme offers a strong and fairly unique combination of practical, analytical and theoretical courses. It will build your expertise and provide comprehensive training across business management and software engineering.

The programme’s emphasis is not on computer programming but on developing relevant analytical and project management skills to ensure you can become an excellent communicator / manager operating between hard-core software developers and business managers.

Entry Requirements

Entry requires a good honours degree in a numerate discipline.

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Fees

https://www.hw.ac.uk/study/fees-funding.htm

Student Destinations

Students can specialise in areas like e-commerce, online learning and IT project management. The programme studies IT, but does not require students to design programs or write software.

This approach provides our computer science graduates with the best possible prospects for pursing a research, software requirements engineer, business and IT analytics, or IT journalism career.

Module Details

Core Courses:

  • Database and Information Systems
  • Digital and Knowledge Economy
  • Information Systems Methodologies
  • Research Methods and Project Planning
  • Masters project and dissertation

Optional Courses:

  • Advanced Interaction Design
  • Big Data Management
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Design for Online Learning
  • E-Commerce Technology
  • Project Management
  • Software Engineering Foundations
  • Work, Culture and Organisation

After semester 2 students continue full-time on the MSc project.

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