MSc Business Management

You will need:

• A good honours degree (normally minimum 2.2) in any subject.

If you do not meet the above grade requirement but have at least 12 months relevant professional experience and/ or equivalent qualifications, we will consider you on an individual basis.

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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.

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

You'll 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 Project and Research Methods - involves developing your own academic research project and gives you the opportunity to investigate an area of particular interest to you and of relevance to your career.

Previous 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'll study three modules from*:

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

*subject to availability.