MLitt Management

A  2.1 undergraduate Honours degree in a subject other than business or management from the UK or the equivalent international qualification. Students with a background in business or management are advised to consider the MLitt International Business, the MLitt Marketing.

If you studied your first degree outside the UK, see the international entry requirements.

The qualifications listed are indicative minimum requirements for entry. Some academic Schools will ask applicants to achieve significantly higher marks than the minimum. Obtaining the listed entry requirements will not guarantee you a place, as the University considers all aspects of every application including, where applicable, the writing sample, personal statement, and supporting documents.

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Alumni from the Masters in International Business, and from other Masters programmes in the University of St Andrews Business School, have secured employment in the fields of general management, management consultancy, marketing and brand management, accountancy, investment analysis, fund administration and other aspects of the financial services industry. 

Graduates from the Masters in Management have taken up roles in a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sector including: 

• Credit Suisse Group 
• Google 
• IBM 
• KPMG 
• Lufthansa Group 
• Procter and Gamble 
• Schlumberger 
• Scottish Dance Theatre 
• Shell

The Careers Centre offers one-to-one advice to all students as well as a programme of events to assist students in building their employability skills.

Compulsory

• Strategic Management: develops students' knowledge and understanding of the strategy process and develops an appreciation of organisational responses to the rapidly changing global economy. 
• Marketing: Principles and Practice: offers a critical review of current theory and practice and looks at how marketing is evolving in light of changes to the business context, particularly from a managerial perspective.
• Reimagining Management and Organisation Studies: introduces the latest theoretical contributions to management and organisation studies and innovative ways of thinking, providing a roadmap for understanding the powerful socioeconomic systems that shape modern society, as well as challenging assumptions and providing a guide to navigating complexity in management and organisational life.
• Managing and Organising for Grand Challenges: develops an appreciation of the grand challenges facing economies and societies and potential responses from organisations, demonstrating the centrality of these challenges and ‘wicked problems’ to contemporary organisations and management professionals.
• Managing Human Resources: reviews the key theoretical and practical aspects involved in managing human resources. 
  Corporate Finance and Accounting: introduces students to the basic principles and practices of accounting and corporate finance.

Optional

Students choose two optional modules, taking one in each semester. For the latest optional module information, see the module catalogue. 

Here is a sample of optional modules that may be offered:

• Behavioural Finance 
• Entrepreneurship and Business Development 
• Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity 
• Financial Systems 
• International Financial Management 
• International Marketing 
• Leadership in Organisations 
• Managing People in Global Markets 
• Marketing and Society 
• Managing Non-Governmental Organisations 
• Risk Management 
• Scenario Thinking and Strategy 

Optional modules are subject to change each year and require a minimum number of participants to be offered; some may only allow limited numbers of students (see the University's position on curriculum development). 

Dissertation

Students attend lectures throughout Semesters 1 and 2 to prepare them for conducting the research portion of the dissertation. The dissertation is normally on a specific area of management, however, at the University of St Andrews Business School, you will have the freedom to develop a topic of your own, which is of interest to you and will contribute towards career development or further study goals. 

Students are assigned a supervisor based on a research proposal submitted in the second semester. They will then research and write a 15,000-word dissertation over the summer to be submitted on a date specified in August. 

If students choose not to complete the dissertation requirement for their Masters degree (MLitt), there are exit awards available that allow suitably qualified candidates to receive a postgraduate siploma (PGDip). By choosing an exit award, you will receive a PGDip instead of a MLitt.