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  • DeadlineStudy Details: MSc 1 year full-time

Course Description

Develop your knowledge of the core business disciplines and gain a deep understanding of corporate sustainability.

This course is for graduates with a degree in any subject who want to develop key managerial skills with an emphasis on sustainability. Sustainability is an increasingly essential part of corporate policy and strategy. Companies must consider the ethical, social, environmental, and economic impact of their activities.

This course will give you the skills that employers need to put effective sustainability into action, like:

  • problem solving
  • influencing people
  • group working
  • communication
  • negotiation

You’ll gain a deep understanding of corporate sustainability alongside core business topics. You’ll graduate prepared for a career in sustainability across a variety of industries.

Key benefits

  • Apply what you learn through projects with for-profit and non-profit organisations. You’ll explore real corporate sustainability challenges.
  • Expand your international network with a sustainable business challenge alongside students from our global partner institutions
  • Opportunities for networking and career development through site visits and guest talks from industry experts
  • Get hands-on experience and support local sustainability efforts through our Sustainability Start-up Challenge
  • Opportunities to engage with leading organisations like PRME and IBE through essay competitions
  •  A chance to work with Bath’s leading Department of Mechanical Engineering, who deliver two optional units

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Entry Requirements

2:1 or above (or its international equivalent) undergraduate degree. Your degree can be in any discipline.

If you are a UK student and completed your undergraduate degree abroad, your qualification must be equivalent to a 2:1 or above.

We may make an offer based on a lower grade if you can provide evidence of your suitability for the degree.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

78% of our 2022 and 2023 graduates had accepted a job offer within three months of completing their degree.

Module Details

Year 1

Semester 1

Compulsory units

  • Business ethics
  • Company consultancy project
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Responsible marketing

Semester 2

You will choose one 10 credit and one 5 credit optional unit (15 credits in total).

Compulsory units

  • Governance for sustainability
  • Sustainable operations management
  • Theories of corporate responsibility

Optional units

  • Analysing grand challenges in business and society
  • Defining your career goals
  • Digital marketing society
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion at work
  • Managing strategic partnerships
  • New product development
  • Project management for decarbonisation
  • Science-based decision making

Summer

You’ll have the flexibility to choose one of three options.

Optional units

  • Dissertation
  • Practice track
  • Summer internship

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