Business and Enterprise Management – (M.Sc.)

why choose this course?

* You will build on what you've learnt in your first degree, or your career to date, to develop your knowledge and skills. You'll gain a thorough understanding of management, with an emphasis on enterprise, from an operational, tactical and strategic perspective. We'll stimulate your awareness and understanding of the strategic approach to venture creation.
* You will learn how ideas and opportunities are created and implemented amidst new concepts and theories, as well as the concepts and processes involved in the production and delivery of enterprise to the marketplace.
* You will develop business and leadership skills, as well as skills in critical thinking and research, which enhances your independent learning and reflective capabilities.
* Our academic staff have had senior or directorial positions in a wide variety of organisations, both private and public, blue chip and self employed, and are keen to share their knowledge with you.
* Our links with industry and our growing research and consultancy base means you'll be using learning tools and studying subjects that are up to date and relevant in all current business environments.
* We've developed a strong reputation regionally and nationally for encouraging enterprise and entrepreneurship.
* You'll be part of a vibrant postgraduate business school. Our students are from all over the world and so you'll benefit from a truly global experience, which adds an extra depth to your studies
* You can put what you learn in to practice. You'll be involved in working on real projects for real companies.


We focus on your personal development and entrepreneurial capabilities, leading you to create and develop opportunities in business. You will also understand the impact of professional and ethical standards and principles on business practice, and you'll be enhancing your own personal business skills.

The MSc starts with the Postgraduate Certificate stage which is also shared across other programmes so that you build a strong support network of global colleagues to learn with. You will concentrate on the broad contextual aspects of management, developing your knowledge and understanding. The main themes here are developing people, organisational dynamics and behaviours, finance and information, marketing and operations, as well personal development skills.

At the Postgraduate Diploma stage the focus is on subject specific knowledge and practical skills. It goes beyond the operational and functional, through the tactical, and towards a more strategic level of understanding in a wider variety of business environments and global contexts. You'll be internationalising your capabilities and applying everything you are learning to enterprise, innovation and business development.

At the Masters level you will focus on entrepreneurial management. You will develop an enterprise focused Independent Study dissertation or managerial project. This is a significant piece of work relating to enterprise, culminating in your resolutions of and perspectives on strategic managerial problems.

On completion you will have cultivated the vital skills, knowledge and confidence to start and run your own business, and gain valuable experience to open up career options in the small firm sector. You'll have an 'enterprise culture' and will have developed the confidence, resilience and reflective practice in leadership and management, which extends beyond the completion of your masters, in to your career.