Management Science (Business Analytics) – (M.Sc.)

Contents

To obtain an MSc Management Science (Business Analytics) degree, you need to successfully complete five core modules, three elective modules and a dissertation. Core modules focus on introducing you to state-of-the-art techniques in statistics, data mining, forecasting, operations management, spreadsheet modelling and general mathematical modelling. Two of the electives will equip you with additional training in specially chosen modules from the MSc Management Science programme.

The third elective can be chosen from any other Master’s programme offered by the Business School, including the MSc Management, MSc Finance, MSc Value Chain Management and MSc Human Resource Management programmes, will allow you to pursue your personal interests from the full array of business disciplines.

Core Modules

* Applied Business Modelling
* Data Analysis and Forecasting
* Management of Operations
* Management Science Modelling
* Statistics for Management

Elective Modules

Choose two of the following:
* Business in an International Perspective
* Financial and Management Accounting
* Heuristics and Optimisation
* Logistics and Supply Chains
* Managing Complexity: The Systems Approach
* Performance Management
* Simulation and Optimisation Software

Additional Modules

Plus choose one of the following:
* Corporate Finance
* Globalisation and Corporate Social Responsibility
* Economics of the Electronic Market Place
* E-Commerce Technology and Infrastructures
* European Business
* International Environmental Law
* Leadership and Management
* Managing Diversity and Equal Opportunities
* Managing the Multinational Enterprise
* Managing Island and Coastal Tourism
* Management of Operations
* Marketing in an International Perspective
* Social Responsibility Accounting
* Structure and Organisation of the e-Enterprise
* Tourism Development, Asia Pacific
* Corporate and Social Environmental Management
* Financial Statement Analysis

Teaching and Assessment

The programme involves a taught component and a project component. The taught programme is assessed by a mixture of coursework assignments throughout the year, and by examinations in January and May/June. Once these are completed, students then work full time on the project and write a dissertation based on this. This 8,000 to 10,000 word dissertation is an opportunity to apply the techniques and insights presented in the programme to a particular problem area.