MSc Management
Our MSc Management course provides you with the skills and competencies you need to manage effectively in business today.
This course is ideal for you if you are a graduate or professional in any field, looking to work as a manager, or to advance your career within a managerial capacity. Once qualified, you will be equipped with the broad, critical skills required to work in a variety of managerial positions across a diverse range of industry sectors.
Our focus is on making you more employable. With that in mind, the MSc Management course places particular emphasis on building the interpersonal, analytical and problem solving abilities you need to make an immediate impact in a managerial role.
What's more, if you don't need to complete the full MSc Management, you can apply to complete the shorter BPP Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma courses.
Key Information
- Build the skills and competencies essential for managerial effectiveness
- Gain access to a host of resources, workshops and networking events
- Increase your confidence and realise your potential through personal tutor support
- Gain a qualification even if you don't complete the full MSc Management course
- Benefit from a structured career development scheme
- Learn more effectively through small-group tutorials and student-tutor contact time
- Enjoy extensive e-learning support, including podcasts and online tests
An MSc tailored to your needs
Our MSc Management course gives you the flexibility to study in a way that suits you best. As a full-time course you can complete it in one year. However, you can also opt for a study break at the end of each term and return to the course at one of our two start dates during the year.
How the course is taught
You'll benefit from a contemporary course geared towards the realities of working as a modern manager. The MSc Management consists of a highly effective combination of lectures, small group sessions and online learning.
The course is divided into three stages. If you decide not to continue after Stage One (four months) you'll still be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Management – an excellent foundation for future success. Stopping after Stage Two (eight months) achieves a Postgraduate Diploma in Management.
A flexible approach to learning
The small group sessions, in particular, have a strong emphasis on student-centred learning, involving practical skills sessions to prepare you for what it's really like to work in a management role.
In a typical week you can expect 90 minutes of lectures and 90 minutes of small group sessions for each 15 credit module. You'll also find further support at your fingertips through the Business School's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). You will work alongside people from diverse backgrounds, including experienced industry professionals, all within a business-orientated environment.
We focus on developing your professional skills so you can transfer management concepts into real life. A wide variety of activities are used to support your learning, including:
- Interactive lectures
- Video and written case studies
- Individual and group exercises, both face-to-face and online
- Presentations by visiting experts
- Engagement with a range of professional and academic materials
- Management skills sessions, including presentations, board room discussions and simulations
Once qualified, you will enjoy the confidence to apply your highly relevant knowledge and skills to a wide range of managerial challenges.
Ways to study
You can study the MSc Management course as a full-time, one year course at our centres in London (City) and Manchester.
What's more, our MSc Management course offers a high degree of flexibility, so you can:
- Opt to take a 'study break' at the end of each term and then re-enter the course through one of our two start dates (January and September)
- Decide when you begin with two start dates a year. This ensures you don't have to wait a whole year to join the course or re-enter after a study break
Assessment
Your work will be assessed on a module-by-module basis using a combination of:
- Coursework
- Closed-book examinations
- Online learning
Assessments are designed to encourage you to find your own solutions to managerial problems and to stretch you intellectually. This helps you develop the confidence and proactivity required to become a highly skilled manager.
To help you prepare for the final assessments, our course materials contain mock assessments, revision packs and consolidation activities.
You are also given formal and informal feedback throughout the course to help you achieve success and maximise your potential.
Modules
The MSc Management course is split into three stages. Each stage is worth equal credits and consists of four modules.
Our three-tiered award system means that even if you don't finish, you can still achieve a widely respected Postgraduate Management Certificate or Diploma.
Stage 1 - Postgraduate Certificate in Management
- Introduce marketing as a philosophy of management not as an isolated function of business
- Provide an insight into the key principles, concepts, processes and frameworks underpinning the major marketing decision-making areas
- Develop an understanding of the strategic dimension of marketing, and the skills to formulate and implement marketing strategies
- Facilitate a detailed understanding of the internal and external impact of the marketing function
- Examine “brand” as a strategic resource for building and sustaining competitive advantage
- Develop a broad knowledge of human resource issues in order to improve people management decisions for maximising potential and contributing to positive work experiences
- Provide a framework through which students are able to examine, diagnose, analyse and solve human resource management problems
- Explore the impact of a range of management, sociological and psychological theories on the management of people in the work environment
- Assist students to independently use critical and analytical skills to solve problems with sensitivity and reflexivity required for the effective management of human resources
- Provide students with the skills and knowledge to analyse decisions taken in organizations from a managerial economics perspective
- Develop student ability to synthesize evidence and apply appropriate theoretical approaches to the solution of specific problems
- Enhance student comprehension of the business environment understanding the nature of strategic decision making within this environment
- Provide a solid foundation in the common language of managerial economics
- Develop students ability to think recursively
- To provide an understanding of the fundamentals of accounting and finance with special emphasis on practice and application
- To develop an understanding of financial reports and relevant accounting and regulatory environment
- To develop skills in accountancy and finance leading to an understanding of financial planning
- To develop the ability to apply techniques in the analysis of relevant financial information required for strategic planning, control and decision making
Stage 2 - Postgraduate Diploma in Management
You will look at the role of operations in relation to overall business strategy and competitiveness. The module also enables you to use the tools of operations management and understand how these link to institutional success.
You will typically cover:
- Operations strategy role and success factors
- The process view of operations management
- The link between operations and finance
- Capacity management
- Inventory management
- Quality and Six-sigma
- Supply chain management
- Project management
This module is intended to draw you well away from the legal environment. It provides an opportunity for you to develop an informed curiosity about business affairs as well as the confidence to 'have and express an informed view' on business matters.
This module aims to equip you with extensive critical insight into the formulation and implementation of strategy in business. You will:
- Define the key concepts of economic theory and assess their relevance to the competitive context within which businesses operate
- Critically examine techniques of business and market analysis
- Analyse the determinants of competitive advantage and the techniques for assessing strategic potential
- Examine a range of techniques used by commercial organisations as the basis for the formulation of a business strategy
- Consider the challenges presented in implementing a business strategy and achieving organisational alignment
- Explore issues of business risk and corporate social responsibility
- Know the implications for firm structure, organisation and management
- Appreciate a range of contemporary strategic approaches and options adopted by firms across different sectors
- Align the firm culture, organisation and people to the market opportunity
Assessment
- One graded element worth 100%: Strategy Case Study (3,000 words)
The aim of the module is to provide you with knowledge and understanding of the factors that contribute to that difference, looking specifically at how individual and group behaviour can be influenced by and in turn influences the organisation.
Through a range of contexts you will be able to develop your understanding of the major components of human behaviour together with the organisational process that influence and direct that behaviour for better or for worse.
The aims of this module are to:
- develop your understanding of the nature and scope of organisational behaviour
- enable you to develop a practical framework to demonstrate how managers, employees, and other stakeholders are influenced through the human behaviour that creates and sustains them
- encourage you to develop a range of skills and abilities to navigate and make sense about individual, group and team behaviour within organisations
- Encourage students to develop a detailed understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
- Develop students’ abilities to critically evaluate the impact of CSR on contemporary organizations
- Develop students’ knowledge of the challenges of implementing, managing and measuring CSR practice in contemporary organizations
- Provide opportunities for students to practise and cultivate skills associated with good CSR practice
- Develop students’ research skills, encouraging them to utilise and critically evaluate a range of methods
Stage 3 - MSc Management
- Introduce students to a range of leadership theories and provide opportunities to examine leadership in contemporary business organizations
- Develop critical awareness regarding the benefits of developing leaderships skills and further encourage students to examine own leadership abilities via reflection and assessment
- Provide contexts in which individuals may evaluate the impact of their own abilities to lead and how their personal style impacts on others in order to assist in personal and professional development activities
- Evaluate the challenges of responding to the needs of individual, task and goal requirements and assess a range of options available
- Increase awareness in students of the skills, knowledge and abilities, successes and failures of leaders both past and present in order to examine the difference between leadership and management and to identify contribution to organizational goals via self evaluation and reflexive practice for the purpose of self development
- Develop a critical appreciation of management decision making from a number of different perspectives
- Promote an understanding of the, often complex, processes of decision making within organizations
- Cultivate the skills which allow students to model complex decisions
- Develop skills to analyse the findings of decision making processes and communicate their significance to others
- Appraise the instrumental risks associated with formal decision making approaches, such as validity, reliability and ethics
Business and law professionals require a deep insight into the nature of financial markets and the role of the institutions that operate within them in order to understand the issues that shape and affect the business environment in which their clients operate.
This module aims to equip you with extensive critical insight into the formulation and implementation of strategy in business. You will:
- Critically assess the UK financial marketplace, the key participants and their motivations as well as the nature of the risks and challenges posed by the recent economic crisis
- Understand in depth the rationale behind corporate valuation and the key variables driving capital structure decision making
- Examine future trends and regulation in finance
- Analyse financial performance and profitability
- Understand the most important financial drivers and indicators
- Critically examine potential sources of finance in different commercial circumstances
Assessment
- One graded element worth 100%: Finance and Markets Case Study (3,000 words)
This module aims to give you a solid grounding in both theoretical and practical elements of innovation, as well as offering you a critical introduction to those most commonly held views of innovation. It then looks at innovation as an activity-in-context, opening up the possibility of developing innovative behaviours or processes.
Core topics will include:
- Themes, concepts and definitions in the study of innovation
- Tensions, paradox and contradictions in managing innovation
- Patterns of innovation within the life cycle of a technology
- Innovation strategies
- Organising and managing the innovation process
- Social networks and informality in the innovation process
- The role of users, suppliers and competitors in the innovation process
- The transformative capacity of innovation and innovation systems
Entry requirements
To apply for the MSc Management you will need to have a qualifying degree in any subject (minimum of a lower second class honours degree) from a recognised UK or Overseas institution.
International students
If your first language is not English you should have one of the following minimum English language qualifications (or equivalent):
- IELTS (min.) 6.5
- TOEFL (Paper exam 575, computer based test 232 and internet test 91)
For details of which international qualifications are accepted for this course, please see our country-specific entry requirements.
Key dates
We currently offer three start dates a year, in January, May and September, at our London (City) and Manchester centres.
Each term includes ten weeks of study, one reading week mid-term, two weeks of revision and one week of assessments. There are regular holiday periods around Christmas, Easter and in August.
Contact
For more information:Tel: +44 (0)207 430 7065
Email: internationaladmissions@bpp.com
Study locations
You can study for the MSc Management at our London (City) and Manchester centres. View our start dates and locations.
You can also view the term and assessment dates.
Paying for your course
The fee for the MSc Management (180 credits) is £9,750 for both UK/EU and international students.
Per credit study fees
To give you a wider choice of paying for your chosen course, we also allow you to pay a per credit fee.
How it works:
Each course is made up of a series of modules which give you a different number of academic credits. Each module's credit value usually ranges between 5 and 60 credits depending on the structure of the course.
Per credit pricing allows you to pay up to the number of modules you wish to complete, which is particularly useful if you only wish to study for a particular module(s) for skill/knowledge development; or wish to pay towards your chosen programme in the smallest denomination.
Postgraduate Certificate in Management (60 credits)
- Per credit price £62
- Total price of programme £3,720
Postgraduate Diploma in Management (120 credits)
- Per credit price £62
- Total price of programme £7,440
MSc Management (180 credits)
- Per credit price £62
- Total price of programme £11,160
Scholarships and payment plans
To make payment easier for you many of our programmes are available with scholarships and offer the option of monthly payments.
For more information:
- Tel: 0845 055 6677
- Email: admissions@bpp.com
Scholarships for international students
For more information:- Tel: +44 (0)207 430 7065
- Email: internationaladmissions@bpp.com
