Management

University of Derby
Postgraduate MSc Full-time 1 Year Business and management studies

About this course

- Our MSc Management is a management and leadership masters for graduates from both business and non-business backgrounds

  • You will gain a broad range of management skills, in areas such as strategic thinking, HR, finance, risk management and supply chains

  • You will follow a new curriculum that's been developed post-Brexit and post-Covid and addresses the challenges of managing in the 2020s and beyond

  • We'll push you out of your comfort zone, expecting you to come up with solutions to challenging problems. Through this, you will build resilience and confidence

  • Towards the end of the programme, you will put into practice everything you've learnt, by undertaking in-depth research for a business and recommending improvements.

    Set your sights on management If your sights are set on managerial roles this is the Masters for you. It will give you a good, high-level grounding in all areas of management and improve your employability and confidence. We focus on equipping you with the skills to deal with the business environment of the 2020s: a decade which has so far been characterised by uncertainty, turbulence and change.

    This MSc Management assumes you have no prior knowledge of business or management, so we'll begin with some foundational modules that will bring you up to speed. These will develop your knowledge of key management theories and give you the skills to think and act more strategically. We will then look more specifically at the management of people, supply chains, finance, and risk, in subsequent modules.

    Towards the end of the programme, you will bring all your newly-acquired knowledge and skills together to conduct an in-depth research project for a business. This will give you valuable experience and also the confidence to know that you can apply your learning to real situations.

    High-profile partnerships

    Throughout the MSc Management, you will meet industry experts from our thriving network of professionals and business leaders. We collaborate directly with prestigious names such as:

  • Lloyds Bank Corporate

  • Bank of England Midlands Office

  • HSBC Nottingham

  • Eversheds

  • Price Waterhouse Cooper

  • PKF Cooper Parry

  • Smiths of Derby

  • GI Insight, Leicester

  • Kitchencraft

    Many of these companies contribute to our MSc programme with thought-provoking guest lectures.

  • Study Options

    This course is available in 2 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Derby

    Part-time

    Duration: 2 Years

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Derby

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    1123 Production managers and directors in mining and energy
    1132 Marketing, sales and advertising directors
    1150 Managers and directors in retail and wholesale
    1139 Functional managers and directors
    7220 Customer service supervisors
    2431 Management consultants and business analysts

    Course Details

    Qualification
    MSc
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    1 Year
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Derby
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Business and management studies