IT & Strategic Innovation MSc

This course gives you the knowledge and skills needed to strategically manage innovation within an IT context. It includes modelling outcomes so as to be able to specify potential benefits and risks.
You can tailor the course to your own career development needs, industry background or organisation's requirements.
The project/dissertation gives you the chance to study an area of interest in greater depth and gain valuable research skills. It is relevant to your career so provides an excellent selling point when you are looking for a job or promotion.
If you are an overseas student, we will help you to carry out a project either based in your home country or that will be of specific relevance when you return home.
Teaching staff are research active, which keeps your learning cutting-edge
The taught modules aim to prepare you for the job market. Alongside your academic studies, you gain skills in:
problem solving and organisation;
data collation and modelling, review and synopsis;
communication (oral, written and electronic);
time management; and
co-operation and teamwork.
Each module offers a stimulating balance of study, which may include lectures, practical lab work, group working, case studies and presentations. Industry experts often teach on the courses, enhancing your studies and putting them in a business context.
You also have the chance to network with other professionals in the same situation as yourself. Our postgraduate students often set up study groups to support and encourage to each other.
We have collaborative arrangements with several European partners, which add an extra perspective to the course and give insight into European industry practice.
We offer part-time options to help you fit your studies around other commitments. This course is modular, with each module taught in two separate week-long blocks, allowing you to attend as you would for a short course.

IT consultant
IT entrepreneur
Information architect
eLearning developer
Business analyst
Digital business/web specialist
Requirements engineer
IT manager

Good honours degree in computing, computer science, IT, information systems, software engineering, economics, communications, electronic engineering, business and/or management studies or similar.

Candidates with other qualifications may be considered if they possess relevant work experience as well as outstanding students who do not necessarily have the required prerequisites.

The British Computer Society (BCS) accredits this course. This means that you can gain some exemption against BCS professional examinations, leading to Chartered membership and CEng, IEng or CSci status. For full details of exemption and accreditation levels, please check the BCS course search.