MSc Management

At BPP, we view our master's degrees as more than just a qualification. The BPP MSc Management is rigorous, practically-oriented and designed to provide you with the skills and competencies required to manage effectively in today's economic climate.

The MSc Management is open to graduates or professionals with backgrounds in any discipline looking to work in or advance within a managerial capacity.

Once qualified, you will be equipped with broad, critical skills required to operate in a variety of managerial positions across a diverse range of industry sectors. Our focus is on enhancing your employability therefore particular emphasis is placed on building the interpersonal, analytical and problem solving abilities that will allow you to make an immediate impact in a managerial role.

Our MSc Management offers you:

* a firm grounding for developing the skills and competencies essential for managerial effectiveness - suitable for graduates in any discipline and/or prospective managers
* a career development scheme integrated within the programme schedule to focus on nurturing your managerial skills
* Guaranteed membership of the Chartered Institute of Management included within your programme fee, allowing you to gain access to a host of resources, workshops and networking events essential for your professional development
* teaching provided by a mix of academics and management practitioners ensuring you enjoy the benefit of practical insight from those who have worked in industry along with robust academic teaching
* all lectures accompanied by small-group tutorials and a high degree of student-tutor contact time
* personal tutor support and guidance to increase your confidence and assist you in realising your potential
* extensive e-learning support including podcasts from lectures and interactive self-testing opportunities

Flexible learning

In addition, all BPP's master's programmes include:

* three starts a year - January, May and September
* choice from a range of class times including day and evening
* option to adjust the intensity of your study through our ‘flexi-mode' programme design, meaning you can choose to study anything from a traditional one-year full-time programme through to part-time spread over any period up to a maximum of five years

Programme content

If you study for the MSc Management programme full-time, stages 1, 2 and 3 will be covered in one year. If you study up to Postgraduate Certificate (stage 1 only) or Postgraduate Diploma (stage 1 and 2 only) level, you can complete the programme full-time in either 4 or 8 months respectively.

As the programme is flexi-mode, you could study stage 1, 2 and 3 part-time or through a combination of full and part-time at a pace convenient to you.
Stage 1

Core modules

* Managing Human Resources (15 credits)
* Managerial Finance (15 credits)
* Marketing Management (15 credits)
* Managerial Economics (15 credits)

Successful completion of all stage 1 modules equivalent to Postgraduate Certificate in Management

Stage 2

Core modules

* Organisational Behaviour (15 credits)
* Corporate Social Responsibility (15 credits)
* Strategy (15 credits)
* Operations Management (15 credits)

Successful completion of all stage 1 and 2 modules equivalent to Postgraduate Diploma in Management

Stage 3

Core modules

* Leadership (15 credits)
* Decision Management (15 credits)
* Innovation Management (15 credits)
* Business Information Systems (15 credits)

A Careers Development Programme runs throughout the MSc Management and a single day development centre runs in Stage 3.

Successful completion of stages 1, 2 and 3 provides an MSc Management

How is the programme taught?

We have developed a programme that is both contemporary and geared towards the realities of working as a modern manager.

You will be taught using a combination of lectures and small group sessions. The small group sessions in particular will have a strong emphasis on student-centered learning. This means many of the classes will include practical skills sessions to prepare you for the realities of working in a management role.

The standard ratio of lectures to small group sessions is 1:1, allowing for 90 minutes of lectures and 90 minutes of small group sessions in a typical week per 15 credit module. In addition further support is provided through the Business School's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

Emphasis is placed on developing professionals who are able to transfer management concepts into practical application. A wide variety of activities are used to support 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 have developed the confidence and ability to apply your highly relevant knowledge and skills to meet various managerial challenges within the workplace. You will also have interacted and worked alongside people from a diverse range of backgrounds including experienced industry professionals all within a business-orientated environment.