Operations Management (Dual Award) MSc/MSc

• NBS8120 Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
• NBS8234 Project Management
• NBS8901 Research Methods (Dual Award)

You will normally take Option A below, but with the approval of the Degree Programme Director, if you have an undergraduate degree in the Operations Management subject area you may be permitted to take Option B instead.

Option A

You will take the following 20 credit module:

• NBS8921 Operations Management

Option B

You take the following 10 credit module:

• NBS8339 Optimisation Models for Supply Chain and Operations Management

You will take optional modules to the value of 10 credits from the following list:

• NBS8508 Market Analysis
• NBS8326 Managing Organisations and People
• NBS8945 The International Business Environment

You take the following compulsory modules:

• GRON111 Process Improvement and Change
• GRON112 Asset Management
• GRON113 Inventory Management
• GRON114 Research Methods for TOM
• GRON115 Behavioural Operations Management
• GRON133 Data-Driven Business Innovation

• NBS8399/GRON116 Dissertation

The compulsory dissertation will be taken over semester three of year one and semester one of year two, and will be jointly supervised and delivered by Newcastle and Groningen.

Modules change annually to take account of:

• changing staff expertise
• developments in the discipline
• the requirements of external bodies and partners
• student feedback.