Physics and Business Management

A unique feature of this programme is that you will not study the Physics and Business Management elements in isolation of each other. The large research project will form a capstone for the programme that brings together both the business and scientific elements to solve a business-specified problem. The research project will be carried out in conjunction with industry, where appropriate, and will bring together both business and scientific elements to solve a business-specific problem.

You will benefit from:

• the highest standards of research informed teaching
• internationally excellent research quality
• academic staff at the forefront of their subjects
• a variety of teaching and assessment methods
• state-of-the-art facilities
• working in an active, interdisciplinary environment, with researchers from physics, mathematics, computer science, engineering and business backgrounds.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Strategic Management 15 credits
• Systems Thinking and Consulting Practice 15 credits
• Research Design and Analysis 15 credits
• Interdisciplinary Research Project 45 credits
• Advanced Group Industrial Project 15 credits
• Current Research Topics in Physics 15 credits

Optional modules

• Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Creation 15 credits
• Effective Decision Making 15 credits
• Managing for Innovation 15 credits
• Advanced Management Decision Making 15 credits
• Innovation Management in Practice 15 credits
• Soft Matter Physics: Liquid Crystals 15 credits
• Quantum Many-Body Physics 15 credits
• Winds, Bubbles and Explosions 15 credits
• Bionanophysics 2: Advanced Bionanophysics Research 15 credits
• Superconductivity 15 credits
• Soft Matter Physics: Polymers, Colloids and Glasses 15 credits
• General Relativity 15 credits
• Quantum Information Science 15 credits

For more information on typical modules, read Physics and Business Management MSc in the course catalogue

Learning and teaching

Teaching methods involve a combination of lectures, tutorials, case studies, workshops and contact with relevant industries. The final stage of study is an individual extended research project which is typically carried out within a research group and may also include external industrial involvement.

Assessment

Assessment is based on course work, research project performance and written exams which take place at the end of the semester in which the module is taught.