Strategic Innovation Management MSc

You will graduate with a set of transferable skills directly relevant to a range of occupations. In particular, our MSc creates opportunities for you to work in:

management consultancy
product and service development
business and technology analysis
entrepreneurial and new venture creation and growth
project or technology management
global business
R&D and innovation management
general management in large, multinational organisations
project-based organisations in the private and public sector.

Our graduates have worked with a range of employers including American Express Technologies, Arthur D. Little, Atkins, Balfour Beatty, BP Ventures, BT, Pfizer and Proctor & Gamble.

Our graduates have gone into careers in leading firms, consultancies, government, international organisations and think-tanks, as well as academia. Others have set up their own businesses or joined new ventures as entrepreneurs.

Graduate destinations
92% of students from Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent University of Sussex Business School graduates have gone on to jobs including:

catalyst team member, Sussex Innovation Centre
foresight researcher, Nesta
innovation studio officer, The Arts University, Bournemouth.

You should have a lower second-class (2.2) undergraduate honours degree or above (including an average mark of at least 55%).