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MSc - Master of Science
University of Stirling
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
The business sector is vast. It contributes £2.8 trillion to the UK economy in 2024, accounting for 52% of all turnover (Source: Prospects 2025). Effective leadership and management are vital to global business. There are career rewards for graduates equipped with a Masters degree in Business and Management. You'll enjoy the benefits of better job options, higher salaries and strong professional networks. Our MSc Business and Management course creates leaders and entrepreneurs who can thrive in a dynamic business world. We focus on key areas of business and management activity. We place a strong emphasis on entrepreneurship, innovation and strategic management. You’ll learn about social responsibility, ethical decision making and managing change. Modules also focus on marketing and accountancy. This course is ideal for those looking to start their career in Business and Management or advance their knowledge. Working with business We have strong links with industry, the public and not-for-profit sectors. We hold the Small Business Charter for engagement with local and regional enterprise. On this Masters in business management, you’ll have the chance to take part in industry visits. Opportunities to undertake consultancy projects with businesses also exist. This allows you to integrate the knowledge and skills from your course to solve a real company's business challenge. Students can also apply for an online internship or in-person industry experience through the Pagoda Project. In-person experiences can be international or UK based. There is a limited number of internships offered to students on a competitive basis. As part of your modules, you’ll also work with business on real-life projects, from briefing to solution delivery. Learn from our experts You’ll be taught by internationally recognised subject experts. You’ll have the chance to network with executives from the private, public and third sectors. This will provide you with a practical perspective on contemporary business topics. We also run a series of guest lectures and workshops. Developing business leaders of the future Working in different business settings and industries requires soft and personal skills. This Masters in business management degree will give you what is needed to manage, inspire and motivate teams. Skills we teach you include: negotiation critical thinking group working skills report writing presentation problem-solving team management influencing skills We are AACSB accredited The University of Stirling is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). AACSB International is the world's largest global standard-setting body for business education. Only 6% of the world’s leading business schools achieve this accreditation. This recognises our excellence in business education and societal impact.; Develop your careers skills with our Flying Start Leadership Programme We go beyond textbooks and lecture rooms to focus on your personal and professional development. Flying Start will help you develop practical career skills such as effective public or conflict management.
The University of Stirling Management School's innovative Flying Start Leadership Programme engages postgraduate students in a wide range of activities at the beginning of their course. The module will challenge your perspective of culture, explore your beliefs and values, builds your self-confidence, and encourage you to share your ideas. Due to the value the School (and previous students) place on this pioneering and challenging Programme, teaching on all courses starts with the Flying Start Leadership Programme.
This module provides you with the skills to evaluate contemporary developments in HRM and leadership communication and identify how they are shaped by national systems and cultures. You'll also look at international influences, such as global supply chains, multinational corporations and supranational regulatory actors. The module has an international outlook and will bring together evidence on developments in HRM and leadership communication from Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific regions. In doing so, a variety of contemporary leadership communication methods and HRM strategies will be discussed and you'll learn to critically evaluate and apply them in individual and collaborative projects and present the findings.
This module builds on the knowledge and skills developed through the programme, bringing them together in a final capstone individual consultancy project case study or independent project. You'll cover the use of qualitative and quantitative research methods and analysis to create an evidence based argument.
This module aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills to enable you to contribute to developing an innovation culture in different types of organisations.
This module aims to provide a foundational knowledge and understanding of the principles of accounting and corporate finance. The accounting section will examine published accounting information from a user’s perspective. The corporate finance section will provide an introduction to some of the major issues involved in making corporate investment and financing decisions. This module complements the suite of advanced management modules by giving you a grounding in the essential topics of accounting and finance for the manager of the future.
Marketing is ubiquitous in contemporary society. This module identifies how a customer centric approach to management can create competitive advantage in the current global environment and explains why marketing is central to long-term and sustainable organisational performance. In this module, you will explore how a Marketing approach can be implemented, and managed, in a range of situations and organisations.
The module teaches you that Operations Management is all about making businesses work more efficiently, so they can provide better products and services to their customers. You learn that by streamlining processes, reducing waste, and improving quality, businesses can become more profitable, and customers can benefit from better experiences. You’ll discover that Operations Management is about more than business efficiency, too. It's also about finding solutions to technological and environmental challenges, and adapting to changing market conditions. You realise that by understanding these challenges and finding innovative solutions, you can help your business get ahead of the curve through developments for responsible competitivness.
This module is intended to enable you to understand the main strategic management theories, tools and techniques and apply them through the use of case studies and company analyses to enhance your understanding of the theory-practice-theory relationship. In addition, the module is designed as an integratory module to enable students to make cross-functional / cross-disciplinary links. For example, connect with other programme modules such as Operations Management, Marketing, People Management and how these contribute to the creation of competitive advantage for an organisation.
In a business world that is constantly changing rapidly and profoundly, the tools and perspective of the managerial economist have never been more critical for the stakeholders of business organisations and the environment they inhabit. You'll explore how business should approach pricing strategy, evaluate market demand, respond to competitive and regulatory pressures. You'll also learn how this knowledge can help you understand and address real-world issues that arise from strategic interactions within firms as well as across firms and between business and society.
