Management (MSc)

Who is it for?

Your interests span a wide range of management topics and disciplines, from hard skills like problem analysis, critical thinking, finance and strategy to soft skills including teamwork influencing, leadership, negotiating and managing people. You are looking to make that crucial first step into management or may already be working as a manager or entrepreneur.

Either way, this course will develop both your skills-base and your confidence as a manager able to take on any challenge in today’s fast-moving global business environment.

Objectives

The course is based on an MBA style curriculum and is academically rigorous without neglecting the applied, practical aspects of your management education. Academic rigour is balanced with practical relevance.

The curriculum is enriched by opportunities for individualised course of learning and personal development as from term two you are encouraged to choose the subjects which you wish to study depending on your interests and professional goals to build your confidence and leadership qualities.

You’ll study the foundations of business management and be able to create a more individualised course of study by tailoring your learning and take advantage of our diverse portfolio of optional modules, studying at Cass and in our sister institutions around the world. We hope to empower you to make conscious choices about business issues and your own future.

Our challenging electives from the portfolio of Masters programme are either London based or held in international locations and invite our students to deepen their knowledge of current management practices and to sharpen their skills required of future global leaders. Some electives will take you beyond the classroom experience and act as capstones to your educational and practical experiences.

What will you learn

• Acquire a comprehensive grasp of the principles and applications of management
• Develop your range of hard and soft skills as a manager and entrepreneur
• Develop your understanding of a wide range of management issues that affect all industry sectors as well as different type of organisations from big multinationals, SMEs, family businesses and small start ups
• Network with your peers and senior managers from industry
• Gain a highly valuable international, perspective on the challenges of management in every size of business
• Acquire a flexibility suitable for a wide range of roles in global management, from operations to strategy.

Assessment

We review all our courses regularly to keep them up-to-date on issues of both theory and practice.

To satisfy the requirements of the degree course students must complete:

• eight core courses (15 credits each)
• a Business Research Project (30 credit)
• three electives (10 credits each).

Assessment of modules on the MSc in Management, in most cases, is by means of coursework and unseen examination. Coursework may consist of standard essays, individual and group presentations, group reports, classwork, unseen tests and problem sets. Please note that any group work may include an element of peer assessment.

The course commences in September with a Foundations of Management workshop which prepares students with some of the concepts necessary to complete the course, and includes careers and professional skills development workshops.

Career pathways

Graduates from the MSc in Management move into a diverse range of careers: consulting, marketing, advertising, luxury goods, wealth management, working for a family business or even setting up their own business.

MSc in Management Employability

Our Graduate Destination Survey of the MSc in Management class of 2014 shows that 70.3% of graduates are now either in work (66.7%) or not job seeking as they are in further study (3.6%)

Examples of where graduates from the MSc in Management are working are:

• Amazon - Investigation Specialist
• Applied Value - Analyst
• CI Radar - Research Analyst

MSc Management alumni have also achieved

• 2nd highest percentage increase in salary within three years globally
• 2nd highest salary after three years in the UK
• Highest career progress in London from first post-graduation job to three years later

Visit the Management (MSc) page on the Cass Business School website for more details!