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Accelerate your path to management roles with our MSc Management.
Our one-year MSc Management course shows the path an ambitious graduate can take to become a successful manager in the world of business. Inspired by our highly ranked MBA programmes, our MSc Management is an intensive and immersive course that brings together the different disciplines within business and management, helping you accelerate your development to leadership roles in large companies, as an entrepreneur, or in making an impact in mid-size firms and family enterprises. We immerse you in what it means to lead and manage a business as a whole, helping you to discover how to bring together the teams and skillsets that are needed to make great decisions and successfully implement them in today’s highly competitive global markets.
We believe that studying theory is only one element that enables you to become a global leader. We focus on developing you as an individual, enhancing your soft-skills and the impact you can have early in your career, whilst furnishing you with an integrated view of the management concepts that will support you as your career progresses. This course is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
Course Details
Think of business as a whole in order to succeed
Right from the start we ask that you think of a business as a whole, and the need to pull together the ideas and people it takes to succeed. The Business Immersion and Critical Thinking module runs throughout both Term 1 and Term 2, challenging you to mix traditional thinking around how a firm competes with careful analysis of the economic context it operates in. Alongside this, another core module focuses on the strategic decisions that companies take.
This approach of bringing together management disciplines continues in Term 1’s module, Customer Value Management, which combines marketing with operations. In Term 1 you also look at how accounting can help you to see how your business performs in the present, and how financing can help you to invest for the future.
Learn to lead and manage change in business
In today's dynamic markets, standing still is falling behind. In Term 2 you consider how to lead and manage the changes that businesses must make to keep ahead. In several modules we will ask you to choose the company and country you want to study, as management can be as much about selecting what to do as successfully making it happen.
The module on Research Methods looks at the approaches taken by both business practitioners and academic researchers to assess and compare opportunities, combining what we already know with the research and analysis that helps executives make the right decisions. This module will help you select and prepare for your dissertation; your chance to select, research and propose what management should do in a situation of your choosing. We see your dissertation as the integration and culmination of your academic study, and also as just the sort of compelling argument for action your future employer will expect to see.
Look deeper or look broader with our elective modules
Terms 2 and 3 complete your six compulsory core modules, provide the time for your dissertation and offer you the chance to study three optional elective modules from a wide range of topical business subjects. The optional modules allow you to look deeper, look broader, or a bit of both!
Your career in management starts on day one of the course
Immersing yourself in the world of business to gain the skills needed as a successful manager means building upon your communication, teamworking, and presentation skills through both individual and group work. How you analyse and address the business challenges we present you with will develop your personal and professional skills in decision-making, problem-solving, analysis, and critical reflection. We offer you opportunities to get a real sense of the business world with site visits, external speakers, talks from our Professors of Practice and from senior business and industry practitioners.
Foreign language study
One of the great benefits of the MSc Management course is that it includes free foreign language study in the evenings during your first term. This is an opportunity to develop the basics of a new language. There is a choice of six different languages, all at beginner-level (please note we are not able to offer classes at intermediate/advanced level). Please note that this is a compulsory element of the course.
Assessment
Assessment for modules varies to fit the subject being studied. You will have some individual assignments where we present the business challenge we want you to address, and others where we ask you to choose. In addition, group assignments will give you the chance to work together with your fellow students, and some will have an element of peer assessment to help you develop your skills in teams. Some modules conclude with an exam and the course will conclude with the completion of your individual dissertation.
Your dissertation
You will complete an individual dissertation. This will be a piece of desk-based research on a company of your choice, and will test your understanding of management theory as well as your ability to select and apply it.
International study weeks
You can also apply to join one of the international study weeks to gain an awareness of international business culture through first-hand experience. In recent years we have offered study weeks at Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management, Madrid, Rome, and the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. Places on these study weeks are optional and limited, and students will be able to partake in an application and selection process to take part once they have begun on the course. Please note that the flights, accommodation, teaching and company visits for these trips will be funded by Warwick Business School for successful students.
Entry Requirements
Academic qualifications
You must have, or be expecting, an upper second class honours at Undergraduate level. Our students come from diverse backgrounds including arts, social sciences, humanities, engineering and mathematics.
If you have studied disciplines related to management you may still be eligible, but with a restricted range of electives, eg: if you have a BSc in Economics, an offer might be conditional on you not taking an economics elective.
GMAT & GRE
We do not require a GMAT or GRE score but a well-balanced score (700+) may strengthen your application.
