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MA - Master of Arts
City Centre Campuses
Full Time
JAN-25
1 year
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MA - Master of Arts
City Centre Campuses
Full time
JAN-25
1 year
MA - Master of Arts
City Centre Campuses
Full time
JAN-25
18 months
MA - Master of Arts
City Centre Campuses
Part time
JAN-25
2 years
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Do you want to be a design thinker? Is your goal to use a design strategy to transform businesses, cultures, and lives? Alternatively, do you want to develop your own design business? If your answer is yes, then this course is for you!
This course invites designers and non-designers to apply design thinking and business-speak to create innovative and purposeful outcomes. On this course, you sharpen your strategic edge through expanding your entrepreneurial and business capabilities. If you are a non-designer, you learn to be a creative thinker.
The postgraduate course is available as a full-time (1 year), part-time (2 years), and via ‘work based learning’ (2 years) while you remain employed.
You bring the knowledge from your past education and practice, combine them with the subject knowledge of design management, and create solutions that are not just aesthetically pleasing but also functional, viable, and purposeful. The course brings excellent networking opportunities for you to facilitate knowledge building and collaborative learning.
On this postgraduate course, we teach you the interdisciplinary issues that design managers work with, such as business, marketing, technology, and art. Immersed in practice, you acquire the skills and the confidence to manage and lead a project. You are encouraged to push the boundaries and to put forward new, improved ideas that are innovative and purposeful.
Design thinking, design strategy, creativity, research, and problem solving are applied extensively to all the modules. You undertake projects individually and in a team, where you learn communication, management, and interpersonal skills. You work with industry partners with the utmost professionalism. You pursue an industry-based inquiry, which may be a placement. And, you acquire and apply people management, client management, and project management tactics while working on industry projects and teams.
With an MA in Design Management, you are acquiring skills that empower you to apply to jobs in a diverse range of fields, and you can pursue further research by conducting a Ph.D.
Professional Placement option
This course offers an optional 20-week Professional Placement, available to full-time students after the end of the Master’s year. The Professional Placement will allow you to evidence your professional skills, attitudes and behaviours at the point of entry to the postgraduate job market. Please note that an additional fee is payable if you choose to pursue the Professional Placement version of the course.
For latest entry requirements please visit the BCU website.
Students living in
Domestic
£8,925 per year
Students from Domestic
Sep 2024; Jan 2025: £8,925 in 2024/25. Students who start their studies in January will complete the course in 15 months.
£17,710 per year
Students from EU
Sep 2024; Jan 2025: £17,710 in 2024/25. Students who start their studies in January will complete the course in 15 months.
£17,710 per year
Students from International
Sep 2024; Jan 2025: £17,710 in 2024/25. Students who start their studies in January will complete the course in 15 months.
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