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MSc - Master of Science
Stoke-on-Trent Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
2 Year
Gain the skills and experience to succeed in the business world through our course dedicated to aspiring leaders. You will have the opportunity to develop your professional practice through a professional placement, or earn equivalent credits through entrepreneurship modules if a placement isn't secured.For the MBA, you will complete a series of taught modules and then spend a year in a professional placement, applying your knowledge to a real business. Our careers team can support you in finding the right placement for your areas of interest. Whether you’re getting hands-on with marketing, finance, supply chains, sustainability or international business, it will help you explore your career ambitions.The course covers core competencies in strategy, risk management, leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship. It is taught through real-world challenges and practical problem-solving, using dynamic case studies. The aim is to help you navigate the rapidly-changing business environment.You could be exploring anything from how to expand a company overseas, sell off a loss-making operation or tackle trade issues. You will also develop your understanding of strategic decision-making and how to deliver against key drivers of quality, cost and timescale.
This module aims to take a strategic view of Supply Chain Management and its role in supporting and driving sustainability in achieving competitive advantage. You will be able to develop in-depth understanding and knowledge of the Supply Chain structures and processes within the context of sustainability, technological and digital innovation (such as the role of AI in managing quality, costs and delivery of complex supply chain structures. Critical areas such as optimising and managing effective distribution channels, developing the purchasing function to establish a competitive procurement strategy, managing supplier relationships and reverse supply chain management, risk management will be incorporated to assess implications of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in global supply chain management.
This module focuses on how HRM and management strategies can be used effectively to improve organisational performance. The module examines approaches to cross-cultural management and leadership and critically evaluates the strategies used.
Entrepreneurship and innovation are activities of utmost importance for firms and economies. This module will explore the role of entrepreneurship and innovation and how they occur within firms and economies. Additionally, the module will critically and practically appraise the developments in entrepreneurship and innovation studies and explore entrepreneurship and innovation in practice.
International marketing explores the marketing of products and services outside of a brands domestic audience. The module is designed to enable students to develop marketing strategies and plans in and across a range of different international market environments. Understanding ethical dilemmas is critical to successful marketing, particularly in the digital marketing context. This module addresses these issues through formulating ethical and socially responsible marketing decisions.
An innovative module that covers the core principles of risk and uncertainty in a business context. These concepts are applied to the main ways to manage risk such as insurance and hedging within financial markets. The aim of the module is to provide clear strategies for decision-makers to deal with risk and uncertainty despite a rapidly changing and unpredictable external environment
This module is focused on Strategic Management and involves understanding how organisations strategise both in a local and international context followed by the implementation and practice of strategy towards value creation and sustained competitive advantage
The MBA dissertation represents an opportunity for all MBA students to select a suitable topic and demonstrate the full suite of all five management and leadership competencies derived from the programme. Topics will be wide-ranging drawing on different aspects of the business but all aiming to address a specific business challenge or problem. Following a Dissertation proposal presentation and allocation of a Dissertation supervisor, the assessment requires a 15,000-word Dissertation submission. A final viva completes this element of the MBA study.
This module will provide you with an understanding of the fundamentals of company structure, governance, and important legal terminology as well as the principles of investing, financial modelling, and business planning. Through business planning and pitching exercises, you will gain feedback, develop your approaches and identify suitable strategies for your future entrepreneurial ventures.
This module will discuss and explore the key concepts of entrepreneurship and will provide you with the opportunity to understand and situate these concepts in the entrepreneurial process. The module will move beyond developing an understanding of entrepreneurial concepts and will support you to engage with entrepreneurial concepts through the practice of play, empathising, creation, and experimentation, which have been identified as important in developing an entrepreneurial mindset.
This module will enable you to understand the value creation and entrepreneurial process, through the development and production of a product or service that creates value for stakeholders. To create value, you will engage in the lean start up methodology to develop a concept, prototype, a minimum viable product (MVP), and engage with the stakeholders for whom you are creating value to test and validate assumptions and potentially learning from failure.
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