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MSc - Master of Science
Main Campus
Full Time
Nov 2026
1 Year
This postgraduate MSc Project Management course will give you a deeper understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects and the ability to develop the essential skills and competencies necessary to plan, monitor, control and deliver successful projects.You'll be able to confidently identify the sources of risk affecting projects and develop risk management strategies to optimise project outcomes.You'll be able to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the skills required to effectively manage project resources and graduate ready to meet the challenges associated with dynamic environments alongside making a positive difference to a global business environment.You will learn the principles of agile that link directly to the AgilePM Foundation qualification, and Prince 2 methodologies as well as the risk affecting projects.Our MSc Project Management degree will empower you to bring together resources, skills, technology and ideas to achieve the objectives of multi-faceted business environments.Working in high-spec facilities, like our Business Laboratory and Bloomberg Trading Room, you’ll learn how to operate multiple project constraints ofScopeBudgetTimeQuality requirementsThe Roehampton Business School will invite practitioners to share their projects with you, adopting a case study approach to studying project success.You’ll complete a consultancy project in a particular field of interest, such as:Global financial managementMarketingHuman resourcesThis enables you to consolidate your knowledge and skills through the in-depth, independent study of a specific organisational issue, with or without an associated internship.
Mastering project management is crucial to organisations in the 21st century. Recognising the importance of both tools and techniques as well as human and organisational factors in achieving project success, the module enables students to learn the 'hard' science essential for project managers today, but with the crucial emphasis on the soft skills involved in people- and change-management to help achieve delivery of successful projects.
This module will equip you with the knowledge and critical techniques in order to conduct research in business and management. We will address the different kinds of research, especially scholarly, academic output and applied consultancy output, whilst the module's practical emphasis is upon facilitating research methods for empirical research in the programme's capstone project.
This module seeks to raise students' awareness of the issues emerging from project management research and practice worldwide. The key themes that drive this module support a holistic understanding of factors that influence project management today. Students will develop critical-thinking skills to engage in topical debates.
In order to thrive in an increasing competitive and global environment an organization must pay attention to its continual effectiveness and development. An underlying feature of the successful organization is its ability to adapt to change. Change can be driven by a number of different forces, including customers, markets and technology. Yet research shows that most change initiatives fail to accomplish their intended outcomes and may even limit the potential of an organization and its people. The consequences of not managing change effectively can be devastating and long lasting, so it's important that managers ensure they have the skills, knowledge and credibility within their organization to be champions of change. Managers have a clear role and responsibility to ensure that issues like employee voice, individual and cultural differences as well as skills development are appropriately and effectively addressed as part of change management.
This module is directly linked to the AgilePM Foundation certificate and covers key concepts required. In addition, it goes beyond the foundation to ensure students have grounding of principles in broader business context as befits a post graduate module. Agile projects are characterised by highly self-empowered teams delivering products incrementally with a focus on early delivery of real benefits to business. Unlike more traditional approaches, agile projects fix time, cost and quality at the early phases of the project and manage contingency by developing a clear view of priorities in collaboration with the business.
This module seeks to prepare students to identify the sources of risk affecting projects and develop risk management strategies to optimize project outcomes. This project risk analysis and response framework is an essential part of project management, which involves all project managers and their teams. The topic of risk management is briefly covered in the main project management module in the MSc project management programme, but warrants a full module, based on its perceived importance in the practitioner guide, Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) as well as in academic research.
This module provides students with a key set of strategy and business improvement tools. The module is aimed at providing you with a thorough understanding of the practical application of these tools. Many of the classic business tools such as PESTLE and Boston Box are included. Additionally, key tools related to business improvement such as benchmarking and the Balanced Scorecard are evaluated.
The Consultancy Project module gives you the opportunity to apply the knowledge, analytical, and conceptual tools, as well as the personal skills gained from the taught courses to an in-depth study of a specific organizational issue or problem in the fields of global financial management, marketing management, business management, and human resource management. It consolidates the learning that has already taken place, and develops your capability to undertake and complete an individual project and address a given problem. This module may be taken with or without a business internship, so long as there is an identified business client.
The dissertation module gives you the opportunity to apply the knowledge, analytical, and conceptual tools, as well as the personal skills gained from the taught courses to an in-depth study of a specific issue or problem in the fields of global financial management, marketing management, business management, and human resource management. It consolidates the learning that has already taken place and develops your capability to undertake and complete a research project. It can thus be seen as the culmination of the entire postgraduate programme.
Roehampton Business School is offering to all its PG students an innovative and ambitious Global Leadership Programme alongside their PG awards. The programme runs in parallel with the taught modules and it is complementary to them.
This programme is for students who hold an Honours degree in a non- business and management discipline and wish to gain some business knowledge and skills before they join their chosen postgraduate programme. The Pre-Induction programme is not compulsory and not assessed. If you hold an offer for a place on one of the Roehampton Business Schools Postgraduate programmes but do not have a business and management background knowledge, you are strongly encouraged to follow the Pre-Induction programme. This is an online programme, which will provide you with a broad understanding and knowledge of business and management. It is the ideal pathway to help you integrate with other students who have studied business and management before and it will ensure that you hit the ground running at the start of your chosen postgraduate programme.
The Professional Development Programme is an additional co-curricular non-credit bearing module. It is designed specifically to enhance your professional skills and build your confidence using advanced presentation skills, critical writing and research skills. During the course of the module, you will get the opportunity to practice your negotiation skills, enhance the credibility of your arguments and ensure academic integrity.
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