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MSc Management
Programme
Qualifications and duration
- Full-time, MSc 1 year (specialised routes available, see below)
Pathways
- MSc Management
- MSc Management with Human Resource Management
- MSc Management with Operations
- MSc Management with Finance
- MSc Management with Marketing
- MSc Management with Corporate Social Responsibility
Overview
The MSc in Management is designed to enable non-management graduates to get ahead quickly in a wide range of management roles. This taught one-year programme offers students the opportunity to specialise in finance, marketing, human resource management or operations management, or follow a general management studies route.
Since its inception in 1996, the MSc in Management has acquired an international reputation as a prestigious master’s degree attracting top-class students from the world’s leading universities. It is ranked 6th in the UK in the Financial Times' ranking of the best European Masters in Management programmes (2011).
The MSc in Management is an intensive, demanding postgraduate degree and, as such, requires a high degree of commitment and motivation.
Scholarships
Home/EU students
The School of Management is pleased to offer ten scholarships worth £2,000. These are open to all Home/EU students.
Country-specific scholarships
The School of Management is pleased to offer scholarships for students from these specific regions:
Afghanistan: One full scholarship worth £25,000
India: Five scholarships worth £2,000 each
Mexico: Two scholarships worth £2,500 each
Colombia: Two scholarships worth £2,500 each
CIS States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan): Two scholarships worth £2,500 each
Further details on how to apply for a scholarship
Entry requirements
A good undergraduate degree (2:1 or above or its international equivalent) in any discipline except business. The minimum non-graduate qualifications acceptable for admission to the University of Bath are:
- A relevant postgraduate diploma (passed at the appropriate level); or
- A relevant professional qualification together with papers passed at an appropriate standard if required by the appropriate Head of Group; or
- Extended and responsible experience in a relevant field of industry, teaching or a government establishment with authorship of papers of an acceptable academic standard.
Please note a £50 application fee is required for this programme and this should be submitted with your application.
English Language
Candidates whose first language is not English will normally require an IELTS score of 7.0 with no less than 6.5 in each of the four components or an internet-based TOEFL score of 100 with no less than 24 in any one band.
Academic references
One academic reference is required. If you graduated a long time ago and think you will have difficulties providing a reference, please contact the department.
Contact
Claire Bannister, Programme Administrator
Email mscadmin@management.bath.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0) 1225 383757
Fax +44 (0) 1225 386473
Web MSc in Management
Fees
See the Tuition Fees Schedule.
Our Research
Research at the School of Management
We are a leading international centre for management research. This is reflected in our rating in the RAE 2008 which places us 5th in the UK, equal to Oxford and LSE. We have been consistently ranked in the top ten in Europe for research in the Financial Times MBA rankings.
The School of Management provides a strongly supportive, vibrant research culture, developed through the provision of internal resources, research grants and awards. We are committed to growth in order to embrace new areas of management research and to reinforce existing strengths.
Our research culture
Our research is structured around six issue-based Subject Groups, which span functional disciplines. These groupings contain cross-functional Research Centres, which focus and formalise our major research initiatives. Teaching is organised within functional or disciplinary subject groups.
Our research is structured around four issue-based clusters, which span functional disciplines:
Accounting and Finance
Business, Society and Business Economics
Information, Decision and Operations
Marketing
Organization Studies
Strategic and International Management
Our research programmes are:
About the Department
A highly ranked business school
During the past 40 years, we have established ourselves as one of Europe’s leading business schools. The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) puts us in an impressive position of 5th in the UK for management research, confirming the world-class standing of our faculty.
We are currently ranked 1st for Accounting and Finance and 1st for Graduate Jobs in Business and our MSc in Management is ranked 6th by the Financial Times, making it one of the best programmes of its kind. The Bath MBA is listed among the top MBA programmes in the world, currently ranked 21st in the world and 2nd in the UK (Economist's Which MBA? 2011).
The Bath Advantage
Our combination of world-class research combined with a unique emphasis on real-world learning makes Bath an outstanding place to study. We are an elite institution, but also friendly and caring. We take pride in our heritage as one of the UK’s oldest business schools set in a beautiful historic city and we value the quality of life enjoyed by students and staff in a small, safe but vibrant university.
You will be taught by people who are discovering the new ideas that have not yet reached the textbooks, and then you can test these theories out in organisations around the world.
All our programmes provide far more than a valuable business qualification. They give you a recognised and proven head start in an increasingly competitive job market.
Graduates in Demand
Our graduates have an excellent track record of getting jobs. Recent statistics show that 86% of our UK and EU MSc students were in employment six months after graduating. What’s more, 40% of those graduates are in professional jobs compared to 25% nationally.
Our emphasis on education for the real world ensures that our graduates are consistently targeted by leading companies. Some of the many organisations which employ our graduates in the UK and overseas include:
Accenture, American Express, Arcadia Group, Barclays Bank, BP, British Airways, BT, Commercial Bank of Greece, Deloitte, Dell, Department of Trade & Industry (DTI), Dyson, Electricité de France, Ernst & Young, GlaxoSmithKline, Greenpeace, Gulf International Bank, Hayes Montrose, IBM, Intel, John Lewis Partnership, JP Morgan, Kleinwort Benson, KPMG, Legend Group (China), Lever Fabergé, Lloyds Banking Group, Marks & Spencer, Mars, Motorola, National Health Service (NHS), Nestlé, Nomura International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble, Renault (France), Royal Air Force, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sainsbury’s, Shell, Syntegra, Vauxhall, Ventura, Zurich.
