Course description
MSc in Entrepreneurship Module overview
This programme consists of six compulsory modules, two elective modules from a range of five modules, and a dissertation.
Compulsory Modules
Entrepreneurship and Creativity
Entrepreneurship is a widely used but little understood concept. Participants are introduced to the various theories of entrepreneurship and to its various roles and functions, as well as the factors affecting its development.
Entrepreneurial Strategy
Entrepreneurial strategy is very different from corporate strategy. The similarities and differences are compared, and participants are introduced to the skills and competences required to enable them to lead and manage an entrepreneurial venture in the twenty-first century.
Entrepreneurial Marketing
This module is designed to link the core business discipline of marketing to the concept of entrepreneurship. It is divided into two elements: firstly, the principles of marketing are covered, and customised to the entrepreneurial context; secondly, skills and competences specific to the entrepreneurial application of marketing are developed.
Research Methods
Introducing the process of research project formulation and the key elements of research design, this module should prepare students to design and execute their research study for their dissertation in a systematic and scientific manner.
Organisational Behaviour
This module integrates the study of forms, structures and processes of organisations with the human side of the psychology of work. The module provides an insight into the fundamentals on which organisations are built, and provides analytical processes for understanding behaviour at work and managerial processes.
Financial Management
This module provides students with the foundations for understanding, analysing and interpreting financial information and enables students to apply accounting principles and financial theory to decision making across management disciplines and modern business organisations.
Elective Modules
Enterprise for Creative Industries
Businesses are increasingly employing creative and artistic methods to enhance communication, ideas generation, team working and continuing professional development, and to stimulate productivity and sales. This module is based around four areas important to entrepreneurship and management in the arts and creative industries, but which have resonance with mainstream business and management practice.
Franchising
Franchising can be seen as a means of entry for those wishing to enter self-employment and as a possible means of growing an existing small business. With franchise systems currently accounting for over 30 per cent of all retail sales, an understanding of franchising is important both as a potential form of self-employment, and of small business growth.
Other elective modules include: Innovation Management, Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship, and Technological
Typical entry requirements
Applicants should usually hold a bachelors degree (UK Lower Second/2.2 or above) or equivalent qualification from a recognised British/overseas university. Every applicant is assessed individually on their own merit. Higher level professional qualifications may also be accepted. Relevant work experience could be an additional benefit where applicants have not reached the standard entry requirements, although it is not an admissions requirement for this particular degree programme.
Candidates for whom English is not their first language will normally be required to have taken an English language test and achieved a score of either TOEFL 550 or above, IELTS 6.0 or above, or Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English Grade C or above. This test must have been taken within two years prior to the start of the programme you are applying for.
The School also assists students whose first language is not English through close cooperation with the University's Language Centre.
Programme length
12 months full-time
