Management MSc
Key information
Duration: 12 months
Attendance mode: Full-time
Fees: £32,000 (more information)
Location: Bunhill Row
Start of programme: September 2024
Application deadline: Rolling applications
Entry year: Showing course information for 2024
Acquire flexibility for a wide range of global roles from supply chain management to strategy
Overview
Management MSc Who is it for?
Choose this programme if you are looking to take your first step into management or are in the early stages of your career as a manager or entrepreneur. Our MSc in Management equips you to tackle the challenges of fast-moving global business.
You should have a keen interest in various management topics. You should have a UK upper second-class degree or equivalent. You should be prepared to establish connections with senior managers, business leaders of the City of London, as well as other students from around the word to build lasting professional networks.
Step into our classrooms and discover what Bayes MSc in Management can offer with our world-class faculty
Why choose this course?
Gain a highly valuable international perspective on the challenges of management in business of all sizes.
- Gain links to professional services, technology and financial firms close to the City of London
Further your career and connect with alumni and industry leaders.
Course objectives
Our MSc Management programme has an MBA-style curriculum. You will learn how to analyse various complex management issues, both operational and strategic within an international context.
Improve your strategic thinking, decision-making, team-leadership, and other hard and soft skills that are essential for managers and entrepreneurs to thrive. Build a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities across all industry sectors, organisation types, and sizes worldwide, ranging from large multinationals to SMEs, family businesses, and startups.
In the last term, you have the option to select elective modules from a wide range of MSc programmes offered by Bayes, including those at partner institutions around the world and in real business environments outside the traditional classroom setting. You can design a course to meet your particular interests and professional goals.
"Studying at Bayes is a great way to experience the City, learn from leading experts and enjoy the benefits of a global international student community. You will extend your network worldwide and gain new friends living on the other side of the globe (thanks to the core groups for course works), learning a lot from them in the process."
- Deepsheka Ganesan
Teaching staff
The teaching staff on the MSc in Management have many years of practical experience working in industry and are also world-class researchers in their fields.
Module Leaders include:
Course content
On the Management MSc course, you will:
- Acquire a comprehensive grasp of the principles and applications of management
- Develop your range of hard and soft skills as a manager and entrepreneur
- Develop your understanding of a wide range of management issues that affect all industry sectors as well as different type of organisations from big multinationals, SMEs, family businesses and small start ups
- Network with your peers and senior managers from industry
In summary as our curriculum combines great measure of flexibility in its course structure allowing you to have a significant choice and control over your studies.
The Course Director will partner with students to provide the support which allows you to form a learning programme as unique and individualised as you are, even if this is general management degree.
Course structure
Induction weeks
The MSc in Management starts with two compulsory induction weeks which include refresher courses, an introduction to the careers services and the annual careers fair.
Term 1
Core modules:
This term encompasses a wide range of fundamental knowledge and key skill areas in management discipline.
Accounting and Finance
The aim of the module is to equip you with an understanding of the most common financial and accounting techniques and practices. Seeking a career in professional services, and more generally in the management and business arena, you need to have a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles in finance.
The accounting and finance module is designed to teach you key areas of accounting and finance that every modern and successful manager should be aware of.
Principles of Marketing and Strategy
This module will assist you in developing a strong foundation in strategy and marketing relevant to your future career in management. The module will make it possible for you to appreciate the complexity of strategic decision making and apreciate the role of strategy in achieving superior firm performance.
You'll also develop strategy analysis skills which can be applied across management disciplines (environment, industry and organisation) and comment on the strategy of an organisation and its competitive process.
Strategy is taught first in order to enable you to apply the acquired skillset to the subsequent marketing content.
Managing ESG
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment is by now a mainstream approach to financial investment, and it is estimated that a third of global assets under management ($53 trillion) will be managed with ESG criteria by 2025.
The module has two key objectives. The first is to provide a working knowledge of ESG, from a management, financial and societal perspective. The second is to offer the opportunity to learn these concepts through the case method. Emphasis is hands-on learning supported by theory.
Quantitative Methods for Business
This module introduces some principal quantitative methods for analysing data related to various aspects of running a business.
In many instances, the application of quantitative methods may improve the quality of business decisions, by grounding those decisions in analyses of available data rather than the gut feelings or preferences of decision makers.
Term 2
Core modules:
In this term we transfer significant curriculum content choice to students which will increase not only your satisfaction with the course but also develop your potential, as course content can be tailored to your personal interests and career aims.
Business & Managerial Economics
This module provides you with an understanding and practical knowledge of economics. The course assumes no background in economics, covers basic microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, and concentrates on the application of that theory and on the making and analysis of economic policy.
Managerial economics is a branch of economics that applies microeconomic analysis to decision methods of businesses or other management units. As such, it bridges economic theory and economics in practice. It draws heavily from quantitative techniques such as regression analysis, correlation and calculus.
The module integrates many concepts from financial economics, game theory, business forecasting and industrial economics.
Research Methods for Business
This module provides a set of analytical and methodological tools that will be fundamental for carrying out research projects based on empirical data.
Managers, consultants, analysts, bankers, entrepreneurs, all face the issue of how to draw reliable conclusions from empirical data e.g. data on customers, competitors, geographical areas, etc.
Any business needs research and, to be successful, any business needs methodologically sound and rigorous research.
Plus two electives from the following:
Advanced Strategy Analysis
This course asks why some firms are more successful than others and explores what corporate executives can do to enable superior results.
This course revolves around two advanced topics in strategic management: a) knowledge and innovation and b) corporate strategy.
Entrepreneurship
The main aim of this module is to provide an understanding of the basic and essential issues in entrepreneurship and to provide some of the skills you will need to become an entrepreneur or to act entrepreneurially within existing organisational settings.
This is an integrative module addressing both the theoretical and practical issues of entrepreneurship.
The module will start with a general view over the latest theoretical approach to entrepreneurship. It will then move on to the more practical issues in entrepreneurship: identifying the opportunity, gathering the resources and the team.
In this respect, we will be developing a business idea using the business model canvas and we will practice on how to pitch to investors.
International Finance
Business executives cannot ignore the international dimension in finance.
A proper understanding of the fundamental issues behind international trade, international capital flows, the rise to prominence of the multinational corporation, and international debt (including balance of payments debt) has important bearings on business decisions.
This module aims to allow you to get a solid grasp of the following topics:
- International trade and the multinational corporation
- The global FX and derivatives markets
- FX risk and currency exposure
- Use of derivatives and cash market hedges to mitigate FX exposure
- International loans and bond issues
- Swap-driven financing
- Natural and real hedges and other strategies to mitigate long-term operating risks.
Supply Chain Management
This module is a combined version of operations management (OM) and supply chain management (SCM) modules with more emphasis on analytical skills.
In any industry, managing process, operations and supply chain is one of the most important tasks of a modern enterprise.
Therefore, having a thorough understanding of these two areas is critical to your success in your MSc in Management.
The aim of this module is to provide you with a postgraduate level understanding of the key topics of OM and SCM
Leading Organisations in the Digital Age
The module offers an overview of key topics in organizational behaviour including leadership, change management, organizational culture, organizational design, and work and employment, including virtual and remote work, with an eye towards preparing future leaders for the digital age.
Term 3
You have three options in your third term, consisting of 60 total credits you will either take:
- Business Research Project (30 credit)
- plus three electives (10 credits each).
or
- Business Research Project (40 credit)
- plus two electives (20 credits each).
Core modules:
Business Research Project
Any business needs research and, to be successful, any business needs methodologically sound and rigorous research.
This module allows you to demonstrate, on an individual basis, your ability to integrate and apply concepts and techniques you have learned in an in-depth study of a topic of your choice, and to organise your findings in a report.
All conducted within a given time limit.
The aim of the project is to enable you to demonstrate the results of your learning; there is no single prescribed method and any reasonable proposal is acceptable providing that it is agreed with the project supervisor and the course director.
Elective modules:
Depending on your Business Research Project, you'll choose two or three elective modules alongside your dissertation:
Business and Society
This module explores the role of the firm in the 21st Century. It goes beyond corporate social responsibility and the economic concept of the firm and explores the concept of the licence to operate. It attempts to answer the question What is the contract between businesses and society in the early 21st century?
A business cannot operate in a vacuum without understanding and managing its impact on the communities (or society) where it operates.
Consulting Project
In this module you will utilise use skills and knowledge gained during the first two terms in order to carry out a consulting project for a company selected by Bayes.
At the start of the term groups of 5/6 students are each assigned to a particular company, which becomes your client. An executive from your client will brief you about the real-life business issue or opportunity that you should be addressing. If requested by the client you will also sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Each group is also followed by a faculty coach.
You will negotiate terms of engagement with the client executive and create and agree a project plan. In this plan you will research the assigned business issue or opportunity over a period of about six weeks, meeting up with your client at agreed times. You will recommend a solution and create a pragmatic implementation plan. You will then be asked to present your findings in a final workshop to your client and your peers.
Read about student successes from participating in the Consulting Project module.
Download the brochure (for organisations interested in being clients for one of the Consulting Projects)
Global Strategy
The purpose of this course is to expand your global mindset and provide you with theories, knowledge and practical tools that you can use to achieve success in the global business environment.
To this end the course touches upon important topics such as global strategy execution, cross-cultural communication and learning, the challenges of managing projects across the varied customs and practices of the world, and the development of internationally sophisticated employees, teams and managers.
Special focus is placed on how employees with a global mindset can effectively execute the international strategies of the firm, guided by an awareness of cross- cultural differences.
The last part of the course focuses particularly on the challenge of managing culturally diverse teams, introducing you to the nuances of various cultures but also presenting you with tools to explore and leverage culture.
Practicing Management in the Digital Age
This module builds heavily on the preceding core modules and explicitly complements them. It is organised around seminar presentations by eminent practitioners.
The themes chosen will vary from year to year given the nature of the course, but the aim is to select areas that are both topical and problematic, with some preference for emerging themes rather than ones that are the recent "hot topics".
Leadership: Theory and Practice
Organisational Behaviour & HRM
Electives offered in 2023
- Ethics, Society and the Finance Sector
- Consulting Project
- Country and Geopolitical Risk Management
- Family Business
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Negotiation Skill for Multidiscipline Managers
- Practicing Management in the Digital Age
- Strategic Service Management
International electives
- Corporate Open Innovation (taught in Milan, Italy)
- Monetary Policy (taught in Singapore)
- Procurement (taught in Mannheim, Germany).
Please note that electives are subject to change and availability.
Download course specification:
Management MSc [PDF]Assessment methods
Term dates
Term dates 2024/25
- Induction: 9th September 2024 - 20th September 2024
- Term one: 23rd September 2024 - 6th December 2024
- Term one exams: 6th January 2025 - 17th January 2025
- Term two: 20th January 2025 - 4th April 2025
- Term two exams: 21st April 2025 - 2nd May 2025
- Term three - international electives: 5th May 2025 - 16th May 2025
- Term three: 19th May 2025 - 4th July 2025
- Term three exams: 7th July 2025 - 18th July 2025
- Resits: 11th August 2025 - 22nd August 2025
- Additional resit week - tests only: 25th August 2025 - 29th August 2025.
Timetables
Course timetables are normally available from July and can be accessed from our timetabling pages. These pages also provide timetables for the current academic year, though this information should be viewed as indicative and details may vary from year to year.
Please note that all academic timetables are subject to change.
Fees & funding
UK/Home/International fee
September 2024 entry
£32,000
Tuition fees are subject to annual change.
Deposit: £2,000 (usually paid within 1 month of receiving offer and non-refundable unless conditions of offer are not met).
First installment: Half fees less deposit (payable during on-line registration which should be completed at least 5 days before the start of the induction period).
Second installment: Half fees (paid in January following start of course).
Scholarships & bursaries
Scholarships, sponsorships, loans and other funding could support your education at Bayes Business School.
Learn about the cost of living as a Bayes student in London.
Scholarships
We have a range of scholarships for Master's degrees at Bayes Business Scool. Most scholarship applications for 2024/25 year of entry will open in January 2024.
View our scholarships and fundingOther funding opportunities
Scholarships are very competitive, you may wish to look other options for funding, including the government PG Loan.
View other funding optionsSponsorship
Students on the course who are sponsored in full or in part by their employer will need to complete a sponsorship form as part of the application process.
View our sponsorship guidanceCareers
Your master’s in management is your next step to becoming a successful business leader. Our alumni are now working as managers and project managers in private enterprise and the public sector, and as management consultants and business analysts for accountancy firms and financial and professional services companies.
You’ll be supported on your way by our careers team and benefit from the connections we offer with business and industry.
Class of 2022
Recent graduates have secured positions such as:
Job Titles:
- Sustainability Analyst
- Advertising Account Manager
- Technology Associate Consultant
- Business Advisor
- Change & Business Solutions Graduate
- Client Services Associate
- Purchasing Associate
- Management Consultant
(Data provided from alumni who completed the annual destination data survey for 2021/22)
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Recent employers
Alumni stories
Entry requirements
- A UK upper second class degree or above, or the equivalent from an overseas institution.
- Previous study of business, management or finance is not required
Please note that this programme is designed for recent graduates with limited work experience. If you have in excess of three years of full-time experience, you should consider the MBA programme.
Interview
Applicants selected by the Admissions Panel may be invited to an online interview. We will contact all selected applicants with full instructions after the Admissions Panel has made an initial assessment of your application.
We strongly advise you to provide us with your own personal email address when applying to avoid missing interview deadlines and any important information sent from the Admissions Team.
GMAT
GMAT is not required for application, but may be requested as a condition of offer at the discretion of the Admissions Panel.
English language requirements
If you have been studying in the UK for the last three years it is unlikely that you will have to take an English language test.
If you have studied in the UK at degree level for less than three years (e.g. 3+1, 2+1, 2+2, etc.) you will be required to provide the results of an approved English language test and possibly resit the test to meet our academic entry requirements.
Full list of approved English language tests/qualifications and minimum requirements.
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Please see our Application Guide for details of the documents you will need to supply as part of your application, and other useful information.
We cannot comment on individual eligibility before you apply. We can only make a decision on your application once it is fully complete, with all requested information received.
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