MSc Management – redesigned for a new future
The MSc Management is an investment in your future. A way to accelerate your career. So you want to be sure that you leave the programme with the kind of skills, knowledge and capabilities that will set you apart from other graduates in the eyes of employers.
We’ve recognised that in our redesign of this popular Masters programme – and have incorporated extra elements to help you maximise your personal and professional development during your year at Lancaster.
New pathways – greater flexibility to devise your own route
You still get the same firm foundation in key business and management areas but new Programme Pathways allow you to focus on what interests you most. You don’t have to decide at the start: you only choose your pathway during the first term, once you’ve already begun to form your own preferences.
The Management Pathway gives you the broadest spread of subjects, but alternatives now include:
- Strategic Management Pathway - develops your understanding of the components of strategic analysis and evaluation, focusing particularly on the area of corporate and international strategy, strategic implementation and the strategy process and on value creation and strategic innovation.
- Marketing Pathway – develops your specialist knowledge of the marketing function, and how it fits within an organisation's overall strategy and practice.
- Project Management Pathway – teaches you the principles of effective project management, equipping you with practical tools and techniques for managing team-based projects within organisations and giving you experience of applying them.
Engaging with industry – new practice-based module
There is now more than one point in the programme where you get to apply your skills for real.
In addition to the option of doing a client-based project in the summer (depending which Pathway you choose), all MSc Management students now undertake a two-week consultancy project in March, as part of a new Management in Practice module.
It’s your chance to learn more what being a consultant is all about – and en route you’ll acquire some important skills you’ll need for future consultancy work.
Students meeting employers at one of the regular careers fairs held at LUMS.
What other skills will you acquire?
This programme has always been about developing yourself, as a person and as an effective professional manager. That emphasis is stronger than ever in the new design.
With so much project and group work embedded within the programme, you’ll learn a lot about working in teams. You’ll gain practical skills like running meetings, prioritising, scheduling and meeting deadlines, as well as softer skills such as negotiating, persuading and influencing people – all key to effective interpersonal communication.
The careers-related activities that complement the MSc’s academic and practical modules provide another important way of learning more about yourself. They’ll help you discover where your strengths lie, what kind of role you’ll be likely to thrive in, and how to promote yourself to the right employers. Together this provides a great foundation for achieving your career ambitions.
The MSc in Management has been approved and accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing to provide direct entry on to the CIM's Professional Diploma in Marketing. The programme is also accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
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