Information Systems with Management Studies MSc: Course features

What this course offers you

This course gives you the chance to study a range of information systems topics, enabling you to operate at the interface of business and IT. You cover key areas in management.
You gain expertise in both subjects, with the flexibility to see links between the two.
The project/dissertation gives you the chance to study an area of interest in greater depth and gain valuable research skills. It is usually relevant to your career so provides an excellent selling point when you are looking for a job or promotion.
If you are an overseas student, we will help you to carry out a project either based in your home country or that will be of specific relevance when you return home.
Some of the management studies assignments are work-based, allowing you to apply your knowledge to your own area of work.
Teaching staff are research active, which keeps your learning cutting-edge (read more in our Research areas section).
The taught modules aim to prepare you for the job market. Alongside your academic studies, you gain vital management skills in:
- commercial awareness and risk management;
- problem solving and organisation;
- data collation, review and synopsis;
- communication and negotiation;
- time management; and
- co-operation and teamwork.
Each module offers a stimulating balance of study, which may include lectures, practical lab work, group working, case studies and presentations. Industry experts often teach on the courses, enhancing your studies.
You also have the chance to network with other professionals in the same situation as yourself. Our postgraduate students often set up study groups to support and encourage to each other.
We offer part-time options to help you fit your studies around other commitments. September and January start dates give you extra flexibility.
This course is modular, with each computing module taught in a week-long block, allowing you to attend as you would for a short course. The management studies modules are taught at weekends to help you fit your studies around work commitments.