MSc in Management

• Graduates with a desire to develop their knowledge and skills in management before seeking their first professional role.
• Early career professionals with a passion for business and aspirations to take their career to the next level.

The course comprises 11 core modules and two elective modules. This enables you to tailor the course to suit your personal career plan. The ‘Effective Cross-Cultural Management’ module takes place in Granada, Spain, and provides the opportunity for you to fully immerse yourself in Spanish culture while obtaining theoretical knowledge around cross-cultural management. The culmination of the learning process is your opportunity to undertake an individual thesis project which is in-company or Cranfield led. The topics covered in this three-month internship project cover a broad range of areas.

If COVID-19 restrictions persist into the 2021/22 academic year, our practical and social course activities may be subject to change to ensure your safety and ensure we are compliant with Government guidelines.

Language module

Knowledge of foreign languages plays a vital part in promoting communication, successfully establishing contacts in the international marketplace, and enhancing career opportunities.

We are delighted to offer all Management MSc students an opportunity to acquire a working knowledge of a second commercially useful language. Focusing on spoken rather than written skills, languages are offered at the Beginners or Intermediate level in Business French and Spanish. By the end of the course, you will understand and hold simple conversations with a business edge, and following an internal assessment, you will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance.

• 6th in the UK and 28th in the world: QS World University Rankings: Management Masters Ranking 2022,
• 9th in the UK and 77th in the world: Financial Times Masters in Management 2021 ranking,
• 3rd in the UK and 30th in the world: The Economist Which MBA? Masters in Management (MiM) 2019 ranking.

This course will:

• Introduce you to managerial economics and enable you to use economic reasoning in managerial decision making, and understand how external environment and internal capabilities shape a firm’s competitive position.
• Develop your knowledge and understanding of a range of management science techniques and tools to support management decisions.
• Develop your management consultancy skills, and enable you to apply them while role-playing a management consulting team working on a genuine business issue, competing against other teams.
• Engage you in gaining a better understanding of how corporate action can be best configured to promote responsible and sustainable business strategies.
• Develop your understanding of operations management and its contribution to organisational competitiveness, the ‘human factor’ element and how people behave within organisations, together with strategic marketing and management.

The internship provides invaluable practical work experience, and many of our graduates have been offered positions within the companies they completed their internship with.