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Project Management (with Placement) at University of Bedfordshire - UCAS

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Course summary

This practice-focused, 22-month Master’s provides you with the knowledge and skills you need to perform successfully at a senior management level. You study the management of challenging projects on a course developed with professional bodies and leading specialists, ensuring your learning reflects current and best practice including the sustainable development goals set by the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME). Your guaranteed placement offers you an academically supervised workplace experience, which also forms the basis for your dissertation project. Facilities and specialist equipment

  • State-of-the-art business suite tailored to crucial management and data practices
  • Industry-standard hardware and software to prepare you for the modern workplace
  • Business pods, boardroom areas and IT suites designed to simulate a professional office environment
Your student experience Block delivery course structure gives you year-round entry points throughout the year so you can tailor your learning to fit around your life. Our business and management courses rank 4th overall in their subject field in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2024, with top 3 rankings for teaching, engagement, learning community and course organisation. Study under the guidance of our industry-experienced academic team, actively involved in consultancy, research and engagement. Tackle genuine business problems while building employment-focused skills through practice-led teaching, live assessments, case studies and industry collaboration. Develop transferable skills including critical thinking, research analysis, leadership and self-management alongside specific subject expertise. Apply your knowledge in an area of interest with your choice of Master’s business project. Gain industry insights from high-profile academics and business leaders in our Global Guest Speaker series, which includes talks from TUI, Luton Borough Council and the Association of Project Management. Extend your understanding of the workplace environment with regular field trips to prominent companies and national exhibitions. Solve real-life problems working with the University’s Research and Innovation Service (RIS) where you can assist local businesses and SMEs to up-skill and innovate.

Modules

  • Advancing Professional Practice (BSS070-6) Compulsory
  • Leading And Managing Organisational Resources (BSS064-6) Compulsory
  • Management Practice (BSS063-6) Compulsory
  • Strategy And The Global Competitive Environment (BSS058-6) Compulsory
  • Theory Into Practice Project (BSS056-6) Compulsory
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Assessment method

The underpinning philosophy of all assessments is to develop both your knowledge and skills to enter employment as a confident manager with a strong base from which to meet your own aspirations. This requires consideration of your own personal capabilities as well as looking outward at the business world. The aim is for you to become an independent and self-directed lifelong learner. Apart from the formal assessments there will be an emphasis on self, peer and group assessment. Tutors will provide feedback on formative assessments to support your development of good academic practice. All assessments are rooted in authentic and practical workplace scenarios to enable the integration of theory and practice in dynamic `real world work contexts. Exams are kept to a minimum. To facilitate learning for all students a range of assessment methods are used throughout the course, including:

  • Business Reports to demonstrate contextual insight and professional practice;
  • Project Plans to demonstrate project planning skills;
  • Seminar Papers to develop critical analysis skills; - In-class tests of your knowledge of core concepts in context;
  • Project Report integrates learning throughout the course independently applied in practice;
  • Business simulation where you demonstrate the impact of your strategic decision making.
The focus is on the impact of management education to management practice and later assessments require greater complexity and integration through independent study to support your successful transition into work. This is exemplified by two units at the dissertation stage: Management Practice and the Theory into Practice Project. These help you to consider your personal and professional development and the complexity of applying management education in practice once in employment.

Entry requirements

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent. We also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications and individuals with appropriate work experience. For international students English competence of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent is required.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

For information on the 2025 fees and scholarships please refer to our website, https://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/money/fees/
Project Management (with Placement) at University of Bedfordshire - UCAS