Course summary
Are you currently working in business and looking to enhance your knowledge and skills? Or do you have a non-business degree and little or no previous business background, but would like gain this? This MSc in International Management and Leadership with Professional Practice allows you to develop not only a solid academic underpinning to support your career but also builds in a semester long professional internship to develop practical, in-industry skills. The combination of the theoretical and the practical leaves you with the ideal mix of experiences that employers are looking for. The contemporary business world faces a number of challenges including recruitment, export/import issues, commodities pricing, complex market conditions, data noise, the emergence of AI, and productivity to name but a few. How does a modern leader research, analyse, extrapolate, and synthesise data around these issues to manage, shape and lead modern businesses? How do we manage and lead people within industry? How can we ensure that we understand the contemporary business landscape so that this informs our confident decision-making processes? This course addresses those questions and helps you to kick-start a successful career.
Modules
Critical Issues in International Management (20 credits) Accounting for Managers (20 credits) International Marketing (20 credits) Strategic Human Resource Management (20 credits) Strategy and Leadership (20 credits)/ Elective module OR Research Methods (dependent upon chosen capstone module) To obtain the MSc, you will choose to progress with one of the following capstone options: Business Consultancy in Practice (60 credits) OR Business Incubation Programme (60 credits) OR Dissertation. The modules listed are correct at time of posting (September 2019) but are subject to change. In the event that modules are changed, QMU will seek to use reasonable endeavours to ensure that there is no detrimental impact on students.
Assessment method
Aside from the traditional classroom format, our small class sizes allow us to offer opportunities such as external visits. These offer a unique hands-on learning experience, enabling insight into, and from, real-world organisations. In addition, we have regular speakers from industry and support agencies with whom you will be able to interact directly. The course offers students a flexible bespoke pathway depending upon their future aspirations. Assessment methods will take the form of presentations, essays, exams, reports, business plans, and interviews. The variety of distinctive teaching, learning and assessment methods will give you the opportunity to hone your skills, readying you to make a full and valuable contribution even immediately when you start your first job after graduation.
Qualified teacher status (QTS)
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
- Course does not award QTS
Entry requirements
Honours degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline. Some modules may require individuals to be working in the specific area of practice and have the support of a line manager and work place mentor. Accreditation of prior learning: You may be granted exemption from studying a module or modules up to a maximum of 60 credit points, provided you can demonstrate successful achievement of all the learning outcomes.
English language requirements
IELTS with an overall score equivalent to 6.5 and with no individual component less than 6.0.
QMU English Language Requirements
https://www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/international-students/english-language-requirements/
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Republic of Ireland | £8245 | Whole course |
| England | £8245 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £8245 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £8245 | Whole course |
| Wales | £8245 | Whole course |
| Channel Islands | £8245 | Whole course |
| International | £17575 | Whole course |
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
The second year fees are charged pro-rata for remaining credits.
Provider information
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Queen Margaret University Drive
Musselburgh
Edinburgh
EH21 6UU