Course summary
Are you ready to drive transformative change from inside established organisations? The world's most impactful innovations often come from within. Our MSc in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship equips you with the high-level skills and critical competencies to become a future leader who can both drive change within large corporations and successfully launch new ventures. We offer a distinctive, practice-based focus: you will learn far more than just theory, applying it directly to solve real-world business challenges. This hands-on approach ensures you can create transformative value within existing organisations, whether through new product development, process optimisation or internal venturing. Programme highlights:
- Become a Corporate Innovator: While sharing a core with our other innovation programmes, this MSc has a specific emphasis on corporate and organisational entrepreneurship, a skill set in high demand.
- Practice-Led, Industry-Connected: Our curriculum is built around teamwork and solving real-world challenges, not exams. This immersive approach ensures you gain invaluable practical experience in taking a commercial concept from idea to market.
- Master AI for Corporate Strategy: In a world being reshaped by AI, explore how to deploy it responsibly. You will learn to leverage this technology to enhance your practice and engage audiences in new ways, ensuring you are at the forefront of ethical and impactful creative work.
- Education Excellence: The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an accredited Centre of Excellence (IOEE), meaning upon graduation you will automatically qualify for an additional professional qualification—an Advance Diploma in Entrepreneurship. The Centre is also a proud national award winner for our authentic, real-world assessment, recently receiving the AGCAS Academic Employability Award (2025).
- Launchpad for Corporate Leaders: Bristol is recognised as one of the top five best places in the UK to start-up outside of London (Startup Cities Index, 2022), providing an exceptional environment for your studies and future career.
Assessment method
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/media/postgraduate/admissions-statements/2026/msc-business-innovation-and-entrepreneurship.pdf
How to apply
International applicants
The University ofThe University of Bristol welcomes applications from international students and accepts a wide range of qualifications for postgraduate study. If you study or have studied at a university outside the UK, please select the relevant page for further information on qualifications, scholarships and education representatives in your country/region: bristol.ac.uk/international/countries.
Entry requirements
You will typically need an upper second class honours degree or an international equivalent in any discipline. We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement. If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional qualifications. Please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing: A relevant postgraduate qualification. Work experience with a minimum duration of six months, paid or internship. Roles should be within any professional setting in any sector or industry eg with a formal title role, within an organisation. See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £20200 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £20200 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £20200 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £20200 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £20200 | Year 1 |
| EU | £36300 | Year 1 |
| International | £36300 | Year 1 |
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
Fees are subject to an annual review. For programmes that last longer than one year, please budget for up to an 8% increase in fees each year.
For more information, please view the programme page on our website.
Provider information
University of Bristol
Beacon House
Queen’s Road
Bristol
BS8 1QU