Course summary

The MSc Management (Consulting) will enable you to develop your consulting capabilities for working across the globe. The MSc will equip you with the essential knowledge, skills, and ethical grounding necessary to excel in various consulting roles. This comprehensive MSc blends rigorous academic grounding with real-world applications to prepare you for high-impact roles across global industries. At the heart are core modules that lay a solid foundation in management consulting, where you will explore the essential theories, current practices, and emerging trends in consultancy. The curriculum covers a number of current and relevant topics including consulting frameworks, leading and managing change and the ethical dimensions of consulting. This ensures that you develop a well-rounded understanding of the consulting landscape and are well-prepared to tackle the complex challenges faced by today’s businesses. Choosing from a selection of elective modules will allow you to specialise in areas of management such as consulting in international environment through our international study trip, where you will explore global markets, or Digital Transformation, which delves into the impact of AI and modern technologies on business strategies. Modules like Thinking Entrepreneurially and Advanced HRM strategies offer additional dimensions to your expertise, aligning with your career aspirations. The programme culminates in either a traditional dissertation or a hands-on business project. Course structure Core modules: Strategy aims to explain business success or lack of success by looking at a firm’s resources and capabilities in relation to the commercial opportunities that arise. This module considers both the relationship between a firm’s strategy and the external environment and with its own internal set-up. Organizational Behaviour focuses on key issues concerning the behaviour of individuals in organisations and will include subjects such as personal and mental ability, management of attitudes and work motivation, leading others and corporate social responsibility . Business Analytics will develop critical insights into the decision-making processes essential for contemporary business and management. This module is designed to develop your capabilities in data analytics, covering descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive methods, and provides hands-on experience with real-world business challenges. Leading and Managing Change will develop your capabilities to lead change with the increasing complex and volatile global environment. The module focuses on theoretical frameworks and models and importantly how you can apply them in practices. The focus is on engaging people with change to ensure that benefits are realized and the change is successful. Consulting focuses on the knowledge, skills and attitudes you need to be an effective consultant. The different types of consultants and their responsibilities are explored, along with the impact of AI on the role of consulting. Consultants, Consultancies and Ethics will provides an in-depth understanding of the consulting profession, including the organisation of consultancies and their societal responsibilities. You will critically explore the roles and rhetoric of consultants, the dynamics of consultant-client relationships, and the broader ethical and professional impacts of consultancies. Research Methods and Dissertation (General Management or International or Business Project route) provides the necessary training to undertake advanced-level research. You will investigate a relevant topic, and, using material from core and optional modules, complete a dissertation or business project. Dissertation can be undertaken here at Durham or abroad at a partner university.