MSc Business and Supply Chain Management
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Introduction
Gain skills to manage and optimise supply chains across a broad range of industries. This specialist masters' provides a solid foundation in business management, enabling you to pursue various roles and become a valuable asset in any business environment.
Why study Business and Supply Chain Management?
Specialist expertise in supply chain analysis and consultancy, logistics, procurement and operations management is vital to modern business. In a world of increased economic volatility and rapid geopolitical change, this masters' will allow you to provide ethical logistical leadership and informed supply chain decision-making to a wide range of organisations.
Why UWE Bristol?
Designed in collaboration with employers, the MSc in Business and Supply Chain Management at Bristol Business School is delivered by industry experts, many of whom are active in business management-related research. Our practitioner-led teaching approach and curriculum is continually updated, so we can make sure it keeps pace with the fast-moving world of business and supply chain management.
We know it's not where you start but where you finish that matters. With this in mind, we've designed a skills and aspirations audit on arrival. This will help you identify gaps in your knowledge, including digital literacy, and guide you in choosing the right career path. Throughout the course, you'll receive tailored support to develop your skills and track your personal and professional growth. This feeds into the Careers Catalyst module, which enables you to reflect on your aspirations, build a relevant skillset and develop your personal unique selling point. You'll also enjoy access to and dialogue with business leaders, debating current, relevant topics at our popular annual Masters' Business Conference. Read more about the speakers you can hear from at the Business School.
Where can it take me?
Your MSc Business and Supply Chain Management qualification will give you the confidence and credentials to step into leadership roles across many industries and sectors. This masters' is open to graduates of any discipline and provides broad business management knowledge to apply your specialist skills in any industry. If you're already in a related role, it will help you advance your career more quickly.
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Content
The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.
You'll study:
- Career Catalyst: Developing Skills for Long Term Success
- The Anatomy of a Business
- Global Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Navigating Organisational Complexity.
Plus, one optional module from:
- Management Project and Research Methods
- Work Based Learning Project
- Enterprise Project.
The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.
Learning and Teaching
The MSc Business and Supply Chain Management is offered as a one-year intensive course of study, which will particularly appeal to those students who want to gain a postgraduate qualification, graduate and progress their career within 12 months.
You'll learn through formal lectures, seminars, group work, mentor meetings and further independent study to consolidate your learning.
The course is designed so that the different modules interrelate, allowing you to build your knowledge and skills.
Support is available in a variety of formats both in person and online.
You're expected to conduct independent study and to prepare for each session to be able to engage in meaningful discussions.
For more details see our glossary of teaching and learning terms.
Study time
You'll attend the University for 12 months, with between eight and twelve hours of teaching scheduled a week during both teaching terms and mentored study during the final project term.
Study support
If you've been out of higher education for a while, we provide skills sessions to help prepare you for studying again as well as sessions for non-native English speakers.
Assessment
The skills you'll need to succeed in your assessments are the same skills you'll need to succeed in your business management career. These include:
- collaborative teamwork
- evidence-based discussion
- advanced communication skills
- information processing
- strategic decision-making
- deadline management.
All assessments are designed to enable you to develop a range of skills and insights which can be applied in a future career. We encourage you to reflect through your journey on the skills that you're learning and how they might be useful in the future.
Learn more about assessments.
Features
Fieldwork
Meet leaders of industry
As a student at Bristol Business School, you will have the opportunity to hear about the challenges, issues and decisions being made at the highest level of strategic leadership. Our inspirational line up of speakers has included Lisa Opie, Managing Director of BBC Studios UK Production, and Dr Bevis Watts, Chief Executive of Triodos Bank UK. Find out more about the Bristol Distinguished Address Series.
Study facilities
While you're studying with us, you will have access to a wide range of facilities to enhance your learning experience. This includes:
- facilities at Bristol Business School, including our collaborative learning rooms, computer labs, and Bloomberg trading room (the same trading platform used by the city investment banks)
- the University library which is accessible 24 hours a day
- access to specialist business software in areas such as finance and project management.
Take a personalised virtual tour of the Business Management facilities and experience what a typical day could look like here for you.
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Life
Postgraduate support
Our support includes access to fantastic facilities, study tools and career consultants, plus practical help to access everything from funding to childcare.
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Careers
Careers / Further study
Our award-winning careers service helps you develop your employment potential through career coaching, a vacancy service for internships, placements, jobs, global opportunities, volunteering and community activity plus support for entrepreneurial activity, and access to employer events.
Read more about where our graduates go onto after studying with us.
Fees
There is currently no published fee data for this course.
Supplementary fee information
See our funding pages for more information.
Entry
Entry requirements
You'll need:
- A good honours degree (normally minimum 2.2) in any subject.
If you do not meet the above grade requirements but have at least 12 months relevant professional experience and/ or equivalent qualifications, we will consider you on an individual basis.
Personal Statement
You are required to complete a personal statement for this course. Please read the personal statement guidance carefully and make sure that you answer the questions on the postgraduate application form within the personal statement tabs, keeping to the advised word count.
UWE Bristol's International College
International students who do not meet the academic or English language requirements to study this course can qualify by completing preparatory study at our International College.
English language support
If you meet the academic requirements but require additional support to take your language skills to the required level, you may be able to attend one of our pre-sessional English courses. Students who successfully complete the pre-sessional course can progress onto their chosen degree course without retaking an IELTS or equivalent.
Read more about our Pre-Sessional English Programme.
Deferred entry
We are not able to offer deferrals for this programme. However, we appreciate there may be extenuating circumstances to consider and therefore we will consider requests on a case by case basis.
English Language Requirement
International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).
*The University accepts a large number of UK and international qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language section.
How to apply
Apply now
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Read more about international applications and key international deadline dates.
For further information
- Email: Admissions@uwe.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 83333
