MSc Business with Digital Management
Page last updated 14 April 2025
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Introduction
Whatever your background or undergraduate degree subject area, this course will equip you with a wide range of practical business skills ,with a particular focus on digital management, including business information systems and digital marketing.
The manager's role has become increasingly challenging with intense competition, increasing expectations, sustainability, innovation, technology change and alliances all making managers tasks ever more complex and demanding. Yet with the ability to deal confidently with challenges like these, you can look forward to a rewarding future in virtually any organisation.
The MSc Business with Digital Management will give you the skills and insight needed for a successful business career in a variety of different industry sectors, as well as the qualifications and confidence to lift you above other candidates in the job market, whatever your background or undergraduate degree subject area.
This course will provide you with solid grounding across all the main business disciplines with additional knowledge and skills in digital management.
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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:
- The Anatomy of a Business
- Navigating Organisational Complexity
- Career Catalyst: Developing Skills for Long Term Success
- Managing Digital Transformation.
Plus, one optional module from:
- Management Project and Research Methods
- Enterprise Project
- Work Based Learning 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
Many of our tutors have worked in industry, as well as being active researchers in the field of business and management. This combination of practitioner-led teaching, backed by the latest research, means you can look forward to insightful, up-to-the-minute teaching that will equip you to take your management career to the next level.
You'll learn through formal classes and seminar sessions, with a focus also on group work and independent study. Our diverse cohort means you will be able to work with, and learn from, students from many different countries and backgrounds. The work will include assignments, exercises, case studies and presentations, with an emphasis on independent learning to develop your problem-solving skills.
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 course primarily uses continuous assessment through marked assignments, which are either organisation or role-focused, and of great practical benefit to you as an individual and to your organisation. You will typically have one shorter assessment during the module and a longer assessment at the end.
For more details see our full glossary of assessment terms.
Features
Fieldwork
Students who opt to take the Management Consulting module will engage in a team-based 'live' consulting project conducting fieldwork with a local organisation. Subject to project availability and meeting client needs.
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. Read more about the speakers you can hear from at the Business School.
Study facilities
While you are 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.
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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
The MSc Business with Digital Management at Bristol Business School will give you the skills and insight needed for a successful career in business and digital management, with the opportunity to work anywhere in the world, and in any sector.
You will have access to careers support while you are studying with us (and for three years after you graduate) through the University's careers service.
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.
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 will 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
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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
