Manchester Metropolitan University
MSc in Management and Sustainability
Manchester, United Kingdom
MSc
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2027
TUITION FEES
GBP 22,500 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* full-time fee for EU and Non-EU international students
Key Summary
About: Manchester Metropolitan University’s MSc in Management and Sustainability accepts graduates and professionals from any background. You’ll study management, leadership, organizational strategy, logistics and sustainable supply chains, circular economy, social enterprise, ethics, corporate responsibility, plus a client-based sustainability research project. Teaching combines industry-shaped, skills-focused modules with research-led staff and extracurricular development via the Staff and Student Sustainability Group and Rise programme. MMU ranks top 60 in the UK.
Career Outcomes: This course leads to careers in sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental policy, corporate strategy, supply chain, consultancy, think-tanks or government roles and supports progression to research or a PhD.
With a growing recognition of sustainability as a core business practice, there’s no better time to study a management degree with sustainability at its heart.
Open to graduates and professionals with a degree in any subject. This course will help you to develop the relevant skills and competences linked to sustainability practices and processes that help organisations design and implement strategies for sustainable development.
You’ll gain a thorough introduction to management practices by exploring organisational strategy, which will give you key insights into various areas of business, management and leadership, and logistics and supply chain practices for sustainable operations. You’ll explore more specialist topics such as the circular economy and social, ethics and environmental enterprise where you’ll build your sustainability skills and competences. During the course you’ll also undertake a sustainability research project working with a real client on an assigned sustainability-related brief.
By joining our course, you’ll become a part of a welcoming and inclusive community of staff and students in our Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability. Our teaching staff are experts in their fields, conducting innovative research that informs their teaching, providing a stimulating and up-to-date learning experience.
You’ll also have an opportunity to engage with our award-winning Staff and Student Sustainability Group that runs an annual Summer Sustainability Festival. Extracurricular actives and the Rise programme also provide you with plenty of opportunities for your personal and professional development.
Apply now to start your journey towards becoming a future sustainable leader in your field.
Features and Benefits
- UK top 3 sustainable university – Manchester Met has been named one of the UK’s leading sustainable universities in the People and Planet University League 2023/24, having maintained a top-three ranking since 2013.
- Skills-focused – this course teaches you the skills you’ll need to obtain a management role in any sector, even if you haven’t got a business or management background.
- Shaped by industry – our courses are regularly reviewed in collaboration with our industry advisors to make sure you learn relevant skills that employers need.
- Delivered with industry – we invite industry experts to come to your lectures and organize live projects for you to work on so that you can learn directly from them what it takes to succeed.'
- A city of opportunities – with global organizations, and innovative start-ups, Manchester offers a wealth of opportunities. Use our connections with employers to enhance your studies and professional networks.
- Triple accredited – our Business School holds the globally recognized trio of accreditations from EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA, placing us among the best business schools in the world.
Course information
In business, sustainability can be viewed as an approach to creating long-term value by taking into consideration how an organisation operates in an economic, ecological, and social environment. For example, organisations such as Nike and Adidas have turned their attention in recent years to reducing waste and creating greener supply chains in aid of the environment. Whereas in biopharma industries, such as Biogen, they’ve also turned their focus to social impact by creating partner initiatives in health and safety. With these big industry names making strong commitments to sustainability, there’s no doubt that others will follow, and it will be a main factor of the business agenda in years to come.
In a world where the need for sustainable practices is growing exponentially, there’s never been a better time for you to study the MSc Management and Sustainability. The ‘management’ aspect of this course allows you to explore core areas of management, such as organisational strategy and supply chain practices, through problem-based learning. You’ll be challenged to think critically about issues such as business ethics, globalisation, and communitarianism. As you progress through the course, you’ll build on the tools and techniques you’ve learned from your previous modules and apply this knowledge to your further studies and to your research project.
As for the ‘sustainability’ aspect of the course, you’ll be given a thorough introduction to topics such as circular economy, sustainable development, and social, ethical, and environmental enterprise. You’ll develop critical tools to analyse sustainability challenges and be able to make recommendations for specific organisations.
You’ll then go on to complete your sustainability research project. This project gives you the opportunity to work with organisations to solve the sustainability challenges of the future. You’ll work within small groups on an assigned project brief. As a group, you’ll complete research into your assigned challenge and present your findings to the client, and prepare a team report written for a professional audience. There's also an individual component of the assessment, which has three core elements: an individual essay, a research journal with reflection, and a professional conversation.
In the 2023/24 academic year, our students worked on sustainability challenges set by Talk Talk, Meatfreed, EZ Hampers, Manchester Climate Change Agency, and Manchester Student Homes.
Rise with Manchester Met
Rise is a programme available to all students at Manchester Met, giving you the opportunity to earn practice credits on your degree through employment-enhancing activities. During your studies, you can collect points for the activities you engage in, and if you engage in enough activity, you could receive recognition on your degree transcript.
Postgraduate students can get involved in activities such as project work, workshops, volunteering, and certifications. For example, you could gain certifications with the likes of Microsoft, Adobe, and the Project Management Institute free of charge. Not only are these fantastic to have on your CV, but they are also transferable to a wide range of careers.
All Rise activities are organised according to themes of Digital Capabilities, Self-Effectiveness, Sustainability, Internationalisation, Enterprise, and Civics. Completing a number of activities within a certain theme will also earn you micro-accreditations in the form of Digital Badges.
Year 1
You will study a selection of core units that cover a broad range of topics within management and sustainability.
Please note: The order in which you complete these units will depend on which date you select to start the course (September or January).
Core modules
- Organisational Strategy
- Logistics and Supply Chain Practices
- Circular Economy
- Critical Management and Enterprise Studies
- Sustainability and Sustainable Development
- Social, Ethical and Environmental Enterprise For Leaders
- Sustainability Research Project
Business School International Postgraduate Scholarship
International students who have been accepted onto this course starting in January 2026 may be eligible for a scholarship worth £1,500 in the first year of study.
This scholarship can be combined with the Postgraduate International Scholarship, making the total value of the discount £5,000 in the first year of study. This means the fee you pay will be £17,500.
We will assess your eligibility when you apply to this course. You do not need to apply to this scholarship separately.
Our course is dedicated to Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability (ERS) related issues, which offers career pathways into a range of new ERS employment routes. This includes corporate, SME’s, government, community, think-tank and policy roles. The sustainability focus of the course means you can show employers that you are a forward-thinking candidate who can contribute readily to an organisations’ sustainability strategy.
If you haven’t studied a business or management related subject at undergraduate level, the combination of your first degree with postgraduate management study makes you a powerful candidate to employers. If you have studied a related subject before having this degree enhances your employability by broadening your skills, knowledge and experience.
You may also be interested in exploring your research project further, or a different sustainability challenge that organisations are facing, with additional study such as a PhD.
Study
- Full-time 20% lectures, seminars or similar; 0% placement; 80% independent study
Assessment
- Full-time 100% coursework; 0% practical; 0% examination