MSc Management
Belfast, United Kingdom
MSc
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2027
TUITION FEES
GBP 25,800 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international fee
Key Summary
About: The one-year full-time MSc Management at Queen's University Belfast helps non-business graduates pivot into management. You’ll study Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Operations & Supply Chain, People Management, AI analytics and ethical decision-making. Teaching uses lectures, workshops and cases. A leading-change module covers sustainability, risk and responsible business. Access world-class facilities, employer networking and employability support.
Career Outcomes: Graduates enter consulting, finance, marketing, operations and supply chain. Employers include PwC, Deloitte, Accenture, HSBC. Typical roles are management consultant, business development manager, sales manager, marketing executive and supply chain roles. Graduate Plus/Future Ready Award prepares you for project, strategy and leadership roles.
The MSc in Management is an exciting one-year full-time programme, designed for students coming from non-business or management backgrounds who seek to augment their initial degree or pivot towards a thriving career in management. This programme provides comprehensive education on various aspects of management while simultaneously honing vital skills, including critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication, to become practice-ready for a 21st-century workforce.
Centred on enhancing students' employability skills, the programme offers opportunities to manage real-life business challenges, establish professional networks with employers and alumni, engage in a dynamic, culturally diverse learning atmosphere, and utilise world-class facilities.
The curriculum covers a wide range of topics, including fundamental management disciplines like Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Operations and Supply Chain, and People Management. Furthermore, it also includes topics addressing contemporary management issues such as data-driven decision-making using AI and analytics, as well as ethical business decision-making.
In order to apply knowledge and skills in a comprehensive manner, a culminating module focusing on leading change is included in the curriculum. This module provides students with the necessary skills to adeptly manage organisational changes within a dynamic environment, addressing contemporary management topics such as sustainability, risk management, ethical considerations, responsible business practices, technological advancements, and more. It is aimed at utilising insights gained from various other modules within the programme to offer a well-rounded understanding of effective leadership in evolving contexts. Additionally, there are employability workshops delivered within the business that help prepare students to utilise the academic skills they have acquired to enhance their employment prospects in the 21st-century job market.
Management - January intake highlights
Student Experience
Teaching methods include lectures, workshops, tutorials and case studies. Lectures are also often interspersed with discussion, group exercises and case studies, which allow you to engage with theories and concepts and reflect on their application in practice. You will also have opportunities to make presentations and to work on a variety of group tasks, both assessed and non-assessed, improving your communication and leadership skills.
World Class Facilities
Queen’s Business School (QBS) has recently undergone an innovative expansion that establishes a benchmark of global excellence for one of the top business schools in the UK and Ireland. A stunning new 6,000 square metre building, adjacent to the listed red-brick Riddel Hall, has been designed with the latest digital infrastructure for media lecture capture, TED Talk provision and collaborative breakout sessions.
Fostering an enhanced social and educational experience, the new state-of-the-art QBS venue boasts a 250-seat tiered educational space; 120-seat Harvard-style lecture theatre; 150-seat computer laboratory; breakout study spaces; FinTrU Trading Room; a café, and a Business Engagement and Employability Hub.
Global Opportunities
The course attracts students from a range of academic backgrounds, from languages to law, creating a stimulating social and learning environment. International students bring an exciting and diverse perspective to the overall programme.
Career Development
A distinctive module focused on Developing Careers and Employability Skills is committed to improving students’ readiness for the job market. Facilitated by a dedicated careers team, students will gain insights into pertinent employment prospects and refine essential skills crucial for establishing thriving careers.
The programme offers significant chances for students to interact with employers and alumni through integrated initiatives, including employer perspectives, networking events, LinkedIn workshops, and career seminars. The programme includes a dedicated module on employability skills. This module aims to help students leverage the academic skills they have gained to enhance their job prospects in the modern workforce.
This course is for you if you are from a non-business or management background, and you wish to either enhance your first degree or move towards a successful management career. You want to understand how organisations operate in today’s global marketplace and how the different functions of management (such as strategy and operations) link together.
This programme educates students on the many facets of management while also developing important management skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and communication.
Semester 1
- Analytics with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Making Ethical Business Decisions
- Digital Business Strategy
- People Management and the Future of Work
Semester 2
Leading for Change - This capstone module empowers learners to apply their culminated knowledge from their management education to complex organisational challenges. Through case-based analysis and problem-solving, students critically engage with holistic thinking, stakeholder perspectives, and inclusive leadership to design and evaluate change strategies for dynamic organisational contexts.
Semester 3
- Accounting for Decision Making
- Finance for Managers
- Marketing in the Digital Age
- Operations and Supply Chain Management
Queen’s University Belfast is ranked 174th in the QS World University Rankings 2027
How do I fund my study?
The Department for the Economy will provide a tuition fee loan of up to £6,500 per NI / EU student for postgraduate study.
A postgraduate loans system in the UK offers government-backed student loans of up to £11,836 for taught and research Masters courses in all subject areas (excluding Initial Teacher Education/PGCE, where undergraduate student finance is available). Criteria, eligibility, repayment and application information are available on the UK government website.
This programme provides an opportunity for recent graduates to increase their employment and career prospects, giving themselves a competitive advantage in the graduate labour market. Our graduates are now playing important roles in a wide range of industries including marketing, supply chain management, operations management, consultancy and general management.
Employment after the Course
Graduates from this programme have secured roles with employers such as PwC, Deloitte, Accenture, HSBC, Bank of China, Cisco, Tesla, Telefónica, Spirit AeroSystems, and many others. Typical roles include management consultant, sales manager, business development manager, marketing executive, supply chain agent, and senior administrative and management roles.
Graduate Plus/Future Ready Award for extra-curricular skills
In addition to your degree programme, at Queen's you can have the opportunity to gain wider life, academic and employability skills. For example, placements, voluntary work, clubs, societies, sports and lots more. So not only do you graduate with a degree recognised from a world leading university, you'll have practical national and international experience plus a wider exposure to life overall. We call this Graduate Plus/Future Ready Award. It's what makes studying at Queen's University Belfast special.
Find out what it means