MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Program Overview

MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Overview

The MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship course is aimed at students seeking to develop and enhance their entrepreneurial, creativity, innovation and enterprise skills and capabilities.

Why choose this course?

• 6th in the UK for Business and Management courses (The Guardian University Guide 2025)
• Suitable for students coming from a range of subject disciplines such as business, tourism, performing arts, creative arts, computer sciences, technology, and engineering.
• Develops skills, capabilities, and knowledge to become a highly enterprising graduate.

What's unique about this course?

• By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the necessary skills, capabilities, and knowledge to become a highly enterprising graduate.
• Practitioner guest speakers and entrepreneurs will enhance that experience, engaging and learning from them.
• The Master’s degree is taught in our Lord Swraj building at Wolverhampton City campus, the building offers 6 floors of purpose-built student space and is our Business School's multi-million-pound home.

What happens on the course?

• You will study a range of modules exploring the topics of creativity, innovation, new venture creation, entrepreneurship, change leadership, change agency, change projects, entrepreneurial and digital marketing, and strategic operational management.
• The course assumes no prior knowledge of entrepreneurship, enterprise, or innovation.
• Much of the learning is through real life projects that you will be working on; that could be developing a new business venture or social enterprise for an idea that you have or scaling up an existing idea you have been working on.

Course Modules

Year 1

• Digital and Entrepreneurial Marketing
  • Module: 7BE020
  • Credits: 30
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
• Entrepreneurial Change Leadership
  • Module: 7BU020
  • Credits: 30
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
• Innovation, Creativity and New Venture Foundation
  • Module: 7BU019
  • Credits: 30
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
• Strategic Operations Management
  • Module: 7BU032
  • Credits: 30
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
• The Masters Research Project
  • Module: 7MG001
  • Credits: 60
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core

Potential Career Paths

• Entrepreneur
• Freelance portfolio worker
• Social change agent
• Management consultant
• Marketing Manager
• Business development manager
• Change agency roles

Additional Information

• Everything you need to know about this course!

Why Wolverhampton?

• The team of professionals and senior academics on the course provide an extensive level of expertise in their respective disciplines, from research to practitioner background, most having run their own small businesses.
• The Master’s degree is taught in our Lord Swraj building at Wolverhampton City campus, the building offers 6 floors of purpose-built student space and is our Business School's multi-million-pound home.

What skills will you gain?

• You will have the opportunity to practice and refine your skills and capabilities in order to develop:
  • Your critical understanding of the contemporary issues, theories and conceptual frameworks of entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity and their role in the establishment and development of new enterprises and or high growth businesses.
  • Your critical knowledge of a range of strategic models and theories that can be utilised to guide effective and responsible action in dynamic environments.
  • Your ability to critically analyse and evaluate a change and or innovation context or project using a range of tools, models, and theories.
  • Your understanding and knowledge of the principles and concepts underlying the strategic and operational performance of an organisation.
  • Your ability to make recommendations for entrepreneurial or enterprising practice, based on theoretical insights through the process of applied learning.

Course Fees and Finance

• Location | Mode | Fee | Year
  • Home | Full-time | £10175 per year |
  • Home | Full-time | £10490 per year |
  • Home | Part-time | £5088 per year |
  • Home | Part-time | £5245 per year |
  • International | Full-time | £15950 per year |
  • International | Full-time | £16950 per year |

Entry Requirements

• A good honours undergraduate degree (second class or above) from a UK university or overseas equivalent, or a professional qualification and/or experience considered to be equivalent to the above;
• A reference from a tutor who has supervised the applicant’s undergraduate studies and/or employer;
• Students may apply for recognition of prior learning (RPL) subject to the guidelines set out in the RPL Handbook.
• Applications are also welcome from individuals who do not possess the above qualifications but who have significant management experience and are able to demonstrate previous non-certificated learning equivalent to the above.

International Applicants

• Your qualifications need to be deemed equivalent to the above entry requirements.
• English Language requirements are normally IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each area (unless otherwise stated) or equivalent accepted qualification.

What our students say

• “The course offers the opportunity to develop real life skills.”
• “Having the hands-on experience with also a knowledge of theory is very appealing to employers.”
• “Great opportunity to build my company whilst learning and making mistakes in a safe environment.”

Funding

• Postgraduate Loan(Home Fee Status):
  • You may be able to get a postgraduate student loan from Student Finance England of up to £12,858 to help pay for a Master’s degree.
• Changes for EU students:
  • The UK government has confirmed that EU students starting courses from 1 August 2021 will normally be classified as Overseas (International) students for fee purposes.
• Postgraduate Loyalty Discount:
  • You can get 20% discount on a taught on-site postgraduate course if you’re a University of Wolverhampton Graduate.
• Self-funded:
  • If you are paying for the fees yourself then the fees can be paid in 3 instalments: November, January and April.
• Sponsored - Your employer, embassy or organisation can pay for your Tuition fees:
  • Your employer, embassy or organisation agrees to pay all or part of your tuition fees; the University will refer to them as your sponsor and will invoice them for the appropriate amount.
• Financial Hardship:
  • Students can apply to the Dennis Turner Opportunity Fund for help with course related costs however this cannot be used for fees or to cover general living costs.
• Charitable Funding:
  • You might also want to explore the possibility of funding from charitable trusts.