Management (MLitt)

Program Overview

Management (MLitt) 2025 entry

Overview

Develop your understanding of business and management theory, practice, and collaborative leadership skills.

Key Details

• Application Deadline: Thursday, 7 August 2025
• Start Date: September 2025
• Duration: One year full-time
• School: Business School

Fees

• UK: £14,850
• Rest of the world: £29,990

Why Study This Course?

• Improve your career prospects by gaining knowledge and skills about managing people, processes, and organisations alongside like-minded students from a wide range of non-business or management-related disciplines.
• Gain a strong foundation in contemporary management methods and core business principles.
• Study strategic management, corporate finance and accounting, marketing, and human resource management to gain a fundamental understanding of the key aspects of managing organisations.
• Benefit from a range of learning experiences, including many practical elements to apply key theoretical concepts to the analysis of real organisations and the opportunity to work on consultancy projects with local organisations.
• Collaborate with a welcoming, close-knit, international and diverse Business School community and establish lifelong alumni networks.

Teaching

• Delivered through lectures, tutorials, workshops, and seminars.

Class Sizes

• Groups range from 15 to 60 students.

Dissertation

• A 15,000-word project with weekly support.

Assessment

• A mix of coursework and exams.

Modules

• The St Andrews degree structure is designed to be flexible. You study compulsory modules delivering core learning together with optional modules you choose from the list available that year.
• You will choose two optional modules, taking one in each semester.

Compulsory Modules

• Strategic Management: develops students' knowledge and understanding of the strategy process and develops an appreciation of organisational responses to the rapidly changing global economy.
• Marketing: Principles and Practice: offers a critical review of current theory and practice and looks at how marketing is evolving in light of changes to the business context, particularly from a managerial perspective.
• Reimagining Management and Organisation Studies: introduces the latest theoretical contributions to management and organisation studies and innovative ways of thinking, providing a roadmap for understanding the powerful socioeconomic systems that shape modern society, as well as challenging assumptions and providing a guide to navigating complexity in management and organisational life.
• Managing and Organising for Grand Challenges: develops an appreciation of the grand challenges facing economies and societies and potential responses from organisations, demonstrating the centrality of these challenges and ‘wicked problems’ to contemporary organisations and management professionals.
• Managing Human Resources: reviews the key theoretical and practical aspects involved in managing human resources.
• Corporate Finance and Accounting: introduces students to the basic principles and practices of accounting and corporate finance.

Optional Modules

• Scenario Thinking and Strategy
• Introduction to Entrepreneurship
• International Marketing
• Business Ethics
• Leadership in Organisations
• Strategic Innovation Management
• Marketing and Society
• Managing Non-Governmental Organisations
• Financial Technology (FinTech)
• Sustainable Finance
• Financial Systems
• Behavioural Finance
• Risk Management
• Corporate Governance

Dissertation

• Students attend lectures throughout Semesters 1 and 2 to prepare them for conducting the research portion of the dissertation.
• The dissertation is normally on a specific area of management, however, at the University of St Andrews Business School, you will have the freedom to develop a topic of your own, which is of interest to you and will contribute towards career development or further study goals.
• Students are assigned a supervisor based on a research proposal submitted in the second semester.
• They will then research and write a 15,000-word dissertation over the summer to be submitted on a date specified in August.

What It Will Lead To

Careers

• You will gain the knowledge and skills needed to make a success of your career in a wide range of sectors.
• With management and leadership currently considered shortage skills in the UK economy, graduates in this field are in high demand.
• Our graduates work in a variety of organisations in the public and private sectors, in roles ranging from marketing and brand management, business development and analysis to consulting, sales, finance and investment, policy advice, supply chain management, and much more.

Elevate Your Career

• Graduates from the Masters in Management programme have taken up roles in a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors including:
  • Credit Suisse Group
  • Google
  • IBM
  • KPMG

Further Your Education

• Management graduates can pursue PhDs at St Andrews or beyond.
• Funding includes ESRC awards and Business School studentships, offering RCUK-level stipends and fee waivers for home and EU students.

Why St Andrews?

Industry Connections

• The Masters Extra (MX) is a programme of events focused on careers and personal and professional development, designed specifically for taught Masters students in the University of St Andrews Business School.
• The series of talks, workshops, networking opportunities and activities includes guest lectures from entrepreneurs, experienced managers, and leading researchers.

Alumni

• As a graduate of St Andrews, you become part of a prestigious and globally connected alumni community.
• This lifelong membership offers access to career services, networking opportunities, and exclusive resources.
• Engaging with the University's worldwide alumni network ensures you remain connected to St Andrews, no matter where your career takes you.

Entry Requirements

• A 2.1 undergraduate Honours degree in a subject other than business or management from the UK or the equivalent international qualification.
• Students with a background in business or management are advised to consider the MLitt International Business, the MLitt Marketing.
• If you studied your first degree outside the UK, see the international entry requirements.
• English language proficiency. See English language tests and qualifications.

Application Requirements

• CV that includes your personal details with a history of your education and employment to date.
• Personal statement explaining why you have chosen the programme, why this subject is important to you and why you have applied to study at the University of St Andrews Business School in particular (500 words).
• One original signed academic reference.
• Academic transcripts and degree certificates.

Scholarships and Funding

• We are committed to supporting you through your studies, regardless of your financial circumstances.
• You may be eligible for scholarships, discounts or other support:
  • Jane M Klausman Women in Business Scholarship
  • GREAT Scholarship
  • St Andrews Sanctuary Scholarship
  • St Leonard's funding opportunities
  • Graduate discount (15% off tuition fees)

Accreditations

• This programme is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
• Successful graduates will achieve CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice and Foundation Chartered Manager status.