Program Overview

Innovation, Creativity and Leadership MSc

Key information

• Duration: 12 months (full-time); 24 months (part-time)
• Attendance mode: Full-time; Part-time
• Location: Finsbury Square
• Start of programme: September 2025
• Application deadline: Rolling applications
• Entry year: Showing course information for 2025

Overview

The Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership (MICL) at Bayes Business School is a transformative programme for professionals ready to lead with purpose, think differently, and create impact through interdisciplinary innovation.

Who is it for?

• Mid-Career Professionals Ready for Change
• Aspiring Creative Leaders from Any Background
• Changemakers Focused on Social Impact
• Working Professionals Who Need Flexibility
• Learners Seeking Something Different

Why choose this course?

• This course provides a unique opportunity to study innovation, creativity and leadership from a fully rounded, interdisciplinary perspective
• Our curriculum builds upon your professional experience, marrying it with contemporary theories and innovative approaches
• You will have an unrivalled opportunity to network with a diverse community of like-minded professionals, and benefit from our close links with practice

Course objectives

• To inspire and enable you to drive the future, and change things for the better
• To become part of a global community of creative thinkers and practitioners who work together to lead positive change

Teaching staff

• Dr Sara Jones
• Dr Eugenia Cacciatori
• Module leaders include:
  • Dr Enrico Bonadio
  • Jason Donald
  • Dr Ayce Ince Onkal
  • Prof Neil Maiden
  • Dr Anke Plagnol
  • Andy Wilkins

Course content

• Develop your creative thinking
• Learn when and how to use different approaches to innovation
• Learn when and how to use cutting-edge digital technologies, including generative AI, to help with creative problem solving
• Gain practical skills to facilitate creative thinking and enhance innovation in your teams and organisations
• Develop your capacity for reflection in ways that will support your personal development journey and sharpen your leadership skills
• Learn how to work effectively in teams to solve problems, produce creative outcomes and design solutions
• Learn how to foster a creative climate within your organisation
• Learn how to deliver change

Course structure

• Full-time students:
  • Term 1: Four compulsory modules
  • Term 2: Four compulsory modules
  • Term 3: Dissertation or small project and three elective modules
• Part-time students:
  • Year 1: Two compulsory modules in Term 1, two compulsory modules in Term 2, and three elective modules in Term 3
  • Year 2: Two compulsory modules in Term 1, two compulsory modules in Term 2, and a small project in Term 3

Term 1

• Creative Writing
• Creative Problem Solving and Leadership
• Leading Creative Design
• Intellectual Property Law and Management

Term 2

• The Psychology of Creativity and Innovation
• Technologies, Creativity and Innovation
• Delivering Innovation
• Creativity and the Creative Industries

Term 3

• Research Methods and Individual Project
• Research Methods and Small Project
• Electives offered in 2024:
  • Ethics, Society and the Finance Sector
  • Corporate Entrepreneurship
  • FinTech - Financial Services in the Digital Age
  • Negotiation Skill for Multidiscipline Managers
  • New Market Creation
  • Project Leadership
  • Storytelling for Business

Assessment methods

• Course work
• Individual presentations
• Group projects

Term dates

• Induction: 15th September 2025 - 26th September 2025
• Term one: 29th September 2025 - 12th December 2025
• Term two: 19th January 2026 - 3rd April 2026
• Term three - international electives: 4th May 2026 - 15th May 2026
• Term three: 18th May 2026 - 3rd July 2026
• Term three exams: 6th July 2026 - 17th July 2026
• Resits: 10th August 2026 - 21st August 2026
• Additional resit week - tests only: 24th August 2026 - 28th August 2026

Careers

• The Innovation, Creativity and Leadership master's has been designed to unlock career possibilities
• Our alumni go on to become innovation leaders and consultants in large and small organisations, and in private, public and voluntary sectors, as well as developing their own businesses providing products and services across a range of different industries

Fees & funding

• UK/Home fee: £12,000 (full-time), £6,000 (per year) (part-time)
• International fee: £26,000 (full-time), £13,000 (per year) (part-time)
• Deposit: £2,000 (usually paid within 1 month of receiving offer and non-refundable unless conditions of offer are not met)
• First instalment: Half fees less deposit (payable during on-line registration which should be completed at least 5 days before the start of the induction period)
• Second instalment: Half fees (paid in January following start of course)

Entry requirements

• We normally require a UK upper second class degree or above, or the equivalent from an overseas institution
• Applicants who do not hold a degree may be considered on the basis of work experience alone
• Work Experience: Applicants should normally have a minimum of three years’ full-time work experience in a relevant professional domain (there is no upper limit)

English language requirements

• If you have been studying in the UK for the last three years it is unlikely that you will have to take an English language test
• If you have studied in the UK at degree level for less than three years (e.g. 3+1, 2+1, 2+2, etc.) you will be required to provide the results of an approved English language test and possibly resit the test to meet our academic entry requirements

Apply

• We only accept online applications
• Apply - MSc Innovation, Creativity and Leadership FT
• Apply - MSc Innovation, Creativity and Leadership PT

Student life

• We are located right in the heart of London
• Being a City St George's student allows you to take advantage of all that London has to offer
• London is ranked first as 'Best Student City' in the world to study in (QS, 2025)

Contact us

• Speak to one of our staff from Master's programmes teams
• Book an MSc Consultation
• Enquiries form
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