Program Overview

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Management MSc

Key Information

• Duration: 12 months
• Attendance Mode: Full-time
• Location: Bunhill Row, Central London
• Start of Programme: September 2025
• Application Deadline: Rolling applications
• Entry Year: Showing course information for 2025

Overview

Management MSc: Who is it for?

Our MSc in Management equips you to tackle the challenges of fast-moving global business. This programme will prepare you for your first step into management; or if you are in the early stages of your career as a manager or entrepreneur.

You should have a keen interest in various management topics. You should have a UK upper second-class degree or equivalent. You should be prepared to establish connections with senior managers, business leaders of the City of London, as well as other students from around the world to build lasting professional networks.

Accreditation

The MSc in Management is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) under their Masters in Business Management (MBM) accreditation scheme.

Why Choose This Course?

• Ranked 3rd in the UK and 1st globally for alumni career progress (Financial Times Masters in Management Ranking 2023)
• Based on an MBA-style curriculum, it provides cutting-edge knowledge in all management disciplines
• Gain links to professional services, technology, and financial firms close to the City of London
• Further your career and connect with alumni and industry leaders

Course Objectives

Our MSc Management programme has an MBA-style curriculum. You will learn how to analyse various complex management issues, both operational and strategic within an international context.

Improve your strategic thinking, decision-making, team-leadership, and other hard and soft skills that are essential for managers and entrepreneurs to thrive. Build a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities across all industry sectors, organisation types, and sizes worldwide, ranging from large multinationals to SMEs, family businesses, and startups.

Teaching Staff

The teaching staff on the MSc in Management have many years of practical experience working in industry and are also world-class researchers in their fields.

• Dr Byung-Gak Son
• Dr Li Cunningham
• Dr Hans Frankort
• Dr Santi Furnari
• Dr Sam Kamuriwo
• Dr Simone Santoni
• Dr Sotiris Staikouras

Course Content

On the Management MSc course, you will:

• Acquire a comprehensive grasp of the principles and applications of management
• Develop your range of hard and soft skills as a manager and entrepreneur
• Develop your understanding of a wide range of management issues that affect all industry sectors as well as different types of organisations from big multinationals, SMEs, family businesses, and small startups
• Network with your peers and senior managers from industry

Term 1

• Compulsory Modules:
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Principles of Marketing and Strategy
  • Managing ESG
  • Quantitative Methods for Business

Term 2

• Compulsory Modules:
  • Business & Managerial Economics
  • Research Methods for Business
  • Plus two electives from the following:
    • Advanced Strategy Analysis
    • Entrepreneurship
    • International Finance
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Leading Organisations in the Digital Age

Term 3

• Option 1: You will take a General Research Project worth 30 credits and three specialist electives
• Option 2: You will take a Research Project (dissertation) worth 60 credits designed as a capstone to your core learning with in-depth critical thinking and analysis of a topic of your choice, agreed with your supervisor

Elective Modules:

• Consulting Project
• Global Strategy
• Practicing Management in the Digital Age
• Organisational Behaviour & HRM
• Country & Geopolitical Risk Management
• Driving Supply Chain Innovation through Technology
• Family Business
• Global Real Estate Markets
• New Market Creation
• Project Finance and Infrastructure Investment
• Retail Supply Chain Management
• Storytelling for Business
• Strategy Consulting

Assessment Methods

• Course work
• Examinations
• Presentation
• Groupwork
• Problem sets
• Assessed essays

Term Dates

• Induction: 15th September 2025 - 26th September 2025
• Term one: 29th September 2025 - 12th December 2025
• Term one exams: 5th January 2026 - 16th January 2026
• Term two: 19th January 2026 - 3rd April 2026
• Term two exams: 20th April 2026 - 1st May 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

In the past year, a variety of career development activities were available to our Management students, including company presentations, industry talks, business games, and alumni panel discussions.

Recent Graduates Have Secured Positions Such As:

• Sustainability Analyst
• Advertising Account Manager
• Technology Associate Consultant
• Business Advisor
• Change & Business Solutions Graduate
• Client Services Associate
• Purchasing Associate
• Management Consultant

Fees & Funding

International Fee

• £33,600

UK/Home Fee

• £27,000

Deposit

• £2,000 (usually paid within 1 month of receiving offer and non-refundable unless conditions of offer are not met)

First Installment

• 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 Installment

• Half fees (paid in January following start of course)

Scholarships & Bursaries

Scholarships, sponsorships, loans, and other funding could support your education at Bayes Business School.

Entry Requirements

• A UK upper second-class degree or above, or the equivalent from an overseas institution
• Previous study of business, management, or finance is not required

Please note that this programme is designed for recent graduates with limited work experience. If you have in excess of three years of full-time experience, you should consider the MBA programme.

Interview

Applicants selected by the Admissions Panel may be invited to an online interview. We will contact all selected applicants with full instructions after the Admissions Panel has made an initial assessment of your application.

GMAT

GMAT is not required for application, but may be requested as a condition of offer at the discretion of the Admissions Panel.

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.

Full List of Approved English Language Tests/Qualifications and Minimum Requirements

Apply

Please see our Application Guide for details of the documents you will need to supply as part of your application, and other useful information.

We cannot comment on individual eligibility before you apply. We can only make a decision on your application once it is fully complete, with all requested information received.

Frequently Asked Questions

Apply for September 2025 Entry

We only accept online applications.

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Please note - these are subject to availability and will be on campus.

Terms and Conditions

Students applying to study at Bayes Business School are subject to City, University of London's terms and conditions.

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).

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