Digital Transformation - MSc

Program Overview

Digital Transformation - MSc

Overview

Digital Transformation is an innovative MSc degree course designed for those who want to pursue careers as managers and leaders in implementing technology-based information systems solutions and managing technological transformation within organisations.

Introducing STEAMhouse

STEAMhouse is a centre for technology, innovation, creative thinking, prototyping and business development. Our £70 million pound building is the home for all of our Computing courses.

What's covered in this course?

Digital Transformation Specialists must understand the complex relationships between people, information, processes and technology in order to support business with digital development. The course will equip you with the requisite multi-dimensional skillset necessary to help organisations unleash their potential to thrive in an inclusive digital society aligned with the innovative application of digital technology to transform organisations, industries and societies.

You will learn:

• Strategic IS Planning: How to develop a strategic IS/IT plan that is aligned to the strategic information needs of the business.
• Enterprise Systems: How to manage the business processes to support the organisation to gain competitive advantage, improve performance, reduce operational cost, implement efficient business processes, and improve real-time decision-making capabilities via Enterprise Systems (ES), which incorporates ERP, CRM, SCM, and so forth.
• Technology Optimisation and Integration: How to analyse the current business IT status, plan technology solutions and develop a roadmap for legacy systems migration.
• Digital Change Management: How to address the socio-technology challenges of leveraging value from the IS/IT in the digital society using agile methods. This involves making sense of the business requirements in order to ensure the end products will solve the business problem.
• Business Intelligence and Technology Entrepreneurship: How to manage and apply a range of visualisation tools to analyse and make business sense of data lakes, and to exploit data to construct informed business decisions.
• Principles of Project Management: How to deliver strategic value within an organisation and ensure the project (or business solution) is completed on time, within budget, within scope and at the desired performance level.
• Individual Master’s Project: A practice-based module working in collaboration with an organisation or research-based project within the Socio-Technical Systems Research group to apply multi-disciplinary skills to design innovative solutions to the challenges of digital transformation.

Why Choose Us?

• You will have the opportunity to work in teams and collaborate on projects.
• You will learn through case studies, live briefs, discussion and plenary to develop a greater understanding of current challenges facing business and enterprise.
• You will develop management and consultancy skills through critical thinking, appraisal and analysis.
• You will enjoy a high-quality learning experience aligned to real-life business development challenges.
• Graduates of this course are highly sought-after with the multidisciplinary skills necessary to manage strategic and high impact enterprise change.
• The Faculty is a member of SAP University Alliance. This programme provides you with the opportunity to undertake SAP certification in a number of key areas including Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Warehouse.

Entry Requirements

• Essential requirements: Applicants are normally expected to have a minimum of a 2:2 honours degree, or equivalent, in computing, information systems, information technology, business information systems, business information technology, business technology, business manufacturing technology, or any other degree in computing and IT subjects.
• Applying with international qualifications: Please see our international pages for further details of the entry requirements for our courses and information relevant to applicants from your country.
• English language requirements: IELTS 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each band, or equivalent.

Fees & How to Apply

• UK students:
  • Full Time: £10,000 in 2025/26
  • Full Time with Professional Placement: £11,000 in 2025/26
  • Part Time: £1112 per 20 credits
• International students:
  • Full Time: £18,600 in 2025/26
  • Full Time with Professional Placement: £20,460 in 2025/26

Course in Depth

• Enterprise Systems: 20 credits
• Technology Optimisation and Integration: 20 credits
• Strategic Information Systems Planning: 20 credits
• Digital Change Management: 20 credits
• Business Intelligence and Technology Entrepreneurship: 20 credits
• Principles of Project Management: 20 credits
• Individual Master’s Project: 60 credits
• Professional Placement Year (optional): 60 credits

Employability

• Enhancing your employability skills: Birmingham City University programmes aim to provide graduates with a set of attributes which prepare them for their future careers.

Facilities & Staff

• Our teaching philosophy revolves around you both ‘learning by doing’ and also transferring acquired knowledge to others.
• We are constantly investing in our estate and are currently in the process of spending £260 million on new learning facilities.
• The course is supported with a wide range of cutting-edge facilities in the City Centre Campus.