Program Overview

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BSc Management (Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship) with Industrial / Professional Experience

Overview

Course description

Our flexible Management degrees share a common first year before allowing you to focus on your chosen specialism to enhance your career prospects. With a wide range of course units to choose from, you really can shape your own degree.

BSc (Hons) Management (Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship) with Industrial/Professional Experience will be ideal if you are interested in exploring the challenges of making strategy, managing innovation or developing a new business through the analysis of real company cases and cases of important product, process, service, organisational and business model innovations. You will complete a work placement in your penultimate year.

To graduate with BSc (Hons) Management (Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship), you need to have studied at least 40 credits of second-year options (one third of your studies) and at least 60 credits of final-year options (half of your studies) from the Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship subject area as well as successfully completing a work placement.

Since the Management and Management (Specialism) degrees are identical in the first year, transfer between them is straightforward, so you should apply for only one of them.

Entry requirements

A-level

• AAA
• We will consider the subjects you have taken in addition to your individual grades. Due to the popularity of our courses we may prioritise applicants based on the number of preferred subjects that they are studying. We may also take into consideration the combination of subjects taken.
• Please use the list below to check our preferred subjects for BSc (Hons) Management / BSc (Hons) Management (Specialism) / BSc (Hons) International Management:
  • Accounting, Business Studies, Economics, English Language/Literature, Geography, Government and Politics, Law, Mathematics/Further Mathematics, Politics, Psychology, Quantitative Methods, Sociology and Statistics.

A-level contextual offer

• AAB-BBB
• Applicants taking A Levels are normally expected to offer three full A Levels. If you’re taking more than three A Levels, these won’t be included in your offer. We will only make offers consisting of three A Levels.

UK refugee/care-experienced offer

• AAB-BBB
• Applicants taking A Levels are normally expected to offer three full A Levels. If you’re taking more than three A Levels, these won’t be included in your offer. We will only make offers consisting of three A Levels.

International Baccalaureate

• 36 points overall. 6,6,6 in Higher Level subjects
• Applicants studying the International Baccalaureate Career Related Programme (IBCP) should contact the admissions team prior to applying so that their academic profile can be considered.

GCSE/IGCSE

• Applicants must demonstrate a broad general education including acceptable levels of Literacy and Numeracy, equivalent to at least Grade 6 or B in GCSE/IGCSE English Language and Mathematics. GCSE/IGCSE English Literature will not be accepted in lieu of GCSE/IGCSE English Language.

Other entry requirements

• Other entry requirements exist for this course. You may view these by selecting from the list below.
• Select other entry requirements Scottish requirements Welsh Baccalaureate Foundation year Pearson BTEC qualifications OCR Cambridge Technical qualifications Access to HE Diploma T Level Extended Project Qualification (EPQ)

Fees and funding

Fees

• Fees for entry in 2026 have not yet been set. For entry in 2025 the tuition fees were £9,535 per annum for home students, and are expected to increase slightly for 2026 entry.
• You will receive a significant tuition fee discount for the placement year. UK students with a household income of up to £35,000 are also eligible to receive a cash bursary worth up to £2,000.

Additional expenses

• All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme.

Policy on additional costs

• All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application.

Scholarships/sponsorships

• The Manchester Bursary is available to UK students registered on an undergraduate degree course at Alliance MBS who have had a full financial assessment carried out by Student Finance England.
• In addition, Alliance MBS will award a range of Social Responsibility Scholarships to UK and international/EU students. These awards are worth £2,000 per year across three years of study. You must achieve AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification) and be able to demonstrate a significant contribution and commitment to social responsibility.

Application and selection

How to apply

• Apply through UCAS.

Advice to applicants

• Mitigating circumstances may be personal or family illness, other family circumstances, change of teachers during a course, problems with school facilities or an unusual curriculum followed by your school or college. We recommend that information on mitigating circumstances that have affected or are likely to affect your academic performance will be included in the referee's report.

Interview requirements

• We do not as a rule interview applicants. However, we reserve the right to interview candidates with non-standard backgrounds, eg. Mature students and students aged under 17.

Returning to education

• The University encourages applications from applicants returning to education after employment or other experience. Your application will be considered against the standard entry criteria of the course to which you applied.

Overseas (non-UK) applicants

• International applicants will be assessed against the standard entry criteria of the course to which they are applying.

Deferrals

• Applications for deferred entry are considered equally to other applications up to the point of confirmation. Deferred entry is granted on the discretion of admissions staff, and is normally granted for one year only and 2 years at the maximum.

Course details

Course description

• Our flexible Management degrees share a common first year before allowing you to focus on your chosen specialism to enhance your career prospects. With a wide range of course units to choose from, you really can shape your own degree.

Aims

• This course aims to promote critical awareness of the merits and complexities of management and to instil an appreciation of the association between theory and practice. It aims to introduce you to important new developments in the field of management and to enable you to develop appropriate practical and transferable skills.

Special features

• Study a broad-based management degree whilst specialising in the areas of innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship
• Your chosen specialism will be reflected in your final degree title - BSc (Hons) Management (Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship)
• Don't want to specialise? Graduate with BSc (Hons) Management
• Includes a work placement in your penultimate year of study
• Selected course units grant exemptions from professional exams

Teaching and learning

• You will normally study four or five course units per semester. Each week there are on average two hours of lectures for each course unit and one hour small group teaching although this varies slightly depending on course choices. You are expected to double this in private study. Group work and group or individual presentations will form a regular part of your assignments.

Coursework and assessment

• Essays, multiple choice tests, project reports and presentations, in-class tests and weekly assignments constitute the coursework component of assessment, although the nature and proportion of coursework varies across course units. The remainder of assessment is by unseen examination. Depending on the degree course, in your final year you can choose to do a research-based dissertation or project.

Course unit details

• You take courses totalling 360 credits over the duration of your studies to graduate with Honours (120 credits in each year of study). This includes a mixture of 10 and 20-credits units.

Course content for year 1

• Your first year will give you a good grounding in accounting, finance, management, work psychology, marketing, sociology and economics. This will help you to make more informed choices about optional course units in later years. You will study 120 credits in total.

Course content for year 2

• Your second year course structure is determined by whether you select a specialism or prefer to continue to study a broad range of topics. If you decide to specialise you will study 40 credits of core course units relating to your chosen specialism and 80 credits of optional course units to bring your total to 120 credits.

Course content for year 3

• If you successfully apply for a work placement, this will take place between your second and final year.

Course content for year 4

• In your final year, you will choose at least 60 credits of final year options from your chosen specialist area. You will then select an additional 60 credits of optional course units to bring your total to 120 credits.

Careers

Career opportunities

• The University has its own dedicated Careers Service that you would have full access to as a student and for two years after you graduate. At Manchester you will have access to a number of opportunities to help boost your employability.

What jobs do our Management graduates go into?

• Examples of jobs recent graduates have gone onto include: audit graduate, HR graduate analyst, internet consultant and management trainee.

Who employs them?

• A wide range of companies including: Balfour Beatty, Deutsche Bank, KPMG, Microsoft and Tesco.

What about further study?

• Graduates have gone onto further study in business, economics, enterprise and branding at institutions across the UK and internationally, including London Business School, the University of Jiao Tong and the University of Lausanne.

Accrediting organisations

• Individual students have been able to obtain part-exemption from some examinations from accounting organisations in the UK and Ireland, depending on the course units chosen in the second and third years.

Associated organisations

• Masood Enterprise Centre (MEC) is the focal point for student enterprise and entrepreneurship at The University of Manchester and is based within Alliance MBS. There is growing demand for graduates who can solve problems, innovate, see opportunity, manage risk and apply their subject knowledge and skills.

Facilities

• John Rylands University Library is renowned as one of the most extensive libraries in the world. This is complemented by our specialist business and management Eddie Davies Library which provides a dedicated service to Alliance Manchester Business School undergraduates. There is increasing provision of information via various web-based services and much of your reading material will be available through e-journals. These and other standard computing services, such as access to the internet and word processing, are available through computer clusters across campus in departmental buildings, libraries and halls of residence. Many buildings in and around the campus are also equipped with free wifi access.

Disability support

• Practical support and advice for current students and applicants is available from the Disability Advisory and Support Service. Email: dass@manchester.ac.uk