Enhance your technical expertise with project control, quality optimisation, and management skills. Equip yourself to lead technical teams, deliver successful multi-million-pound projects on time and on budget.
Register your interestYou will build on your technical background while adding business and management skills. These skills include project control, supply chain management, risk management and quality optimisation. You will also develop the ‘soft’ skills of working with others and leading projects, including expertise in negotiation and collaboration, effective communication, handling conflict and politics, and managing change.
This course involves a real-world project that is supported by a sponsor and will include both a research and a practical element. It is an opportunity to impress not only your academic assessors but also potential employers.
Find out more about the courses in the programme specification.
We use a wide variety of teaching and learning methods which include lectures, group work, research, discussion groups, seminars, tutorials and practical laboratory sessions. Compared to an undergraduate course, you will find that this Masters requires a higher level of independent working. Assessment methods include individual written reports and research papers, practical assignments and the Masters project.
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To study this course you need:
You must meet the minimum English Language Requirements to join the course.
The annual fee for this course is:
For the 2024/25 academic year, even though you are classified as an International Student, EU nationals receive a £5,500 scholarship, which reduces the fees from £16,500 to £11,000. The discounted fee will be reflected in your offer letter.
Please note: fees may change in the next academic year.
Find out more about paying tuition fees, methods of payment, or read about the scholarships and discounts that might be available to you.
This information was correct at the time of publication.
This course gives you the chance to work with possible employers to create real-world projects and showing them the management and soft skills you're learning with us.
Building on your undergraduate technical skills, you'll learn project control, supply chain management, risk management and quality optimisation which employers expect to see in their top managers.
You'll work on a project that addresses a real-world problem, sponsored by a client who we'll support you to find. This work experience will give you the chance to build your network and increase your employability, helping you find work in project management, engineering design, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, product engineering and more.
Possible management roles include:
You'll have great career opportunities with salaries ranging from £30,000 up to around £80,000.
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