Business Management (Taught)

Whether you are considering the business management profession following an unrelated undergraduate degree, are looking for a career change, or planning to launch your own business, our programme will equip you with the skills you need to succeed.

The business world is complex, fast-moving and exciting, and demands high-calibre employees with strong management, marketing and financial skills. The ability to manage change, risk and people, and to develop sustainable business strategies is crucial. If you wish to develop your own enterprise then creative and entrepreneurial skills are needed too. This degree combines essential management knowledge with relevant practical and professional skills to prepare you for the challenging business world of today.

Our core business management modules ensure that you receive a solid grounding in the essentials of the discipline with the additional opportunity to draw on the RAU's specialist expertise in agriculture, food and natural resource management to contextualise your studies in a sector of your choice. You will gain real-world experience from guest speakers working in the industry and from assessments based on real problems.

You will have the opportunity to receive professional advice and support for your enterprise initiative through our Ignite Enterprise Programme.

UN Sustainable Development Goals This programme has now been designed to foster greater knowledge and awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These goals are mapped to our modules to ensure that at each stage of the programme we are identifying how these goals can be developed as part of business strategy and managed within a business.

This is a dual qualification. Upon successful completion of the degree you will be awarded membership and a Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership from the Chartered Management Institute, further enhancing your CV.

Course Modules

The course is offered full-time over 12 months, or part-time over two, three or four years and comprises lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials and case studies. You can enter the programme in either September or January.

You will study nine modules in the autumn and spring terms; six core modules followed by three elective modules. The research project (dissertation) is then undertaken, to be submitted in August.

Modules
Sustainable Business Strategy

• Entrepreneurship and Business Planning

• Research Skills

• Strategic Operations Management

• Global Marketing Strategy

• Marketing Strategy

• Leadership & Personal Development

• Financial Management

• Dissertation

Plus THREE additional modules, selected from (all modules 15 credits each):

• Integrated Agricultural Systems

• Organic and Regenerative Systems

• Climate Change and Sustainability

• Small Scale Farming and Local Food Supply

• Farm Business and Enterprise Management

The availability of electives to individual students will be dependent on timetabling considerations and on sufficient students electing to take part.

https://www.rau.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/msc-business-management-modules

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Chartered Management Institute