Business and Management with Integrated Placement

Our courses are designed to allow you to tailor your programme of study to your academic interests and career aspirations. You’ll take a mix of taught modules (core and optional) and complete a major dissertation/consultancy project.

In addition to the University’s English Language Unit, further support is offered to international students whose first language is not English via the Advanced Academic and Business Skills module. This module works in conjunction with your other modules to develop your employability, business and academic English language skills, and to help you build confidence in your own ability to work at postgraduate level in international, cultural and professional contexts.

This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the programme document for more information on which modules are core, required or optional.

• Advanced Academic and Business Skills
• International Business Environment
• International Business Practice
• Marketing Management
• Marketing Communications
• Financial and Management Accounting
• International Financial Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Creative Enterprise: A New Business Venture
• Managing People
• Governance, Ethics and Risk Management
• Dissertation/Consultancy Project
• Research Methods
• Digital Marketing
• Fashion Marketing
• Sustainability.

You're assessed in a variety of methods that may include some or all of the following across the various modules on the course:

• Reports on work-based assignments
• Research project reports
• Portfolios
• Reflective learning and work-experience journals
• Reviews
• Proposal papers for projects, funding or events, business plans, or strategy documents
• Project progress reports
• Project evaluations
• Presentations
• Essays
• Exams.

We combine academic study with practice-based teaching. You’ll learn through a variety of activities including lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, online activity and discussion, work-based learning and research projects.

Staff on this course offer access to a wide range of academic and practical expertise in business and management. You’ll benefit from one-to-one tutorials, workshops, peer-support and shared learning.

We work with you to ensure that what you learn on the course translates into effective practice in the workplace, and develops your professional potential. 

To find out more about how we teach and how you'll learn, please read our Learning and Teaching Delivery Statement.

The work placement / work-based project provides networking opportunities and access to current practice, supporting your research into the wider theoretical and academic contexts of business and management today.

While you're expected to secure your own placement or work-based learning project, Bath Business School has links with a wide network of organisations who offer our students opportunities and experience. You'll undertake the placement module after the first two taught modules, and before your final dissertation / consultancy project.

This Master’s programme is designed to prepare you for a wide range of occupations in general management across all industry sectors and the international environment.

It delivers practical skills and techniques applicable to business and management careers in marketing, enterprise and business start-ups, accounting management and international business.

The majority of module workshops, seminars and tutorials are held at our Newton Park campus.

Our library offers a wide range of business materials. There is also a wealth of material available via electronic sources. This online material can be accessed on and off campus enabling you to work at times that suit you.

MA Arts Management adapts to the ever changing world of culture and the arts. It will expand your theoretical understanding and professional knowledge of arts and cultural management, through hands-on experience and work-based learning.

Develop your career as a socially and ethically engaged, globally connected professional who is creative, enterprising, resilient and innovative with our MA Business and Management.

Course fees

*The total course fee is paid over two years, meaning that you'll pay 50% of the full-time fee during each academic year of study.

*The total course fee is paid over two years, meaning that you pay 50% of the full-time fee during each academic year of study. Total course fee is £10,040.

Course fees