Project Management (with Placement) MSc

University of Bedfordshire

About the course

This practice-focused, 22-month Master’s provides you with the knowledge and skills you need to perform successfully at a senior management level. You study the management of challenging projects on a course developed with professional bodies and leading specialists, ensuring your learning reflects current and best practice. Your guaranteed placement offers you an academically supervised workplace experience, which also forms the basis for your dissertation project.

What will you study?

Studying our Project Management (with Placement) MSc course will equip you with the knowledge and skills in the combined areas of planning and resource management alongside the interpersonal and leadership skills you need for placement. Through working with case studies and real project experiences, our unit in Project Management Theory and Practice will allow you to evaluate, adapt and apply project management principles to address complex challenges and optimise project outcomes. You will build on skills such as planning, communication, motivation, and initiative to meet demands in the field across various business contexts.

How will you be assessed?

The Course’s Assessment Strategy includes:

A number of different assessment methods will contribute to your development and will enhance your employability. We consider it essential that comprehensive feedback is provided in due time so it is integrated in your learning process. When group work is required, the marks given will be individual following the UoB's regulatory scheme. In some cases, different kind of assessment may be used in combination, making sure however that there are no hidden tasks.

The intensive character of this Course's delivery as it is outlined in its Teaching and Learning philosophy is consistent with the needs of this process in a way that is meaningful and comprehensive. Welcome and induction activities will be followed immediately by a week of intensive direct contact time followed by your own contribution through individual learning, which will take you to your first assessment point. At the end of your six-week block, your final assessment will be due.

The overall underpinning assessment strategy on this course tests the intended learning outcomes through exposing students to a range of assessment types. The aim is to develop both knowledge and skills to support students' entry to employment as confident project managers. The units on this course therefore use varied combination of types of assessments for both formative and summative purposes to enrich the learning experience.

Careers

By completing this MSc course, you will have the skills needed to find career opportunities in the following industries/areas: media sport and leisure government financial services construction hospitality engineering electronics IT telecoms the health services.

If you wish to continue your studies, you will also be well prepared for further research study at MPhil or PhD level.