Postgraduate and professional courses 7
Diploma in Management Studies (DMS) Course length: 2 years
MA Management Course length: 2 years
Outline
Outline
Successful completion of the DMS provides a qualification which is recognised as enhancing career prospects in a number of operational and managerial roles across a wide range of business sectors. The DMS may provide the basis for further study in a range of professional subject areas such as accounting, marketing and human resources. It also provides the opportunity to top-up to an MBA within a five year period of completing the DMS.
You will study a blend of functional and operational aspects of management, including functional areas such as marketing, accounting and human resource management, before moving on to integrate and contextualise your knowledge and skills. When you have completed the MA Management and gained two years’ management experience you are able to convert you MA into an MBA through a short distance-learning programme and research project.
Who is the course aimed at?
Who is the course aimed at?
This course develops your knowledge of key business functions and their relationship with the wider strategic and international environment. You will expand your knowledge and understanding of the current changes in the business environment through the study of leadership, organisational change and transformation, and strategic management.
Those with a minimum of two years’ general management work experience. This nationally recognised management programme is designed to satisfy the aspirations of practising middle managers seeking career development in both small and large organisations within the private, public and not-for- profit sectors.
What our students say Joss, DMS graduate I believe my professional and personal confidence has grown no end since I joined the course. I found the postgraduate course changed the way I think about professional issues and helped me understand and reason solutions better.
The MA Management is invaluable for anyone starting, or aspiring to start, a career in management. The course is perfect if you have limited managerial experience or management education, and will help you develop the mix of skills, knowledge and understanding that a manager needs.
Those who may not have any qualifications or background in business related subjects but are looking to enter a business management career at an operational level.