Management (IT Services)

Twelve months full-time. Start dates September and January. Students attend lectures, seminars and workshops throughout two taught semesters (14 weeks each). A dissertation is normally completed during one further semester.

The programme is specifically designed to meet a real and growing demand amongst industry for well-qualified people. Increasingly, employers are seeking graduates with skills and knowledge which are applicable to an integrated and connect world of commerce. The programme aims to provide such skills and knowledge and thus to give graduates a competitive advantage in the graduate management market throughout the world.

In the MSc Management applicants have a choice of three pathways: International Logistics or Financial Analysis or IT Services. Each pathway consists of two taught semesters followed by a third semester in which a dissertation of 15-20,000 words is undertaken.

Taught modules are offered in core subjects in the strategy, accounting and finance, operations and human resources management fields. Specialist modules are available in those fields specific to International Logistics, Financial Analysis, and IT Services. The dissertation is related to an aspect of Management from the students chosen pathway.

• International and cross-cultural student group
• Teaching staff highly experienced in management, research, consultancy and Masters level teaching
• Opportunity to write applied dissertations related to real business problems and issues
• Internationally minded Business School
• Modern Building set in a Park Campus

Core modules are taken by all students:

• Accounting and Finance for Managers
• Managing Operations in the Supply Chain Context
• Organisational Strategy
• Strategic Leadership
• Project Management 

Students select one of the following specialist pathways:

MSc Management (International Logistics)

Core Modules plus:

• International Logistics
• Strategic Issues in Logistics
• Perspectives of Applied Logistics
• Cases in Supply Chain Management
• Lean management
• Logistics dissertation

MSc Management (Financial Analysis)

Core Modules plus:

• Global Financial Strategy
• Investment Analysis
• Corporate reporting 
• Financial Analysis dissertation

MSc Management (IT Services)

Core Modules plus:

• Quality and IT Management
• Implementing Service Strategy
• Strategic Management of IS

Northampton Business School (NBS) is based in a modern building set in 74 acres of attractive parkland. The park setting on the edge of town combines a campus community with a rapidly growing city that blends its traditional market square with a modern business sector. With over 35 years experience the school is renowned for high quality teaching supported by links with industry and commerce. Northampton is located midway between London and Birmingham (the UK's two largest cities) both just one hour journey time by rail.

The course has a mixture of assessment involving essays, research papers, case studies, portfolios, oral presentations, examinations and a final dissertation.

Northampton Business School were delighted to open the £1.7m extension to the Cottesbrooke building in September 2011. The extension includes the HUB - a new social learning space where students can utilise the wireless network to undertake private study or work in small groups or socialise over a coffee.

The extension also offers new spacious teaching rooms equipped with the latest technology and student breakout rooms located on the first floor which can be used for group work and to practice presentations. Students can book these rooms through the business school reception using their student card. We also have an additional computer suite and a boardroom which will be used by students to simulate industry style meetings and agency presentations. The rest of the Business School has been refurbished with all teaching rooms having visual displays connected to the internet, newly equipped IT labs, and the whole building is now wireless.

The international network that feeds consumer demand has become more complex as manufacturing has transferred from traditional economies to the emerging powerhouses of the developing world. Goods are shipped over many thousands of miles as businesses recognise that efficient supply chains are sources of competitive advantage. Logistics, IT systems and finance are essential and interconnected elements in the global infrastructure. Developments in the last two decades have seen huge investments in to the technologies necessary to deliver reduced operating costs, shorter lead times and better value for customers.

In many of the largest economies in the world, up to one person in eight is employed in logistics and transportation and even more when we include IT and financial services. Understanding logistics, IT and finance requires higher levels of education than ever, best practice is continually transferred from one application to another, increasing the value of broad experience across many industry sectors. By their very nature these business sectors promote international mobility, with professionals taking up posts around the globe. A career in management with a logistics, Financial, or IT orientation can be the key to a lifetime of discovering the diversity of the modern world of business.