Fast-track your career in business, marketing or human resource management with this extended course designed to enable third-class degree holders to pursue a postgraduate qualification. Demonstrate your value to employers. Qualify for senior roles with significant responsibility.
Overview
The course prepares you for senior roles, your aim is to accelerate your progress towards well-paid positions of leadership. On completion of the first term, you can transfer to a range of postgraduate courses, including:
- MSc Finance and Management
- MA Marketing
- MSc Human Resource Management
Why us?
- Our Masters programme has a global outlook within the international community, attention to destinations as well as subject knowledge, teaching underpinned by research and professional experience and academically rigorous and professional relevance
Course structure
Teaching methods include: classes, lectures, seminars, tutorials, group work, directed study, independent learning and will be conducted in and out of the Centre. Students will be given guided learning hours, but should note that not all of the hours will be conducted in the classroom setting. You will be actively encouraged to research using problem solving and critical thinking skills.
The Extended course normally requires 15 months of full-time study. However, as well as the final award there are two interim awards available to those wishing to leave the course having gained 60 M-level credits (excluding PGBM001) – a postgraduate certificate, or 120 M-level credits (excluding PGBM001) – a postgraduate diploma.
Facilities
You'll be based at ONCAMPUS Sunderland, which is located at City Campus, during term one. You'll then move to the Reg Vardy Centre at the Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter’s for the remainder of the course. The Reg Vardy Centre is a modern building with views of the river, and just a short walk from both the coast and Sunderland town centre.
Career ready
The course prepares you for senior roles in business, marketing, human resource management, finance and more. Your final award will be MA Marketing, MSc Human Resource Management, or MSc Finance and Management.
Guest speakers
We invite business leaders into the University to share their experiences with students. Past speakers include Divine Chocolate’s Head of Sales & Marketing and Sunderland Football Club’s CEO.
Learning from business professionals can be very useful if you’re not sure what career to pursue when you graduate. If you already have a plan for your career, these events are an excellent way to start building a network of business contacts.
Some of the companies which employ our graduates include: Microsoft, IBM, Nike, Adidas, P&G, Lloyds TSB, Marriott Hotels, and the NHS.
The average salary of a business / marketing manager is £37,000, with directors earning an average of around £77,000, according to Marketing Week/Ball and Hoolahan.
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