Management and Business Analytics
MSc
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Start dates: September 2024 / January 2025 / September 2025
Full time: Full time: 1 year or 2 years in sandwich mode which includes one year's full-time paid supervised work experience (a work placement). Sandwich mode is only available for September entry.
Part time: 24 months for UK students
Location: Headington
Department(s): Oxford Brookes Business School
Overview
Our MSc in Management and Business Analytics will prepare you for a successful career in a commercial or not-for-profit organisation.
We'll prepare you to assist in developing efficient processes and making key strategic choices. You'll also learn how to help companies predict future events in relation to the behaviours and actions of consumers and market trends.
We'll help you to build the skills you'll need to:
- identify, analyse and assess business-related issues
- develop key responses to your findings
- select the appropriate course of action.
You'll also focus on cutting edge challenges and contemporary management issues, such as:
- sustainability
- responsible management
- ethical management.
Our aim is to develop your strategic thinking through our teaching. You'll develop a solid foundation of business intelligence analytics to apply to real corporate situations. So you'll complete your studies ready for a career in management and complementary professions.
Why Oxford Brookes University?
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Experiential learning
Apply your learning to practice. We also run an optional study trip so you can see how businesses operate on a global scale. We’ve visited Boston, Budapest and Chengdu.
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A diverse community with expertise
A community with 56 nationalities across the MSc portfolio. Seeing the world from new perspectives will shape your decision-making as you move into management positions.
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Build your network
You’ll make new connections at networking events, guest lectures, business societies and through the Brookes Buddying network.
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Co-curricular events
Team up with students from across a range of disciplines to work on a problem being faced by real companies for Business Challenge Week.
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Placement opportunities
We’ll support you in finding a placement by polishing your interview skills and sharpening your CV.
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Accreditation(s)
Our MSc Management and Business Analytics course is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). As an AWS Academy member institution, Oxford Brookes Business School has access to AWS Academy cloud computing curriculum, developed and maintained by AWS.
Course details
Start this course in January or September
You can start this course in January if a September start doesn't suit you or is not currently offered for this course.
If you start in January you will study a range of modules between January and May. During the summer months of June, July and August you will study further modules and begin work on your dissertation. Between September and December you will complete your final modules and focus on your dissertation.
Study modules
Be industry ready when you graduate
By undertaking an optional work placement you can gain valuable and relevant industry experience and develop transferable skills such as communication, teamwork, networking and problem solving. A work placement can help you decide on your long-term career objectives and may lead to a job offer after graduation (would require visa sponsorship for international students).
The WAVES (Work and Voluntary Experience Service) or Careers Office will provide you with support and advice to get ahead in your career, and help you with your CV and applications. The team has access to a wide range of small, medium and large employers that offer postgraduate student work placements.
If you wish to pursue a placement at a particular company, our WAVES team can support you in making an approach to the company. Our Careers Office can also provide you with advice on how to use professional social media channels to pitch yourself to prospective employers.
Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.
Research
Business School academics explore core issues facing contemporary societies, in areas such as entrepreneurship, internationalisation, digital transformation, diversity, business innovation, big data analytics, data driven decision-making, coaching and mentoring security, and the changing world of work and organisations including the impact of artificial intelligence. We address questions such as:
- What characterises the interconnections of trade, transportation and technologies?
- How can social media address well-being and social isolation?
- How can business models adapt to a digital environment?
- How can individuals be happier and navigate the increasingly complex world of work?
We have expertise in the above research. We are always keen to include students into our projects where possible.
Please visit our research pages to learn more about the four research centres. Being a master’s student at OBBS offers many opportunities to be a part of our research culture.
Careers
With the importance of business data analytics increasing, the demand for graduates with insight into this area is rapidly rising. Employers need professionals that are confident dealing with the growing amount of data.
We’ll prepare you for careers in management and related areas that use business intelligence. You’ll be able to add data analysis, decision making, and other practical skills to your CV. All of these are highly sought after by the corporate world.
Our graduates have secured a range of roles including:
- associate programmatic specialist at Precis Digital
- business development executive at Brightcove
- account director at Revere Agency
- finance business controller at Informa
- managing director at Miyabi Consulting Group.
You’ll also find our graduates at organisations including:
- Deloitte
- Deutsche Telekom
- BASF Group
- Kautex Unipart
- Raiffeisen Bank
- Oxfam
- Revolution Insurance.
Other students have pursued careers in academia to carry out research that will shape the future of business. You’ll also have the skills to support exciting start-ups across different sectors. There are plenty of opportunities for networking throughout the course, so you may even find a future employer before you graduate.
Student profiles
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Entry requirements
Specific entry requirements
This course attracts students from a wide range of backgrounds and nationalities. A minimum of a second class honours degree (2:2) in any academic discipline, or equivalent overseas degree from a recognised institution or equivalent professional or other qualification.
Applicants who possess a diploma rather than a good degree may be eligible for entry provided they have compensatory work experience and can demonstrate career development. Applications are welcome from those in work and seeking continuing professional development.
Entry will also be subject to one satisfactory reference (academic).
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
English language requirements
If English is not your first language you will need to satisfy the university's English language requirements:
- IELTS minimum level 6.0, (with a minimum of 6.0 in reading and writing, and 5.5 in listening and speaking)
- if you have completed your undergraduate degree in the UK (at least one full year of study) you will automatically meet our English language requirements
Please also see the University's standard English language requirements.
Pathways courses for international and EU students
We offer a range of courses to help you meet the entry requirements for your postgraduate course and also familiarise you with university life in the UK.
Take a Pre-Master's course to develop your subject knowledge, study skills and academic language level in preparation for your master's course.
If you need to improve your English language, we offer pre-sessional English language courses to help you meet the English language requirements of your chosen master’s course.
English requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Visas and Immigration minimum language requirements as well as the University's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
International qualifications and equivalences
How to apply
Application process
Tuition fees
Questions about fees?
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Tuition fees
Fees quoted are for the first year only. If you are studying a course that lasts longer than one year, your fees will increase each year.
The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.
How and when to pay
Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.
- For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
- For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.
Optional costs
Additional costs | Amount (£) |
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CMI student membership (optional) | £330 |
International Business in Practice Study Trip module (inc. accommodation for seven nights, insurance, company visits and group transportation for all activities). This fee did not include international airfare, visa application fee (if relevant), dinners and activities during your free time. |
£350-1500 |
It’s your responsibility to cover print / binding costs where coursework submission is required. Please note that a lot of the coursework is now submitted online. |
From £30 |
You may choose to purchase books to support your studies. Many books on our reading lists are available via the Library, or can be purchased secondhand. | £20-60 per book |
Accommodation fees in Brookes Letting (most do not include bills) |
£94-265 per week |
Accommodation fees in university halls (bills included, excluding laundry costs) |
£122-180 per week |
Graduation costs include tickets, gowning and photography. Gowns are not compulsory but typically students do hire robes, starting at £41. |
Typically £0-200 |
Students are responsible for their own travel to and from university for classes. BrookesBus travel is subsidised for full-time undergraduate students that are on a course with a fee of £9,250 or more, or living in an Oxford Brookes hall of residence. There is an administration fee for the production of a BrookesKey. |
From £10 |
Funding your studies
Financial support and scholarships
Featured funding opportunities available for this course.
All financial support and scholarships
Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been
published on the website. For more information, please visit our
changes to programmes page.