Alliance Manchester Business School
Manchester, United Kingdom
About
Alliance Manchester Business School was established in Manchester in 1965 as one of the UK's first two business schools. We are now the UK's largest campus-based business and management school. Research-led, we deliver industry-focused business and management education at all levels.
Programs
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Full-time MBA
The Manchester Full-time MBA degree is one of the world's most practical MBA programmes. You will gain unbeatable experience for your CV by taking on three consultancy projects with real clients. It doesn't get more hands-on than that. The MBA course gives you the flexibility to study over 18 or 15 months. You will have access to personal career support, an international alumni network, electives at five global centres, internship opportunities and more. Plus, you will join a diverse, supportive community of MBA students from around the world. This is a great opportunity to study at one of the UK's most popular universities, at the heart of one of the UK's most exciting cities.
The Manchester Global Executive MBA
Are you a senior manager, high-level executive or experienced entrepreneur? The Global Executive MBA is an 18-month accelerated pathway of the Global MBA for a closed cohort of senior MBA candidates.
This MBA degree will equip you to lead effectively through uncertainty, seize opportunities to innovate in an ever-changing business landscape, and solve the complex business challenges you face every day in a senior role.
While our Global MBA gives you the flexibility to dial up or decrease the amount of global travel, the Global Executive MBA will immerse you in our global study locations. You will attend four core workshop residentials as a cohort…
Global Part-time MBA
The Manchester Global part-time MBA is designed for experienced professionals from all industries. This international MBA is taught through blended learning, so you can study while you continue to work full-time. This means you can apply the skills and knowledge you learn immediately to solve your business challenges.
What is blended learning? You can study this part-time MBA at your own pace from anywhere in the world. Our study format combines online teaching with face-to-face workshop residentials three times a year. The workshops are a great opportunity to learn from talented peers from all industry sectors.
You will study core…
Accounting MSc
Boost your career prospects by developing an advanced knowledge of accounting theory and practice, and prepare for a leading role in the accountancy profession.
Advance your thinking around contemporary issues in the areas of financial reporting, management accounting, auditing and governance
Gain a broad-based understanding of the core subject areas, build knowledge and apply your expertise
Learn about empirical research methods and accounting practice
Benefit from our accounting academics’ close connections with the accountancy profession
Prepare for a professional career in accountancy or progression to a PhD
Accounting & Finance MSc
MSc Accounting and Finance will help you to take your skills and knowledge to the next level. Whether you want to further your professional career, or go on to study for a PhD , this course gives you the qualification you need to succeed. A career in accounting, financial services or related sectors of the economy requires a high level of understanding of both the theory and practice of accounting and finance. This course is designed to give you a broad-based understanding of the core subject areas with an emphasis on empirical research methods and on accounting and finance practice.
Our wide…
Finance MSc
From derivatives and investments, to mergers and acquisitions and global markets, this course covers the essential information you need to pursue a range of exciting finance careers at an international level.
Investing in an MSc Finance adds up to a great career and you gain valuable quantitative skills that are in high demand by employers. A dissertation, focusing on empirical research, allows you to explore your chosen area of interest in detail, and you are supported throughout by our high-calibre staff.
Recent graduates have accepted positions in the City, with the `Big 4' global financial services firms, major world banks…
Financial Management MSc
Are you looking to build your knowledge of financial management or move into the financial sector? Our MSc Financial Management will help you gain confidence in any role or industry.
Taught through online learning with four workshop residentials in Manchester or Shanghai
Learn about sophisticated finance tools and techniques
Gain an understanding of financial markets and institutions within a global context
Understand the interplay between well-functioning financial markets and successful companies
Apply a full range of financial techniques to real-life business situations
Describe, analyse and interpret financial data from markets and companies
Search and gather relevant financial information from multiple…
Quantitative Finance MSc
This specialist course gives you a thorough understanding of the full range of quantitative methods needed for financial decision making.
Our MSc Quantitative Finance programme is particularly suitable for students with a degree in Finance, Financial Economics, Actuarial Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (see entry requirements ), as well as relevant work experience (non-compulsory). It is also suited to those wishing to gain salary enhancements, or students wishing to pursue advanced studies in quantitative finance.
Learn how to forecast and manage risk and return
Gain the skills to price any financial instrument
Learn how to engineer new methods and financial products
Build advanced knowledge…
Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship MSc
Do you want to start your own business, join an innovative firm or shape innovation policy?
The MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at Alliance MBS will equip you with the relevant skills to succeed. It offers a unique perspective on innovation owing to our expertise in areas such as sustainability, high-tech entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, and policy.
This MSc can be taken as a one-year full-time course or part-time over two years.
Our modules will help you understand how the innovation process works, how companies organise to take advantage of internal and external sources of innovation, and the challenges of innovation…
International Business and Management MSc
Develop the ability to think and work across boundaries and borders - vital skills for today's globalised economy.
Build up-to-the-minute knowledge of global management issues to help you make the move into the fast-paced world of international commerce. This international business and management postgraduate degree also provides you with the opportunity to apply for an international exchange to enhance your employability in the global job market.
Through our MSc in International Business and Management, students will:
Develop the ability to think and work across boundaries and borders - vital skills for a globalised economy, but equally important for understanding and…
Sustainable Business MSc
Develop a sustainability mindset, learn how to challenge orthodox thinking and make the world more ecologically, socially and economically sustainable.
This MSc provides students with the ability to apply a business perspective towards developing sustainable goals.
Discover ImpactH - shaping tomorrow’s world through positive human impact.
Accredited by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).
Understand the scale and nature of sustainability as a global issue and how this varies across the global north and south. You will recognise the key enabling and constraining, political and institutional contexts which affect sustainable business practice.
You will also:
Gain a critical understanding of…
Business Analysis and Strategic Management MSc
Focus on international business issues and how to solve them.
Discover the latest thinking in comparative international strategic management and put your learning into practice and gain work experience with the client-facing project. You will gain a thorough understanding of business analysis and development and the key skills of international business consulting.
Focus on international business issues and how to solve them. Put your learning into practice and gain work experience with the client-facing project.
Explore how multinational enterprises operate and carry out comparative business analysis
Work on the practical consultancy skills necessary to work efficiently in an international business…
Management MSc
Fast-track your career in business, enhance your skills in entrepreneurship and learn strategies for successful business growth.
Would you like to set up your own business, join a fast-growing firm or widen your knowledge of business management? This programme will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed.
The MSc Management degree course provides a fast-track into business for those with no previous experience and covers all key elements of management - innovation, entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, organisational change and human resources.
Elective modules on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Business Creation and Development and Developing Enterprising Individuals will develop your ability to…
Marketing MSc
Get your ideas out there and your messages heard with a specialist degree which gives you all the skills and knowledge you need for a successful career in marketing, plus a range of options to help you specialise in your chosen field.
Enjoy a stimulating and flexible degree designed to help you develop a critical appreciation of key areas in marketing, while giving you the chance to hone your skills in a specific area, or you can pursue an academic career via subsequent doctoral work.
Gain the key skills required for a successful career in marketing
Learn about marketing management strategy…
Digital Marketing MSc
Gain a strategic understanding of relevant marketing processes, tools and tactics, providing you with unique analytical and problem-solving skills.
MSc Digital Marketing gives you exposure to this dynamically changing marketing environment, provides you with a strategic understanding of relevant marketing processes, tools and tactics, and helps you to navigate various challenges by providing you with unique analytical and problem-solving skills developed in an inter-disciplinary context. Enriched with expert insights from the most recent cutting-edge research, the programme will help you to provide innovative solutions and sophisticated justification for any type of marketing decision you are faced with.
Build an understanding…
Operations, Project and Supply Chain Management MSc
Learn how to manage the creation and delivery of products and services in organisations across a wide variety of industries.
You will learn the skills to ensure that processes run smoothly, particularly in the face of challenges and opportunities arising from the global reach of business. You will gain vital knowledge and practical skills to become a professional operations, project or supply chain manager in a globalised environment.
Gain the knowledge and skills to ensure that processes run smoothly, particularly in the face of opportunities and challenges arising from the increasingly global reach of business
Cover the service, manufacturing, public…
Business Analytics: Operational Research and Risk Analysis
Learn the fundamental theories, approaches and analytical toolkit of data analytics, decision sciences, applied operational research and statistics.
Gain a solid theoretical foundation and quantitative skills, alongside practical problem-solving techniques
Apply your knowledge to real-life scenarios using case studies, individual and team consulting-based assignments, presentations and software tools
Use Enterprise packages as part of the `Data Analytics for Business Decision Making' unit.
Choose from a broad range of options to meet your interests or career aspirations
Prepare for a career in consultancy, finance, retail, manufacturing, government analytics units, defence, IT systems, outsourcing and telecoms.
Special features
We run a core unit…
Digital Transformation MSc
Be ahead of the curve in an ever-changing digital landscape.
Our MSc in Digital Transformation is a new, innovative programme designed to explore the multifaceted dimension of the digital revolution with the premise to develop future leaders with the expertise to navigate the evolving digital landscape successfully. On this programme you'll delve deep into the strategies, technologies, and organisational change dynamics required to thrive in an era defined by digital disruption.
The core course units at the heart of the programme will encompass a rich array of subject areas that form the foundational pillars by which a career in technology…
Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations MSc
Learn how to manage and develop employees, ensure their wellbeing and understand changing employment legislation.
You will gain advanced knowledge and skills that prepare you for a career as a well-rounded human resources practitioner. You will also have the opportunity to work on a live employment tribunal case which provides valuable hands-on experience.
People are at the heart of workplaces. Managing and developing them is essential to help organisations achieve their goals, and support employees to thrive and lead meaningful working lives.
Develop knowledge of the theoretical foundations and real-world practice of human resource management and industrial relations, both in the…
International Human Resource Management and Comparative Industrial Relations MSc
Learn about the differences in employment practices and industrial relations systems around the world.
Put your HR career on the global stage with a degree that focuses on managing people across borders and putting human resources into an international context. With more and more people working for multinational corporations or in global supply chains, the study of international human resources and comparative industrial relations is becoming ever more important.
The course is approved by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) to the new equivalent advanced level postgraduate standard.
People are at the heart of workplaces. Managing and developing them is essential…
Organisational Psychology MSc
An accredited route into occupational psychology.
Enhance your skills and knowledge on this advanced course in the science of how people and groups behave at work. It is designed for those with an undergraduate degree in psychology. If you don't have an undergraduate degree in psychology, take a look at our MSc Business Psychology course.
This advanced course gives you a route into occupational psychology that is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Take the psychological principles and theories you learned in your graduate degree and apply them to the world of work
Build theoretical understanding and research skills required by…
Business Psychology
Look into the science of how people and groups behave at work.
Build your theoretical knowledge and research skills needed for a career in organisational psychology whilst studying alongside MSc Organisational Psychology students. It is designed for those without an undergraduate British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited degree. If you do have an undergraduate degree in psychology, take a look at our MSc Organisational Psychology course.
For students without a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited degree, this course offers an opportunity to study alongside MSc Organisational Psychology students, and gain a look at the science of how people and groups behave at work. The course builds your theoretical…
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