Global MSc in Management (MBA Exchange)
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Programme Code: TMGLMGMBA
Department: Management
For students starting this programme of study in 2017/18
Classification scheme for the award of a Global MSc in Management (MBA Exchange) for students entering in or after 2017/18
Exam sub-board local rules
A two-year programme. Students take courses to the value of 8.0 units.
The second year includes a dissertation. Students complete the course MG488 GMiM Capstone Course - Management in Action (H) over both years, Part A (unassessed) in Year 1 and Part B (assessed) in Year 2. Students also complete two units at a partner institution (MG410 Term Abroad).
All students are required to attend MG4A1 Introduction to Studying for GMiM.
Year 1 | ||
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Introductory course |
MG4A1 Introduction to Studying for GMiM (0.0) | |
Paper 1 |
MG431 Managerial Economics (0.5) and MG461 Quantitative Analysis in Management (0.5) | |
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Students may be exempted from MG431 and/or MG461 if they meet the conditions outlined in the footnote below. In this case they will be free to take an elective course from the following, subject to the approval of the Programme Director: A | ||
Paper 2 |
MG434 Organisational Behaviour (0.5) and MG462 Qualitative Analysis in Management (0.5) | |
Paper 3 |
MG458 Foundations of Management I (0.5) and MG459 Foundations of Management 2 (0.5) | |
Paper 4 |
MG4E2 Marketing Management (0.5) | |
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Students also take the compulsory unassessed part of MG488: | |
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MG488A GMiM Capstone Course - Management in Action (0.0) | |
Paper 5 |
Students take courses up to the value of 0.5 unit from the Elective Courses listed below (it is not compulsory for students to take a half-unit of optional courses under Paper 5 in the first year. Instead, students can elect to take a half-unit of optional courses in Year 2, in addition to their second year core courses): | |
Year 2 | ||
Further half-unit |
Students who have not taken courses under Paper 5 in their first year, will also need to take a further 0.5 unit course in addition to core second year courses, chosen from the Elective Courses list below: | |
Paper 6 |
MG420 Dissertation (0.5) and MG430 Strategy, Organisation and Innovation (0.5) | |
Paper 7 |
Students take MG488B GMiM Capstone Course - Management in Action and courses to the value of 0.5 units from the Elective Courses list below: | |
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Paper 8 |
Courses to the value of two units to be taken at one of the partner institutions (https://www.cems.org/academic-members/our-members/list/): | |
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MG410 Term Abroad (2.0) | |
Elective Courses
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The following elective courses are available to all GMiM students regardless of whether a specialism is taken or not, subject to pre-requisites and course availability: | ||
AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Control (0.5) | ||
AC412 Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (0.5) | ||
AC415 Management Accounting for Decision Making (0.5) | ||
AC417 Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations (0.5) | ||
AC490 Management Accounting, Decisions and Control (0.5) | ||
AC491 Financial Accounting, Reporting and Disclosure (0.5) | ||
DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5) | ||
FM472 International Finance (0.5) | ||
FM474L Managerial Finance (0.5) | ||
FM474M Managerial Finance (0.5) | ||
GI409 Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (0.5) | ||
GI420 Globalisation, Gender and Development: Theorising Policy and Practice (0.5) | ||
MC408 Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) (0.5) | ||
MG401 Operations Management for Management Consultancy (0.5) # (not available 2018/19) | ||
MG403 Pricing Strategy (0.5) | ||
MG404 Consumer Insights: Behavioural Fundamentals (0.5) | ||
MG405 Behavioural Decision Science (0.5) # (withdrawn 2018/19) | ||
MG418 Open Innovation (0.5) | ||
MG421 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (0.5) # | ||
MG423 Leading Entrepreneurial Organisations in Global Markets (0.5) (withdrawn 2018/19) | ||
MG436 Firms, Markets and Crises (0.5) # (withdrawn 2018/19) | ||
MG452 Behavioural Economics for Management (0.5) # (not available 2018/19) | ||
MG453 Managing Digital Business (0.5) (withdrawn 2018/19) | ||
MG460 Handling Disruption: Humanitarian Emergencies Management and Development (0.5) | ||
MG467 Strategy and Change in Public Sector Management (0.5) # | ||
MG472 Global Strategy, Management and Information Systems (0.5) # | ||
MG473 Negotiation Analysis (0.5) | ||
MG477 Reward System: Key Models and Practices (0.5) | ||
MG478 Globalisation and Human Resource Management (0.5) | ||
MG479 Information Systems for the Public Sector: Digital Government and Service Innovation (0.5) (not available 2018/19) | ||
MG481 Innovating Organisational Information Technology (0.5) # | ||
MG482 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5) | ||
MG484 Global Sourcing and Management of Business and IT Services (0.5) # (not available 2018/19) | ||
MG486 Social Computing, Data and Information Service (0.5) | ||
MG487 Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (0.5) | ||
MG492 Data Governance: Privacy, Openness and Transparency (0.5) | ||
MG4A4 Empirical Research Strategy for Managerial Economics (0.5) (not available 2018/19) | ||
MG4B6 Design and Management of Organisations (0.5) | ||
MG4B7 Organisational Change (0.5) | ||
MG4B9 The World Trading System (0.5) # (not available 2018/19) | ||
MG4C3 Information Technology and Service Innovation (0.5) | ||
MG4D5 Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5) | ||
MG4F2 Marketing Analytics II: Analytics for Managing Innovations, Products and Brands (0.5) | ||
MG4F3 New Media Marketing: Managing Online and Social Media (0.5) # | ||
PB418 Corporate Communications (0.5) | ||
PB419 Creativity and Innovation (0.5) # (not available 2018/19) | ||
PB426 Knowledge Processes in Organizations (0.5) | ||
PP4E4 Analytic frameworks for policy evaluation (0.5) # (not available 2018/19) | ||
PP4E5 Innovations in the governance of public services delivery (0.5) | ||
PP4G3 Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector (0.5) | ||
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Or another MSc-level elective course which is offered in the School, subject to approval of the course leader and the Programme Director. | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options for Elective Courses | ||
Footnotes
A : MG431 - Upon satisfactorily demonstrating that they have a degree in economics and have passed, as part of that degree, a course in managerial economics, microeconomics or industrial organisation, students may be exempted from this course and will be free to take an elective course, subject to the approval of the Programme Director.
MG461 - Upon satisfactorily demonstrating that they have already taken statistics at university level, students may be exempted from this course and will be free to take an elective course, subject to the approval of the Programme Director.
Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.
