Program Overview

Pre-Masters Programme in Business and Social Sciences
Pre-Masters Programme in Business and Social Sciences, this two-term pathway will prepare you for your postgraduate degree at the Strathclyde Business School or Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

You’ll study useful skills for your Masters degree, such as research skills and communication, as well as an optional route module related to your progression goals. Our Academic English Skills module ensures your language ability is suited to postgraduate study at a UK university.

Once you have completed the Pre-Masters Programme in Business and Social Sciences, and subject to satisfying the progression criteria, you can proceed to your postgraduate degree at the University.

Leading to: Project Management and Innovation MSc

This course is designed for people who lack any project management knowledge or experience to prepare for a career in this field. A study by the Project Management Institute in 2021 identified the need for 25 million new project managers by 2021 – that’s a yearly demand for 2.3 million project managers. This talent gap means that anyone taking this programme will be in a great position to apply for and secure project management vacancies.

Combining an analytical and hands-on approach to projects aimed at addressing real-world issues critically and pragmatically, this course will fully prepare you for career opportunities in management and policy-making positions in all sectors ranging from private firms in corporate and entrepreneurial settings (manufacturing, services, etc) to public organisations (government, health care, etc).

Distinctive features of the course include:

• a highly practical, career-focused programme, addressing a global skills gap for effective project managers
• core project management classes enhanced and embedded by professional development and project management in practice modules
• studying technological and socio-economic trends and the role of innovation and projects for transformative change
• a Consulting in Practice module, which provides an opportunity to put into practice all that you've learned from the programme and allows you, as part of a small team, to work on a live issue for a client organisation
• collaboration and engagement with the University’s Technology & Innovation Centre and associated companies

Studying an MSc in Project Management & Innovation at Strathclyde Business School will prepare graduates from any background with the fundamentals of project management. You'll learn at a pioneering internationally-renowned academic organisation that develops the business minds of tomorrow.