Management Science

study management science and graduate with a university degree

www.management.stir.ac.uk

Are you looking for a distinctive, strongly vocational business qualification? A qualification that gives you skills in using business software, analysing quantitative data and communicating ideas into action?

Management Science graduates have an excellent track record for finding employment. Organisations value highly the combination of business knowledge, problem-solving ability and technical business software skills that you’ll gain from this programme.

During it, you’ll analyse business systems in a range of environments: industrial, commercial, service and public sector. Among the skills you’ll acquire is the ability to assess project risk (financial, technical and commercial); taking an overall systems view; and make decisions that optimise desired objectives.

BSc (Hons) Management Science

UCAS Code N206

Entrance Requirements

Year 1
Highers BBBB.
A-levels BCC or a combination of A2 and AS levels, VCE and VDA.
IB Diploma with a total of 30 points.
HNC or HND with Bs in Graded Units.
Access courses and other UK/EU and international qualifications are also welcomed.

Year 2
A-levels or Advanced Highers BBB to include Business Studies.
Scottish HND in related subjects with Bs in Graded Units.

Year 3
Applicants with an HND in Business will be considered on an individual basis with a good academic profile.

General Entrance Requirements apply.

International students can study our Undergraduate Certificate if they do not possess the necessary entrance requirements to be admitted directly to the first year of an undergraduate degree programme.

Required Subjects

English Standard Grade (2), Intermediate 2 (C), GCSE (C) or equivalent. Applicants with English Standard Grade (3) will also be considered, although alternative entry conditions may be made in this case.

Mathematics Standard Grade (3), GCSE (C) or equivalent.

Modes of Study

Full-time (3 modules per semester).
Part-time (1 or 2 modules per semester).
February entry also available.

Study Abroad

You can study abroad for a semester or a year.

Rating

Teaching provision in Business and Management has been assessed by the Scottish Funding Council and rated as ‘highly satisfactory’.

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Degree Programme

You will take Management Science plus two other subjects in the first year.

Semesters 1 - 3

A sequence of three general management modules is studied in common with Business Studies, Human Resource Management and Marketing.

These modules establish the foundation required in all management-related subjects, including an understanding of factory operations, the motivation of staff and basic statistical analysis.

Semesters 4 - 8

A sequence of compulsory core modules provides theory and applications of management planning and decision making. These are supported by optional elective modules:

Mathematical and computer modelling for solving operational problems
Principles and practices in quality management
Information technology and environmental issues in modern business

Semester 4

You will study Operations Management and choose two elective modules from a range of management and information technology modules.

Semester 5

You will study the core module, Modelling for Management, and optional elective modules such as:

Operational Research Techniques
Management Information Systems (A)
Quality Planning and Analysis

Semester 6

All students take Project Management. You can study optional elective modules which may include Management Information Systems (B).

Semester 7

You will undertake a case study in Management Science and can also study optional elective modules as listed for Semester 5.

Semester 8

You will work on an Honours project and dissertation.

Teaching and Assessment

Lectures, seminars, tutorials, computer-based workshops and case studies are supplemented by occasional industrial visits. A feature of the final Honours Semester 8 is a project based on a ‘business’ firm or service, in which you are encouraged to investigate a particular management problem and write a dissertation about it for assessment.

Study Abroad Opportunities

You may spend Semester 6 studying abroad under the ERASMUS European exchange programme, or exchanges administered by the University’s Study Abroad Office to destinations in the USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.

Career Opportunities

A Management Science degree from Stirling offers a broad-based education, which is also directly relevant to the needs of companies today. Some graduates work for consultancies offering specialist skills, whilst others enter general line management, planning or business analysis. Management Science graduates have traditionally been able to choose from a wide variety of responsible, well-paid careers on completion of their degree.

Combined Honours Degrees

**Management Science can be studied with:**
Programme	UCAS Code
Accountancy	NN24
Computing Science	GN42
Economics	LN12
Environmental Science	FN92
Finance	NN32
French	NR21
Marketing	N2N5
Mathematics	NG21
Social Policy	LN42
Sociology	LN32
Spanish	NR24
Sports Studies	NC26
Management	N200

This programme comprises modules taken from Business Studies and Management Science.

(For a Combined Honours degree the higher entrance requirements of the subjects usually apply.)