Swansea University - MPhil in Business Management

MPhil in Business Management

School of Business and Economics

The School of Business and Economics has a lively, cosmopolitan atmosphere and is housed on the University campus in modern, purpose built facilities with its own teaching rooms and up-to-date IT facilities. It has an expanding postgraduate community. In the School’s most recent review of teaching (The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education – November 2002) the highest possible scores were achieved in Business and Management subjects for both academic standards and the quality of the learning opportunities at the School.

The UCAS code for this course is: n/a
Full time study: Postgraduate degree durations vary

Part-time study:

The School has extensive PC and multi-user computer facilities, with networked PCs linked to a variety of server platforms. All networked PCs have access to a broad selection of resources such as The FT, Economist and ABI Inform, and students have terminal access to the Datastream financial information system. The School also provides access to telephone/fax, postal and photocopying services, and provides an email address and Internet access. Postgraduate students at the School of Business and Economics have access to computer labs and study areas within the School at any time of the day.

Standard Entry requirements

For a research degree: normally a first or upper second-class honours degree in a relevant subject.

Scholarships and Bursaries

From time to time the School and the University awards a limited number of research studentships (MPhil/PhD). Home and overseas students are also encouraged to apply for research studentships and grants from other research institutions and funding bodies.

Research

The School has a number of established research groupings, which provide focus and support our ongoing research programmes and culture.

Human Resources, Organisations and Entrepreneurship
The research activity of this group includes cross-cultural research on change management practices in multinational companies; industrial relations and models of partnership management; organizational design and behaviour; and research on the drivers of entrepreneurship activity. Interdisciplinary work in environmental management is also carried out within this group.

Finance and Risk Management
Research in the finance area has a strong empirical flavour, areas of current interest are as follows: the modelling of futures and options data; asset pricing models; insurance industry structure; the credit rating  of insurers; financial markets in developing economies.

Information Systems
Research of both national and international significance is conducted in the areas of electronic government and electronic democracy, strategic data planning, database design, rapid application development, information systems failure and evaluation, multimedia business applications and electronic commerce/electronic business in the SME sector.

Marketing
Research areas covered by the marketing group include marketing research methodology particularly in cross-cultural research, personal selling and sales management, consumer behaviour, internet marketing and marketing communications. The marketing group undertakes both theoretical and applied research. Research is also conducted within the School on tourism demand modelling.

Statistics Research on various aspects of applied stochastic modelling, complemented by more theoretical research into general principles of probability and statistical inference, is undertaken by this group. Work is also conducted on the practical application of statistics to a variety of problems arising from commercial organisations and government bodies.

In addition to these research groups, members of the School are actively engaged in research in tourism studies and in environmental management.

As well as providing focus and direction for research, groups hold regular colloquia and workshops and are designed to promote inter-disciplinary research projects, and to provide impetus for research grant applications and consultancy activity. The School has current externally-funded research projects on the information society (National Assembly for Wales), on business succession planning (European Social Fund) on environmental management and on the labour market in Wales (European Social Fund).

Accreditation

n/a

Assessment

Assessment criteria varies, please consult the Admissions Tutor for further details.

Important Dates

Information regarding dates and times for Enrolment can be found on the Student Records webpages.

UK/EU Undergraduates

Applications should be made through UCAS.

International Students

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