MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- MSc
Overview
Are you ready to shape the future, whether by launching a groundbreaking startup or driving transformative change within a global corporation?
Our MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship is meticulously crafted for the leaders of tomorrow – individuals like you, poised to make a tangible impact.
We believe true innovation comes from doing, not just knowing. Our distinctive, practice-focused curriculum goes far beyond traditional theory, immersing you in real-world challenges from day one. Through collaborative, industry-led projects – not traditional exams – you will directly apply core entrepreneurial methods, gaining the critical skills to create and capture value in any innovative environment. This is an unparalleled opportunity to build a innovation-led entrepreneurial toolkit that will open doors across every industry.
Programme highlights:
- Design Your Future as a Leader: We welcome students from any academic discipline who are ready to build a career in either a startup or a large commercial organisation. The programme is designed to equip you for success in both.
- Practice-Led, Industry-Connected: Our curriculum is built around teamwork and solving real-world challenges, not exams. This immersive approach ensures you gain invaluable practical experience in taking a creative concept from idea to market.
- Harness AI for Strategic Impact: In a world being reshaped by artificial intelligence, we will explore how to use AI tools responsibly to amplify your vision. Explore how to use AI tools responsibly as a strategic leader. Whether for disrupting a market or transforming an organisation from within, you will learn to leverage technology to amplify your vision and deliver results.
- Education Excellence: The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an accredited Centre of Excellence (IOEE), meaning upon graduation you will automatically qualify for an additional professional qualification—an Advance Diploma in Entrepreneurship. The Centre is also a proud national award winner for our authentic, real-world assessment, recently receiving the AGCAS Academic Employability Award (2025).
- An Ideal Ecosystem: Bristol is a recognised hub for innovation, ranked one of the top five best places in the UK to start-up outside of London (Startup Cities Index, 2022). This provides an exceptional environment for your studies and your future career.
Find out more about the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Programme structure
Our degree is delivered through a dynamic series of hands-on units, meticulously designed to build your toolkit. The programme is structured across three distinct phases, with assessment based entirely on real-world individual and group coursework, eliminating traditional exams.
Term 1: Becoming an Innovator: The first term focuses on mastering the powerful, core skills of innovation that are in demand across every industry. You will learn to use human-centred design to find and create genuine value, conduct primary research to develop impactful solutions to complex problems, and build the foundations to become a world-class innovator in any professional context.
Term 2: Applying Your Skills: Apply your learning in two high-impact, real-world scenarios, tailored to ignite your career path:
- Act as a Management Consultant, working for a real-world industry partner to solve a live commercial brief.
- Become a Founder, building a new venture from the ground up with your team to tackle a problem that truly inspires you.
Summer: Launch Your Venture: Your final summer project is the powerful culmination of your learning. You will consolidate your skills to create and present a new product, service, or innovative venture, poised and ready for its next exciting steps.
Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for our MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Entry requirements
You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in any discipline.
We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. Specific module requirements would still apply.
We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement. If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional qualifications. If you have the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing:
- a relevant postgraduate qualification.
See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.
Read the programme admissions statement for important information on entry requirements, the application process and supporting documents required.
If English is not your first language, you will need to reach the requirements outlined in our profile level C.
Further information about English language requirements and profile levels.
Fees and funding
- Home: full-time
- £20,200 per year
- Overseas: full-time
- £36,300 per year
Fees are subject to an annual review. For programmes that last longer than one year, please budget for up to an 8% increase in fees each year.
More about tuition fees, living costs and financial support.
Alumni discount
University of Bristol students and graduates can benefit from a 25% reduction in tuition fees for postgraduate study. Check your eligibility for an alumni discount.
Funding and scholarships
Further information on funding for prospective UK and international postgraduate students.
Career prospects
This programme equips you with a diverse and powerful skill set, preparing you for leadership roles across the entire innovation ecosystem. The programme opens doors to a multitude of career paths, enabling our alumni to succeed in impactful roles across the globe.
Recent graduates have gone on to become:
- Founders of their own startups in sectors ranging from logistics to supporting the neurodivergent community.
- Consultants at world-leading firms like KPMG, using their strategic skills to create lasting impact for clients.
- Innovation Managers leading new product development or strategic initiatives within high-growth FinTech companies such as Monzo and Easol.
- Programme Managers in international start-up ecosystems, responsible for evaluating and supporting the next generation of new ventures.
- Designers and Strategists within global firms, shaping the future of products and services.
Contact us
- Contact
- Enquiries Team
- Phone
- +44 (0) 117 394 1649
- choosebristol-pg@bristol.ac.uk