MSc Management of Integrated Design

Core and specialist options

You will start by building a foundation in systems and design thinking. Discover how complex systems operate, how organisations design and innovate, and how interdisciplinary collaboration supports problem-solving, studying core units in:

• Systems thinking and systems modelling
• Design thinking and creative problem-solving methods
• Innovation theory and organisational design
• Fundamentals of business, design and engineering integration.

You'll then broaden your expertise by moving into a pathway-led specialist study applied across business, design and engineering in an industry and social context.

• Pathway 1: Design for Advanced Manufacturing
• Pathway 2: Design for Circular Business
• Pathway 3: Design for Creative Industries.

Final project

Your studies finish with a 60-credit project. You'll apply your learning to an extended piece of independent or group-based work.

Options include:

• An interdisciplinary group project
• An individual dissertation
• A practice-based or industry-linked project.

Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for MSc Management of Integrated Design.

You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in any subject.

Applicants from Social Science, Arts and Humanities backgrounds will need to demonstrate maths ability with one quantitative unit at 60% or above (UK equivalent) or international equivalent from the Maths qualification requirements list below

OR

A-level Mathematics with grade A if no mathematics or quantitative units in your degree.

If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date.

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 relevant work experience or qualifications. If you have at least one of the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae/résumé) when you apply, showing:

• five years' relevant work experience in business and corporate management, finance and accounting, marketing and sales, operations and logistics, public sector or nonprofit administration, human resources, project management, data and analytics, engineering, technology, design, creative industries, innovation-related roles
• a relevant postgraduate qualification.

Specific module requirements would still apply, which can be met in either undergraduate or postgraduate qualifications.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.