This is a full-time master’s course. You’ll study for 12 months, from September to the following September. In the first 9 months (semesters 1 and 2) you'll study the taught part of your course. This is made up of modules that everyone on the course takes, and modules you choose from a list of options.

You can choose optional modules to specialise in specific areas such as advanced analytics methods:

• Machine learning
• Strategic analytics
• Behavioural operations

and the Application of Analytics in Management:

• Finance
• Logistics
• Project and risk management
• Revenue management

During semester 2 you’ll prepare for your dissertation.

For the last 3 months, over the summer, you’ll work independently to research and write your dissertation. As part of this, you’ll have an opportunity to compete for a 3-month summer placement in an external organisation. We usually offer around 50 spaces per year for all CORMSIS MSc students. These placements take place across a wide range of projects and organisations, including those from overseas, such as China and India.

Modules

The modules outlined provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. As a research-led University, we undertake a continuous review of our course to ensure quality enhancement and to manage our resources. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

You must study the following modules :

• Foundation of Business Analytics and Management Science
• Optimisation and Decision Modelling
• Simulation

You must also choose from the following modules :

• Advanced Analytics
• Behavioural Operations
• Computational Methods for Logistics
• Data Analytics and Organisational Decision Making
• Dissertation (Analytics)
• Financial Portfolio Theory
• Managing Complexity, Uncertainty and Subjectivity
• Marketing in the Digital Age for Business
• Principles of Risk Management
• Project Management
• Project Risk Management
• Python for Business and Marketing
• Quantitative Research in Finance
• Revenue Management
• Summer Project

Graduates have exciting career prospects in a wide variety of business and government organisations, typically in roles involving data analytics.

Recent graduates are now working at organisations including:

• British Telecommunications (BT)
• British Airways
• Deloitte
• Nationwide

You’ll be able to increase your professional networks further by taking advantage of an annual analytics recruitment fair run by CORMSIS, where you can meet a wide range of employers.

You'll also have the opportunity to have one-to-one career development sessions with experienced professionals from our industry partner organisations.

You’ll develop essential practical skills through lectures, seminars and discussions. By reviewing case studies, taking part in group work, individual reading and completing coursework, you’ll be able to evaluate problems and put learned skills into practice.

You’ll gain knowledge and understanding of IT skills through lectures and computer workshops, as well as coursework.

Speakers from different organisations will visit to provide insight into how business analytics and management science are used in their business.

You’ll attend workshops led by companies covering a specific topic relevant to your career, such as report writing. Sessions will also feature skills required for the summer project placements so you are prepared to apply.

Assessment

Assessment methods vary between modules, with many including:

• Examinations
• Coursework
• Group assignments
• A dissertation project

Formal examinations take place in January May and June.