Master of Social Work

at Kingston University London - Kingston Hill Campus United Kingdom

Our Marketing and Brand Management MSc, accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), takes a unique focus on branding from a business perspective. It was created to fill a skills gap in the graduate jobs market and designed with input from leading branding practitioners. Graduates from this course understand the real business value of brands and have the crucial practical skills needed to develop and manage them professionally.

• Unique brand insight: on this course you will critique the design of global brands and learn how to get the best results from your creative agencies. You will develop a solid knowledge of marketing management, so you can oversee a brand in all channels. You will take the opportunity to apply branding theory to case studies and in a live business context.
• Career-ready: the work you complete during your masters builds into a portfolio you can be proud to show recruiters.
• Reputation: Kingston Business School maintains a strong reputation for its marketing programmes. Top industry practitioners from companies such as Diageo Great Britain, agencies such as Iris and trade bodies such as the Institute of Promotional Marketing consult with us to ensure that our marketing courses give you the skills needed by industry.

Do you crave a management role, but have a first degree in another subject? This is our most popular postgraduate course, offering modules covering a wide selection of topics that equip you with the practical skills you need to excel in management or consultancy. It gives you the opportunity to gain expertise in individual business disciplines without limiting your employment options. You can choose to specialise in an area of business that interests you most. Pathways include entrepreneurship, marketing, or project management. Or, you can stay on the general international business management path.

• This course is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
• Opportunity to gain a recognised Prince 2 qualification.
• Possibility to participate in a week-long study visit to a foreign business school where you will meet students studying a similar course and undertake visits to local companies.
• Your assessments will reflect real business situations including undertaking a consultancy project with a real business instead of a dissertation. Recent students have worked with General Electric (GE), L'Oreal, Henkel, Kimberly-Clark and Arqiva.
• You'll benefit from an international curriculum and our students come from all over the world to study, so you will finish the course with an international network of contacts.
• Kingston Business School is one of only a few of the 120 UK business schools to be awarded an 'excellent' rating for its teaching quality by the Higher Education Funding Council.

This is an innovative degree designed primarily for people working or wanting to work in the real estate sector either in the UK or beyond who are seeking to gain a high-level head start.

The reflective practitioner at junior or middle-management level can study individual modules to meet CPD requirements or enhance their academic qualifications.

Taught by real estate academics and practitioners, this course has excellent links with surveying and property firms.

This course will allow you to plan and manage financial resources, summarise and analyse financial transactions, and make informed financial decisions.

You'll have the opportunity to gain certifications, for example, Bloomberg, and take part in activities to boost your CV. We embed employability activities into the curriculum and you'll be supported by our careers team to help prepare you for an internship or graduate job.

The course is accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). It offers partial exemptions from their professional exams. Kingston University is also an ICAEW Higher Education Partner in Learning.

Do you crave a management role, but have a first degree in another subject? This is our most popular postgraduate course, offering modules covering a wide selection of topics that equip you with the practical skills you need to excel in management or consultancy. It gives you the opportunity to gain expertise in individual business disciplines without limiting your employment options. You can choose to specialise in an area of business that interests you most. Pathways include entrepreneurship, marketing, or project management. Or, you can stay on the general international business management path.

• This course is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
• Opportunity to gain a recognised Prince 2 qualification.
• Possibility to participate in a week-long study visit to a foreign business school where you will meet students studying a similar course and undertake visits to local companies.
• Your assessments will reflect real business situations including undertaking a consultancy project with a real business instead of a dissertation. Recent students have worked with General Electric (GE), L'Oreal, Henkel, Kimberly-Clark and Arqiva.
• You'll benefit from an international curriculum and our students come from all over the world to study, so you will finish the course with an international network of contacts.
• Kingston Business School is one of only a few of the 120 UK business schools to be awarded an 'excellent' rating for its teaching quality by the Higher Education Funding Council.

If you want to pursue a rewarding, exciting and challenging career in the financial sector then this course provides the knowledge and skills you need, even if you do not already have experience in finance.

This Finance MSc will give you well-integrated knowledge of management accounting and financial accounting, finance and investment; whilst developing your ability to relate these areas to the wider issues of management and corporate strategy. It produces graduates who are prepared for high-level jobs in the financial industries.

This course is equally suitable both for students who have studied economics/ finance/ accountancy before as well as those who seek a career change.

This degree prepares you for a career in business management, giving you the skills, knowledge, and experience to succeed. It includes hands-on, practical experience through working on real business problems, consultancy projects with real clients and opportunities for internships. You'll also have lots of support to set up your own business too. A personal development programme will help you discover your career ambitions and strengths and prepare you for your next step.

The experiences you'll gain will help you establish a business network and stand out from the crowd when starting your career. You'll learn from academic tutors, senior people, and experts from industry and each other.

You'll also have the flexibility to take exciting module options and additional qualifications to deepen your understanding and expertise.

Our Public Relations and Corporate Communications MA is a highly specialised and focussed programme designed for those who want to pursue a career in the broader field of corporate communications and public relations. This includes working for an agency or in-house for a company or organisation. Roles may include PR manager, internal/external communications or investor relations.

Over the course of the program, you will learn to:

• Identify and understand different stakeholder groups and markets, enabling you to develop effective communication styles for clients of a multitude of different educational or cultural backgrounds;
• Understand value and competitive advantage;
• Utilise the latest research in corporate and marketing communications and adapt this to a practical setting through workshops and projects;
• Understand best practice in relation to marketing communications in general and, more specifically, corporate and public communications.

The Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc has been designed to prepare and develop your ability to carry out advanced analysis and research in the field of logistics and supply chain management within a global context.

This course will enable you to grow a network of logistics and supply chain management professionals during the course.

This degree will prepare you for a career working with children, young people and their families in a variety of settings across health, social care, education and youth justice.

You will have two work placements with our partner organisations, giving you the opportunity to put theory into practice. Placements will be in settings such as youth justice, early intervention, health services, schools and children's centres. We also give you the option to find your own placement with children and young people in a field you feel personally passionately about.

You'll develop a knowledge of social pedagogy practice, an inclusive and holistic approach to wellbeing, learning and growth. This degree is approved by the Social Pedagogy Professional Association (SPPA).

You will learn about children's law and rights and the importance of safeguarding children and young people. You'll also study child development, relationships, ethics and diversity and relationship-based professional practice.

During your three years, you will benefit from the expertise of lecturers and professionals from a number of different disciplines. You will be encouraged to explore different ways of working through creative workshops whilst developing your employability skills. Your research skills and creative abilities will be developed to produce exciting ideas to benefit children, young people and their families. You'll have the opportunity to study abroad in one of our European partner universities.

Social pedagogy is an approach to caring for children and young people which combines education and care, emphasising that bringing up children is the shared responsibility of families and society. A key principle is that the young person is in charge of their own life, and you work alongside them.