Master of Science in Accounting and Finance

at University of Nottingham - Jubilee Campus United Kingdom

This masters course is an exciting and challenging course, combining the food sciences with management skills. It equips science and engineering graduates for a career in food production or technical management in the food industry. You will acquire the knowledge associated with food processing and quality assurance. It also develops essential management techniques including supply chain planning and quality management.

Factory visits, case studies and guest speakers from industry will give you plenty of industry exposure throughout the year. Tackle the real-life industry problems in our problem-based learning module. The briefs from industry will be used for a new product development project. You will do the practical in our Food Processing Facility which hosts a wide range of commercial scale food production and testing equipment.

There is an opportunity to complete your research project in collaboration with the food industry. Projects can be factory, laboratory or literature based. Some of our students do it on an industry placement.

Our Marketing MSc gives you all the key skills and knowledge you need to excel in high level marketing positions. There are countless marketing agencies and in-house corporate marketing teams across the world, so you will have far-reaching career opportunities.

The skills you will learn can be applied across all businesses, so your ambitions don't have to be limited to a particular sector. Our core modules cover all the essential elements required by professional marketers. You can select optional modules that reflect your personal career goals and interests, enabling you to gain specialist knowledge of areas including branding, digital marketing and b2b marketing.

As our course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) it is mapped against their assessments of the industry’s needs. You can complete the CIM Diploma in Professional Marketing alongside your MSc studies at no extra cost, which means that you'll graduate with two internationally recognised professional qualifications.

This is a conversion course which is not designed for students with an extensive background in marketing. If your undergraduate degree contains modules with a marketing focus, please be aware that it is highly likely there will be overlap with your prior study. This should be considered carefully before applying.

Risk management is key to an organisation's sustainability. It allows a business to plan for situations ranging from global pandemics to volatile marketplaces, and to put solutions in place that enable them to continue to thrive.

Our programme will give you a complete set of essential management skills and will also develop your potential to excel in global risk management positions. You will be able to directly contribute to the success of organisations in sectors as diverse as healthcare, aviation, law, energy, engineering and insurance.

On our MSc you'll explore topics such as analysing and modelling risk, risk governance in different sectors and quantitative risk management. It is recognised by the Chartered Insurance Institute, the world’s leading professional body for insurance and financial services. In addition, graduates automatically become affiliate members of the Institute of Risk Management. 

Studying this course with us will enhance your CV and help to bring you to the notice of prestigious employers who are looking for the skillset you will have.

Take the next step in your career using psychology in the world of work. Join our British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited course to get your Stage 1 qualification in Occupational Psychology and by the end you should be ready to continue on to your Stage 2 training.

You'll learn about how we motivate employees, how we train them, how we recruit, how we design jobs, how we assess performance, how we manage well-being, how we lead, how we manage organisational change, and more. 

At Nottingham, you'll be taught by research-active experts in the field, some of whom completed their own MScs at Nottingham. We make sure the course has a practical focus to improve your skills as a practitioner. That's why you'll learn about consultancy as part of your studies. You'll also get a good grasp on research methods applicable to the workplace, something particularly valuable to future employers. 

By the end of the course, you should be ready to apply what you've learned to the real world of work.