MSc Business with Consulting

Programme structure

The MSc Business with Consulting course combines core and optional modules across the three terms of your one-year course, covering key business areas and specific content relating to consulting. You'll then have the opportunity to choose between the Dissertation or Business in Practice route to complete your MSc year.

In your three terms at WBS you will study eight core modules, and one or two optional modules, based on your choice of the Business in Practice or Dissertation route. You'll be assessed by a mixture of individual and group assignments, and examination.

Foundations of Financial & Management Accounting

Gain a comprehensive introduction to financial reporting and management accounting.

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Introduction to Consulting

This module provides a comprehensive overview of the consulting cycle and equips students with foundational skills to begin a career in this dynamic field.

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Fundamentals of Economic Behaviour

Get an introduction to fundamental economic concepts.

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Strategy Analysis and Practice

This module will provide you with a foundation for, and a critical assessment of, theoretical and empirical approaches to strategy.

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Quantitative Methods for Business

The module will equip you with an understanding of descriptive/inferential statistics and data presentation and enable you to apply the major tools needed for MSc level study and for the use of data analysis in the workplace.

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Current Issues in Leadership

On this module you will be introduced to key contemporary themes, debates, and theoretical frameworks in the area of leadership, examining key leadership themes and frameworks in relation to real-world cases.

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Leading and Managing Change

This module aims to develop an understanding of some of the challenges faced by leaders and managers within an increasingly volatile organisational environment.

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Developing Consulting Expertise

This module aims to help you strengthen your understanding of consulting. We will explore concepts and skills across important topics in consulting, with a particular emphasis on current trends like digital transformation and sustainability, and engage in business case readings and discussions.

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These are indicative optional modules which may vary year-on-year.
Research Methodology

If you select the dissertation route, Research Methodology becomes a compulsory module for you and it gives you the academic skills to confidently approach your dissertation topic.

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International Business

The module aims to develop a critical awareness of the issues, problems, concepts, and skills associated with the development of international business strategy and operations.

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Digital Business Services

Focus on how digital technologies enable organisations to offer digital services that aim at improving customer experience as well as firm performance. You'll be prepared to engage with technology-related conversations in the modern workplace.

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Forecasting for Decision Makers

This module will train you in the key methods that aid decision making when managers face an uncertain future.

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Business Analytics for Managers

This module introduces you to the theory and practice of conducting business analytics projects.

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Governance, Corporate Responsibility and Ethical Business Practices

This module will enable you to understand the wider institutional location of business activity within the polity and the society.

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Research Methodology

If you select the dissertation route, Research Methodology becomes a compulsory module for you and it gives you the academic skills to confidently approach your dissertation topic.

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Business in Practice

The Business in Practice module offers an alternative to the traditional Dissertation route. .

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Dissertation

If you select the Dissertation route you will work with an allocated academic supervisor and research a topic relating to marketing.

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Your learning experience

Your course will be taught through an exciting mix of face-to-face and online learning, utilising the format most suitable to the content, and in a way that helps you balance your workload and make the most of opportunities for extra-curricular activities.

Teaching and assessment will vary to fit the subject being studied. Our faculty have designed your learning experience to fit the subject being studied, with a variety of teaching and assessment styles. 

Your teaching will take the form of lectures and webinars, supported, where relevant, by guest speakers from industry to balance theory and practice. 

Your learning will be assessed by a mix of exams, group work, project work, and tests. Group and project work will enable you to collaborate and gain new perspectives from your international cohort, preparing you for working in teams within a global work environment. 

Our online platform

Our unique online learning platform my.wbs will act as the hub for your learning experience, hosting all of your teaching materials, key information from your CareersPlus and Programme Teams, and our online classroom: wbsLive.

Learning facilities

You will have access to our outstanding learning facilities, including a Postgraduate-only Learning Space and IT suite, as well as all other University facilities.  

Foreign Language Study

One of the great benefits of this course is that it offers optional free foreign language study in the evenings across all three terms. This is an opportunity to develop the basics of a new language. There is a choice of six different languages, all at beginner-level (please note we are not able to offer classes at intermediate/advanced level).