Engineering Management MSc

Overview

The online Engineering Management Masters equips you with the leadership skills you’ll need to progress into management level roles and become an effective industry leader. Offering much more than a generic MBA, the course has been designed by engineers, for engineers. It aims to meet the needs of a changing engineering environment and management skills gap in the industry.

Specialist modules like Business Strategy for Engineers, Emerging and Disruptive Technologies, and Decision Making for Engineering Managers have been aligned with market needs to help you learn high-demand skills. There has never been a more important time for businesses to have technically competent managers, and our specialised curriculum brings a modern, technology-focused perspective to tried and tested management strategies.

Use your knowledge to influence company strategy and impress employers, helping them to evaluate the risks and opportunities associated with new technologies, management techniques and market approaches.

Who is this course for?

If you’re an engineer looking to accelerate your career opportunities and transition into an enterprise-level leadership role, this course is for you. The distance-learning Engineering Management Masters has been designed to help you grasp advanced management techniques used every day by industry leaders. It’s ideal if you are:

In the early stages of your career and looking to fast-track your progress.

An ambitious professional with substantial industry experience.

Have some management experience or new to a management role and looking to build your skills.

Accreditation

This award is accredited by the Chartered Management Institution (CMI) and is equivalent to a CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership.

Learning and teaching

Join our powerful learning network

This comprehensive distance learning Masters degree in Engineering Management will be delivered online via our Virtual Learning Environment, Minerva. You’ll be led by our module tutors in face-to-face sessions, both alone and with a group, joining a global learning network of like-minded engineers from all over the world.

Collaborate, share your knowledge and learn directly from our experienced module tutors. You can even develop your academic relationships and network with peers in our virtual social spaces, giving you a global business advantage.

Career opportunities

The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences maintains long-standing industry links with partners both in the UK and overseas. Through these partnerships, the Faculty has identified demand within the global employment market for engineers with advanced management skills.

Graduates from the Engineering Management Masters will be perfectly equipped to step into roles as industry leaders. You’ll benefit from our links with industry and private companies to build market-ready expertise, ready to apply the latest management thinking.

Alumni of our engineering schools have gone on to positions with companies such as: Arup, KPMG, Laing O’Rourke, TATA Steel, BP, Rolls-Royce and AECOM.

Whether you are looking for progression within your company or simply to improve your management competency within your current role, you’ll be ready to step into a range of engineering career opportunities from Engineering Manager positions to Project Manager, Business Analyst and many more.