Risk Management MSc (distance learning)

Overview

Reasons to study Risk Management at DMU:

This course is relevant to accountants, project managers, insurers, chartered surveyors, healthcare professionals, lawyers, bankers, auditors, health and safety professionals, and engineers. This course is designed to appeal to a broad risk management body and recognises the interdisciplinary nature of the subject.

• Association of Insurance and Risk Management The course is accredited by the Institute of Risk Management and you can also earn exemptions from their professional examinations
• Gain practical experience You could complete a 12-week project based in a UK company or organisation. This internship will improve your employability. You will take part in a web-based business simulation exercise which is designed to integrate your studies
• KNect365 Learning This course is delivered in partnership with KNect365 Learning – An Informa Business, an organisation dedicated to working with leading academic bodies to provide high-calibre and well respected distance learning postgraduate courses

Teaching and assessment

The MSc is studied by distance learning and is fully assessed by coursework and a dissertation. The distance learning mode involves optional attendance at De Montfort University for a maximum of nine Saturday study days during the period of study.

The course is structured in a way that allows you to exit it at one of several points, if desired, each with a postgraduate award.

Graduate careers

Careers in ‘risk management’ are likely to remain relatively buoyant as an employment option.

This is because as the world becomes ever more unpredictable and unstable, in business terms, the demand for risk managers is likely to be ongoing.

This is also added to by the increased amount of ‘risk regulation’.