Course details

This programme is focused on non-business graduates who wish to develop a career in business and management. The programme assumes no prior knowledge of business and management topics, but does assume the capacity for study and development of an honours degree graduate.

Entry Requirements

This course is designed for candidates who do not have a previous business qualification. Candidates should have a minimum 2.2 grade, honours (level 8) degree in a non-business discipline or equivalent. In exceptional circumstances consideration will be given to candidates who do not hold a primary degree, but who do have at least 10 years relevant work experience at least 3 of which must be in a management position. Consideration will be given on a case by case basis to students who have a minimum 2.2 honours degree in a business related discipline where the degree was completed at least 5 years previously. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.

Minimum English language requirements:

  • IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
  • TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
  • TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
  • PTE (Pearson): 62

Module

Year 1

  • BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • PEOPLE, ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIETY
  • Financial Management
  • OPERATIONS SERVICES MANAGEMENT
  • HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN ITS STRATEGIC CONTEXT

Year 2

  • BUSINESS RESEARCH PROJECT
  • STRATEGY AND MARKETING
  • APPLIED ECONOMICS FOR MANAGERS
  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND BUSINESS INNOVATION
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Maynooth University

This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.

Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.

  • In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
  • Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.  
  • Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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