- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
The MSc in Strategy & Innovation is designed for applicants holding honours undergraduate degrees in business and/or management disciplines. Applications from managers with significant work experience holding degrees in non-business disciplines are also encouraged.
The programme is not suitable for recent graduates from non-business disciplines and candidates in this category should consider the Masters in Business Management, Human Resources Management or IT Management.
The MSc in Strategy & Innovation is focussed on advanced high level exploration of key areas in Strategy Management and Innovation Management and is supported by leading edge content in Leadership, Technology, and Finance.
The programme will build your capacity to analyse and make decisions on complex issues facing senior leaders in organisations. It will also build your capacity to work in teams and lead important strategic projects.
The programme is delivered through lectures, presentations and intensive workshops in 5 blocks of four full days (5 blocks of two days over two years part-time). The learning process has been designed to provide students with three broad workload categories:
- Taught sessions with lectures on advanced content;
- Individual written assignments to develop and assess students’ knowledge and critical thinking skills;
- Group projects to develop and assess team work skills, skills of application, and problem solving abilities.
The course assessment is 100% continuous assessment.
Entry Requirements
Candidates should have a minimum 2.2 grade honours (level 8) degree in a business discipline or equivalent. Applications from candidates who hold a non-business degree and have at least five years relevant work experience that includes a management role will be considered. 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. International 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 PROJECT
- BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS
- TECHNOLOGY AND FINANCE
- INNOVATION
- LEADERSHIP
- STRATEGY
Course Location
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.
