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Ranked in the UK top 30 for business, management and marketing (The Guardian UK University Guide 2022), Solent Business School offers the skills, confidence and connections you need for a successful career in finance, business or international management.
Our team of academics has extensive business experience at senior level, management consulting experience and research interests in applied business and management – while guest speakers offer direct professional connections and the benefit of contemporary senior level business and management experience.
We’re also heavily involved in local enterprise. As a holder of the Small Business Charter, we work with local businesses and freelancers, offering support, guidance and networking opportunities. And our courses are backed up by numerous accreditations, including the Chartered Management Institute, so you can add more to your CV than the qualification itself.
Our new range of postgraduate courses offer an opportunity to further develop your business skills, exploring highly specialised, highly valued areas of knowledge that are the perfect fit for a range of higher management and specialist business roles. You’ll delve into modern business challenges through real world scenarios, discuss how innovative thinking, leadership and effective operations and resource management enable you to add value to your organisation, and develop the professional practices and working habits essential to effective modern business.
The pace of change in the global economy is creating a greater demand for effective leadership in organisations.
A Global MBA from Solent University can help you to demonstrate your capability for those roles, increasing your knowledge of business administration, and exploring leadership in a global context, effective operations and resource management, and sustainable innovation development through real world scenarios, challenges and opportunities in a diverse range of contemporary business areas.
In the modern competitive and dynamic business world, successful organisations need to be innovative and agile – and to differentiate themselves from the competition.
This master’s degree equips you with the skills to excel in strategic business – encompassing current themes of ethics, leadership, sustainability and innovation in a strategic context.
The impact of contemporary geo-political challenges on global business have shown us that resources, logistics and supply chains are more important than ever before.
This MSc will equip you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to develop expertise across key areas of operations management, logistics and supply chain strategies within a global risk context, encompassing themes of supply chain management, leadership, operations sustainability and logistical innovation.
Recent history has shown the importance of managing finances effectively to ensure security and future growth. The demand for skilled financial professionals is always growing, and this master’s degree offers the essential skills for a wealth of potential careers and pathways, from senior management to working in the financial markets.
The course covers global trends, current challenges and sustainability, and provides opportunities to develop personal managerial skills, critical and analytical skills, and informed insight into financial decision making.
Successful project management is fundamental to all businesses; large or small, local or international, the ability to manage finance, people and deadlines is key.
Designed in line with the exacting requirements of project management professional bodies, this master’s degree will prepare you for a career leading and managing people and projects. You will explore the interrelated areas of people, strategy and process topics – including risk, funding, understanding intercultural competencies and successfully delivering projects – and progress your business and management skills alongside specialist project management skills.
Digital story-telling is becoming central to effective marketing and brand management, as developing social and mobile channels offer ever-changing opportunities for engagement. This master’s degree will help prepare you for a leadership role in modern digital marketing, exploring the relationship between paid, owned, earned, and shared media, as well as the traditional marketing roles in an increasingly agile world.
The course will build your skills in strategic marketing planning, service delivery and customer relationships, with a focus on content marketing in a global context. Exploring the central importance of mobile and the need for visual and user-generated content across social channels, you will develop your creative and digital skills for content creation – all driven by the visualisation of ‘big data’.
Our industry-focused courses produce confident, highly-employable graduates with sought-after skills.
We’re part of an international network of alumni and professional connections in every industry around the world.
Our courses are regularly updated to deliver the latest theory, skills and knowledge, informed by the industry and immediately practically relevant.
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