Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Entry requirements

Months of entry

January, September

Course content

This degree has been specifically designed to provide you with a range of skills that will give you a competitive advantage in the global marketplace.

You will be taught by senior academics who have wealth of professional experience and excellent links with industry. In studying a variety of subjects in the course modules, you will gain the knowledge and experience needed for a successful career in the area of Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management.

The course will assist you in expanding your expertise in areas such as entrepreneurship, project management and human resource management. You will also have the opportunity to work as an operation's management consultant working for a real client. This will include the analysis of ongoing business issues and assisting the client in developing solutions. Consequently, you will enhance your critical thinking skills and your ability to devise solutions that are economically feasible and operationally effective.

The course content is both practical and relevant to real business life and this includes the option of an internship to provide you with a flavour of the actual world of business.

Key features

• Work-related curriculum that enhances your ability to adapt to complex situations
• Modules based on contemporary research, scholarship and cutting-edge thinking
• The course is taught by senior academics who have excellent links with industry and a wealth of professional experience
• Opportunities to gain access to local and national employers through the internship
• Cross-learning opportunities amongst students of diverse backgrounds and business practices from around the world
• A flexible course design to allow two entry points in both September and January

The internship

An optional internship (up to 6 months in duration) is available to all students, taking place on completion of the taught modules. This internship will not be credit-rated but will allow the student to gain first-hand experience within a real business environment to enhance their future employability. Students may also choose to make use of this opportunity to base their Research Project on a business-related issue arising during the internship. There may be possibilities, with the employer’s permission, to gain access to research participants and primary data, and to apply their understanding of theories and principles discussed within their programme to a live organisational setting.

Securing the internship is the responsibility of the students to arrange and is not necessarily paid. Students who request the internship option will need to secure this by a specified deadline. If the deadline isn't met, the course will revert to the route without internship.