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Operations, Project and Supply Chain Management MSc

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 months Full-Time

We revise our fees each academic year. For up-to-date fees information for 2025 entry, please visit our website.

About the course

Learn how to manage the creation and delivery of products and services in organisations across a wide variety of industries — public and private, small and large.

  • Gain the knowledge and skills to ensure that processes run smoothly, particularly in the face of opportunities and challenges arising from the increasingly global reach of business
  • Cover the service, manufacturing, public and private sectors, showing how operations management, project management and supply chain management work
  • Opportunity to concentrate on particular aspects of operations management, supply chain management, project management and process improvement
  • Prepare for a career as a professional operations, project or supply chain manager
  • Strong foundation for progression to a PhD or an academic career within the field

This course is ranked 1st in the UK and 6th in the world

(QS Business World Rankings 2025)

The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)

Internationally recognised academics develop your knowledge and skills across our industry-relevant programmes

Where will your degree take you?

The course provides general training for those who wish to take up specialist positions in operations management. For example, one graduate works in the quality team on a variety of projects in business operations around customer satisfaction, and another graduate set up a new company, Xpediency, based in Shanghai, working with UK companies helping them to develop and take advantage of Chinese manufacturing excellence. Graduates can also pursue a research and/or an academic career.

Recent Recruiters

  • Accenture
  • Alpha Group Co. Ltd
  • GMF AeroAsia
  • Hilti GB Ltd
  • John Lewis
  • Johnson Matthey
  • KPMG
  • Manchester Airport Group
  • Saudi Aramco
  • SPS Tech
  • Turner and Townsend
  • Zibo Huangxing Chemical Fibre Co.
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