Management (MLitt) 2025 entry

Modules are delivered through three to five contact hours per week including lectures, seminars, workshops, and tutorials. Assessment is either entirely by coursework or through a combination of coursework (50%) and a two-hour end-of-semester examination (50%).

For more details, including weekly contact hours, teaching methods and assessment, please see the module catalogue. The modules are examples from previous academic years and may be subject to change before you start your course.

• Compulsory

  • Strategic Management: develops students' knowledge and understanding of the strategy process and develops an appreciation of organisational responses to the rapidly changing global economy.
  • Marketing: Principles and Practice: offers a critical review of current theory and practice and looks at how marketing is evolving in light of changes to the business context, particularly from a managerial perspective.
  • Reimagining Management and Organisation Studies: introduces the latest theoretical contributions to management and organisation studies and innovative ways of thinking, providing a roadmap for understanding the powerful socioeconomic systems that shape modern society, as well as challenging assumptions and providing a guide to navigating complexity in management and organisational life.
  • Managing and Organising for Grand Challenges: develops an appreciation of the grand challenges facing economies and societies and potential responses from organisations, demonstrating the centrality of these challenges and ‘wicked problems’ to contemporary organisations and management professionals.
  • Managing Human Resources: reviews the key theoretical and practical aspects involved in managing human resources.
  • Corporate Finance and Accounting: introduces students to the basic principles and practices of accounting and corporate finance.

• Optional

  Students choose two optional modules, taking one in each semester. For the latest optional module information, see the module catalogue.

  Here is a sample of optional modules that may be offered:

  • Behavioural Finance
  • Entrepreneurship and Business Development
  • Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
  • Financial Systems
  • International Financial Management
  • International Marketing
  • Leadership in Organisations
  • Managing People in Global Markets
  • Marketing and Society
  • Managing Non-Governmental Organisations
  • Risk Management
  • Scenario Thinking and Strategy

  Optional modules are subject to change each year and require a minimum number of participants to be offered; some may only allow limited numbers of students. 

• Dissertation

  Students attend lectures throughout Semesters 1 and 2 to prepare them for conducting the research portion of the dissertation. The dissertation is normally on a specific area of management, however, at the University of St Andrews Business School, you will have the freedom to develop a topic of your own, which is of interest to you and will contribute towards career development or further study goals.

  Students are assigned a supervisor based on a research proposal submitted in the second semester. They will then research and write a 15,000-word dissertation over the summer to be submitted on a date specified in August.

  If students choose not to complete the dissertation requirement for their Masters degree (MLitt), there are exit awards available that allow suitably qualified candidates to receive a postgraduate diploma (PGDip). By choosing an exit award, you will receive a PGDip instead of a MLitt.