This programme is designed to prepare students for careers as management scientists in commerce and industry. It is vocationally-oriented and considerable emphasis is placed on giving students experience of applying management science techniques and using industry standard software to analyse the types of problems faced by working management scientists. There is an opportunity at the end of Year 1 to progress without loss of time to BSc Honours Management Science. An appropriate achievement profile is required for degree progression. Year 1 Covers topics such as management science in context, modelling for management decision making, statistical decision making and computer basics plus an introduction to marketing and finance.
Emphasis is placed on developing written and oral communication.
This year continues to develop essential quantitative elements, information systems, statistical and business decision making, and marketing, while introducing human resource management and group case studies. In addition the full range of key skills are developed and assessed.