MSc Management Science

Full-year programme with two disciplinary streams. Students are required to take compulsory and optional courses to the value of four full units as shown.
All courses are half-units except OR440 and OR499.

Paper

Course number and title

1

OR426 

Computer Modelling: Applied Statistics and Simulation (H) ‡

2

OR440

Applied Management Science (project) ± or

OR499

Dissertation: MSc Management Science

Disciplinary streams

Operational Research

3

OR401

Techniques of Operational Research (H)

4

OR428

Model Building in Mathematical Programming (H) ‡

5

One of the following half-unit courses:

 

OR405

Advanced Behavioural Decision Making (H) ‡

OR406

Mathematical Programming: Theory and Algorithms (H) †

OR408

Combinatorial Optimisation (H)

OR409

Auctions and Game Theory (H) (n/a 11/12)

OR414

Advanced Topics in Operational Research (H)

OR431

System Dynamics Modelling (H) ‡ (n/a 11/12) or

MN419

Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling (H)

OR432

Operational Research and Decision Sciences in Practice (H)

OR434

Principles of Decision Sciences (H)

OR435

Advanced Decision Sciences (H)

6 & 7

Two of the following half-unit courses:

 

AC491

Financial Accounting, Reporting and Disclosure (H)

ID430

Organisational Behaviour (H)

ID431

Organisational Change (H)

IS471

Innovating Organisational Information Technology (H)

MA419

Search Games (H)

MG425

Global Business Management (H)

OR436

Operations Management (H)

ST415

Research Design for Experimental and Observational Studies (H) (n/a 11/12)

ST422

Time Series (H)

 

Any course listed in 5 above

 

A course from any other MSc programme §

Decision Sciences

3

OR434

Principles of Decision Sciences (H)

4

OR435

Advanced Decision Sciences (H)

5

One of the following half-unit courses:

 

OR405

Advanced Behavioural Decision Making (H) ‡

 

OR401

Techniques of Operational Research (H)

 

OR409

Auctions and Game Theory (H) (n/a 11/12)

 

OR414

Advanced Topics in Operational Research (H)

 

OR431

System Dynamics Modelling (H) ‡ (n/a 11/12) or

 

MN419

Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling (H)

 

OR432

Operational Research and Decision Sciences in Practice (H)

6&7

Two of the following

 

ID430

Organisational Behaviour (H)

 

ID431

Organisational Change (H)

 

MA402

Game Theory 1 (H)

 

MG425

Global Business Management (H)

 

MN415

The Analysis of Strategy A (H)

 

OR436

Operations Management (H)

 

Any other course listed in 5

 

A course from any other MSc programme §

Notes

‡ Examined entirely by means of essays and project reports.
± This is an extended practical project or a dissertation which will be introduced in the summer term and worked on throughout the summer.
§ means by special permission only.

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