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Business and Management at University of Stirling at Main

This Master of Research in Business and Management is accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science for the training of PhD students.

Students will learn how to:

  • Undertake doctoral research in business and management
  • Equip themselves for an academic or commercial career in business and management research
  • Undertake, evaluate, commission or manage research in the commercial, public, or voluntary sectors

The MRes course has a strong practical focus and trains students in the advanced skills necessary for business, management, economic and policy research.  The aim is to help students to become a researcher who is:

  • Reflective and aware of the assumptions, strengths and limitations of their research
  • Highly skilled in a multitude of management and organisational research techniques
  • Readily able to apply this knowledge in new and diverse domains

When students graduate, they’ll be a reflective, astute researcher who is highly skilled in a multitude of management and organisational research techniques. They’ll be able to apply this knowledge to a wide variety of situations and will be able to:

  • Understand the assumptions made by different approaches to research, their limitations and their implications for answering research questions using an appropriate research design
  • Use qualitative, quantitative and experimental techniques to collect and analyse data to an advanced level
  • Apply this knowledge to the design, conduct and reporting of research projects
  • Critically analyse the methodologies used to conduct empirical research projects

Students will work closely with lecturers and supervisors, who are internationally recognised research experts, with strong track records in publishing findings of global significance. Stirling's teaching team have a strong track record of securing research funding, including from UK research councils and the European Union. They also regularly advise governmental and policy bodies.

Level Masters
Discipline Business & Management
Duration 12 months
Intakes Sep
Application Fees GBP 0
Tuition Fees GBP 17775
Campus Main
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Admission Requirements
Language proficiency (minimum)
IELTS 6
TOEFL 78
PTE 60
Duolingo Not Accepted
Exam proficiency (minimum)
SAT Not Required / Waiver
ACT Not Required / Waiver
GRE Not Required / Waiver
GMAT Not Required / Waiver
Requirements

Minimum GPA - 70%

Rankings
QS Ranking 452
Times Higher Education 401-500
ARWU 801-900
Webometrics 614
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Shanghai Ranking

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis

Webometrics Ranking

The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. CSIC is among the first basic research organizations in Europe. The CSIC consisted in 2006 of 126 centers and institutes distributed throughout Spain.

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