Our experience in delivering challenging and thought-provoking courses sets us apart from the mass of universities offering undergraduate management courses.

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Management Studies at Leicester

The School of Management at Leicester consists of a community of scholars dedicated to the development of critical management studies. We conduct internationally recognised research and scholarship that increases the understanding and knowledge of the role of management and organisation in the contemporary world. Our research informs our teaching. We endeavour to provide educational experiences that are revelatory, and that give each student the capacity to develop their intellectual abilities to the full in a supportive, inclusive and diverse atmosphere.

Our programmes are designed to provide you with a wealth of learning experiences and a qualification that will serve you well in your life and career for many years after graduation. The course content and assessments recognise the essential need for the provision of modules that provide opportunities for critical, inter-disciplinary, geographically and culturally comparative, and historical engagements with management expertise. In this way they draw on the particular strengths of Leicester’s School of Management and the recognition that management expertise is complex and ever-changing.

Why Choose Management at Leicester?

Research rating: 85%
Places: 98
Applications: 1244
Example Jobs: Accountant; Business Development Executive; Corporate Commission Broker; Event Manager; Graduate Trainee Social Worker; Market Research Interviewer; Marketing Executive; Payments Administrator; Retail Development Manager.
Example Employers: British Gas; Deloitte; HSBC; Lloyds TSB; Nationwide Building Society; Royal Bank of Scotland; Siemens Financial Services; Suffolk County Council; University of Birmingham.
Example jobs and employers information comes from the University’s ‘Where Did They Go?’ survey, and shows destinations of 2009/10 graduates 6 months after graduation.

Birth, education, work, play, subsistence, health, wealth and death – these crucial life events occur within the context of a variety of diverse contemporary organisations. What these organisations share, despite their many differences, is that they are all managed. At Leicester we approach management and organisation insofar as it bears down not only upon the lives of managers, but also insofar as it affects the lives of more or less everybody. Therefore Leicester’s School of Management is distinguished by its critical approach to questions of organisation, finance, accounting and marketing. This approach underpins everything we do, both within the classroom as well as outside it, and this critical approach sets us apart. Unlike almost all other mainstream western business and management schools, Leicester’s approach to management challenges the status quo, rather than simply perpetuates it. 

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

At Leicester you are encouraged to engage with an international faculty of students and leading critical management scholars. In a typical week at Leicester you will attend approximately six hours of lectures and a similar number of seminars. You will also attend a number of small-group tutorials in which contemporary issues are discussed, drawing on the tools and theories taught in other parts of the curriculum.

You are assessed in a variety of ways. As well as examinations and essay assignments, you also undertake some assessed group-work, including presentations and reports. During your second year, you are able to choose optional courses, allowing you to pursue your particular interests and, if you wish, specialise in finance, marketing or organisation studies. In your third and final year, you complete a substantial dissertation, in which you conduct a detailed interrogation of a particular topic of interest. The dissertation is supported by, a compulsory course in research methods, a dissertation supervisor and a writing consultant and offers an opportunity to make a genuine contribution to existing scholarly and/or professional debates.

Course Opportunities

We also offer a range of other activities to support your learning and intellectual development. These include regular field trips and a film club (‘Reel Management’) in which you can engage with issues of management, organisation, finance and marketing as portrayed on the silver screen. One final-year credit-bearing module, Critical Management in Practice, offers students who have completed a summer placement an opportunity to reflect on that experience. As well as gaining employability skills from the placement itself, you explore critical management theory linked to your placement experience. We also have links with a number of other European business schools which share our critical approach.

Graduate/Career Opportunities

Our Critical Management in Practice module, outlined above, can give you insights into the world of work. Moreover, the University Careers Service receives many hundreds of graduate career opportunities (including some work placements) and the School of Management is very active in making sure that our students are made aware of them. You are supported if you wish to take a full year out of your studies to undertake a placement – a recent example of this has been a student annually taking a full year placement with the City Council for a management related internship.

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Opportunities to Visit and Further Information

Choosing where and what to study at university is an important choice for you. We believe it is important to give you the opportunity to talk to our admissions team, so you can find out whether our programme is the right choice for you.

For further information, a course brochure or for course enquiries, please contact

0116 223 1818/252 3432
Fax: 0116 252 3949
ulsmugadmiss@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/management

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