Strategic Management and Business Consulting MSc

This professionally recognised course will provide you with a unique combination of strategic insight and consulting expertise to help organisations navigate uncertainty, drive digital transformation, and achieve sustainable growth.

The MSc Strategic Management and Business Consulting will develop your skills on how to solve complex business challenges and drive sustainable organisational success, allowing you to become a trusted strategist and business advisor equipped to shape the future of organisations.

The course is dual-accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), allowing you to gain a recognised professional qualification alongside your degree and strengthen your career prospects in business management and consulting.

Shaped by senior industry practitioners and enriched by Leeds University Business School’s worldwide corporate links, the course equips you with the strategic and consulting capabilities sought by organisations across a range of sectors.

Our strong alumni network and global corporate connections provide extensive opportunities to engage with industry leaders through guest lectures, workshops, and masterclasses.

### Course Highlights

* Real-world application and hands-on learning: Apply learning to real business challenges through the capstone Consulting Project module, where you will have the opportunity to work with an external organisation and develop practical experience in diagnosis, stakeholder engagement and strategic recommendation development.

* Curriculum shaped by world-leading experts and professionals: You will be taught by academics involved in cutting-edge research and consultancy examining major societal issues, informing business, policymakers and government bodies in the UK and overseas.

* Acquire a broad range of skills: Develop strategic management, leadership, organisational change and consulting capabilities, applying analytical and evidence-based decision-making approaches in both generic and specialist areas of business.

* Gain from cutting-edge research: Benefit from access to our advanced specialist research centre, the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC), and the ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (DIGIT), where we are involved in cutting-edge research on contemporary national and international issues around changing business dynamics, the future of work, digitalisation, employment and labour markets.

* Dedicated and tailored support: Build versatile employability skills through our dedicated and comprehensive professional development support.

* Dual Accredited course: Benefit from Chartered Management Institute (CMI) accreditation and access to CMI resources to develop an appreciation of the professional, governance and ethical standards relevant to the discipline.

* Global opportunities to broaden your experience: you will have an opportunity to apply for a place on a week-long international study tour which will include company visits, guest lectures and networking events, as well as an opportunity to visit local places of interest. Previous study tours have included visits to Berlin, Frankfurt, Milan, Toulouse and Zurich.