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MSc Management (Entrepreneurship)

Available from 2013, this one-year, full-time programme is primarily aimed at new or recently qualified graduates from any discipline with a strong desire to set up their own business.

The core focus of this programme is to enable you to launch, develop or invest in successful new ventures, or incorporate entrepreneurial thinking into the management of existing organisations.

The programme is designed to introduce you to the broad field of business and management, before specialising in entrepreneurship.

Programme structure

You study a mix of core modules in entrepreneurship and general management, elective modules and a dissertation or business project or self-sourced placement that is explicitly focused on entrepreneurship:

Term 1 Modules

  • Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Process
  • The Entrepreneur's Environment
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Strategy
  • Strategic Marketing Management OR Business Economics and Accounting
Term 2 Modules
  • New Venture Creation
  • Research Methods
  • 2 elective modules
Term 3 - Dissertation

The programme culminates in a 10,000 word dissertation on entrepreneurship which provides an opportunity for you to investigate in greater detail a subject that you have already studied as part of your programme.
You will be expected to deal with your chosen topic in a competent and scholarly manner, and to display critical discrimination and a sense of proportion in evaluating evidence and the opinions of others.


Elective modules reflect current managerial thinking, academic debate and the research interests of the School; as such they are subject to change. Those currently on offer include:

  • East Asian Business and Management
  • Further Topics in Entrepreneurship
  • Business Ethics 2: Society and Sustainability
  • Business Transformation through Information Systems
  • Buyer Behaviour and Marketing Communications
  • Global Marketing
  • Innovation and Technology Management
  • Work and Society
  • Corporate Governance
  • Practising Social Marketing

Core and Elective module overviews

This is a new programme, linked to recent appointments of high-profile academic faculty in the field of entrepreneurship, but it also marks a return for Durham to one of its historic areas of expertise. Durham is where much of the foundational research into entrepreneurship took place. This programme reflects that excellence.

If you would like to know more about this new programme please contact us and we will put you in touch with faculty members who can talk to you in detail.

Enter the Dragons' Den

Put your skills into practice and pitch your new business venture ideas to a panel of experts at the University's own business competitions:

  • Dragons' Den
  • Blueprint
  • mai Bangkok Business Challenge @Sasin