The modules on our Management and Artificial Intelligence MSc programme have been carefully put together to give you the most up-to-date and relevant set of skills and knowledge for progressing in your chosen career. For more information about part-time study patterns, please contact the School/Department.

Compulsory modules

Programming Fundamentals (15 credits)

The aim of this module is to provide the students with an understanding and programming skills for for solving practical problems in different applications.

Principles of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to:

  • Introduce students to the foundational concepts of data processing and their use in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
  • Enable students to gain background knowledge necessary to understand and develop different algorithms in AI and Data analytics.

Innovation Management (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to equip students with an in depth knowledge of the innovation process, its importance to the economy and an understanding of the factors affecting its success.

Grand Challenges (15 credits)

The aim of this module is to give students an opportunity to explore grand challenges facing our global society and to propose imaginative solutions to specific challenges in one or more country.

Students will critically reflect on the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals and think about how Loughborough University's Creating Better Futures. Together Strategy might contribute to them.

Students will engage with ideas and approaches to possible solutions from their own programme and gain diverse insights from Loughborough University London's interdisciplinary ecosystem. This will involve solution-oriented thinking and a balance between criticality and possibility, leading to a deep understanding of grand challenges and imagining creative responses to them.

Compulsory modules

Research Methods (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to equip students with a working knowledge of typical quantitative and qualitative research methods used in the research undertaken in the different institutes at Loughborough University London.


Artificial Intelligence and Society: Learning to Live with Machines (15 credits)

Advances in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing are forging new responses to global challenges from climate change to the creation of resilient supply chains. A.I. is also changing how creative industries innovate and transforming performance analytics and injury prediction in sport.

Despite its extraordinary potential, A.I. raises profound concerns about the displacement of jobs, the respect for privacy and intellectual property and the risks of algorithmic discrimination. The growing possibility of general A.I. also poses fundamental questions about the future of humanity in a world of super intelligence.

The aim of this module is to examine the evolving societal consequences of A.I. and to explore how governments, international organisations and civil society groups are trying to create safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems.

Dissertation (60 credits)

The aims of this module are to give the student the opportunity to study a subject or research question in depth and to research the issues surrounding the subject or background to the problem.

The module will equip the student with the relevant skills, knowledge and understanding to embark on their individual research project and they will be guided through the three options available to them to complete their dissertation:

  • A desk based research project that could be set by an organisation or could be a subject of the student's choice
  • A project that involves collection of primary data from within an organisation or based on lab and/or field experiments
  • A full professional placement within an organisation during which time they will complete a project as part of their role in agreement with the organisation (subject to a suitable placement position being obtained)

Students will achieve a high level of understanding in the subject area and produce a written thesis or project report which will discuss this research in depth and with rigour.

Optional modules

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Accounting and Financial Management (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to:

  • provide students with a broad understanding of the basic concepts in accounting and financial management with an emphasis on decision-making;
  • develop students' technical and analytical skills in aspects of accounting and financial management;
  • equip them with the financial awareness necessary for further study in all aspects of business and management.

New Venture Creation (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to equip students with background knowledge of business planning and strategy execution with simulated experience of running a company.

We will look at a variety of frameworks for assessing entrepreneurs, products, markets, industries and operations to understand (1) the importance of thorough market/product analysis and (2) the operation of a new venture and the dynamic nature of strategy.

Conceptual foundations are matched with practical training to enable students to formulate and execute their business strategies.

Work, Employment Relations, and Society (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to:

  • Familiarise students with key concepts in sociology and the sociological study of work and employment.
  • Provide a historical and comparative perspective on the development of work and labour markets since the industrial revolution.
  • Explore the various economic, political and cultural forces shaping the organisation of work and labour markets.
  • Understand the factors contributing to job quality.

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Information Systems (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to:

  • provide students with an understanding of the role and importance of information systems and management in organisations;
  • develop the ability to work independently;
  • to reinforce the concept of management as an integrated multi-disciplinary activity;
  • develop relevant transferable skills.

Collaborative Project (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to:

  • Provide students with an opportunity to be exposed to project-based teamwork in diverse settings (understood in this context as involving a range of multidisciplinary, multicultural and demographic elements in differing configurations), aiming to strengthen their cooperative and collaborative working skills and competence, while raising awareness and appreciation of diversity itself.
  • Provide students with hands on experience of identifying, framing and resolving practice oriented and real-world based challenges and problems, using creativity, critical enquiry and appropriate tools to achieve valuable and relevant solutions.
  • Support the development of students' ability to engage in critical enquiry and individual reflection, as well as to apply individual strengths and skills, building on their own educational backgrounds.
  • Provide students with opportunities for networking with stakeholders, organisations and corporations, aiming to enhance the competence and skills needed to connect to relevant parties and build up future professional opportunities.

Corporate Governance (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to:

  • Equip students with the necessary academic skills to understand the role corporate governance plays in generating financial and economic development.
  • Equip students with a working knowledge of governance and corporate governance frameworks; be able to critically assess alternatives.

Managing Sustainability (15 credits)

The aim of this module is to develop students understanding of sustainability, and map out the relationship between sustainability and global business. The world is going through a variety of environmental and social crises, most notably the climate crises, and in the module the focus is on the different ways in which global business contributes to these crises (and can contribute to the solutions for these crises), as well as what sorts of consequences these crises have or may have on global business. Various theoretical approaches will be utilized throughout the module, and the students will engage in practical applications of these theories and concepts.

Compulsory module

Dissertation (60 credits)

The aims of this module are to give the student the opportunity to study a subject or research question in depth and to research the issues surrounding the subject or background to the problem.

The module will equip the student with the relevant skills, knowledge and understanding to embark on their individual research project and they will be guided through the three options available to them to complete their dissertation:

  • A desk based research project that could be set by an organisation or could be a subject of the student's choice
  • A project that involves collection of primary data from within an organisation or based on lab and/or field experiments
  • A full professional placement within an organisation during which time they will complete a project as part of their role in agreement with the organisation (subject to a suitable placement position being obtained)

Students will achieve a high level of understanding in the subject area and produce a written thesis or project report which will discuss this research in depth and with rigour.