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Develop your career path with our 100% online Business and Organisational Psychology MSc degree.
Year of entry
Location
100% online study
Study mode
Full-time
Part-time
Duration
1 year full-time
2 years part-time
Course code
HLST282
Start date
January 2025
May 2025
Benefit from the flexibility of our 100% online Business and Organisational Psychology MSc degree. Start your path to a new career by learning when and where you choose, within given deadlines, around your existing career, family, or other commitments. Our digital learning environment offers you the opportunity to study completely online, with our guidance and support.
Through practical case studies, you will explore the individual, team and organisational factors that can affect workplace behaviours.
These may include decision-making, personnel selection, motivation and teamwork, as well as techniques needed to manage such situations.
The course aims to provide you with a thorough grounding in the theory and practical skills required to apply psychological research, business tools and methods within a variety of organisational settings and corporate cultures. You will explore learning business psychology-related techniques to promote individual workplace wellbeing and organisational success.
It aims to prepare you for business and organisational psychology roles in management or consultancy, in human resources and the many other occupational functions. These could include learning, training and development, recruitment, health and wellbeing.
This course is accredited1 and recognised by the following professional bodies for the 2024/25 intake:
The course is accredited by the Association for Business Psychology (ABP) and aligns to their standards and codes of practice. For further information, please consult their website https://theabp.org.uk/
The course currently includes the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) accredited module, . Upon successful completion of the Leading Strategic Change through Creativity and Innovation module (achieving a pass grade), you will gain the CMI Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice, subject to successful registration and CMI moderation, at no additional cost. Further details can be found on the Professional Development module homepage. Coventry University’s accreditation with CMI is currently ongoing for the relevant module and is regularly reviewed and monitored by the CMI through their its quality systems. If the accreditation/s of this course change, we will seek to notify applicants and students as soon as possible.
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Study 100% online
This course is studied completely online via our digital learning environment. It can be studied as a full-time master's programme over three semesters in one year, or on a part-time basis. Our platform provider is currently Aula.
This course can be offered on a part-time basis. Whilst we would like to give you all the information about our part-time offering here, it is tailored for each course each year depending on the number of part-time applicants. Therefore, the part-time teaching arrangements vary. Request further information about the part-time study.
When studying online you will have access to a complete set of online learning materials delivered through our approved platforms. The learning materials contain all the essential teaching you will need to complete your course and undertake your assessments. You also have access to our library's electronic resources 24/7, including thousands of books, ejournals and newspapers.
In addition to the learning assets, you will have the support of an Associate Lecturer. The Associate Lecturer will undertake weekly live sessions (recorded for those unable to attend). These sessions will be seminar based, discussing the learning materials, giving clarity, depth and direction to your learning.
The Associate Lecturer will also offer fortnightly one to one surgeries for any individual requirements and will be available for questions on platform and via email.
Prefer to study with time on campus? Click here to view our on campus course.
As a full-time student, you will study modules totalling 180 credits each academic year. A typical 20 credit module requires a total of 200 hours study. This is made up of teaching contact hours, guided and independent study.
In a typical teaching week you will have around two contact hours of teaching. Later in the course, you will have 10 hours (total) of project supervision. Teaching is typically organised as two-hour sessions for 20-credit modules and one-hour sessions for 10-credit modules, incorporating engagement on our digital platform with content material and applying learning in associated workshops.
Throughout your studies, you will be expected to spend time in guided and independent study to make up the required study hours per module. You’ll be digging deeper into topics, review what you’ve learned and complete assignments. This can be completed around your personal commitments. As you progress through your studies, you’ll spend more time in independent study.
As an innovative university, we use different teaching methods including online tools and emerging technologies.
This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.
The assessment methods may include:
The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.
Typical entry requirements:
Student | Full-time | Part-time |
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UK and International | £13,550 | Request fee information |
For advice and guidance on tuition fees3and student loans visit our Postgraduate Finance page and see the university's Tuition Fee and Refund Terms and Conditions.
We offer a range of International scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our International Scholarships page.
Tuition fees cover the cost of your teaching, assessments, facilities and support services. There may be additional costs not covered by this fee such as accommodation and living costs, recommended reading books, stationery, printing and re-assessments should you need them.
To help you as much as possible please click enquire to contact our admissions team. We offer a range of scholarships, bursaries and discounts. For more information, visit our enquire page.
The rights of Irish residents to study in the UK are preserved under the Common Travel Area arrangement. If you are an Irish student and meet the residency criteria, you can study in England, pay the same level of tuition fees as English students and utilise the Tuition Fee Loan.
All students have access to these facilities in Coventry:
You will benefit from our support designed to help you succeed and our industry-relevant teaching and resources. These include our modern library and computing facilities, dedicated careers advice and Your Students’ Union.
The Hub is the centre of student campus life. It's also home to the Student Wellbeing Centre, the Spirituality and Faith Centre, the Tank Studio, Student Success Coaches and the Enterprise Hub.
Facilities are subject to availability. Access to some facilities (including some teaching and learning spaces) may vary from those advertised and/or may have reduced availability or restrictions where the university is following public authority guidance, decisions or orders.
A diverse and broad range of career opportunities have been the ‘next step’ for students completing the course successfully. These have included CEOs who have gained the confidence to apply evidence-based practice to others who have careers as business consultants, leadership coaches, HR managers and training and development practitioners.
On successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
Our current teaching staff and the university’s career specialists, known as the Talent Team, can support your search for employment in the UK or overseas by making use of our alumni network, industrial contacts, and individual advice (subject to availability).
Many of our graduates have gone on to work as independent business consultants for companies like Kellogg's and Ricoh UK. Graduates have also found employment as business consultants, in sales, in HR, and as learning, training and development, and leadership training practitioners.