Information Technology Management for Business with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BSc]

BSc (Hons) Information Technology Management for Business provides you with a thorough grounding in IT, project management skills, and entrepreneurial and innovative ways of thinking. You will be able to develop a wide set of technical skills as well as deploy that IT knowledge across a wide set of projects. Specialist courses in project management and entrepreneurship complement your technical skills.

Supported by some of the UK's leading graduate recruiters, this distinctive course aims to overcome the UK's skills gap in IT management for commercial environments. IT is increasingly pervasive and integral to all organisations. This means that all organisations have to be able to strategically manage IT systems and their organisational effectiveness

You undertake an assessed industrial placement after your second year.

These programmes aim to:-

• To provide you with a broad background of business operations, procedures and culture applicable to a career in IT
• To equip you with sufficient technical knowledge to play a key role in an IT environment
• To provide you with problem solving and modelling skills appropriate to IT related business operations
• To enable you to develop entrepreneurial and management skills appropriate to IT projects
• To enable you to develop lifelong learning skills allowing you to keep abreast of developments in a rapidly changing business environment 
• To support the development of your interpersonal, organisational and presentational skills necessary for you to successfully work in and manage commercial IT systems.  

• Students on this programme can access specialist 'guru' lectures and other UK-wide initiatives developed specifically for universities offering the ITMB degree.
• Development of highly sought after transferable skills through team-based project work supported by business mentors.
• This programme is also available as a four-year programme, BSc IT Management for Business with Industrial Experience (GN5C).
• This course shares a common first year with the BSc IT Management for Business with Industrial Experience (GN5C) allowing you to finalise your degree choice at the end of the first year.

The first year of this programme includes 40% business and management; 40% technical subjects including human computer interaction; application design; business database design and web technology; 20% team project which brings together learning on the business and technology components and provides practice in interpersonal skills. The team project is based on a real life business problem.

The final year extends the specialist material, concentrating on advanced topics in technology and business apllications, with the intention that you are aware of current state of the art and future trends, preparing you for a career in IT management. One third of the final year allows you to choose optional courses in the area computer science or business and management depending on your individual interests.

 You will also carry out a substantial individual project linked to the core area of the degree, in order to deepen and consolidate the skills developed in the first and second year.

The distinctive feature of BSc (Hons) Information Technology Management for Business is the strategic involvement of world-class firms within the IT sector who partner with Manchester Business School to provide input to the course, in the form of prestigious `guru' lectures, real business problems or projects, and mentoring.

The degree has been introduced and sponsored directly by business and commercial input, with the UK government's Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the IT sector body e-skills UK leading the course.

Employment prospects for graduates of BSc (Hons) Information Technology Management for Business with Industrial Experience are very good - the degree is an exciting combination of technical skill, business application and personal acumen.

Typical graduate career roles include IT project management, IT and business consultancy, systems integration, and IT services management.

English language: IELTS 6.5. Minimum 6 in any component. 577 in the TOEFL written test, 233 in the computerised TOEFL (including 5 in TWE), or 90 in the internet TOEFL with a minimum of 20 in each component.

A level: Grades AAB.  General Studies is accepted if one of four A Levels passed in the same sitting.

AS level: Two AS-levels accepted in place of one A-level providing at least one AS-level is studied at Year 13.

Unit grade information: The University of Manchester welcomes the provision of unit grade information which, like all other available information, will inform the consideration of applications.  Unit grades will not normally form part of offer conditions, except for Mathematics programmes.

GCSE: Grade B in English language and Mathematics.

Key Skills qualification: The University warmly welcomes applications from students studying the Key Skills qualification. However, as the opportunities to take these modules are not open to all applicants, currently this is not an essential requirement of the University.

International Baccalaureate: 35 points with 6, 6, 7 in the Higher Level subjects.

Professional entry qualification: N/A

Additional entry requirements

The teaching and learning methods are intended to help you to developskills as analysts to diagnose problems and as designers with in-depth technical knowledge of computing systems, programming, and design for people and organisations. The programme provides you with core abilities to analyse problems, to program, and to design databases.

The BSc in information Technology Management for Business degree comprises of with a mix of core (compulsory), specialist and optional courses. Teaching takes the form of lectures, tutorials and practical sessions held in IT laboratories. In first year you will spend around 20 hours per week on your studies, in lectures, tutorials and laboratories. You also carry out independent and group-based research and planning outside these scheduled hours.

PERSONAL TUTORS

Every student at Manchester Business School is allocated a Personal Tutor. This member of the lecturing staff is your first point of contact when you have personal worries or problems of any kind. Where possible you will keep the same tutor throughout your studies.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS

PDPs are aimed at helping you develop awareness of generic transferable and subject-specific skills, improve independent learning and provide a record of your academic learning and achievement.

STUDENT MENTORING

Manchester Business School operates a peer mentoring scheme which aims to provide first year students with a second or final year "mentor" who will be able to provide practical assistance with orientation and induction as well as providing advice and information on aspects of student university life.

LIBRARY AND IT FACILITIES

There are also outstanding Library and IT facilities at Manchester. John Rylands University Library is renowned as one of the most extensive libraries in the world. For students of Manchester Business School this is complemented by the specialist Precinct Library, located on the site of the Business School. There is also increasing provision of information via various web based services. Much of the reading material is available through e-journals. These e-journals, and other standard computing services - e.g. access to the worldwide web, word processing - are available through the clusters of computers that will be found in departmental  buildings, libraries and some halls of residence. Increasing numbers of buildings in and around the campus are being set up for wireless computer connection. In addition some of the library information services are accessible off-site through your own dialup or broadband service.