Course Highlights

• With this course, students develop etiquette, skills & qualities relevant to entrepreneurship & innovation which allows them to secure opportunities leading to sustainable businesses.
• It's a combination of research-informed & practice-based techniques to study the development & running of start-ups, spinouts & medium & large enterprises. 
• Extended Professional Practice Route (18 months) is applicable for candidates who wish to acquire a broad knowledge of business via practical methods.
• This course is designed for entrepreneurs & aspiring business professionals who want to develop entrepreneurial & innovative competencies for yielding creative solutions, necessary for starting a new business or working in a popular business firm or family business.
• Form strong partnerships during and after this course with entrepreneurs on unique external projects, making & testing prototypes, jotting down innovative business ideas, or developing digital solutions in the form of vlogs or portfolios are provided to the students.
• The MSc- Enterprise & Innovation at Coventry University, London is 1-year full time masters level course available with an option of Extended professional practice
• This course is accredited by Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Course Eligibility

Academic Requirements- 

A 60% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree in a relevant subject or 

a 55% in a 4 Year.Undergraduate Degree in a relevant subject

Students from the following Universities will be considered with 55% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai (Madras), Anna, Amity, Andhra Pradesh, Aligarh Muslim, Pune, Bangalore and JNTU.

English Language Requirements-
A 65% in Standard XII English language from certain examination boards only (Central boards, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand)

OR

IELTS 6.5 overall with no component lower than 5.5 (except where course requirements are higher) and other acceptable SELT tests such as the Pearson Test of English (PTE).

Course Fees

International Fees -  £19,350 (Extended Professional Practice) per year

Career Prospects

• Graduates from this course have started their own ventures, joined family businesses or popular business enterprises in the UK or their home country.
• For enhancing professional & role development students are motivated to continue their studies by accessing higher degrees which include Ph.D. or other taught doctorates.
• One can build a start-up for producing the latest technology, products, or services. 
• Students gain corporate entrepreneurship experience or join incubators, accelerator networks & consulting firms that work with SMEs.

Key Learnings

• With this course, develop creative & critical thinking skills while enhancing the underpinned entrepreneurial academic knowledge.
• Learn to pitch ideas for higher chances of success while balancing the needs of stakeholders involved in innovation.

Study Benefits

Students acquire prominent employability behaviours, attitudes & competencies as mentioned below: 

• Networking
• Risk Management
• Leadership
• Resilience
• Self-Efficacy
• Curiosity
• Financial Awareness
• Creativity 

Talent Team assists the students with work placements, mock interviews, graduate-level jobs & skill development workshops.

The Enterprise Hub guides aspiring student entrepreneurs by providing them with detailed industry knowledge & guidance to generate ideas into viable firms.

Here students have the opportunity to  work on collaborative projects, resolve business problems & build strong professional networks.

The opportunity to collaborate with overseas universities through global field trips & COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) provides an international perspective. 

Core Modules

This Master’s degree course aims to provide an insight into a different type of enterprise. It offers you the opportunity to learn creative theory and practical skills that you might need to succeed in modern business.

Your main study themes shall be:

• Creativity

A successful leader doesn’t just liberate their own creativity, but recognises the need to hire, nurture and use creative people. They are also skilled at finding new and radical ways to solve, circumvent and prevent business challenges.

• Impact

Innovation for its own sake can be a resource-hungry distraction; instead, it should have a positive impact on business and society. Keeping ‘impact’ front-of-mind means you might also leverage it for reputation management and for growth.

• Financial literacy

A great idea will always remain an idea unless it gets investment, and it can’t be sustained without strong financial control. Innovation and finance are often seen as adversaries, but in fact must work together for their mutual benefit.

Year one

All of your modules aim to take a creative, globalised, and highly practical approach to learning. This should develop your creativity and your critical-thinking while giving you the chance to deepen your underpinning entrepreneurial academic theory. We aim to help you to develop your ability to balance the needs of the many stakeholders involved in innovation (whose goals and attitudes can often conflict), and you will be taught to pitch your ideas for the best chance of success. This course can be carried out over one academic year (full-time), or over two academic years (part-time).

The modules you are going to study are-

• Understanding Enterprise: Theory and Practice 
• New Venture Creation: Idea generation and development 
• Entrepreneurial Leadership and Management 
• Strategic Marketing Practice 
• Scaling a Business 
• Innovation and Technology in Business 
• Financial Decision Making 
• Research Methods 
• CMI Professional Development: Leading Strategic Change through Creativity and Innovation 

This pathway includes the option to study for the MSc with Extended Professional Practice (EPP), with an extended period of internship. This is an 18-month option and is aimed at individuals who are looking to attain a deeper understanding of business in a very practical way. You are expected to spend twenty-two weeks at one (or more) host employer or campus-based setting(s) and will have the opportunity to apply theory to practice.

Postgraduate Professional Practice 1

This is a compulsory module on MSc courses with Extended Professional Practice. This non-credit bearing module, together with Extended Professional Practice 2 will provide students on Extended Professional Practice MSc courses with a substantive professional experience. This will take the form of either an internship with a host organisation*, or a campus-based professional experience. This experience will support the development of your personal and professional skills, such as communication, team-working, self-management, project management and critical reflection to enhance their future employability. You will be expected to augment your previous learning and experiences in order to develop your knowledge and skills of professional practice in your chosen subject area. This module will also provide you with the necessary experience and focus on completing the project report for Extended Professional Practice Project.

Postgraduate Professional Practice 2

This is a compulsory module on MSc courses with Extended Professional Practice. This non-credit bearing module is a continuation of Extended Professional Practice 1, providing students on an Extended Professional Practice MSc courses with a substantive professional experience. This will take the form of either a continuation of the internship with a host organisation, or the campus-based professional experience. This module aims to provide you with further professional experiences, building on knowledge and skills, previously gained, consolidating and refining your personal and professional skills, theory and practice and further enhance your future employability. You will be expected to augment your previous learning and experiences in order to develop additional knowledge and skills of professional practice in your chosen subject area. As with the Extended Professional Practice 1, this module will also provide you with the necessary experience and focus on completing the project report for Extended Professional Practice Project.

Postgraduate Professional Practice Project

This is a compulsory module on MSc courses with Extended Professional Practice. This module aims to integrate theory and practice either through undertaking an Extended Professional Practice or campus-based project in an area relevant to the subject being studied. This will have involved you working on an organisational issue either within a host organisation or on campus addressing a project brief, as part of the Extended Professional Practice modules 1 and 2.

The module fits with the individual courses’ aims and learning outcomes in that it helps you to integrate your learning across subject specific taught modules within a real business setting. Moreover, the knowledge and understanding gained will help you to further develop your subject knowledge and understanding when writing the final report. To be successful in your studies but also in your later career, the module aims to equip you with a range of cognitive, practical and transferable skills, including self-reliance skills, interpersonal, leadership and communication skills, in particular the ability to explain complex information in a clear way, numeracy, digital literacy, a lively and enquiring mind with a logical approach to work, creative problem-solving skills and business acumen.

This is in line with current expectations by employers surveyed by professional bodies and with recent research on skills requirements in the future workplace. You will further develop your skills as you undertake a reflection of your experiences during the internship as part of the final assignment.

Apart from increasing your knowledge and understanding, this module also aims to develop you into an ethical, responsible individual that collaborates successfully with and leads others from diverse cultures and backgrounds to achieve shared goals, demonstrating global citizenship and social responsibility.