Job Prospects post Msc Management !!!

hey Rohan!

some of the field i thought might be on offer are: the city, banking and trading. consultancy. the accounting route. general management. international management. management in the financial sector too maybe.

I'm really interested to hear from others, i was wondering what options there may be in the field of entrepreneurship and ventures.

Since most of us heading to the MSc in management are from other fields, we will have allot of new opportunities open to us which we might not know exist!

btw, which university did u decide on rohan?

i want to know as well!! Anyone know the job prospects for Msc Management Research at SBS?

Guys ,

I have also heard , that people witha generalist management degree really have to sell hemselves hard. Is that True!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

any inputs

rohan

To be quite honest, they're probably seen as a very good thing by those coming (typically from Asia) who don't have a British degree. After all, plenty of people spend £10-15k on fees alone -often more- and go home satisfied year on year. I've seen the makeup of two MSc, both in Marketing, at two respected business schools that charge internationals around 13k for the 26 week privilege, and they're nothing special. Infact, a couple of lecturers (one who is probably quite happy telling everyone how much of a sham the postgrad business degrees are, one a bit less so) are of the opinion most of the final year honours students can run rings round the international MSc students, and more is expected from them at undergrad level (infact one used this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Foundations-Marketing-David-Jobber/dp/007710918X for the first half of term one- and you'd assume most graduates should be beyond that by MSc level). I'd agree- it probably isn't essential if you want to use it in the UK- any employer that knows anything about it (I guess some programs will be better than others though) will probably know it doesn't teach you many skills that a good student won't have by the end of an undergrad management degree. To this end, it's not really surprising that in one of the above mentioned courses, 33 of the 35 enrolled students in 2007/8 were from outside the UK- the profit margin on the tuition must have been frightening.

yes it is quite hard to sell if you are not one of those who got a degree from a top business school and got 1-2 years of work experience(can be in the form of internship). Management is one of the most popular degree in UK and there are far more graduates as compare to no of available opportunities.Furthermore, it is not necessary to have a management degree for management trainee roles. People tend to specialise (Accounting/HR/Marketing etc) in order to stand out from the crowd.

In short, your career prospects will be enhanced a little bit, but not much because you do not need a MSc managment for most of the jobs people with this degree go into (ie grad schemes in the city). It will show that you have learned about business by the end of the course, but not by the time of the all important interview stage.

In my view 20-25 k is unbelievably expensive for a degree that is not essential to enhance a career, esp when people want work experience nowadays. When i asked the WBS careers advisor if this degree will help me get a job her words were 'errr well not exactly, if is purely up to you and your experience, but the brand name might help'. I.E not exactly what i wanted to hear for my 20k.

BTW i have offers for the MSc Management at WBS and Imperial.

I think i might look at the short executive and summer programmes at the top US Schools, which teach you all the same stuff in a condensed period for more than a third of the cost and no doubt look better on a CV with all their career guidance and field trips.

In short, your career prospects will be enhanced a little bit, but not much because you do not need a MSc managment for most of the jobs people with this degree go into (ie grad schemes in the city). It will show that you have learned about business by the end of the course, but not by the time of the all important interview stage.

Does anyone else have ideas of msc destinations? and also, could u plz state the names of the uni's that u are talking about, when u mention weaknesses such as bad english, so that we may know where not to go

I'm not sure if i share the same views as those previously given, for one, i know that business and management students aren't allowed to do the msc course, because it's a conversion course, so the fact that you would not learn anything extra in the msc isn't relevant.. and also, if a lecturer thinks that a final yr student in undergrad is at a higher stage of understanding, skills, and requirements than an msc student, he should be doing something about it!!, because the courses should try to make them reach the same level by the end!! i hope i don't end up in a department with this type of professors!! i wish i knew which uni this was!

To some extent though, i must agree, the msc is pretty general and many ppl study management in the uk. however i would like to believe that it gives a valuable base and business understanding to non-business students. we could argue that work experience is important, however at the end of the day, an employer doesn't really care about ur overall undertaking of things, and as long as ur good in ur specialty and do the job for him, u may spend 10 years at work, and not learn much outside the scope of ur job. so i guess if someone has the aim of one day being his own business man, he will have to mix education, with business experience, as well as self education and research.

I hope that I am not being biased, and would like to hear other opinions about the course. I also realize that universities in the UK are sometimes only concerned with profits rather than educating or helping students, and are run as businesses themselves. so whether they offer the course or not, wouldn't make me trust that they have our best interests at heart!!

Does anyone else have ideas of msc destinations? and also, could u plz state the names of the uni's that u are talking about, when u mention weaknesses such as bad english, so that we may know where not to go