Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc (with 12 month placement)

What makes Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Worcester special?

This degree has been specifically designed to provide you with a range of skills that will give you a competitive advantage in the global marketplace. You will be taught by senior academics who have wealth of professional experience and excellent links with industry. In studying a variety of subjects in the course modules, you will gain the knowledge and experience needed for a successful career in the area of Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management.

The course will assist you in expanding your expertise in areas such as entrepreneurship, project management and human resource management. You will also have the opportunity to work as an operation's management consultant working for a real client. This will include the analysis of ongoing business issues and assisting the client in developing solutions. Consequently, you will enhance your critical thinking skills and your ability to devise solutions that are economically feasible and operationally effective.

The course content is both practical and relevant to real business life and this includes the option of an internship to provide you with a flavour of the actual world of business.

A diploma in Strategic Management (a Chartered Management Institute qualification) optionally awarded upon successful completion of the programme, which will greatly impact your long term career aspirations. You will also have access to Associate Membership of the CMI.

Overview

Key features

Scholarships and Discounts for international students, based on their grades
Work-related curriculum that enhances your ability to adapt to complex situations
Modules based on contemporary research, scholarship and cutting-edge thinking
The course is taught by senior academics who have excellent links with industry and a wealth of professional experience
Opportunities to gain access to local and national employers through the internship
Cross-learning opportunities amongst students of diverse backgrounds and business practices from around the world
A flexible course design to allow two entry points in both September and January

Entry requirements

The MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management course is available for aspiring individuals who can exhibit strong intellectual abilities and personal and professional skills. The minimum entry requirements are:

A second class honours degree in any subject (or International students holding a qualification recognised as equivalent by the University)

Entry to the MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management course requires all applicants to complete an application form. Where information on the form is insufficient, applicants will be requested to attend an interview with the Admissions Tutor.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Students with relevant previous study at postgraduate level or with extensive experience may be considered eligible for recognition of prior learning. Please contact the Registry Admissions Office for further information or guidance on 01905 855111. Further information on Recognition of Prior Learning can be found at our .

If you have any questions about entry requirements, please contact the Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk for advice.

International Students

Students whose first language is not English are required to demonstrate proficiency to a minimum level of 6.5 IELTS (and minimum of 5.5 in each element) or equivalent.

We accept IELTS, Pearson and many Cambridge certificates as a proof of English language fluency on our degree courses. Other equivalent English qualifications will also be considered as well as qualifications recognised as equivalent by the University. Some courses may require a higher score for professional accreditation or registration. Find out more about language requirements and support.

Course content

Our courses are informed by research and current developments in the discipline and feedback from students, external examiners and employers. Modules do therefore change periodically in the interests of keeping the course relevant and reflecting best practice. The most up-to-date information will be available to you once you have accepted a place and registered for the course. If there are insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, this might not be offered, but we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative.

The course is composed of 8 x modules and a 60 credit Research Project module. Student must take the mandatory modules as follows and are able to customise their degree to match their own interests from their choice of optional modules

Modules	Mandatory Operations and Value Chain Management Managing the Logistics and the Supply Chain Research Methods Project Management Theory and Practice Global Strategy Contract and Procurement Business Information Systems 60 credit research module Research Project (Dissertation)	Optional Cybersecurity and the Online Market Managing Across Cultures International Business Managing for Sustainable Futures

Modules

Mandatory

Operations and Value Chain Management
Managing the Logistics and the Supply Chain
Research Methods
Project Management Theory and Practice
Global Strategy
Contract and Procurement
Business Information Systems

60 credit research module

Research Project (Dissertation)

Optional

Cybersecurity and the Online Market
Managing Across Cultures
International Business
Managing for Sustainable Futures

What will you study and when?

The placement

You will have the opportunity to go on a work placement for 6 or 12 months. You are supported in finding placements and can apply for a vacancy as you would a job. There are dedicated sessions to support you in CV writing, interview skills and job applications as well as access to 1:1 tutorials. Most placements start on completion of the taught modules.

The placement will allow you to gain first-hand experience within a real business environment to enhance your future employability and are usually paid. Some students choose to base their research project on a business-related issue arising during the placement. This would give you access to research participants and primary data, and allow you to apply the theories and principles discussed on the programme to a real organisation.

While on placement, you will be supported by a dedicated placements team able to respond to any problems you may be having, an individual tutor who visits you twice while you are on placement and you will retain access to all the University facilities including e-resources. At the end of the placement, you are required to submit a placement portfolio containing your learning contract, a satisfactory employer appraisal, a case study and an end of placement presentation.

You can get in touch with the Placements Office on placements@worc.ac.uk.

Part time option

The course will normally take one academic year to complete. Part time students will complete the course over 2 years at least. The maximum registration periods allowed for the completion of these awards in part time mode (without credit on entry) is 6 years.

Teaching and assessment

The University places emphasis on enabling students to develop the independent learning capabilities that will equip you for lifelong learning and future employment, as well as academic achievement. A mixture of independent study, teaching and academic support from Student Services and Library Services, and also the personal academic tutoring system, enables you to reflect on progress and build up a profile of skills, achievements and experiences that will help you to flourish and be successful.

Teaching

You are taught through a combination of interactive workshops, lectures, seminars, practical sessions, organisational fieldwork and practical activities. Interactive workshops take a variety of formats and are intended to enable the application of learning through discussion and small group activities. Seminars enable the discussion and development of understanding of topics covered in lectures, and laboratory practical sessions are focused on developing subject specific skills and applied individual and group project work. Wherever possible, students are to reflect on their knowledge, experience and practice and to think creatively of potential solutions that impact positively on business performance and professional practice.

In addition, meetings with personal academic tutors are scheduled on at least four occasions during the academic year. You will be allocated a supervisor for your dissertation who will assist you with the selection and planning of a suitable and manageable research topic.

An optional internship (up to 6 months in duration) is available to all students, taking place on completion of the taught modules. This internship will not be credit-rated but will allow the student to gain first-hand experience within a real business environment to enhance their future employability. Students may also choose to make use of this opportunity to base their Research Project on a business-related issue arising during the internship. There may be possibilities, with the employer’s permission, to gain access to research participants and primary data, and to apply their understanding of theories and principles discussed within their programme to a live organisational setting.

Contact time

Each module will have a weekly session of two hours. In a typical week full time students will have around 8 contact hours of teaching. For part time students, this will depend on the number of modules being taken. Typically, class contact time will be structured around:

Delivering theoretical content to address contemporary marketing issues
Practical tasks relating theory to practice
Discussions and group activities
Case studies and other exercises

Independent self-study

In addition to the contact time, a full time student is expected to undertake around 30 hours of personal self-study per week, making this equivalent in total with contact time to working full time. Typically, this will involve reading, researching, preparing for group work, rehearsing presentations, preparing for assessments and exams.

Independent learning is supported by a range of excellent learning facilities, including the Hive and library resources, the virtual learning environment, and extensive electronic learning resources.

Duration

Full time students can finish the course in one year. Students who take the internship option will not be required to take extra modules, but their course duration will be extended by 6 months.
Part time students would normally complete the course in no less than two years, but the maximum registration period is 6 years. They have the option of selecting up to 90 credits of study per year, but the Research Project should be the final module taken.

For September starters – without internship:

Semester 1: September – January
Semester 2: January – May
Semester 3: May – September

For January starters – without internship:

Semester 1: January – May
Semester 2: September – January
Semester 3: January – June

Timetables

Timetables are normally available one month before registration. Please note that whilst we try to be as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week; and some classes can be scheduled in the evenings.

Assessment

The course provides opportunities to test your understanding and learning informally through the completion of practice or ‘formative’ assessments. Formative assessments carry no weighting but are important. They are designed to help you achieve your best in the final summative assessments. Formative assessment can take different forms such as student support teams, informal peer assessment, progress tests or mock examinations. It is also embedded in your ongoing engagement with tutors’ and is part of the personal academic tutorial system.

Each module has one or more ‘summative’ assessments which are graded and count towards the overall module grade. Assessment methods include a range of coursework assessments such as essays, reports, group presentations and a final year dissertation. The finance module has a summative examination.

The precise assessment requirements for an individual student in an academic year will vary according to the mandatory and optional modules taken, but a typical formal summative assessment pattern for a full-time student is:

Semester 1

1 Research proposal
1 Exam
1 Individual report
1 Group presentation
1 consultancy report

Semester 2

1 Group presentation
1 Consultancy report
1 Individual report
1 Individual presentation
1 Case study

Semester 3

Research Project

The precise assessment requirements for part-time students will vary according to the modules selected.

All assignments will be internally marked and moderated as well as being externally examined as per the 蜜桃直播 assessment policy.

Feedback

You will receive feedback on practice assessments and on formal assessments undertaken by coursework. Feedback on examination performance is available upon request from the module leader. Feedback is intended to support learning and you are encouraged to discuss this with personal academic tutors and module tutors as appropriate.

Feedback on formal course work assessments is within 20 working days of hand-in.

Teaching staff

Students will be taught by a teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely matched to the content of the modules on the course.

Teaching is informed by research and consultancy, and all lecturers on the course have or are working towards a higher education teaching qualification or are Fellows of the Higher Education Academy.

Further information about staff profiles can be view at the .

Programme specification

For comprehensive details on the aims and intended learning outcomes of the course, and the means by which these are achieved through learning, teaching and assessment,

Meet the team

You will be taught by a teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely matched to the content of the modules on the course.

Laurence Curtis

Laurence is a Senior Lecturer specialising in Procurement and Supply Chain Management. Prior to joining the University, he worked in a variety of Procurement, Supply Chain and Programme Management roles across industry, including at Airbus where he was the A330/A340 Programme Procurement Manager with the responsibility to ensure ongoing product development, production and in-service support.

Dr Laila Kasem

Laila is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Marketing at Worcester Business School with expertise in the areas of strategy, international business, marketing and entrepreneurship. Laila is interested in research that advances the theory as well as the practice of various organisations. She is also interested in migrant entrepreneurship, particularly refugee entrepreneurship. Laila teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students on a variety of subjects that relate to her research including global strategy, international business and strategic marketing.

Isabel Clarke

Isabel has been teaching in Higher Education for almost 10 years. Prior to moving into higher education, Isabel had a successful career as a communications practitioner working within a range of high-profile organisations including Silverstone Circuit and the McLaren Formula One team. Her most recent Executive post was as Head of Regional Affairs for ITV in the Central Region

Dr Abdulmaten Taroun

Dr Taroun's teaching interests include Marketing, Project Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Risk & Value Management

Dr Andrew Tomlinson

Andrew has worked on computing projects for over twenty years. His work has included information systems development, systems analysis, IT strategy planning, data science and research. He has worked on systems for healthcare and medical diagnosis, banking, transport, cybersecurity, DNA analysis, and telecoms. Andrew’s PhD looked at detecting cyberattacks in vehicles – a potential huge problem in future driverless cars.

When he is not researching the latest computing developments or planning lectures, Andrew enjoys watching old movies, especially from the silent era, and listening to all sorts of music.

Professor Robin Bell

Robin is Professor of Entrepreneurship and the DBA Programme Director at the Worcester Business School. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a UK Council for Graduate Education Recognised Research Supervisor.

Careers

This course is designed in a way that allows you to develop the high-level knowledge and skills to pursue a career in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. This is a growing area of interest and many people are becoming specialists in this field due to its importance in today’s globalised world and business landscape. This course introduces you to various sources of information and methods of analysis for the purpose of business decision making in operations and managing projects.

You will develop the skills of integrating and evaluating relevant information to aid informed and creative problem solving. Furthermore, the course develops the critical thinking skills which are essential for boosting your employability prospects. In addition, the international nature of the candidates, the diversity of expertise and backgrounds together with the University's commitment to the sustainability agenda will all have a profound impact on your employability.

Links with employers

The Business School works closely with a number of professional organisations including the Chartered Institute of Management, Institute of Commercial Management, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Chartered Institute of Public Relations, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Institute of Financial Accountants, Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals, and British Computer Society.

Costs

Fees and funding

Full-time tuition fees	UK and EU students The standard tuition fee for full-time home and EU students enrolling on MA/MSc/MBA/MRes courses in the academic year 2025/26 is £9,450 per year. For more details, please visit our course fees page.	International students The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on MA/MSc/MBA/MRes courses in the academic year 2025/26 is £17,900 per year. For more details, please visit our course fees page.
Part-time tuition fees	UK and EU students The standard tuition fees for part-time home and EU students enrolling on MA/MSc/MBA/MRes/PGCert/PGDip courses in the academic year 2025/26 are £788 per 15-credit module, £1,575 per 30-credit module, £2,363 per 45-credit module, and £3,150 per 60 credit module. For more details, please visit our course fees page.	International students The standard tuition fees for part-time international students enrolling on MA/MSc/MBA/MRes courses in the academic year 2025/26 are £1,492 per 15-credit module, £2,983 per 30-credit module, £4,475 per 45-credit module, and £5,967 per 60 credit module. For more details, please visit our course fees page.
Postgraduate loans	The Government will provide a loan of up to £12,471 if your course starts on or after 1 August 2024 per eligible student for postgraduate Masters study. It will be at your own discretion whether the loan is used towards fees, maintenance or other costs. For more details visit our postgraduate loans page.
International Scholarships and Discounts	There are substantial Postgraduate Scholarships and Discounts available for International Students of up to £3,000, based on their grades. Further information is available on our International student fees page. Alternatively, please contact the course leader, Dr Taroun a.taroun@worc.ac.uk
Additional costs	Every course has day-to-day costs for basic books, stationery, printing and photocopying. The amounts vary between courses. If your course offers a placement opportunity, you may need to pay for an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
Accommodation	Finding the right accommodation is paramount to your university experience. Our halls of residence are home to friendly student communities, making them great places to live and study. We have over 1,000 rooms across our range of student halls. With rooms to suit every budget and need, from our 'Traditional Halls' at £131 per week to 'Ensuite Premium Halls' at £228 per week (2025/26 prices). For full details visit our accommodation page.
International fees and finance	If you are an international applicant, information on international fees and relevant scholarships is available on our International student fees page.

How to apply

Please make your application via our online application forms.

If you have any questions, please contact the Admissions office on 01905 855111 or admissions@worc.ac.uk

Please make your application via our online application form.

Get in touch

If you have any questions, please get in touch. We're here to help you every step of the way.

Postgraduate Course Team

PGWBS@worc.ac.uk

Dr Laila Kasem

MBA & MSc Course Leader, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Marketing

l.kasem@worc.ac.uk

Laurence Curtis

MBA & MSc Course Leader, Senior Lecturer in International, Procurement and Supply Chain Management

laurence.curtis@worc.ac.uk

01905 542426

Isabel Clarke

Postgraduate Admission Tutor

i.clarke@worc.ac.uk

01905 542837

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