Project Management Programs

Our dynamic BSc Human Resource Management course will give you the professional skills necessary to gain credibility and influence, so you can positively impact sustainable leadership for the future of work.
Our practice-based curriculum combines case-based learning with real-world projects aligned to your career aspirations. You'll start with local community challenges, then advance to substantial live industry projects addressing global sustainability issues. To get you ready for the workplace, you will research and present contemporary themes and trends and compare these to past practice and future requirements and test your critical thinking by taking relevant news features from various sources and debate them.

Computing is a creative and wide-ranging subject that focuses on using sound underlying principles and logical thinking to design and build systems that really work.
This course allows you to focus on the theory and tools of business management that require computerised solutions, including decision support and constraint solving techniques.

Our BSc Business Management with Marketing programme, developed with insights from leading firms like Unilever and Big Cat, equips you to become a marketing specialist ready to thrive in today’s competitive business landscape.
You will gain versatile, job-ready skills, enabling you to tackle marketing challenges in an ever-evolving business environment. Close connections with industry professionals ensure you stay ahead of trends and graduate ready to make an impact.

Delivered by the triple-accredited Aston Business School, our MSc Strategic Marketing Management programme equips you with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in today's dynamic business environment. This dedication is reflected in our rankings MSc Strategic Marketing Management is ranked 45th in the world (QS Masters World Rankings, 2025), reflecting our commitment to excellence in education.

This programme is designed to enable you to evaluate theories of contemporary human resource management and to understand and prepare for the challenges of managing in culturally diverse and fluid business contexts. It is an engaging and stimulating learning experience, with staff and students coming together in a vibrant postgraduate community. The Adam Smith Business School celebrates the legacy of Adam Smith by developing enlightened and enterprising graduates and internationally recognised research with real socio-economic impact. The School is an accredited member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).

Mounting work pressures, too little time, keeping your knowledge base up-to-date, checking out the competition: we all have to find a way of dealing with todays tidal wave of information. One highly effective solution is speed reading - a technique that is not just about reading fast, but about making your whole reading process more efficient.

Bring business management and digital innovation together to drive change in how businesses communicate with their audiences.
Become a socially and commercially aware professional, ready for the sustainable and inclusive needs of both business and media.
Work alongside The Studio, the University’s new city-centre innovation hub for creative media technology.

This course equips you with the knowledge skills and professional competency to work confidently as a manager in a digitally dependent business environment while also offering you the opportunity to develop a specialism in digital marketing. The course builds your knowledge and practical skills in general business management subjects such as strategy, policy, design, innovation and entrepreneurship. You explore how business has evolved in recent years as well as studying the transformational practices that are reshaping current business models, particularly sustainable business practices.

Learn how to become a hotel professional
Do you want to have access to a wide range of professional sectors in the hospitality industry? We offer the Hospitality Management course. The ICI gives its students the opportunity to receive knowledge in the industry of their choice to increase their value to employers. In a year from now, you can receive the degree in Hospitality Management. Your diploma will now give you that competitive advantage to explore interesting career opportunities.

An all-encompassing one-day course that gives you all the tools to become a confidant and motivational manager in the Leisure industry.

This one-year top-up course is for those who already have qualifications (Level 4 and 5 or 240 credits) or experience in a relevant field and wish to gain a full degree in business management with a specialism in digital marketing. You explore leadership, planning, policy making and how responsible innovation underpins modern business management alongside gaining an in-depth knowledge of digital technologies, global marketing, and the impact of marketing communications on a given industry or product.

A manager's effectiveness depends on the manager! This 2 day course provides a unique opportunity for a manager, or aspiring supervisor / manager, to step back and critically review how they manage and lead others. The review is very interactive and the course content very practical. Each delegate will receive feedback on the way they manage, which is done in a supportive, confidential and safe environment. Each delegate will prepare a personal action plan, which is both challenged and supported by other delegates.

Take the next step in your HR career with the CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management. This recognised qualification is designed for those with some HR experience or a Level 3 qualification who are ready to build deeper knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage people and drive organisational performance.

The Management Development Programme (MDP) is a fast paced intensive programme dedicated to the latest techniques
and trends in the core areas of management and finance.
It has been developed taking into consideration the new challenges faced in the corporate world, along with the continuous

The main objective of a Postgraduate Certificate in Finance is to empower you with the confidence to progress into a career in the finance industry or to move to a higher academic challenge such as an MSc in Finance.
You can pursue your own interests for career and business development by choosing from our growing portfolio of short courses.

Postgraduate Certificate in Management offers students the most current and relevant topics in business today, delivered by a group of lecturers with extensive professional exposure in different areas of management. The course focuses on the importance of management as one of the most relevant elements in ensuring business success.

The Postgraduate Certificate in Brand Management is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of product branding and marketing communications, with particular focus on the latest trends in ‘luxury’ branding.

The Luxury Goods Brand Management short course educates students in a number of areas vital to luxury brand management. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of human resource management, succession planning, and consumer law.
These days, the competitive world of retail management requires mangers to be multi-skilled and knowledgeable in a variety of areas in order to ensure that the business remains profitable and has potential for growth. This course provides you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in the world of luxury retail in just 2 weeks.

This is a dedicated specialist programme designed to foster strategic thinking and develop the skillset required to build, measure, and manage strong brands. This strategic brand management course aims to provide delegates with an in-depth insight into the importance of brand equity and the customer experience, and how best to maintain it.

The MA in Fashion Retail and Luxury Management programme merges aspects retail and management, resulting in students gaining practical knowledge and skills in more than one discipline.
From analysis of the fashion system to the study of marketing techniques, the content of this programme will provide students with an extremely thorough understanding of the industry. The course also looks closely at fashion as a cultural, social and historical system characterised by ever-evolving trends.