An MSc in Construction Business and Project Management is designed to enhance the managerial skills of those work experienced students who have already qualified at degree or professional level in any area of the built environment.

An MSc in Construction Business and Project Management is designed to enhance the managerial skills of those work experienced students who have already qualified at degree or professional level in any area of the built environment.

An MSc in Construction Business and Project Management aims to:

• produce future leaders of the construction industry.
• provide an opportunity for graduates and professionals within the construction industry to enhance their construction business and project management knowledge, skills and competencies.
• satisfy the demand from industry for personnel with high levels of business and project abilities. This course helps prepare students for this exacting challenge.

Construction Business and Project Management involves the management of a public or private sector construction organisation/business and the procurement and execution of their capital projects. It provides graduates and professionals with the opportunity to rise to this challenge. The dynamic nature of the construction industry is changing rapidly in terms of legislation and the need to introduce innovation, change and value for money. Construction industry organisations responsible for design, building and maintenance are seeking increasingly highly qualified employees who can respond to exacting client expectations.

An MSc in Construction Business and Project Management curriculum has been designed for: graduates, professionally qualified project managers, architects, builders, property developers, building services engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, structural engineers, quantity surveyors, building surveyors, facilities managers, property professionals and town planners.

An MSc in Construction Business and Project Management will be of interest to experienced graduates or professionals within the built environment with a a strong interest in achieving excellence in the management of a construction business and project. An MSc in Construction Business and Project Management seeks to develop competency clusters, including independent learning skills, investigative and research skills, communication skills, innovation and creativity, problem solving and decision making skills, assertiveness and diplomacy, team working, leadership and initiative.

An MSc in Construction Business and Project Management will equip students with in-depth knowledge of how to manage both a business and a project within construction. It is for individuals who want to effectively manage change in fast-moving project and business environment. It equips senior managers, and those who aspire to those positions, to embrace the challenges of modernisation, innovation and change in today's knowledge-based economy. It equips students with a thorough knowledge and deep understanding of project and business management in order to recognise the significance of external and internal influences upon organisational design and strategic planning. An MSc in Construction Business and Project Management will enable students to more effectively lead, organise, plan and implement projects to the satisfaction of clients, and to effectively analyse corporate problems and design and implement highly effective strategies for change.

The MSc in Construction Business and Project Management at the University of Ulster includes the following modules: Organisation and Management, Project Management, Construction Business Management and Finance, Construction Legal Studies (Option), Sustainable Development (Option), Sustainable Urban Regeneration, Construction Project Management, Project Procurement and Project Leadership. In addition, for the Masters component, there is Research Design Methods and a Dissertation. The course is fully accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), Association for Project Management (APM), the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineering (CIBSE) consider the award to be of assistance in gaining professional qualifications.

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