Course Outline

SEMESTER ONE

• IELTS
• Research Methods*
• Academic Skills
• IT
• Business Economics I

SEMESTER TWO

• IELTS
• Introduction to Management and Marketing
• Guided Research Project
• Business Economics II
• Advanced Academic Skills

SEMESTER THREE

• IELTS
• International Relations
• Accounting & Finance
• Management & Marketing
• IT
• Advanced Academic Skills

* Research Methods is central to the Pre-Masters Course and all students are expected to acquire specified and demonstrable core skills from this module. Students who do not achieve this in the first semester will repeat the Research Methods module in the following semester.

The course integrates research methods and academic skills, including dissertation writing. The emphasis on research skills is continued into Semester Two when students will research and write their own 3,000 word dissertation.

In addition to IELTS, students pick three out of four of the given options in Semester Three. If a student does not wish to take a Masters Degree in a Business, Finance and Management subject, they may choose Contemporary Art History, Law, Maths or IT in Semester One, Two or Three in place of one or more of the Business Economics I and II and Management and Marketing I and II options.

The Pre-Masters programme averages 16-18 hours per week of tuition and the full three-semester course is 33 weeks long.

Your IELTS tutor will decide when you are ready to apply for the exam. If you do not achieve the required grade, you may retake it after three months. The College will organise the applications. Entry currently costs £105.