Designed for the consumer, industrial and digital marketing environments, the MSc in Marketing encompasses elements of marketing management and strategy, consumer behaviour, digital marketing (including Google Analytics), marketing analytics, research methods and international marketing.
The MSc Marketing programme has been designed to equip the next generation of marketing professionals with the necessary conceptual, analytical and practical skills required by firms to compete in the global marketplace.
Marketing highlights
World Class Facilities
Queen’s Business School (QBS) has recently undergone an innovative expansion that establishes a benchmark of global excellence for one of the top business schools in the UK and Ireland. A stunning new 6,000 square metre building, adjacent to the listed red-brick Riddel Hall has been designed with the latest digital infrastructure for media lecture capture, TED Talk provision and collaborative breakout sessions.
Professional Accreditations
Accreditation exceptions are obtained from The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) – The leading professional body for marketers worldwide which exists to develop the marketing profession, maintain professional standards and improve the skills of marketing practitioners. The CIM is a professional qualification and complements academic MSc in Marketing qualification.
Students of the MSc Marketing programme can register as students with CIM and will have access to all CIM resources including webinars and Marketing Expert (additional fee will apply). Students will be able to attend local CIM branch events and seminars, which offer networking opportunities and the chance to keep abreast of current marketing thinking and practice.
Upon successful completion of the MSc Marketing programme, students will have a number of exemptions from CIM professional examinations. Students can undertake the CIM Certificate in Professional Marketing, which requires them to complete 1 online module (students are exempt from 2 other modules) or the CIM Diploma in Professional Marketing, which requires them to complete 2 online modules (students are exempt from 1 other module).
World Class Facilities
Fostering an enhanced social and educational experience the new state-of-the-art QBS venue boasts a 250-seat
tiered educational space; 120-seat Harvard style lecture theatre; 150-seat computer laboratory; breakout study spaces; FinTrU Trading Room; a café, and a Business Engagement and Employability Hub.
Industry Links
Students will have the opportunity to apply for a minimum 12 week paid internship as an option in Semester 3, students will be required to undertake an action research project and submit a report based on this. This option is instead of undertaking a traditional research dissertation or an academic research project. This option, only available for top high-performing students, provides the opportunity to apply and review academic and theoretical principles in practice. It also provides students with real-world experience of working in a marketing environment.
Professional Accreditations
The Digital Marketing (featuring Google Analytics) module encourages students to work towards a Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GAIQ). This is a signal to employers that our MSc Marketing students have both the theoretical and practical skills to compete. The examination fee will be reimbursed by the School (subject to attaining the award during the module).
Student Experience
Teaching methods and learning may include lectures, tutorials, seminars, case studies, computer/software demonstrations, non-book media (videos and podcasts), individual research, oral presentations, group projects, online discussion forums, industry visits, practitioner workshops, and internship opportunities.
Student Testimonials
The Marketing Masters at Queen’s Business School has enhanced my confidence in solving business problems. I have been applying the ideas and concepts that I learned in the programme in my current work. The course has helped me identify where my personal strengths lie and how to best enhance and develop those skills within a team environment.
The course can only be taken on a full-time basis. Students undertake 4 modules in semester 1 (September to December) and a further 4 in semester 2 (January to April/May). In semester 3 (July to September) students either undertake the traditional dissertation, internship and work-based project or the academic research project.
Semester 1
• Marketing Management
• Strategic Marketing
• Digital Marketing
• Accounting for Decision Making
Semester 2 – Core Modules
• Consumer Behaviour
• International Marketing
• Marketing Analytics
• Research Methods and Techniques
Semester 3
(select a total of 60 CATS)
• Dissertation (60 CATS)
• Marketing Internship and Work-based Research Project (60 CATS)*
• Academic Research Project + 2 taught modules (Contemporary Issues in Management and Business Governance and Ethics) (60 CATS)
The three options for semester 3 will each enable students to utilise the knowledge and skills acquired in the Research Methods for Business module.
The Dissertation requires students to undertake a significant research project and write up a thesis of their study and its findings.
The Marketing Internship and Work Based Project requires students to undertake a 12 week paid internship, which will include undertaking an action research project which they must write up as a report (similar in detail and length to a traditional dissertation). Please note internships are allocated on a competitive basis based on CVs and interviews.
The third option is an action research project in the form of a critical literature review as well as completing two modules (Contemporary Issues in Management and Business Governance and Ethics) which are taught in blocks over a few weeks in the summer.
Queen's Business School Email: grace.carson@qub.ac.uk
Learning and Teaching
Teaching Methods
Teaching Times
Morning/Afternoon/Evening
Assessment
Assessments associated with the course are outlined below:
Students will complete individual student assignments, oral presentations, group casework, examinations, computer-aided assessment, multiple-choice tests and research work. Other innovative assessment methods are incorporated as appropriate.
The information below is intended as an example only, featuring module details for the current year of study (2024/25). Modules are reviewed on an annual basis and may be subject to future changes – revised details will be published through Programme Specifications ahead of each academic year.
Module Description
Marketing strategy is developed and used to mobilise and configure the actions of firm actors, creating a set of stabilising activities typically oriented around planning, resources and the positioning of products and services to customers. Some sort of collective, firm-centric action is needed, typically involving choices around formulation-implementation-control. These choices create, communicate and deliver products offering value in customer exchanges, enabling organisational goals to be attained through achieving sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. The rise of the Internet has presented significant challenges to the modern logic of marketing strategy. Within the dominant position of established marketing strategy thinking around stabilising activities, there appears to be little room for the increasing role that multiple web-enabled actors, often beyond the traditional firm-customer dyad, in the practice of marketing strategy. Notwithstanding, new thinking from this perspective has the potential to provide new forms of relevance for marketing strategy and its strategic role and influence in the firm. This module explores these issues and provides a theoretical and applied basis for understanding how to frame marketing strategy within the digital era.
Module Content
This module aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to develop marketing strategies that can be employed on Internet/mobile platforms as well as integrating with offline platforms. It sets digital marketing management in context as a key creator of customer value and deals with strategic insights into the firm, its customers and the challenges it faces. Indicative content includes:
• The organisation in the digital environment
• Understanding customers in a digital environment
• Engaging with customers in a digital environment
• Social media and marketing strategy
• Digital branding
• Developing a digital marketing strategy
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will:
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of how consumer behaviour theory and practice has emerged to play a key role in understanding consumers and their contexts of consumption
• Understand and evaluate how consumer research and its practices are applied in organizations in order to drive business performance and enhance the consumer experience
• Analyse and critically evaluate the role and effectiveness of key consumer research practices
• Understand and critique the importance of consumer research to effect change in the marketplace for consumers, practitioners, management and employees
Skills
On successful completion of this module, students will have gained the following key skills:
• Communication skills
• Self reflection skills
• Analysis skills
• Report writing skills
• ICT skills
• Organisation skills
• Team working skills
The aim of this course is to prepare students for conducting an independent and original research project, which comprises one third of the final mark for the award of the MSc degree. Focus will be placed on equipping students
with the necessary knowledge and skills to choose the most appropriate
research methodology and method(s) for a particular research issue/problem. Building upon this, the module will develop students’ knowledge and skills in terms of qualitative and quantitative research methods, which have direct
applicability in terms of future employment. On completion of this module students will have gained a comprehensive understanding of both the philosophical and practical aspects of conducting research and thus should be able to make more informed decisions about research strategy, design
and methodology. Students should also feel confident in writing a dissertation/consultancy project.
This module aims to provide students with a range of skills to undertake effective research in business and management. The skills learned in this module will be applicable across professions as the relevance and importance of being able to design research, interpret, critically analyse and evaluate qualitative and quantitative information is crucial in today’s
management world. The general aim of the module is to introduce students to the research process and present the tools and methodologies of social science required to carry out your thesis research. This course has three separate but closely related components – a discussion of the research
design process, research methodology principles and research skills applications. At the end of the course, students should be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches and
formulate quality research projects.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course, students will:
• Be able to reflect upon and critically evaluate philosophical issues and positions which underpin the research process in management.
• Have gained a comprehensive understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of conducting management research.
• Be able to critically evaluate main methods of data collection.
• Be able to apply some of the methods of data collection in a practical context.
• Be able to make informed decisions about research strategy, design and methodology.
• Be able to write a research proposal outlining own research interests.
• Understand the different types of data analysis methods used in business research.
• Understand how to collect, analyse, summarise and present quantitative data.
• Understand how to collect, analyse, interpret and present qualitative data.
• Assess the credibility of quantitative and qualitative research
Skills
1. Develop intellectual skills, such as the acquisition, analysis, interpretation and critical evaluation of information from a variety of different sources
2. Develop research skills, such as undertaking basic statistical analysis using a statistical software package and qualitative data analysis
3. Acquire skills for managing a master level dissertation project
This module is designed as an introduction to accounting for students with little or no previous knowledge of accounting. The module examines the theory and practice of accounting at a non-specialist level by explaining the basics of financial accounting, management accounting and finance and examining their relevance to the broader issues of decision-making.
The aim of the module is to provide students with an introduction to financial and management accounting. By the end of the module, students will have the skill and confidence to deal with the accounting information that they will meet in their subsequent careers.
A detailed teaching plan is provided in the accompanying module outline.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module students will be able to:
1. Critically discuss the nature and purpose of accounting,
2. Apply financial accounting techniques in line with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to measure and report financial position and performance,
3. Interpret financial statements using ratio analysis to evaluate enterprise position and performance,
4. Effectively communicate management accounting information to plan, control and make decisions,
5. Critically discuss contemporary issues in accounting relevant to decision-makers.
Skills
This module aims to develop specific skills in the form of:
Knowledge and Understanding
• Develop a global mindset with cross-cultural intelligence
• Enhance the capability for data-driven business changes and implement effective decisions as needed in a dynamic business environment.
Cognitive Skills
• Empower students with the skills for systematic analysis and rational deduction in addressing business problems
• Ability to critically analyse the context-specific nature of some of the topics/themes within management and financial accounting as well as the challenges of their implementation.
Transferable Skills
• Competence to balance independent enquiry while collaborating within a culturally diverse team member
Module Description
This module focuses on a new and exciting development in marketing theory and practice. The use of data, ‘big data’, to assist in marketing decision making and accountability continues to grow in importance, particularly in the current age of austerity and resource scarcity. The module takes both a theoretical and practical approach to the use of marketing analytics in practice.
A highlight of the module is the use of SAS or SPSS software to analyse data for marketing-related decision making and evaluative purposes. Students who successfully complete the module will be able to signal to potential employers that they have the theoretical, practical plus industry-standard software skills to compete.
Module Content
The module is taught in two blocks. Block 1 takes a holistic approach to understanding marketing analytics - the maturity of data analytics in the marketing profession; uncover where, when and how it is being used; and identify whether or not its use results in greater effectiveness, efficiency and performance returns. Indicative Block 1 contents include:
• Introduction and overview of marketing analytics
• Competing on marketing analytics – developing a marketing analytics culture
• Marketing analytics at the strategic, functional, analytical and warehouse levels
• Customer engagement and customer analytics
• Performance implications of marketing analytics
• Current issues and trends in marketing analytics
• The dark side of marketing analytics
Block 2 focuses on data mining techniques for marketing (including sales and customer relationship management). Block 2 will be taught through instructor led computer workshops using SAS or SPSS software to solve marketing-related problems. Indicative Block 2 contents include:
• SAS or SPSS training – introduction and overview
• The marketing analytics process
• Data for marketing analytics
• Understanding the customer
• Predicting customer behaviour
• Amalgamating into marketing operations
• Case studies
• Self-learning
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the module students will:
• Have a holistic understanding of the use, value or otherwise of marketing analytics – theoretical and practical applications.
• Understand the antecedents and consequences of building a marketing analytics culture.
• Appreciate the complexity of capturing and using data to aid marketing-related decision making, including caveats, as appropriate.
• Have practical knowledge of SAS or SPSS software tools relating to the application of marketing analytics.
• Have worked through and run appropriate models relating to descriptive and predictive analytics for marketing.
Skills
On successful completion of this module, students will have gained the following skills:
Subject-specific Skills
• Marketing analytics for managers
• Marketing analytics in practice
• Software and data mining applications
Cognitive Skills
• Problem solving
• Logical reasoning
• Independent enquiry
• Critical evaluation and interpretation
• Self-assessment and reflection
Transferable Skills
• Synthesise and evaluate information/data from a variety of sources
• The preparation and communication of ideas in written form
• Work both independently and in groups
• Organisation and time management
• Problem solving and critical analysis
Module Description
This module serves to provide an understanding of marketing from both a management and consumer perspective. This module will build on your understanding of management and consumer behaviour with marketing theory and practical illustrative cases of the challenges facing the marketing manager. During this module you will explore the interfaces between marketing and institutions, strategy, organisation and psychology in the social practice of marketing strategy. This will help you to critically evaluate and gain practical experience of how the agency of marketing leadership contributes to the creation, maintenance and disruption of markets and strategies.
Module Content
Marketing Evolution and Service Dominant Logic
Business Models and Value Propositions
Institutions Marketing
Market driving behaviours
Technology and markets
Marketing Innovation
Marketing Persuasion
Marketing Psychology
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:-
1. Understand the nature, scope and role of contemporary international market issues, developing a working knowledge of the specific vocabulary used in global market leadership and the policy issues surrounding the area.
2. To gain an appreciation of the changing market environments in which firms are operating and how they are responding in terms of market-driven and market-driving leadership approaches.
3. Critically evaluate, using a range of theoretical perspectives, current research and theoretical frameworks used in international marketing environments.
4. Synthesize the analytical with the creative aspects of international marketing to identify, produce and inform arguments, plans and selling issues in the global marketplace.
Skills
On successful completion of this module, students will have gained the following skills:
Subject-specific Skills
• The ability to apply a theoretical understanding of the international and/or global marketing task to current industry practice.
• The ability to critically evaluate academic work within the subject area.
• The ability to critically evaluate the decision-making of international and/or global firms and propose recommendations to improve international and/or global marketing efforts; and
• The ability to analyse and discuss case studies and articles concerned with current
• practice and the strategies employed by firms operating in an international and/or global environment.
Cognitive Skills
Problem solving
Logical reasoning
Independent enquiry
Critical evaluation and interpretation
Self-assessment and reflection
Transferable Skills
The ability to synthesise and evaluate information/data from a variety of sources
The preparation and communication of ideas in written form
The ability to work both independently and in groups
Organisation and time management
Problem solving and critical analysis
Consumer Culture Theory
Applied Consumer Research
Consumers and Brands
Gender and Consumer Behaviour
Digital self
Advertising and Gender
Transformative Consumer Research
Innovative Research Methods
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will:
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of how consumer behaviour theory and practice has emerged to play a key role in understanding consumers and their contexts of consumption
• Understand and evaluate how consumer research and its practices are applied in organizations in order to drive business performance and enhance the consumer experience
• Analyse and critically evaluate the role and effectiveness of key consumer research practices
• Understand and critique the importance of consumer research to effect change in the marketplace for consumers, practitioners, management and employees
Subject Specific Skills
• the ability to gain understanding of individuals as part of families, communities and society in terms of consumption and disposition as driven by symbolism, self-concept and the desire for connections with others
• the ability to apply innovative qualitative research approaches to understanding consumer behaviour
• the ability to critically evaluate academic work within the subject area
• the ability to analyse and discuss current journal articles in keeping with particular concepts
Cognitive Skills
• problem solving
• logical reasoning
• independent enquiry
• critical evaluation and interpretation
• Self-assessment and reflection
Transferable Skills
• the ability to synthesise and evaluate information/data from a variety of sources
• the preparation and communication of ideas in written form
• the ability to work both independently and in groups
• organisation and time management
• problem solving and critical analysis
Module Description
This module serves as a platform for understanding the far reaching and holistic application of marketing as both a philosophy and function in contemporary organisations. The module serves as a base for the MSc in Marketing, providing the requisite level of knowledge needed to advance in the parallel and sequential modules in the course. The module is taught at an introductory level. It assumes no prior knowledge of the business system - marketing in particular.
Module Content
• Marketing Concept and Market Orientation
• Marketing Environment and Planning
• Market Research
• Market segmentation, Target Market selection and Positioning
• Marketing mix
• Marketing Strategy Implementation
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the module students will be able to:
• Understand the nature, scope and role of marketing in an organisational context (including the development, organisation and structure of a strategic marketing plan).
• Identify and critically discuss key marketing issues faced by managers.
• Apply key concepts and theories to marketing problems faced by marketing managers.
• Comment critically on conceptualisations offered within the subject area and companies’ marketing efforts.
Skills
Subject-specific Skills
• Apply a theoretical understanding of the marketing management and strategy task to current industry practice.
• Critically evaluate academic work within the subject area.
• Critically evaluate the strategic decision-making of marketing managers and propose recommendations to improve efforts.
• Analyse and discuss case studies and articles concerned with marketing management and strategy current practice in a range of sectors and contexts.
Cognitive Skills
• Problem solving
• Logical reasoning
• Independent enquiry
• Critical evaluation and interpretation
• Self-assessment and reflection
Transferable Skills
• Synthesise and evaluate information/data from a variety of sources
• The preparation and communication of ideas in written form
• Work both independently and in groups
• Organisation and time management
• Problem solving and critical analysis
Marketing Internship and Work-based Research Project
Overview
Students have the opportunity to apply for minimum 12 week paid internship as an alternative to the traditional MSc dissertation in Semester 3. It is an opportunity for students to combine their knowledge and skills acquired and enhanced across the taught modules and use them to explore, analyse and evaluate a predefined business problem, challenge or issue that is agreed with the internship host.
It is compulsory for students who secure an internship to submit a work-based research project as the final element of the MSc Marketing degree. The purpose and scope of the project must have a contemporary marketing focus; have the potential to add value to the company’s marketing operations; and be agreed by both the academic supervisor and the company mentor before the student can commence work on it.
Learning Outcomes
1. Critically evaluate the relevant literature of the subject area chosen for the research study;
2. Formulate research questions on a research issue;
3. Select appropriate research methods for answering research questions and execute appropriately
4. Draw conclusions, appraise practical implications of work experience, justify recommendations, and identify the limitations of the study and scope for further research.
Skills
Apply and review theoretical principles in practice
• Communication
• Data analysis skills relevant to the chosen research topic
• Effective and independent learning
• Quantitative/qualitative skills
• Specific research skills relevant to the chosen research topic
Module Description
The dissertation provides the opportunity for students to undertake an independent piece of research, in a topic area relating to the marketing discipline, and apply a range of tools and methods in the execution of a particular thesis.
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the dissertation, students will be able to:
• Compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
• Critically appraise published research in the area of marketing.
• Identify an appropriate subject for study relating to the marketing discipline.
• Examine critically research design and ethical issues in for research in marketing.
• Reflect coherently on an appropriate research method.
• Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the theoretical and methodological issues arising in conducting a research project and dissertation in the field relating to the marketing discipline.
• Collect and analyze data.
• Draw conclusions from data analyzed and draw implication for theory and practice.
Skills
Skills
On successful completion of this module, students will have gained the following key skills:
• Searching for and critical review of relevant academic literature
• The carrying out of independent research involving quantitative and/or qualitative analysis
• Creative thinking and problem-solving
• Personal effectiveness
• Academic writing skills
• Time management
The focus of the module is on the theory, practice and challenges faced by marketing managers working in a global/international environment and the concepts and theories that can be used to inform marketing decision making in these contexts.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the module students will:
• Understand the nature, scope and role of marketing in firms operating in a global/international environment.
• Be able to apply key concepts and theories to marketing problems faced by managers working in a global/international environment.
• Be able to identify and critically discuss key marketing issues faced by managers working in a global/international environment.
• Be able to propose solutions, with appropriate evidence, to key marketing issues faced by managers working in a global/international environment.
• Have examined emerging global/international marketing developments and understand their implications for enabling and/or challenging success in firms operating in an international/global sphere.
• Be able to comment critically on conceptualisations and empirical evidence offered within the discipline and the associated implications of these for global/international marketing strategy.
Skills
This module seeks to improve:
• the ability to apply a theoretical understanding of the global/international marketing task to current industry practice;
• the ability to critically evaluate academic work within the subject area;
• the ability to critically evaluate the decision-making of global/international firms and propose recommendations to improve marketing efforts within them; and
• the ability to analyse and discuss case studies and articles concerned with current practice and the strategies employed by firms operating in a global/international environment.
Normally a strong 2.2 Honours degree (with minimum of 55%) or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University in any discipline.
Applicants are advised to apply as early as possible and ideally no later than 16th August 2024 for courses which commence in late September. In the event that any programme receives a high number of applications, the University reserves the right to close the application portal. Notifications to this effect will appear on the Direct Application Portal against the programme application page.
Please note: international applicants will be required to pay a deposit to secure a place on this course.
International Students
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English Language Requirements
Evidence of an IELTS* score of 6.5, with not less than 5.5 in any component, or an equivalent qualification acceptable to the University is required.
*Taken within the last 2 years.
International students wishing to apply to Queen's University Belfast (and for whom English is not their first language), must be able to demonstrate their proficiency in English in order to benefit fully from their course of study or research. Non-EEA nationals must also satisfy UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) immigration requirements for English language for visa purposes.
If you need to improve your English language skills before you enter this degree programme, INTO Queen's University Belfast offers a range of English language courses. These intensive and flexible courses are designed to improve your English ability for admission to this degree.
Academic English: an intensive English language and study skills course for successful university study at degree level
Pre-sessional English: a short intensive academic English course for students starting a degree programme at Queen's University Belfast and who need to improve their English.
Students on this programme will leave with a solid knowledge of contemporary marketing thought and best practices, coupled with a solid grounding in market(ing) research methods, tools and applications. Our graduates have gone on to work in and develop successful careers across a diverse range of roles and industries including digital marketing, marketing analytics, marketing research and new product introductions, key account management, export projects and related international expansion as well as brand management work.
Graduates from this programme have secured roles with employers such as PwC, BBC, Marriott International, Warner Brothers, ASOS, Primark, Selfridges, The Body Shop, and many others. https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/sgc/careers/
Graduate Plus/Future Ready Award for extra-curricular skills
In addition to your degree programme, at Queen's you can have the opportunity to gain wider life, academic and employability skills. For example, placements, voluntary work, clubs, societies, sports and lots more. So not only do you graduate with a degree recognised from a world leading university, you'll have practical national and international experience plus a wider exposure to life overall. We call this Graduate Plus/Future Ready Award. It's what makes studying at Queen's University Belfast special.
1EU citizens in the EU Settlement Scheme, with settled status, will be charged the NI or GB tuition fee based on where they are ordinarily resident. Students who are ROI nationals resident in GB will be charged the GB fee.
2 EU students who are ROI nationals resident in ROI are eligible for NI tuition fees.
3 EU Other students (excludes Republic of Ireland nationals living in GB, NI or ROI) are charged tuition fees in line with international fees.
All tuition fees quoted relate to a single year of study unless stated otherwise. Tuition fees will be subject to an annual inflationary increase, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Students have the option to undertake a consultancy project for their dissertation and are responsible for funding any travel, accommodation and subsistence costs.
Terms and Conditions for Postgraduate applications:
1.1 Due to high demand, there is a deadline for applications.
1.2 You will be required to pay a deposit to secure your place on the course.
1.3 This condition of offer is in addition to any academic or English language requirements.
Depending on the programme of study, there may be extra costs which are not covered by tuition fees, which students will need to consider when planning their studies.
Students can borrow books and access online learning resources from any Queen's library. If students wish to purchase recommended texts, rather than borrow them from the University Library, prices per text can range from £30 to £100. Students should also budget between £30 to £75 per year for photocopying, memory sticks and printing charges.
Students undertaking a period of work placement or study abroad, as either a compulsory or optional part of their programme, should be aware that they will have to fund additional travel and living costs.
If a programme includes a major project or dissertation, there may be costs associated with transport, accommodation and/or materials. The amount will depend on the project chosen. There may also be additional costs for printing and binding.
Students may wish to consider purchasing an electronic device; costs will vary depending on the specification of the model chosen.
There are also additional charges for graduation ceremonies, examination resits and library fines.
How do I fund my study?
The Department for the Economy will provide a tuition fee loan of up to £6,500 per NI / EU student for postgraduate study. Tuition fee loan information.
A postgraduate loans system in the UK offers government-backed student loans of up to £11,836 for taught and research Masters courses in all subject areas (excluding Initial Teacher Education/PGCE, where undergraduate student finance is available). Criteria, eligibility, repayment and application information are available on the UK government website.
