MSc Business Psychology

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2026, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MSc (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £15,800
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £31,000

Further information for EU students can be found on our dedicated EU page.

The fees quoted above will be fully inclusive for the course tuition, administration and computational costs during your studies.

Refund Policy

Due to the competition for places and limited availability, our courses require a deposit of £1000 to cover non-recoverable costs and secure your place. The deposit will be deducted from your tuition fees when you register on the course.

The deposit is non-refundable, except in the following situations:

• you fail to meet the conditions of your offer (see below for further information); and/or
• you are refused a visa or entry clearance to enter the UK (proof must be submitted)

If an offer has been made specifying an English Language condition which you do not meet, the Admissions Team will require the official certificate of an English Language test taken after the date of offer as evidence that you have attempted to meet your offer conditions for a refund to be approved. The English Language test certificate provided with your application documents will not be accepted as proof that you have attempted to meet your offer conditions as such a certificate will predate the offer.

If an offer has been made specifying an academic condition, the Admissions Team will require the official university documentation showing that you have not met this academic condition from the institution at which you have studied, as evidence for a refund to be approved.

The Admissions Team reserves the right to refuse to refund of any deposit that does not meet with the requirements outlined above.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

Scholarships will be available for 2026 entry, information will be updated on our scholarships page.

• Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies
• Qualitative methods including semi-structured interviews, case studies and ethnography
• Qualitative analysis including content analysis, thematic analysis and grounded theory
• Introduction to the fundamentals of business analytics, including, correlation, effect sizes, power, and hypothesis testing
• Research design including sampling; panel, cohort, cross-sectional, multi-group and multilevel designs; question types and response formats
• Survey design methods including reliability and validity
• Factor Analysis and basic statistical techniques

BMAN71961 Programme Req: BMAN71961 is only available as a core unit to students on MSc Business Psychology and MSc Organisational Psychology

• To introduce students to quantitative and qualitative research methods
• To provide a grounding in qualitative methods and analysis
• To provide a grounding in survey methods and survey research design
• To provide a grounding in Factor Analysis and basic statistical techniques for analysing correlation and group difference

• Understand how to design qualitative and quantitative research studies
• Design qualitative research methods such as interviews and focus groups.
• Understand how to conduct qualitative analyses
• Design a survey.
• Conduct fundamental analytical techniques, including, correlation, t-tests and ANOVA
• Specify, conduct, and interpret exploratory factor analytic models

Report (50%)

Statistical Analysis Report (50%)

• Informal advice and discussion during a lecture, seminar, workshop or lab.
• Online exercises and quizzes delivered through the Blackboard course space.
• Written and/or verbal comments on assessed or non-assessed coursework.
• Written and/or verbal comments after students have given a group or individual presentation.
• Generic feedback posted on Blackboard regarding overall examination performance.

Dancy, C. P. & Reidy, J. (2011). Statistics without maths for psychology. Harlow, Pearson.
Smith, Andy (2005) Discovering Statistics using SPSS for Windows, Sage Publications.
Bryman, A. & Bell, E. (2007). Business research methods. Oxford: OU Press.

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