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Pre-Masters Programme in Business and Social Sciences
Pre-Masters Programme in Business and Social Sciences, this two-term pathway will prepare you for your postgraduate degree at the Strathclyde Business School or Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

You’ll study useful skills for your Masters degree, such as research skills and communication, as well as an optional route module related to your progression goals. Our Academic English Skills module ensures your language ability is suited to postgraduate study at a UK university.

Once you have completed the Pre-Masters Programme in Business and Social Sciences, and subject to satisfying the progression criteria, you can proceed to your postgraduate degree at the University.

Leading to: Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship MSc

The MSc Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship is embedded in a department which is passionate about supporting students who are dedicated to social and environmental change.

The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship hosts the Socially Progressive Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPIE) Research Cluster. SPIE's aim is to promote knowledge exchange and share new methodologies for socially progressive research and entrepreneurship, prompting trans-disciplinary research across real-world contexts.

Social innovation is concerned with ideas that address unmet social needs. Socially innovative ideas include restorative justice, hospices, kindergartens, distance learning and traffic calming (Mulgan et al., 2007), amongst others. These ideas are usually brought to fruition through an entrepreneurial process, which is concerned with turning innovations into viable and sustainable business models.

Never before has social innovation and entrepreneurship been so central to society: climate change, the threat of pandemics, increase in world population and poverty are only some of the mega-trends that require novel solutions and business models to implement them.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals stem from a global urge to address such issues. In tandem with the latter, research in this area has grown significantly in recent years. This is an important area of research, practice and teaching.

• combine theoretical knowledge with practical skills
• study a practical, career-focused programme
• participate in entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives
• get involved with Social Impact Projects, allowing you to take your theoretical knowledge and apply this learning through real-world experience in the field