University of Northampton
The University of Northampton is a public university located in the county of Northamptonshire, around 90 minutes from London. The university's predecessor was opened in 1924 by the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). It received full university status in 2005. It ranked 93rd in the UK in The Guardian's 2021 University Rankings and has a TEF Gold Award. It also was named the Midlands' most 'Enterprising University of the Year' in both 2011 and 2012 for its work in social enterprise.
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MSc Project Management with placement
This field covers how complex undertakings get planned, budgeted, staffed and delivered on time, from construction schemes to conferences and festivals. The work involves scheduling, risk assessment, supplier coordination and keeping everyone aligned when plans change. Graduates often work in project offices, agencies, venues and operations teams across many industries.
MSc Accounting and Finance with Placement Year
Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.
BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Graphic design shapes how information and ideas look and are understood, through typography, layout, colour, image and brand systems. Projects usually move from brief to research, concept, iteration and finished artwork, with critique along the way. Graduates often work in studios, in-house design teams, advertising, publishing and digital product design.
BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles Footwear and Accessories (Top-Up)
Fashion design covers the making of garments and collections: research and concept development, drawing, pattern cutting, fabric choice and construction. It is about moving an idea from sketch to finished piece while keeping the person who will wear it in mind. Graduates often work in design studios, product development, styling, buying and their own labels.
MSc Public Health
Public health concerns the health of populations rather than individual patients: why disease spreads, which conditions cluster where, and what prevention and policy can change. It combines epidemiology, statistics, health promotion and the social causes of illness. Graduates often work in health authorities, non-governmental organisations, research and health programme management.
MSc Project Management with Placement Year
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
MSc Project Management
This field covers how complex undertakings get planned, budgeted, staffed and delivered on time, from construction schemes to conferences and festivals. The work involves scheduling, risk assessment, supplier coordination and keeping everyone aligned when plans change. Graduates often work in project offices, agencies, venues and operations teams across many industries.
MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration)
Physiotherapy studies how the body moves and how injury, illness or ageing disrupts that movement. Learning blends anatomy, exercise science and clinical reasoning with hands-on assessment and rehabilitation techniques. Graduates often work with patients recovering from surgery or injury, in sports settings, in care for older people and in community rehabilitation.
MSc Occupational Therapy (Pre-Registration)
Occupational therapy helps people take part in the everyday activities that matter to them after illness, injury or disability, or as they age. Study combines anatomy, psychology and social science with assessment, adaptation of tasks and environments, and rehabilitation. Graduates often work in health services, schools, community care and rehabilitation settings.
MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management
This field follows goods from raw material to customer: sourcing, production planning, warehousing, transport and the information that ties them together. It involves modelling flows, controlling inventory and cost, and managing disruption across suppliers and borders. Graduates often work in procurement, logistics, operations planning and distribution.
MSc International Marketing Strategy
Marketing studies how organisations understand customers and bring products and services to them, spanning research, branding, pricing, distribution, advertising and digital channels. The work blends creative thinking with data about behaviour. Graduates often work in brand and product management, digital marketing, market research, advertising, and sales or communications.
MSc International Business Management
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
MSc Computing with Placement Year
At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.
MSc Computing (Software Engineering)
At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.
MSc Computing (Internet Technology and Security)
Engineering and technology cover the design, building and improvement of the systems, machines and processes societies depend on. Whatever the specialism, the method stays recognisable: apply mathematics and science, model the problem, test, and refine within real constraints of cost, safety and materials. Graduates work across industry, infrastructure, energy and technology development.
MSc Computing (Computer Networks Engineering)
Engineering and technology cover the design, building and improvement of the systems, machines and processes societies depend on. Whatever the specialism, the method stays recognisable: apply mathematics and science, model the problem, test, and refine within real constraints of cost, safety and materials. Graduates work across industry, infrastructure, energy and technology development.
MSc Computing
At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.
MSc Business Analytics
Business analytics turns organisational data into decisions: forecasting demand, measuring what marketing actually achieves, and spotting where operations lose money. The work combines statistics, database querying and modelling with the ability to explain findings to people who are not analysts. Graduates often work as analysts, consultants and decision-support specialists.
MSc Advanced Design and Manufacturing
Design is about shaping objects, images, spaces and experiences so they work well for the people who use them. Studio practice, sketching, prototyping and critique sit alongside research into users, materials and context. Graduates often work in studios and agencies, in-house creative teams, or independently across many industries.
MSc Accounting and Finance
Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.
MBA Master of Business Administration with Placement
Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.
MBA Master of Business Administration
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
English studies covers the literature written in English and the workings of the language itself — how texts are built, how meaning shifts, how writing responds to its moment. Close reading, argument and clear writing are the core skills. Graduates often enter publishing, teaching, media, communications, marketing and law.
MA Special Educational Needs and Inclusion (Autism Pathway)
Disability studies examines disability as a social and political experience as much as a medical one, looking at barriers, rights, representation and the design of services and spaces. Students engage with law, history, ethics and the voices of disabled people themselves. Graduates often work in advocacy, policy, education, social care and accessibility roles.
MA Special Educational Needs and Inclusion
Disability studies examines disability as a social and political experience as much as a medical one, looking at barriers, rights, representation and the design of services and spaces. Students engage with law, history, ethics and the voices of disabled people themselves. Graduates often work in advocacy, policy, education, social care and accessibility roles.
MA Social Work
Social work supports people facing hardship — family difficulty, disability, poor mental health, poverty, abuse or needs that come with age — and connects them with services and protection. Human development, law, policy and ethics join the practical skills of assessment and intervention. Graduates often work in child and family services, mental health, community organisations and local government.
MA Education
Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.
BSc (Hons) International Nursing Studies (Top-Up)
International relations studies how states, institutions and other actors interact: diplomacy, conflict and security, trade, development, and the rules and organisations shaping global politics. Theory and history are used to make sense of current events. Graduates often work in government and diplomacy, international organisations, humanitarian and development bodies, journalism, research and risk analysis.
BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance
Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.
BA (Hons) Strategic Management and International Business (Top-Up)
Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.
BA (Hons) Global Business Management (Top-Up)
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
BA (Hons) Business Management
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
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