MSc Strategy & Innovation

at Maynooth University

Our learning blends developing individual analytic capabilities with teamwork, leadership, and communication skills. Strategy and Leadership modules provide you with analytic capabilities to decompose complex problems, devise solutions, and apply your skills in practice through experiential learning modules such as Strategy Live. Innovation, Digital Business, and Finance modules provide you with the practical skills necessary to transform organisations to create value for customers. Career Planning and Development and research modules equip you with tools and resources to develop your own career strategy and how to solve real problems. The capstone of the programme is a paid Work Placement, Dissertation, or Business Research Project where you learn to apply the lessons to a real-world issue. For details on module overviews, learning outcomes, teaching and learning methods and assessment please visit Course Finder.

Candidates must hold a Business, Management, or Marketing degree (level 8), or a Business-related degree (level 8), having achieved a minimum of a 2.2 honours (or equivalent) overall. Alternatively, you may hold a non-Business degree (minimum 2.2 overall, level 8) with at least five years’ work experience. International applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level. Exceptionally, consideration will be given to candidates who do not hold a primary degree, but who do have at least 10 years’ relevant work experience, at least three of which are in a management position. These applicants are managed through the Maynooth University Procedure for Non-Standard Entrants and Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning. 

The fees for MSc Strategy & Innovation may vary from €6,500 to €15,000 annually for tuition fees. The fee's prices may get higher for International Students.

The programme develops you as a manager who can create value for private and public organisations with analytic, personal, and decision-making capabilities to be an effective contributor in teams that identify and solve complex operational and strategic problems faced by organisations. For recent graduates, this master’s gives you the skills necessary for a career in consultancy, general management, and business analysis. For those with work experience, this degree helps you transition from a role as a technical specialist into a managerial role, or to develop the skills needed to advance to senior management. The Work Placement and Business Research Project options are particularly valuable to employers, as they demonstrate your ability to apply your learning in the world of work.