MSc in Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Design

at Brunel University London

This course is designed to create leaders in the field. Therefore, it is structured to become less instructor-led and more student-led as the course progresses. You’ll develop your leadership and entrepreneurial skills alongside a network of specialists and your peers.
This course can be studied 1 year full-time or 21 months full-time with placement, starting in September.
Year 1
Compulsory

• ES5703 - Introduction to Strategic Sustainable Development
• The purpose of this study block is to learn about core concepts of 'strategic sustainable development' (SSD), including a thorough understanding of a structured planning and decision making model for application to real-world issues.
• MG5701 - Entrepreneurship
• This study block introduces entrepreneurship as a field of study and as a framework of analysis. It focuses on the nature of entrepreneurship and its importance in society. In particular the module examines the person, through the analysis and understanding of the psychological and behavioural characteristics of the entrepreneurs, and the process – through the review and analysis of the main approaches to entrepreneurship.
• MG5702 - Business Planning
• This study block aims to promote an integrative understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved in business planning through practice. The specific educational objective is for students to work through the business planning process and to develop a successful business plan by bringing the different foundations of business planning such as market opportunity, competition, business models, and financing into a unified whole.
• MG5703 - International Business Ethics, Sustainability and Corporate Governance
• This study block focuses on business ethics, sustainability and corporate governance in the international context. Both areas will be addressed from the perspective of the dual ‘business’ models of the shareholder and the stakeholder approaches.
• DM5702 - Professional Design Studio
• This module aims to encourage students to form strong, educated opinions about the broader social, environmental, economic and technological role of design in society and to be able to communicate and argue their opinions confidently, and to expand and deepen students’ knowledge of the design process and the differences between its implementation in external consultancies, corporate industrial environments and global organisations.
• DM5701 - Sustainable Design
• This module aims to identify the key current issues for the environment and socio-economic issues related to sustainability, to develop in depth knowledge of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and its strengths and its weaknesses, and to conduct a streamlined environmental review of a product in the earliest stages of the design process.
• ES5804 - Integrated Assessment – Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Design
• The aim of this assessment block is to challenge students to integrate their knowledge and understanding of sustainability, entrepreneurship/business and design together in order to demonstrate programme level learning outcomes by addressing a specific brief.
• ES5500 - Dissertation
• The dissertation allows students to undertake an in-depth study of a topic, using primary or secondary data sources, that is of relevance to the modular block, and to develop an integrated, and where appropriate interdisciplinary, understanding of the topic chosen.
• ES5605 - Portfolio
• The main aim of this modular block is to provide the students with hands-on experience of applying the tools and techniques learnt within the MSc and to spend a six-month Professional Development period the purpose of which is to help launch the students into their career paths of choice, as business entrepreneurs, business leaders, designers or innovators, or bid writers.
  Optional
• ES5606 - Clean Technology
• This module is designed to provide knowledge and understanding to learners on how to develop clean technologies with an emphasis on those industrial and utility processes that enhance sustainable resource use and minimise pollution during resource extraction, processing and manufacture.
• ES5620 - Environmental Management
• The aim of this study block is to understand the fundamental principles and breadth of environmental management practices and policies in promoting sustainable development (SD) at local, national and global scales.
• ES5702 - Climate Change and Planetary Health
• Planetary health is a new framework that seeks to unite the traditional distinctions between human health, societal well-being, and ecological integrity. This module identifies the interrelationships between human health and the state of natural systems on which it depends.
• MG5610 - Consumer Behaviour
• Develop a critical understanding of how external and internal factors (psychological, social, cultural and economic factors) inform and influence marketing decisions and consumer behaviour in personal buying situations
• ES5607 - Environmental Law
• The main aim of this module is to study and assess foundational principles and structures underpinning environmental law at the level of the European Union as well as internationally.
• DM5544 - Design Innovation Futures: Seminar and Workshop Programme
• This module aims to establish clearly the relationship between and value of future forecasting and design strategy and innovation, to engage with the complexity of future forecasting and its’ implications for design-led management of change, and to incorporate the influence of current and future trends into recommendations from students own design and innovation research.
• MG5564 - International Business Strategy
• This module aims to understand strategies and structures that multinational firms adopt and how they perform their key business operations to compete and succeed in the international business environment.
• MG5573 - Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• This module aims to provide students with a solid grounding in logistics and supply chain management principles and develop a critical understanding of relevant theoretical frameworks in the context of contemporary business practice.
• MG5610 - Consumer Behaviour
• Develop a critical understanding of how external and internal factors (psychological, social, cultural and economic factors) inform and influence marketing decisions and consumer behaviour in personal buying situations
• PP5606 - International Political Economy
• The first aim of this module is to ensure that students achieve a comprehensive understanding of the main concepts, debates and theories in the study of international political economy (IPE). The module will also familiarise students with several of the principal issues in the global economy that are covered in the IPE literature.

English language requirements

• IELTS: 6.5 (min 6 in all areas)
• Pearson: 59 (59 in all subscores)
• BrunELT: 63% (min 58% in all areas)
• TOEFL: 90 (min 20 in all) 

2022/23 entry
UK
£8,735 full-time
£1,385 placement year
International
£18,410 full-time
£1,385 placement year
Fees quoted are per year and are subject to an annual increase. 
Fees for EU applicants – For entry in 2022/23 academic year, eligible EU applicants will have the same tuition fees as UK students to continue our support during this transition period. These fees will be applied for the duration of the course.

After completing the course you’ll be equipped with the skills to join the huge shift globally towards creating a sustainable society. You may wish to:

• Start your own green businesses as an entrepreneur and/or designer/innovator.
• Become a change-maker and leader in an existing business moving towards sustainability.
• Join a corporate institution or public bodies (e.g. local and regional government, NGOs) as a senior sustainability and environmental coordinator/manager.
• Become an adviser on sustainable business and policy, sustainable new product development and investment/funding within existing companies, or as a consultant in new business ventures. The latter will include new 'green' product and service enterprises and sustainability service providers
  If you choose the six-month Professional Development option you’ll benefit from a programme that includes mentorship from leading entrepreneurs, business leaders, inventors and academics.  You’ll receive intensive corporate experience and exposure to business start-up opportunities. This will widen your network and broaden your experience, providing you with ideas and contacts for starting up your own business or simply for starting out in the sector.