In Years Three and Four you can tailor
your degree and study Business
Management with another subject –
Enterprise, Finance or Marketing – and
make your skills stand out. From 2020
(subject to validation) you can also opt to
study for a BA/BA (Hons) Accounting
and Finance or a BA/BA (Hons)
Marketing Management.
Events and Festival Management
The UK events industry is an area of
growth: it is worth £39.1bn – 35% of the
UK visitor economy – and employs
530,000 people in 25,000 events
businesses. Conferences and meetings,
exhibitions and trade fairs, corporate
events, outdoor events, sporting events,
music events, cultural events and
festivals as well as a plethora of
emerging smaller and community-based
events are all booming.
Our BA/BA (Hons) Events and Festival
Management course has for over ten
years given students in-demand events
expertise, and we continue to update its
practical and academic elements to stay
on the pulse of contemporary
developments. With a strong emphasis
on management, the course will prepare
you to lead, plan and deliver a live event,
and to evaluate its outcome. It also offers
a four-week work placement where you
will gain valuable applied experience.
International Hospitality and Tourism
Management (IHTM)
International hospitality and tourism is a
fast-moving and thriving industry where
you can make a name for yourself. There
are fabulous opportunities, many of them
on our doorstep! In Scotland alone the
sector is worth more than £4.2 billion
and employs more than 218,000 people.
Its success has created a growing
demand for highly qualified professionals,
at all levels, to continue to develop the
sector. Hospitality and tourism is a global
industry and a QMU IHTM degree opens
doors for our students across the world
including a high-quality 20-week
hospitality and tourism management
internship.
We have links with many different
hospitality and tourism organisations
worldwide including the Institute of
Hospitality, the Tourism Society, the
Scottish Tourism Alliance and the
Hospitality Industry Trust. These
connections offer opportunities to attend
conferences and workshops, and to
apply for scholarships to spend time
abroad.
Our approach to learning and teaching
Our degrees are modular. In Years One
and Two core modules in each degree
will give you a grounding in your chosen
area. As you progress, you will begin to
learn more about your particular area
and all of our courses offer the
opportunity to select modules in which
you have a particular interest in later
years. With our Business Management
degree you can even tailor your degree
and study the subject with another.
You will participate in stimulating learning
environments from lectures, seminars
and workshops, to field trips and
‘study-abroad’ options. Our courses
include workplace experience, and, as
industry is extremely supportive of our
courses, you will benefit from hearing
guest lectures from a range of
practitioners and visiting professors. You
will also gain insights into high-profile
companies such as Bacardi, Social Bite,
Skyscanner, Google and Edinburgh
Airport, whose representatives have
joined us as visiting speakers recently.
Developing contacts and networks is key
to gaining an understanding of the
industry, to securing work experience,
and to gaining employment on
graduation.
Assessment methods vary and include a
balanced combination of examinations,
written reports, essays, presentations
and peer assessment. Our assessment
methods include formative and
summative components, so students
receive early feedback on progress
made and can use this to inform final
assessment coursework.
Research
You will be taught by active academics
who are doing research in their own
right. Some colleagues have recently
completed their doctoral studies, and
others are publishing in mainstream
academic journals. Such engagement is
key to the relevance of our courses, and
helps equip staff and students with the
background to make intelligent decisions
about their future.
You will also have contact with our
growing number of PhD students as you
progress through your chosen route of
study. This will allow you the opportunity
to interact in an informal and collegiate
way with those engaged in the highest
levels of academic activity – and perhaps
to discover that their enthusiasms
accord closely with your own. At QMU
the door to academic advancement is an
open one!
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As you reach the later stages of
undergraduate study, there are
opportunities to develop individual
pieces of research through the
dissertation, and those students who
choose further study at master’s or
doctoral level are encouraged to pursue
these interests.
Careers
Our IHTM graduates have gone on to
successful careers in a variety of public
sector organisations such as
VisitScotland and EventScotland. Many
others are carving a career pathway with
Sheraton, Gleneagles, Malmaison and
Hotel du Vin, Hilton, RF Hotels, as well
as many smaller privately owned
companies in both tourism and
hospitality.
Our Business Management graduates
are proving their worth to companies in
the UK and internationally and have left
QMU to embark on a wide range of
successful careers in various sectors
such as the financial sector in
organisations such as Royal Bank of
Scotland, Capita, Standard Life
Investment and Lloyds Bank. Many of
our graduates enter management
training programmes in companies such
as Diageo, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, John
Lewis and Marks and Spencer. Others
have set up their own businesses,
entered teaching or taken their learning
further as postgraduate students.
Graduates from our Events course have
gone on to participate in a wide range of
professional environments: running their
own event agencies; working for
prestigious international event
companies; becoming wedding and
event planners at luxury venues;
managing international events such as
the Commonwealth Games; leading in
events technology organisations;
shaping event policy at EventScotland
and Edinburgh City Council or pursuing
postgraduate degrees in this emerging
research field.
Some students decide to undertake
further academic study, perhaps at QMU
on our MSc International Management
and Leadership course, to enhance their
business career or as a prelude to
doctoral research.