MSc Business and Payroll Management

Course code: MN6AN

Start date: If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in: September 2012

Course length: Part time: three years

Campus: Distance learning and occasional weekend workshops.

The MSc Business and Payroll Management signifies a deep, strategic understanding and application of payroll business management practice.

The programme is designed for graduates of the Foundation Degree in Payroll Management (formerly the IPP Diploma in Payroll Management), or for anyone with relevant payroll experience.

You can enhance your career by achieving this qualification and increase your general business acumen and strategic thinking ability, whilst at the same time achieving a significant personal goal.

Tutorials supplement the distance learning study packs and encourage you to get together with your fellow students to exchange ideas and experience. They also enable you to apply the understanding learnt through the study packs to practical payroll management problems. The workshops play a vital role in feedback and guidance, as well as providing an opportunity to have questions answered and areas of uncertainty clarified.

The Residential Schools take place early in each study year and help you to settle in to the course material. They commence on Friday mornings and finish on Saturday evening.

• Foundation Degree in Payroll Management (or the former IPP Diploma in Payroll Management)
• Other equivalent level five or six qualificationManagement experience
• If your first language is not English you will need an IELTS score of 6.

Apply directly to IPP at www.payrollprofession.org, or email msc@payrollprofession.org.

How you'll learn

The MSc programme is distance learning and each module has a tutorial day at the University. All study material is accessed online.

The three year course is structured to allow continual assessment and the qualification is gained by passing Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs) and a final Thesis.

Blended learning - combining workshops and self study - allows you to remain in employment whilst enhancing your career prospects through qualifications. It also allows you to learn at your own pace from the comfort of your own home, while still feeling confident of adequate support.

How you're assessed

You will be assessed by coursework, which focuses on how you apply your knowledge to your place of work.

There is a demand for payroll management postgraduates at masters level and you'll have the relevant quantitative and qualitative skills on completion of the MSc Business and Payroll Management.

It has been designed to give you even greater opportunities if you have already successfully completed the Foundation Degree in Payroll Management (formerly the CIPP Diploma in Payroll Management).

You will develop a broader and more strategic understanding of business concepts that can be applied within your job function, and you'll be recognised as a pioneer in payroll management study.

"The course has been very demanding, but in the same breath, highly enlightening. The mixture between business and payroll has been challenging and is definitely worthwhile. The MSc Business and Payroll Management is definitely the next logical step after the Diploma."

Glenn G Jones