Admissions procedures

In addition to the University's regulations and procedures, the School of Management has a number of additional procedures for postgraduate admissions.

A) If you have submitted an incomplete application, and you do not submit the supporting documents or respond to our requests for more information, we will deem your application to have lapsed three months after the date on which we received it.

B) If we offer you a place on one of our programmes, and you do not respond to the offer by contacting either our Recruitment and Admissions Office or the University's Graduate Registry within six weeks of receiving it, we will deem the offer to have lapsed.

C) If you live outside the European Union, and submit an incomplete application for one of our full-time postgraduate programmes, we will be able to process it only if we receive it before 31 August of the academic year on which you seek to join us. This is because our experience is that a late applicant may encounter great difficulty in obtaining a visa in time to join the start of our programmes.

D) If you are completing, or have just completed, one of our MSc courses, we will not normally allow you to register for another of our MSc courses in the following academic year. This is because our various MSc pathways share some common content. If you meet the admissions criteria, you will, of course, be eligible for the MBA.

E) If we accept you for a place on one of our programmes, and a good reason arises for you not being able to start it on the date we have agreed, you may defer your entry until the next normal starting date for the course. You may do this only once. If you want to begin a programme starting more than a year after the date on which you were originally due to join us, you must submit an updated application that describes any developments in your career and includes current personal references.

F) If we have asked you to provide proof of your proficiency in English through one of the recognised tests - such as IELTS or TOEFL - you must normally have achieved the score we need not more than two years before you begin your postgraduate programme with us. If your first language is not English, but you have a degree for which you were taught entirely in English, you must similarly provide supporting evidence that you have obtained the degree not more than two years before you begin your postgraduate programme with us.

G) The two references we ask you to provide are important in helping us to judge your suitability for postgraduate study. It is therefore important that these should be as up-to-date as possible - normally not more than nine months old.

Note
We can take account of individuals' special circumstances. This may mean referring your application to the appropriate associate dean who can, in consultation with others, decide on the merits of your case.