Management with Entrepreneurship

Management with entrepreneurship combines the systematic study of how organisations operate with a focus on creating and developing new ventures. Management as a discipline draws on economics, psychology, sociology, strategy and organisational behaviour to explain why firms succeed or fail, how teams and cultures shape performance, and how decisions are made under uncertainty. Entrepreneurship adds a particular lens: rather than assuming that organisations already exist, it asks how they are created, how new ideas become viable businesses, and what skills and mindsets founders and intrapreneurs need to navigate ambiguity and turn concepts into reality.

At Royal Holloway, this three-year full-time programme includes a sandwich year in professional placement, a year abroad and a work placement, giving you substantial practical and international experience alongside your academic study. You will be taught by internationally recognised researchers who bring current thinking from management science and entrepreneurship studies into the classroom. You will develop specialist knowledge across strategy, finance, marketing, leadership and innovation, combined with the interpersonal and transferable skills that employers consistently look for in management graduates.

The entrepreneurship strand will give you frameworks and practical tools for evaluating opportunities, building business models and understanding the conditions under which new ventures can succeed.

Graduates from management with entrepreneurship programmes go on to careers across business and the wider economy. Many pursue roles in corporate management, strategy, marketing, consulting, product development and business development. Others use the entrepreneurship strand to launch their own ventures or join early-stage companies.

The placement and abroad years give you professional experience and a global perspective that are increasingly important in management careers. Postgraduate study, including MBA programmes and specialist masters degrees in management or entrepreneurship, is a well-travelled route for those who want to develop further.