Course Overview

The fast-moving policy changes and reforms in 21st century education create a high demand for professionals with advanced leadership and management skills.

Whether you’re a leader-educator, you aspire to a leadership role, or you’re a graduate interested in UK and global education policy, our MSc course is designed to enhance your professional development and career prospects across both the public and private sectors.

Our programme is informed by a range of academic disciplines relating to education leadership, management and administration, public policy analysis and complexity thinking.

Through it, you'll develop qualities, competencies and skills essential for success as a leader or manager in education, such as advanced people skills and critical insight, as well as cutting-edge knowledge of educational research. You’ll also learn practical strategies and techniques for solving complex organisational and educational problems.

About

Our interdisciplinary MSc course has been designed to enable you to embrace the problematic aspects of leadership and management with confidence, understanding and insight. What’s more, our high-quality curriculum will support you in developing an expansive view of leadership and management in the context of national and international political and economic structures.

You'll examine international developments in education policy, and link these to your experience of leadership or your experience of working under the leadership of others. You'll also explore groundbreaking insights into education reform developed through the cutting-edge approach of complexity thinking.

Whether you're interested in advancing your professional development, large-scale reform in the international education policy space, or improving education in your local community, you'll be able to tailor your studies through our range of modules. Our course will foster your capacity for innovation in solving complex problems arising in everyday practice. It will also hone your independent learning, critical thinking and advanced communication, all of which are vital to becoming an effective educational leader or manager.

Our expert teaching team includes experienced academics who are internationally renowned for their research in 21st century education and who have rich first-hand experience of leadership and management in a variety of educational contexts.

Employability

After the Course

Upon successful completion of the course, you'll be able to demonstrate the advanced skills essential for strategy and policy development and implementation.

Depending on your previous professional experience and career aspirations, you'll also gain knowledge, understanding and advanced problem-solving skills to succeed in a range of education-related roles. Our course is designed to open career paths in schools, the post-compulsory sector and not-for-profit organisations, as well as leadership and management research and consultancy.

The high-quality, interdisciplinary curriculum will also offer you a solid foundation for progressing to doctoral research.

Careers

A degree at UEA will prepare you for a wide variety of careers. We've been ranked 1st for Job Prospects by StudentCrowd in 2022.

Example of careers that you could enter include:

Compulsory and post-compulsory public education sectors and local government
Middle leadership and senior management roles in schools and colleges
NGOs, not-for-profit and private educational development organisations
Education policymaking in the public and private sectors, think tanks, research organisations and charities

Discover more on our Careers webpages.

Entry Requirements

Degree Classification

Bachelor degree - 2:1 or equivalent

Degree Subject

Any subject area with relevant experience or an education related degree with no relevant experience

English Foreign Language

Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):  

IELTS: 6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in all components).

Test dates should be within 2 years of the course start date.

We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement. 

If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:  

Pre-sessional English at INTO UEA  
Academic English at INTO UEA

Intakes

This course is open to UK and International applicants. The annual intake for this course is in September each year. 

Additional Information or Requirements

Additional Entry Requirements

Relevant experience of working in an educational setting or education-related activity is desirable.

Admissions Policy

Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants.

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Fees and Funding

Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2024/25 are:

UK Students: to be announced (full time)
International Students: to be announced (full time)

If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for Home students).

We estimate living expenses at £1,023 per month.

Further Information on tuition fees can be found here.

The University of East Anglia offers a range of Scholarships; please click the link for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.

Course Related Costs

Please see Additional Course Fees for details of additional course-related costs.

How to Apply

Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University.

To apply please use our online application form.

FURTHER INFORMATION

If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying, please do contact us:

Postgraduate Admissions Office

Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk

International candidates are also encouraged to access the International Students section of our website.

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