Course Structure

The MSc Technology Management is a one-year programme structured across 3 semesters.
Students who successfully complete eight taught modules (120 CATS) and the Technology Management Capstone module (60 CATS) in semester 3 are awarded an MSc in Technology Management degree.

Exit qualifications are also available: students may exit with a Postgraduate Diploma by successfully completing 120 CATS from taught modules or a Postgraduate Certificate by successfully completing 60 CATS from taught modules.

Introduction

The MSc Technology Management is a one-year full-time programme, which has been developed to equip students to navigate and lead in a technology-centric world and make a profound impact on society. The programme covers the core areas of innovation management, technology scoping and development, digital marketing, AI-based analytics, strategic decision-making, and operations management, each of which are essential in today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape.

• Semester 1 – is structured through a 60 CATS package in the same manner as other MSc programmes offered by QBS. This package consists of 4 core modules, each worth 15 CATS. Semester 1 modules will consist of Global Innovation Management, Marketing in the Digital Age, Technology for Good, and Design Thinking with AI.

• Semester 2 - is structured through a 60 CATS package. Building on the fundamentals provided previously, Semester 2 enables students to ‘specialise’ in contemporary issues of Technology Management, such as analytics, digital transformation, strategic decision-making, and operations management. Semester 2 includes 3 core modules, i.e., Analytics with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Strategy, Change, and Analytics, Emerging Technologies for Business, and one optional module to be selected between Digital Supply Chain Management and Social Media and Reputation Management.

• Semester 3 – is centred on the 60 CATS Technology Management Capstone module, the culmination of the MSc Technology Management programme. This module provides students with the opportunity to consolidate and apply the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the programme by undertaking an individual project. The project integrates insights from the taught modules and applies them to real-world challenges. Students leverage their expertise in technology and innovation management, combined with data analytics skills, to develop viable and practical solutions to organizational or societal issues. Designed to showcase students’ ability to work independently, the project emphasizes critical literature evaluation, data-driven decision-making, and the development of strategic, operational, and sustainable solutions. By addressing complex challenges, students demonstrate how technology can be harnessed for strategic advantage, operational efficiency, and sustainable impact across diverse industries and contexts.

Semester 1

Global Innovation Management
The main aim of this module is to develop an insight into innovation and how it has developed in a globalised world. Additionally, the module also explores how knowledge is created, shared, and transformed through collaboration and coordination across differentiated national innovation systems in order to develop global innovation networks is a key focus of this module.

Marketing in the Digital Age
This module considers how firms leverage a variety of digital tools and AI-enabled solutions to enhance marketing channels by engaging customers, shaping brand conversations, building brand awareness, experiences, and community.

Technology for Good
This module explores how technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, fintech, the metaverse, digital stacks, etc., can be harnessed to drive positive impacts across social, economic, and environmental domains. It focuses on developing innovative solutions that promote equity, sustainability, and ethical practices while addressing global challenges.

Design Thinking with AI
This module integrates design thinking principles with AI technologies to foster innovative, user-centric solutions. It emphasises the practical application of AI in the design process, enhancing creativity and effectiveness in tackling complex challenges in technology, business, and society.

Semester 2

Analytics with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This module focuses on the wider role of analytics in enabling businesses to improve decision-making and drive innovation. It also considers the ways in which data and analytics are inherently interlinked with rapidly evolving artificial intelligence solutions. The module provides students with the opportunity to use cutting-edge analytics software to build analytics solutions that can present complex data in relatively simple visual formats. In doing so, it considers how analytics with AI may serve as a tool for students to enhance their research skills, specifically how they synthesise, analyse and present different data types.

Strategy, Change and Analytics
This module integrates analytical techniques with AI to enhance organisational strategy, change management, and business transformation. It focuses on data-driven insights for formulating and implementing strategies while addressing the challenges of managing change within organisations. The module covers methodologies for evaluating strategic options, forecasting outcomes, and utilising AI tools to analyse and interpret data across key business functions including finance, HR, and operations.

Emerging Technologies for Business
This module explores a range of cutting-edge technologies, including blockchain, the metaverse, and quantum computing, and their transformative effects on the business landscape. It highlights practical applications, strategic opportunities, and the potential for these technologies to drive innovation and enhance business performance.

Digital Supply Chain Management
This is the first of two optional modules available. The module focuses on how digital technologies are revolutionising traditional supply chains, enabling businesses to be more agile, efficient and customer centric. It equips students with the knowledge to manage and optimise supply chains using digital tools and data-driven strategies.

Social Media and Reputation Management
This module is the second optional module available on the programme. It explores the strategic role of social media in shaping brand identity, managing online reputation, and engaging with stakeholders. It equips students with the skills to effectively use social media platforms for communication, marketing, crisis management and maintaining a positive brand reputation in the digital landscape.

Semester 3

The Technology Management Capstone module is the culmination of the MSc Technology Management programme and provides students with the opportunity to consolidate and apply the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the programme by undertaking an individual project. The project integrates insights from the taught modules and applies them to real-world challenges. Students leverage their expertise in technology and innovation management, combined with data analytics skills, to develop viable and practical solutions to organizational or societal issues.

Designed to showcase students’ ability to work independently, the project emphasizes critical literature evaluation, data-driven decision-making, and the development of strategic, operational, and sustainable solutions. By addressing complex challenges, students demonstrate how technology can be harnessed for strategic advantage, operational efficiency, and sustainable impact across diverse industries and contexts.

There are three alternative pathways for this individual project:
1. Consultancy Project (this involves working alongside or focusing on an organisation to identify opportunities for leveraging innovative technologies to improve processes, develop new products and services, and ultimately achieve competitive advantage).

2. Problem Solving Project (this pathway involves using data analytics skills to identify and articulate an organisational or societal problem and leveraging design thinking capabilities to propose innovative applications of technology that may sustainably address the identified problem).

3. Internship Project (this pathway involves working in an organisation and critically reflecting on how the host organisation uses innovative technologies to achieve competitive advantage or solve problems).

Teaching Times

For semesters 1 and 2, students will have 4 classes per week, all 3 hours long.

Learning and Teaching

Learning opportunities associated with this course are outlined below:

Teaching Methods

Classes will be delivered as a mix of seminars, lectures and workshops and they will be interactive and discussion-based blending theory with practical examples.
Learning and engagement approaches will involve a range of styles such as case studies, software demonstrations, practical workshops, role plays, groupwork, scenario discussions and organisation visits.
Semester 3 is structured around independent and applied learning through the capstone projects where students choose between different pathways. Students are assigned dedicated academic support for these projects and company mentors where relevant.

Assessment

Assessments associated with the course are outlined below:

• The programme emphasizes applied and practical assessments, encouraging students to develop actionable recommendations for addressing real-world scenarios and challenges. A diverse range of assessment methods is designed to build and evaluate students’ expertise in technology innovation management and strategic decision-making. These methods include individual and group projects, oral presentations, case study analyses, reports, computer-based simulations, portfolios, and projects. Formative assessments provide developmental feedback to support students’ learning and progression.
  
  The capstone project serves as the programme's culminating independent research component. It enables students to demonstrate their ability to conduct in-depth research, apply insights from technology and innovation management, and utilize data analytics skills. The capstone challenges students to propose viable, realistic solutions to organizational or societal issues, showcasing their independent research and problem-solving capabilities.

Modules

Career Prospects

Introduction

The programme offers graduates a wide range of opportunities to pursue Technology Management roles such as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), R&D Project Manager, and Digital Transformation Lead roles that have seen sustained growth in recent years. Labour market forecasts indicate that the shortage of qualified candidates to fill these in-demand roles will persist, if not intensify, over the next decade.

Graduates of Queen’s MSc Technology Management, with their unique blend of business acumen, technical expertise, and a demonstrated ability to innovate, will be exceptionally well-equipped to excel in this competitive job market.

For further opportunities to enhance your studies and career prospects please see the school website.
https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/queens-business-school/student-opportunities/

Graduate Plus/Future Ready Award for extra-curricular skills

In addition to your degree programme, at Queen's you can have the opportunity to gain wider life, academic and employability skills. For example, placements, voluntary work, clubs, societies, sports and lots more. So not only do you graduate with a degree recognised from a world leading university, you'll have practical national and international experience plus a wider exposure to life overall. We call this Graduate Plus/Future Ready Award. It's what makes studying at Queen's University Belfast special.

Tuition Fees

Northern Ireland (NI) 1	£8,950
Republic of Ireland (ROI) 2	£8,950
England, Scotland or Wales (GB) 1	£10,400
EU Other 3	£26,500 (£6,000 discount, see T&Cs link below)
International	£26,500 (£6,000 discount, see T&Cs link below)

£6,000 Scholarship available for 2026 entry. Click this link to view the Terms and Conditions.

¹EU citizens in the EU Settlement Scheme, with settled status, will be charged the NI or GB tuition fee based on where they are ordinarily resident. Students who are ROI nationals resident in GB will be charged the GB fee.

² EU students who are ROI nationals resident in ROI are eligible for NI tuition fees.

³ EU Other students (excludes Republic of Ireland nationals living in GB, NI or ROI) are charged tuition fees in line with international fees.

All tuition fees quoted relate to a single year of study unless stated otherwise. Tuition fees will be subject to an annual inflationary increase, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

More information on postgraduate tuition fees.

Additional course costs

Students have the option to undertake a consultancy project for their dissertation and are responsible for funding any travel, accommodation and subsistence costs.

Terms and Conditions for Postgraduate applications:

1.1  Due to high demand, there is a deadline for applications. 

1.2  International applicants will be required to pay a deposit to secure their place on the course. The current mandatory tuition fee deposit payment is £1000 International (Non- EU & EU except ROI). 

1.3  This condition of offer is in addition to any academic or English language requirements.

Read the full terms and conditions at the link below:
https://www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgraduate/tuition-fees/deposit-refunds-policy/

All Students

Depending on the programme of study, there may be extra costs which are not covered by tuition fees, which students will need to consider when planning their studies.

Students can borrow books and access online learning resources from any Queen's library. If students wish to purchase recommended texts, rather than borrow them from the University Library, prices per text can range from £30 to £100. Students should also budget between £30 to £75 per year for photocopying, memory sticks and printing charges.

Students undertaking a period of work placement or study abroad, as either a compulsory or optional part of their programme, should be aware that they will have to fund additional travel and living costs.

If a programme includes a major project or dissertation, there may be costs associated with transport, accommodation and/or materials. The amount will depend on the project chosen. There may also be additional costs for printing and binding.

Students may wish to consider purchasing an electronic device; costs will vary depending on the specification of the model chosen.

There are also additional charges for graduation ceremonies, examination resits and library fines.

How to Apply

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Terms and Conditions

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