入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：
Applicants should usually hold a Bachelors degree (UK Lower Second/2.2 or above) or equivalent qualification from a recognised British/overseas university. Every applicant is assessed individually on their own merit. Higher level professional qualifications may also be accepted. Relevant work experience could be an additional benefit where applicants have not reached the standard entry requirements, although it is not an admissions requirement for this particular degree programme.
英语要求：
Non-native speakers of English will normally be required to have IELTS 6.5 or above (or equivalent).
Please note that the University of Surrey offers English language programmes and is also an IELTS Test Centre.
学费 Tuition Fee：2011/2012 12650pounds
课程特征 Course Features
The MSc in Entrepreneurship will be of particular interest if you already run your own business, are planning a career in either self-employment or an innovative, entrepreneurial organisation, or intend to teach entrepreneurship.
You can select your areas of specialism through elective modules in the second semester. The project also gives you the option either to learn more about research and the theory behind entrepreneurship via a dissertation or to apply theory to practice through formulating a plan for launching a new venture or developing an existing one.
This innovative programme is designed to provide you with a sound theoretical and practical understanding of entrepreneurship.
People who may be interested in the programme include:
Budding entrepreneurs
Existing entrepreneurs growing their businesses
Developers of start-up companies
People working in support organisations (for example, Business Links, chambers of commerce – anyone who advises entrepreneurs)
Teachers of entrepreneurship
Staff of any private, public or ‘not for profit’ organisation, as it equips you with an entrepreneurial mindset
Throughout this programme you will be encouraged to learn experientially and to develop the attributes, ways of thinking and behaviour of the entrepreneur.
课程内容 Course Content ：
Module Overview
The programme consists of six compulsory modules, two optional modules from a range of six, and a dissertation.
Compulsory Modules
Entrepreneurship and Creativity
Entrepreneurship is a widely used but little understood concept. You will be introduced to the various theories of entrepreneurship and their roles and functions, as well as the factors affecting its development.
Entrepreneurial Strategy
Entrepreneurial strategy is very different from corporate strategy. Similarities and differences are compared, and you will be introduced to the skills and competences required to enable them to lead and manage an entrepreneurial venture in the twenty-first century.
Entrepreneurial Marketing
This module is designed to link the core business discipline of marketing to the concept of entrepreneurship. It is divided into two elements: the principles of marketing customised to the entrepreneurial context; and the skills and competences specific to the entrepreneurial application of marketing.
Organisational Behaviour
This module integrates the study of forms, structures and processes of organisations with the human side of the psychology of work. The module will give you an insight into the fundamentals on which organisations are built, and provide analytical processes for understanding behaviour at work and managerial processes.
Financial Management
This module provides you with the foundations for understanding, analysing and interpreting financial information. It will enable you to apply accounting principles and financial theory to decision making across management disciplines and modern business organisations.
Research Methods
This module will introduce research project formulation and the key elements of research design, and will prepare you to design and execute your dissertation research study in a systematic and scientific manner.
Optional Modules
Enterprise for Creative Industries
Businesses are increasingly employing creative and artistic methods to enhance communication, idea generation, teamworking and continuing professional development, and to stimulate productivity and sales. This module is based around four areas important to entrepreneurship and management in the arts and creative industries, but which also have resonance with mainstream business and management practice.
Innovation Management
This module provides you with the knowledge to understand and the skills to manage innovation at the operational and strategic levels within the context of internal and external business environments. The module particularly provides you with a holistic understanding of the concept of innovation and its relevance to today’s firm competitive advantage. It also focuses on giving you the capability to identify the links between the structures and processes which support innovation, and the opportunities for, and constraints on, innovation in specific business contexts.
Other optional modules include: Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship; E-business; Project Management; and International Trade.
教学与评估 Teaching and Assessment：
Teaching and Learning
The teaching and learning strategy is designed to benefit passive as well as active learners. Apart from catering for the needs of both types of learner and, therefore, providing a teaching and learning strategy that is fairer and does not disadvantage either group, it is intended to promote sound understanding of theory and how it may be applied in practice.
Whilst, in Honey and Mumford’s terms, the pragmatist and activist learners are given the opportunity to experience the theorist and reflector learning styles, the theorists and reflectors are able to learn by doing, thereby helping develop in them the attributes of the activist and pragmatist.
This is seen as important in a programme that is intended to educate you ‘for’ entrepreneurship rather than simply educating you ‘about’ it. Hence it carries more weight in the assessment process.
The teaching and learning methods include interactive lectures, guest lectures (role models), case analyses, group projects, discussion groups and presentations.
其它信息 Other Information：
Top for Jobs
The University of Surrey has scored high marks in The Times employment league table for several years. Surrey graduates are among the most employable of any UK university. No other university can match our consistently high performance in the jobs league tables. For the past four years, almost all our postgraduates have found work or were undertaking further study within six months of finishing their degrees.
Entrepreneurship at the Sharp End
The University of Surrey is passionate about entrepreneurship. Several high–profile entrepreneurial speakers have been involved with the MSc Entrepreneurship programme.
One of the guest speakers, Nigel Biggs, who started both Pixology plc and The Digital Camera Company in Guildford, is working to bring real-life business experiences to all the students at the University. His wider aim is also to show how enterprise and entrepreneurship are important, both in local social organisations and to the community at large.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Chris Snowden said:
“We are delighted to have a successful local businessman as our founding entrepreneur-in-residence. Enterprise and entrepreneurship are vital in the new economy and this new initiative greatly strengthens the University’s support in this area.”
Nigel added:
“Since starting out as a one-man company I have been passionate about small businesses. I want to help all those embryonic entrepreneurs with energy and enthusiasm to be inspired and confident about changing the world during their careers. I also intend to involve a wide variety of other entrepreneurs and business people in this role, as I believe it is the real-life experiences that students need to see and hear about.”
After Your Degree
The Surrey experience does not end with your degree.
You will have developed friends and contacts in many different countries and industries. Many Surrey graduates are now captains of industry and can be found in every part of the world and in all sectors of the economy. This network is likely to last a lifetime and support your career development over a sustained period.
You will also be eligible to become a member of the alumni organisation SIGNET (the Surrey International Graduate Network). SIGNET members remain actively in touch with each other via the quarterly newsletter, the membership list and social events organised by the committee.
Insight into Asian Business Leaders
At the cutting edge of the British entrepreneurial community are the Asian businesses featured in this year’s Asian Rich List, compiled by Dr Spinder Dhaliwal. “This is a fascinating list, which takes in businesses from manufacturing to finance, from food to hotels, from pharmaceuticals to fashion. It includes first, second and third generation achievers and also provides the definitive guide to who’s who in the Asian business world,” she said.
The list includes top names such as Lord Swraj Paul, the Caparo Steel magnate and Mike Jatania of Lornamead Pharmaceuticals, reflecting a move from traditional sectors such as textiles and manufacturing to the high-tech, high-growth sectors such as pharmaceuticals, IT and media. “Their success testifies to the staying power of Asian business which successfully combines the dynamism of the free market with the go-getting, risk-taking heroism of the entrepreneur. Not forgetting, of course, the values of family, thrift and hard work and a commitment back to the community,” added Spinder.
In her report, ‘Asian Entrepreneurs in the UK’, compiled for Barclays Bank in September 2006, Spinder noted the changing sectors and phenomenal growth of this entrepreneurial minority. “The Asian business sector has created wealth faster than the rest of the economy. They have bucked the trend this year as they did last year and the year before that. Asian wealth now creates and sustains more jobs than it has ever done. It stimulates growth in industries and places that would struggle without the engine of Asian entrepreneurship,” she said.
She is optimistic for their future prosperity: “Established Asian entrepreneurs achieved success in decades full of challenge and controversy, and present conditions are no different: sluggish economic growth, stock market uncertainty and question marks about the housing market provide the starkest of economic backdrops to Asian success.”