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Discover opportunities to enhance your studies and career prospects with enterprise and entrepreneurship. Open to all students.
Enterprise and entrepreneurship education isn't just about starting a business. Entrepreneurship is about being resourceful, inventive, creative, imaginative, and ambitious.
Studying entrepreneurship at the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre equips you with skills to identify and act on opportunities in any setting and drive forward your ideas. It can enhance your studies and career prospects, and provide you with a cross-discipline campus-wide network of entrepreneurship students.
Whether you want to innovate within an existing organisation, elevate your side hustle, start your own business, or apply your problem-solving prowess for social or environmental impact, developing an entrepreneurial mindset can help you to create the future you want for you.
Curious about entrepreneurship?
Try it out with Be Enterprising, our scenario-based bite-sized learning.
Want to explore entrepreneurship as part of your degree?
Choose a MEC credit-bearing taught unit. Select your level of study below.
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|
| MCEL10001 | Exploring Enterprise | 10 |
| UCIL22001 | Essential Enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL30011 | Advanced Technology Enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL30001 | Tools & Techniques for Enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL30051 | Enterprise Strategy & Marketing | 10 |
| MCEL30111 | Developing Business Ideas | 10 |
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|
| MCEL10002 | Entrepreneurial Skills | 10 |
| MCEL10022 | Exploring Enterprise | 10 |
| UCIL22002 | Essential Enterprise | 10 |
| UCIL24002 | Entrepreneur: Innovator & Risk-Taker | 10 |
| MCEL30012 | Advanced Technology Enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL30122 | Enterprise in Healthcare (10 credits) | 10 |
| MCEL30182 | Enterprise in Healthcare (20 credits) | 20 |
| MCEL30022 | Interdisciplinary Sustainable Development | 10 |
| MCEL30002 | Tools & Techniques for Enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL30052 | Enterprise Feasibility | 10 |
| UCIL23002 | Introduction to Sports Business: Innovation, marketing strategy and sustainability (10 Credits) |
10 |
| UCIL23022 | Introduction to Sports Business: Innovation, marketing strategy and sustainability (20 Credits) |
20 |
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | SEMESTER | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCEL60032 | Business Creation and Development | 2 | 15 |
| MCEL63402 | Essential Risk Management for Business | 2 | 15 |
| MCEL60142 | Developing Enterprising Individuals | 2 | 15 |
School of Biological Sciences
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | SEMESTER | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL31080 | Life Sciences Enterprise Project | 1&2 | 30 |
| BIOL60760 | Commercialisation in Life Sciences | Full Year | 45 |
Department of Computer Science
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | SEMESTER | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCEL30031 | Enterprise Management for CS | 1 | 10 |
| MCEL30032 | Managing Finance in Enterprises for CS | 2 | 10 |
| MCEL40042 | Business Feasibility Study | 2 | 15 |
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | SEMESTER | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCEL30102 | Commercial Technology Development | 2 | 10 |
| MCEL40011 | Advanced Technology Enterprise | 1 | 15 |
Department of Materials - MSc International Fashion Retailing (Entrepreneurship & Innovation)
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | SEMESTER | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCEL62101 | External Environment | 1 | 20 |
| MCEL62202 | Innovation Methods | 2 | 20 |
| MCEL62302 | Retail Marketing | 2 | 20 |
Sign up to these open electives on My Manchester with approval from your course administrator. Email entrepreneurship@manchester.ac.uk if you would like to discuss these options in more detail.
To enrol on our elective units, use the Course Unit Selection System.
Course unit selection opens in August 2025. Your School will send you the open date and time for your programme, and the deadline to finish enrolling.
Guidance on using the course unit selection system can be found here. The guide includes links to access the system.
Our electives require approval from your department. Please contact your Course Administrator before enrolling.
If you have approval but cannot see our units on the system, please contact your School, and also email entrepreneurship@manchester.ac.uk
The process for enrolment is the same for all of our elective units, no matter the course code prefix (‘MCEL’, ‘UCIL’ or other).
Please note, some of our units are delivered in partnership with the University College of Interdisciplinary Learning, so have course codes beginning with ‘UCIL’. For more information about enrolling on UCIL Entrepreneurship units, please see further guidance on the UCIL site.
If you have any other questions about enrolling on Entrepreneurship elective units, please email entrepreneurship@manchester.ac.uk
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