Industry Experience Projects
Put theory into practice and gain real-world experience through our Industry Experience Project module
Many of our postgraduate programmes offer you the opportunity to engage with authentic organisational challenges through consulting or business projects, like our Industry Experience Project module, helping you to apply your learning in a real-world context.
As part of our commitment to helping students gain real-world experience and put theory into practice, we have introduced an 'Industry Experience Project' module to many master's programmes at Loughborough Business School. This module, which takes place during the summer semester of your master's degree, offers you the chance to apply what you've learned in the classroom to a live challenge supplied by an organisation as part of a group project. You'll build critical skills, learn how to communicate and plan effectively as a group, and build your CV with demonstrable real-world experience.
In a competitive graduate jobs market, the Industry Experience Project is your opportunity to enhance your employability with the practical knowledge and skills to stand out from the crowd. Each project is structured to maximise networking opportunities and build confidence, helping you make purposeful progress towards achieving your career goals.
How will you benefit from the Industry Experience Project?
Gain practical, real-world experience of solving business challenges
Build resilience, innovativeness, and prepare yourself for your future career by learning how to adapt to the challenges of the working world in a supportive environment.
Enhance your CV and build your professional profile
Through your work on the Industry Experience Project, you'll be able to supercharge your CV, draw practical examples during interviews, and demonstrate value to prospective employers.
Develop in-demand soft skills and work collaboratively
Strong communication, teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving skills are highly valued by employers across industries. You'll develop the skills to work effectively with colleagues, build professional relationships, adapt to new challenges, and communicate ideas clearly, enabling you to make a positive impact in the workplace from day one.
Which master's programmes offer the Industry Experience Project?
The following programmes feature the Industry Experience Project as a compulsory module in the Summer Semester:
Accounting and Finance
Business and Management
Project Management
Although the below MSc programmes do not offer the Industry Experience Project, they each have a unique and subject-appropriate alternative you can engage with in your Summer Semester:
- Finance and Global Trading MSc - Global Financial Trading Experience
Gain hands-on exposure to the world of financial trading through this intensive, simulated six-week trading experience. - Supply Chain Management MSc - Capstone Project
Develop the research, analytical and project management skills needed to plan, conduct and deliver a supply chain management research project tackling a real-world supply chain challenge. - Project Management MSc - Project Management Consultancy Project
Work in a team to solve a real organisational challenge set by a client company, applying your knowledge to a live project management problem. - Business Analytics MSc - Project Management Consultancy Project
Build the skills needed to plan and deliver analytics projectsbBy tackling either a practical or theoretical problem, developing hands-on experience of the analytics project lifecycle. - Work and Organisational MSc - Empirical Research Project in Work Psychology
Conduct an empirical research study utilising and applying the knowledge and skills acquired over the course of the MSc programme.
Which organisations have our students worked with?
We work with a wide-range of purpose-led businesses and organisations to provide bespoke projects to students across our diverse portfolio of master's programmes. Example of recent companies our students have worked with include: