University of Northampton
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Waterside, Northampton
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Postgraduate courses
Browse the eleven taught masters the University of Northampton lists at Waterside.
International Business Management MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
Master of Business Administration MBA
£19,500Official page ↗
Project Management MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
Accounting and Finance MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
Business Analytics MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
Computing MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
Computing (Internet Technology and Security) MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
Advanced Design and Manufacturing MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
Digital Marketing MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
Public Health MSc
£19,000Official page ↗
No course matches that.
The MBA does not need work experience
Northampton is explicit about it, which most universities are not:
Work experience is useful but is not an essential MBA business entry requirement, so long as you can demonstrate a clear passion and interest in business and/or enterprise.The MBA page
Every fee, length and start month above was read off that course’s own page on 29 August 2026. Northampton teaches everything on one campus, so all eleven are at Waterside.
Fees by intake
Your fee is set by your course. September carries the whole list and January most of it, with two courses each in February and June.
The £500 discount for paying in full
Northampton takes £500 off if you pay your tuition up front rather than in instalments.
The placement fee, and when it is charged
The placement year costs £1,000, and the timing of that charge is the part worth knowing. Section below.
The placement year
Northampton publishes only one consequence of a failed placement, and it is about money. On this one point it is more generous than most.
The placement fee amount will only be charged to you after you secure a placement and are enrolled on the work based project in year 2 of your course. You will not be charged this fee if you do not secure a work placement.
So the £1,000 is charged after you secure a placement, not when you enrol. No placement, no fee.
Set that against the others on this site and the difference is real. Leicester charges 15% of your tuition for the placement year whether or not it comes off. Sheffield Hallam says outright that its work experience fee is still charged if no placement is secured. Northampton does not charge you for something you did not get.
What Northampton does not publish is the academic consequence. Whether you transfer to the one-year award, or do an in-house project, or something else, is not stated anywhere we could find. Only the fee half of the question is answered.
northampton.ac.uk, the placement feeWhat it asks of you
Read the first drawer before anything else on this page. It changes how you apply, not just whether you get in.
Residents of India cannot apply directly
This is the university’s own rule, in its own words:
If you are a resident of China, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam or The Philippines, you MUST apply via the Principal Representative, or one of our recognised representatives in your country.
The capitals are Northampton’s. If you are applying from India you go through its Principal Representative or one of its recognised representatives, and an application you submit yourself is not the route.
Worth knowing what that means in practice: a representative is paid a commission by the university, so make sure you are comparing Northampton against other universities on the facts rather than on what an agent is incentivised to recommend. Every figure on this page comes from Northampton’s own pages, which is exactly why it is here.
Where Northampton states the ruleEnglish, and the letter that will not work
The standard masters requirement is “IELTS 6.5 overall, with a minimum of 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in each other band”.
And then, unusually directly:
Proficiency letters will NOT be accepted.
A Medium of Instruction letter from your university does not work here. Several universities on this site accept one and Northampton says plainly that it does not, so do not spend time getting one for this application.
Backlogs
Nothing is published about backlogs or arrears. If it matters to your application, it is a question for the representative you are required to apply through.
What a week looks like
Northampton publishes no split between coursework and exams, and we checked every one of its postgraduate course pages before saying so.
All 38 taught postgraduate pages were read and not one carries a numeric split. So the honest answer is that Northampton describes methods rather than ratios, and your own course page is where the description sits.
One course says it has no exams
Education MA:
There are no exams for this Master of Education course. Instead, assessment is in the form of essays, portfolios, presentations and small-scale research projects.That course page
Getting here: Northampton station is only one mile, a 15-minute walk/10-minute cycle ride, to Waterside. Waterside is south of the river, so if a map puts the university in the town centre it is showing you the old campus.
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What nobody publishes
- QS World University Rankings 2026 position - topuniversities.com currently publishes the 2027 edition only; that edition shows the band #1201-1400, which is not a single position number
- Backlogs or arrears policy for Indian applicants - not published anywhere on northampton.ac.uk
- Whether MOI is accepted in any form - the South Asia page says proficiency letters will not be accepted, but no general MOI policy statement exists
- What happens ACADEMICALLY or to the Student visa if a placement is not secured - only the fee consequence is published
- Coursework vs exam percentage split at PGT level - no course page publishes one
- A single published PGT international fee range - the figure had to be assembled course by course
- Whether the 27 PGT courses without a published international fee are open to international students at all
- HEADLINE FINDING - Northampton DOES publish the failure case, and publishes it repeatedly. This is the opposite of Birmingham.
The official record
- Student Sponsor - Track Record on the Student route. gov.uk, Register of licensed sponsors: students, as of 21 August 2026.
- Approved (fee cap) with the Office for Students, degree-awarding powers since 2005. Office for Students, Register of English higher education providers, downloaded 24 August 2026.
- 1 year, 2 years with placement, 2 years taught are the published course lengths. Read off the course pages.
Where the numbers come from
Hero photograph: FemmeIncomprise, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Gallery photographs via Google. Last checked 29 August 2026.
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