• M.Phil in Industrial Systems, Manufacturing, and Management at the University of Cambridge is offered on a full-time basis for a duration of 11-months.
  • This is an on-campus and thesis-based program.
  • This program combines traditional academic teaching material with a series of industrial visits, industrial seminars, skills development, and projects in the industry.
  • The program is structured around taught modules, company visits, and in-company projects solving live business or technical problems. 
  • Teaching is delivered through a variety of media. During Cambridge term times, there will be traditional academic lectures and interactive seminars, the dissertation is based in one of the Institute for Manufacturing's research groups and will involve normal graduate-level supervision.
  • During the projects, students can expect to receive substantial supervisory feedback from their line managers and colleagues.
  • Academic assessment of the course is split into three components:
    • the first comprises assessments of the 6 taught modules
    • the second comprises 5 project reports
    • the third comprises an examination of the research dissertation.
  • At the end of each of 4 projects, students are required to deliver a 30-minute presentation to the senior management of the company in which the project was based.
  • All students will be required to write a dissertation of no greater than 15,000 words. Achieving a passing mark on this dissertation is a precondition for obtaining the degree.
  • At the discretion of the examiners, students may be required to take an oral examination on the work submitted during the course, and on the general field of knowledge within which it falls.