Core material is a blend of management studies, business organisation, engineering and technology terminology and principles. Teaching modules include basic engineering sciences and manufacturing processes. This allows the students to develop a solid foundation of engineering and technology vocabulary and understanding. The material is equally partnered with a broad range of business strategy, business organisation, human management, resource management and project planning modules, which provide the graduates with the skills to manage across a range of engineering and technology disciplines. The priority is to interface and integrate these key activities with the business organisation and financial management of companies large and small, national and global. Students also have the opportunity to spend a monitored year in industry after the second year of academic studies, and be awarded a Diploma of Professional Studies or the Diploma in International Studies if they have worked outside the UK.

Graduates will be self-reliant and able to contribute and manage well in team situations, and will have gained the technical ability and commercial awareness to be able to work in industrial or commercial environments. Typically, graduates will have an understanding of the language of engineering, closely tied with the business, management, legal, intellectual property and economic principles.