Master of Science in Quality Management and Validation (L9, 30 ECTS)

Program Overview

The Master of Science in Quality Management and Validation is a part-time, online program that provides participants with analytical and leadership competencies in the field. It emphasizes problem solving, innovation, and the adoption of best practices to drive change within organizations. Students who complete Year 1 can earn a Postgraduate Diploma in Quality Management and Validation, with the option to progress to the Masters year in Year 2, which includes a supervised dissertation project.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Master of Science in Quality Management and Validation is a one-year, part-time program delivered online. It is a Level 9 program with 30 ECTS credits.

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of the program, participants will have demonstrated the competencies necessary to:

• Demonstrate personal qualities of empathy, leadership, teamworking.
• Manage their own learning and development, and evaluate their own experience through a reflective approach towards the impact of the programme on their lives.
• Be catalysts of change within their employing organisations, as a result of the adoption of creative and innovative approaches to opportunities and threats.

Outline:

Year 1

• Semester 1
• Strategic Management and Leadership
• Project Management, Reliability Engineering and Risk Management
• Quality Management, Standards and Good Manufacturing Practice
• Semester 2
• Statistical Process Control, Calibration and Validation
• Research Methods
• Applied Case Studies Capstone Project

Year 2

• Dissertation

Other:

• Students who want to study on Masters of Science in Quality Management and Validation must first complete the Postgraduate in Quality Management and Validation to be able to progress to the Masters year.
• The flexibility and agility of this programme, will allow students to specialise in a pathway most suited to their skills, career aspirations, and employer needs that will give them research expertise in Quality Management and Validation.
• The program is delivered online with two evenings per week and occasional Saturdays per semester (9am-1pm).
• Recordings of lectures will be available to view in the student’s own time.
• Induction for the September 2024 programmes takes place on Saturday 7 September 2024 from 9.00am to 1.00pm.
• In advance, you will be required to review Pre-Induction reading material, available to you on https://tus.ie/flexible.
• During Induction, you will be given the opportunity to:
• Meet your programme lecturers, programme co-ordinator and students
• Outline of the learning supports available to you during the programme
• Candidates who complete 60 credits (on completion of Year 1 of the programme) and wish to exit at this point will receive a Postgraduate Diploma in Science in Quality Management and Validation.
• Graduates who complete the Postgraduate Diploma will be eligible to transfer to a Master of Science in Quality Management and Validation.
• Year 2 of the Masters programme involves the completion of a supervised 30 credits dissertation.

€2,350