Air Safety Management MSc
Overview
The objective of air safety management is to achieve and maintain an acceptable level of safety within the context of increasing air traffic, wider commercial competition and a greater focus on cost consciousness. Successful safety management involves staff at all levels in aircraft operations, aircraft design and manufacture, airports, air traffic control, ground handling and maintenance and private flying.
Air safety management is a major challenge, largely because of the rapidly changing regulatory requirements in response to current air safety trends and the forecast of future growth in the aviation industry. There is also a need for businesses to understand the financial implications of improving or not improving, safety performance.
This Programme is one of three parallel MSc Programmes:
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Bursaries
Royal Academy of Engineering Bursaries - up to £9,500 for UK applicants.
Course Fees:
- Part-time EU: £11,400 - Total amount payable over 3 years - (2013/14 fees)
- Part-time Non EU: £11,400 - Total amount payable over 3 years - (2013/14 fees)
Start Date:
Modular (throughout the year)
Entry Requirements
The course is aimed at professionals in the manufacturing, operating maintenance support and regulatory sectors of the aviation industry - both civilian and military.
A typical student will have an Air Transport Pilot's Licence or a Category B or C Aircraft Maintenance Licence, at least two years experience of professional responsibility. In addition, they will recognise the need for safety improvements and have the motivation and personal skills required to implement safety management systems across departmental boundaries.
Visa Requirements
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The way that you apply may vary depending on the length of your course at City, there are different rules for:
- Students on courses of more than 6 months
- Students on courses of less than 6 months
- Students on a pre-sessional English Language course
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When and Where
- Start Date:
- Modular (throughout the year)
- Duration:
- Full time: only under exceptional circumstances. Part time: students can take the modules in any sequence over typically about two years, with the project taking approximately six months during or after this period.
Course Content
The course is based on completing eight modules over one to five years, which are taught over three day periods and held regularly throughout the year. Students are also required to undertake a project in an air safety-related subject, which is usually completed within six months.
Students who choose not to do the project will receive a Postgraduate Certificate on successful completion of five modules or Postgraduate Diploma on successful completion of nine modules.
Course Structure
Core Modules
* Active safety management
* Crisis management
* Risk management
Electives Modules
* Safety management tools and methods
* Quality management of airline operations
* Human resource management
* Human Factors; General Principles
* Airline operations
* Psychology in aviation management
* Airports and ground handling
* Accident and incident investigation
* Air Transport Economics
* Airline Maintenance
* Airline Business
* Airline Marketing
* Airline Revenue Management, Pricing and Distribution Management
* Developing a Business Plan
* Financial Accounting
* Fleet Planning
* Sustainable Aviation
Completion of modules and examinations will lead to the award of a Postgraduate Diploma. The completion of modules, examinations and a dissertation will lead to the award of a Masters degree.
Read the full programme specification.Teaching and Assessment
Teaching
The modules are taught as 3-day short courses. For the MSc degree, the taught component can be completed in one to three years, with the final project taking approximately six months following completion of all the taught modules. Modules are delivered by experts from across the aviation industry and are highly interactive to encourage exchanges of views and experience.
Assessment
Student assessment is made through a combination of coursework and examination.
Read the full programme specification.
Fees
- Part-time EU: £11,400 - Total amount payable over 3 years - (2013/14 fees)
- Part-time Non EU: £11,400 - Total amount payable over 3 years - (2013/14 fees)
Split into 2 equal instalments spread over the duration of the course (18 months to 3 years).
Students may continue their studies for up to 5 years in total but must pay an extra £500 for the fourth and fifth year.
Funding
For up-to-date information about tuition fees, living costs and financial support, visit Undergraduate Fees and Finance or Postgraduate Fees and Finance.
Bursaries
GAPAN offer up to three Bursaries of part payment of fees per year for the MSc Air Transport management and the Ait Safety Management MSc Programmes each year.
AJ Walter offer an annual Bursary for a student on the MSc Maintenance Management Programme, usually allocated to a different geographical region each year.
All students may apply for a scholarship from the ISTAT Foundation that is competitive with other universities across the world, see http://www.istat.org/ISTATFoundation/ScholarshipProgram/tabid/124/Default.aspx
Career Prospects
Career Prospects & Student Testimonials
On graduation the student will gain a unique and highly desirable qualification from an internationally respected university, and will be ready to shoulder a significant level of responsibility for defining and implementing the employer's safety policy. Those students who have completed the course are seeing demonstrable benefits on their career paths.
What our students have to say:
"I am pleased to say that I have just been appointed the Corporate Flight Safety Manager. There is no doubt that my masters degree clinched the job."
"A special thank you for all your efforts to promote the spirit of aviation in such a professional manner…. I am certainly one who has gained immense knowledge from this experience."
"I have really enjoyed meeting the other students and have found the course extremely valuable, thought provoking and interesting."
"It has given me a lot more confidence in my own abilities."
"…highly effective and taught in a very humane way. Indeed, exposure to this sort of material might encourage airline people not to encourage pilots to break safety rules to meet the schedule."
Working with the Armed Forces
This course is compatible with The MoD's Enhanced Learning Credits Administration Service (ELCAS) - an initiative to promote lifelong learning amongst members of the Armed Forces.
If you are/have been a member of the Armed Forces, you could be entitled to financial support to take this course.
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We encourage online applications. However, we ask that you also send two references and your original transcript by post to The Postgraduate Courses Offices, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB as soon as possible after submitting your online application.
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