Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
CHAPTER IV
pp. 384–385
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS AND TRIPOS EXAMINATIONS

The provisions contained in this Chapter are Regulations of the General Board

In this section

TRIPOS EXAMINATIONS

MANAGEMENT STUDIES TRIPOS

One Part.

1. The Management Studies Tripos shall consist of one Part only.

Standing of candidates.

2. The following may present themselves as candidates for honours in the Management Studies Tripos if twelve terms have not passed after their first term of residence:

  1. (a)a student who has obtained honours in an Honours Examination in the first, second, or third term after his or her first term of residence, and has subsequently been successful in a Preliminary Examination;
  2. (b)a student who has obtained honours in an Honours Examination in the fourth, fifth, or sixth term after his or her first term of residence.1

3. No student shall be a candidate for the Management Studies Tripos and also for another Tripos Examination in the same term, and no student shall be a candidate for the Management Studies Tripos on more than one occasion.

Examiners and Assessors.

4. The Faculty Board of Business and Management shall nominate such number of Examiners as they think sufficient. They may also nominate for appointment one or more Assessors to the Examiners in such subjects as they consider desirable, and the Assessors so appointed shall set papers or parts of papers and shall advise the Examiners on the performance of candidates in those subjects. The Assessors, when summoned by the Chair, shall attend meetings of the Examiners for the purpose of consultation and advice, but shall not be entitled to vote.

Questions.

5. The questions proposed by each Examiner or Assessor shall be submitted to the whole body of Examiners for approval.

Class-list.

6. The names of the candidates who obtain honours shall be arranged in three classes of which the second shall be divided into two divisions. The names in the first and third classes and in each division of the second class shall be arranged in alphabetical order. For special excellence a mark of distinction may be awarded.

Supplementary regulations.

7. The Faculty Board of Business and Management shall have power to define or limit by supplementary regulations all or any of the subjects of examination, and to modify or alter any such supplementary regulations as occasion may require. They shall also have power to determine the credit that shall be assigned to each subject of examination, and to mark out the lines of study that are to be pursued by candidates.

Scheme of examination.

8. The following papers shall be set:

 M1.

Marketing and organizational behaviour.

 M2.

Quantitative methods and operations management.

 M3.

Economics and finance.

9. Each candidate shall offer all three papers, and shall submit to the Examiners, not later than the last Monday of Full Easter Term, a report, of not more than 6,000 words, excluding footnotes and bibliography, on a project designed to give evidence of the candidate's industrial, commercial, or equivalent experience. The subject of the project shall be chosen from a list of approved subjects which shall be announced by the Director of Judge Business School not later than the last day of Full Lent Term. Reports shall be in typewritten form (unless a candidate has obtained previous permission from the Faculty Board of Business and Management to present a report in manuscript). Each candidate will be required to sign a declaration that the project and the report on it are his or her own work, unaided except as may be specified in the declaration, and that the report does not contain material that has already been used to any substantial extent for a comparable purpose; if two or more candidates have undertaken a project in collaboration, they will each be required to indicate the extent of their contribution.

Coursework.

10. Candidates shall complete coursework for a workshop and for two elective courses, which shall be chosen from a list published by the Faculty Board of Business and Management. For this purpose the internal Examiner for the coursework shall present to the Examiners a report on the performance of each candidate in this coursework. Details of the work required of candidates shall be published by the Faculty Board by notice not later than the beginning of the Full Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS

M1. Marketing and organizational behaviour

The paper will consist mainly of questions on the theory and practice of marketing and the organization and behaviour of people at work.

M2. Quantitative methods and operations management

The paper will consist mainly of questions on the quantitative methods used in management and operations management.

M3. Economics and finance

The paper will consist mainly of questions on the economics of firms and markets, the theory of finance, and financial accounting.

Footnotes

  1. 1. See also the regulations for Affiliated Students (p. 165).a